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has the primary responsibility for ensuring the implementation of national programmes and
strategies in this regard;
38.
Invites all relevant international organizations, including the World Bank and
the International Monetary Fund, to promote such policies and projects that have a positive
impact on the right to food, to ensure that partners respect the right to food in the
implementation of common projects, to support strategies of Member States aimed at the
fulfilment of the right to food and to avoid any actions that could have a negative impact on
the realization of the right to food;
39.
Encourages the Special Rapporteur on the right to food and the Working
Group on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other business
enterprises to cooperate on the subject of the contribution of the private sector to the
realization of the right to food, including the importance of ensuring sustainable water
resources for human consumption and agriculture;
40.
Encourages the Special Rapporteur to continue her collaboration with
relevant international organizations and United Nations agencies, programmes and funds, in
particular the Rome-based ones, including the Food and Agriculture Organization of the
United Nations, the International Fund for Agricultural Development and the World Food
Programme, in order to contribute to ensuring that the right to food is promoted further
within these organizations, in accordance with their respective mandates, including for the
advancement of smallholders and agricultural workers in both developing and least
developed countries;
41.
Reaffirms that all States should take steps, individually and through
international assistance and cooperation, especially economic and technical, to the
maximum of available resources, with a view to achieving progressively the full realization
of the right to food by all appropriate means, including particularly the adoption of
legislative measures;
42.
Encourages all States to consider developing awareness-raising campaigns to
ensure that rights holders have access to information pertaining to the right to food and any
obligation pertaining thereto;
43.
Underlines the importance of effective remedies for violations of the right to
food;
44.
Encourages the Special Rapporteur, within her existing mandate, to explore,
in consultation with Member States and relevant stakeholders, ways and means of raising
the capacity of States, particularly developing countries, including least developed and net
food-importing developing countries, to ensure the realization and protection of the right to
adequate food for their populations, and to report on her findings to the Human Rights
Council;
45.
Takes note with appreciation of the report of the Special Rapporteur;2
46.
Supports the fulfilment of the mandate of the Special Rapporteur, as
established by the Human Rights Council in its resolution 6/2 of 27 September 2007;
47.
Requests the Special Rapporteur, as part of the mandate, to continue to
monitor the evolution of the world food crisis and, in the context of the mandate and regular
reports, to keep the Human Rights Council informed of the impact of the crisis on the
enjoyment of the right to food and to alert it to possible further actions in this regard;
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