23. Calls upon Member States, the United Nations system and other relevant stakeholders to support national efforts aimed at responding rapidly to the food crises currently occurring across Africa and expresses its deep concern that funding shortfalls are forcing the World Food Programme to cut operations across different regions, including Southern Africa; 24. Invites all relevant international organizations, including the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, to promote 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; 25. Encourages the Special Rapporteur on the right to food and the Special Representative of the Secretary-General 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; 26. Recognizes the negative impact of massive rises in prices of food on the realization of the right to food, particularly on people in developing countries with a high level of dependence on food imports for the fulfilment of nutritional national requirements; 27. Takes note of the report of the Special Rapporteur on the right to food (A/HRC/7/5), and of his valuable work in the promotion of the right to food in all parts of the world and expresses its appreciation for the work and commitment of the first mandate-holder to achieving the realization of the right to food; 28. Encourages the new mandate-holder on the right to food to discharge his/her activities taking into account the important achievements in the fulfilment of the mandate in recent years;