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contribution to creating international conditions permitting the full realization of the right to
food;
30.
Stresses that all States should make every effort to ensure that their
international policies of a political and economic nature, including international trade
agreements, do not have a negative impact on the right to food in other countries;
31.
Encourages the Special Rapporteur to continue to cooperate with States in
order to enhance the contribution of development cooperation and food aid to the
realization of the right to food, within existing mechanisms, taking into account the views
of all stakeholders;
32.
Recalls the importance of the New York Declaration on Action against
Hunger and Poverty, and recommends the continuation of efforts aimed at identifying
additional sources of financing for the fight against hunger and poverty;
33.
Recognizes that the commitments made at the World Food Summit in 1996 to
halve the number of people who are undernourished are not being fulfilled, while
recognizing the efforts of Member States in that regard, and urges all States and
international financial and development institutions, as well as relevant United Nations
agencies and funds, to give priority to and provide the necessary funding to realize the aim
of halving by 2015 the number, or at least the proportion, of people who suffer from
hunger, as stated in Millennium Development Goal 1, as well as the right to food, as set out
in the Rome Declaration on World Food Security and the United Nations Millennium
Declaration;
34.
Reaffirms that integrating food and nutritional support, with the goal that all
people at all times will have access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food to meet their
dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life, is part of a comprehensive
effort to improve public health, including the response to the spread of HIV/AIDS,
tuberculosis, malaria and other diseases;
35.
Calls upon all States and, where appropriate, relevant international
organizations:
(a)
To combat the different forms of malnutrition as a means to realize the right
to adequate food, including, if appropriate, by adopting a national strategy in this regard;
(b)
To take measures and support programmes that are aimed at combating the
irreversible effects of chronic undernutrition in early childhood, in particular by targeting
the first thousand days of a child’s life;
(c)
To support the national plans and programmes of States to improve nutrition
in poor households, in particular plans and programmes that are aimed at combating
undernutrition in mothers and children, and those targeting the irreversible effects of
chronic undernutrition in early childhood, from gestation to the age of 2 years;
(d)
To implement policies and programmes to reduce and eliminate preventable
mortality and morbidity, as a result of malnutrition, of children under 5 years of age;
36.
Urges States to give adequate priority in their development strategies and
expenditures to the realization of the right to food;
37.
Stresses the importance of international cooperation and development
assistance as an effective contribution to both the expansion and improvement of
agriculture and its environmental sustainability, and the provision of humanitarian food
assistance in activities relating to emergency situations for the realization of the right to
food and the achievement of sustainable food security, while recognizing that each State
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