A/HRC/RES/16/27 42. Reaffirms that the Voluntary Guidelines to support the progressive realization of the right to adequate food in the context of national food security represent a practical tool in the promotion of the realization of the right to food for all, contribute to the achievement of food security and thus provide an additional instrument in the attainment of internationally agreed development goals, including those contained in the Millennium Declaration; 43. Acknowledges the work being carried out by the Advisory Committee on the right to food and, in that regard, welcomes its submission to the Council of the final study on discrimination in the context of the right to food,2 and requests the Committee to undertake, as appropriate, comprehensive studies on the following topics: (a) The urban poor and their enjoyment of the right to food, including strategies to improve their protection and best practices; (b) Rural women and their enjoyment of the right to food, including patterns of discrimination, strategies and policies for their protection and best practices, with a special focus on female-headed households and temporary or seasonal workers; (c) The relationship between severe malnutrition and childhood diseases, taking children affected by noma as an example, and ways to improve the protection of malnourished children; 44. Requests the Office of the High Commissioner to collect the views and comments of all Member States, all relevant United Nations special agencies and programmes and all other relevant stakeholders on the topics listed in paragraph 43 above, in order that the Advisory Committee may take them into account for the conclusion of its comprehensive studies; 45. Requests the Advisory Committee to continue to work on the issue of discrimination in the context of the right to food and, in that regard, takes note of its preliminary study on ways and means to further advance the rights of people working in rural areas, including women, in particular smallholders engaged in the production of food and /or other agricultural products, including from directly working the land, traditional fishing, hunting and herding activities;3 46. Requests the Office of the High Commissioner to collect the views and comments of all Member States, all relevant United Nations special agencies and programmes, in particular the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, and all other relevant stakeholders on the preliminary study referred to in paragraph 45 above, in order that the Advisory Committee may take them into account in the preparation of the final study to be presented to the Council at its nineteenth session; 47. Welcomes the continued cooperation of the High Commissioner, the Advisory Committee and the Special Rapporteur, and encourages them to continue their cooperation; 48. Calls upon all Governments to cooperate with and assist the Special Rapporteur in his task by supplying all necessary information requested by him and to give serious consideration to responding favourably to the requests of the Special Rapporteur to visit their countries to enable him to fulfil his mandate more effectively; 49. Recalls the requests made by the General Assembly, in its resolution 64/159, that the Special Rapporteur submit to the Assembly an interim report at its sixty-fifth 2 3 8 A/HRC/16/40. A/HRC/16/63.