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Recognizing further that the elimination of the current distortions in the agricultural
trading system will allow local producers and poor farmers to compete and to sell their
products, thereby facilitating the realization of the right to adequate food, while noting the
commitment to continuing the agricultural trade discussions as mandated by the World
Trade Organization,
Resolved to act to ensure that the full realization of all human rights, including the
right to development, is taken into account at the national, regional and international levels
in addressing the global food crisis,
Recognizing the importance and positive role of smallholder and subsistence
farmers, including women farmers, young farmers, family farmers and farmers in less
favoured areas, cooperatives and indigenous and local communities in developing
countries,
Expressing its deep concern at the number and scale of natural disasters, diseases
and pests and their increasing impact in recent years, which have resulted in massive loss of
life and livelihood and threatened agricultural production and food security, in particular in
developing countries,
Recognizing the need to prioritize food security and end hunger, and the particular
vulnerabilities of food systems to the adverse impact of climate change, and, given this
situation, that small and medium-sized farmers in developing countries need to receive
technical, technology transfer and capacity-building support,
Stressing the need to increase official development assistance devoted to agriculture,
both in real terms and as a share of total official development assistance,
Recognizing the need to increase sustainable private and public investments in
agriculture from all relevant sources for the realization of the right to food,
Recalling the endorsement of the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible
Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food
Security by the Committee on World Food Security at its thirty-eighth session, held on 11
May 2012, and by the Council of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United
Nations at its 144th session,
Recalling also the Principles for Responsible Investment in Agriculture and Food
Systems, which were endorsed by the Committee on World Food Security at its forty-first
session, held in October 2014, and transmitted to the governing bodies of the Food and
Agriculture Organization of the United Nations for consideration,
Recalling further the reaffirmation by the Committee on Food Security at its fortyfirst session of the commitment to implement the Guidelines to Support the Progressive
Realization of the Right to Adequate Food in the Context of National Food Security and to
strive for the realization of the right to adequate food for all in the years to come,
Stressing the importance of the second International Conference on Nutrition, hosted
by the World Health Organization and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United
Nations in Rome from 19 to 21 November 2014, at which the two main outcome
documents, namely, the Rome Declaration on Nutrition and the Framework for Action,
were endorsed,
Recognizing the importance of the protection and preservation of agrobiodiversity in
guaranteeing food security and the right to food for all,
Recognizing also the role of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United
Nations as the key United Nations agency for rural and agricultural development and its
work in supporting the efforts of Member States to achieve the full realization of the right
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