A/HRC/9/23 page 24 specifically to the most vulnerable. It should not only focus on boosting the supply of food, but also contribute to ensuring compliance with the right to adequate food, including in its nutritional aspects. Health, education, trade and the environment - not agriculture alone - should therefore be part of any effort to improve international coordination towards meeting this objective. The aim should be to ensure household food and nutrition security, which implies more than adequate food intake; it also demands attention to health services and proper care for the vulnerable. Indeed, one likely impact of the current food crisis is that it will create to more low-income, net food purchasing households, whose dietary diversity will be reduced in their effort to maintain consumption of staples. This has serious public nutritional health implications, including micronutrient malnutrition especially of women and children. Special efforts are therefore required to address both food security and general nutrition security; otherwise the benefits for the realization of the right to food for good nutrition are less likely to accrue for the most vulnerable groups. The important expertise of the Standing Committee on Nutrition should be drawn upon in order to ensure that this dimension is adequately taken into account. 50. A global partnership for food and agriculture has the potential to improve accountability with regard to the follow-up to commitments made by countries, particularly concerning contributions to official development assistance and the use of such contributions (including levels and predictability of assistance, and the earmarking of a certain proportion of it and of national budgets to the needs of the agricultural sector in accordance with local conditions and needs), and with regard to the impact of policies pursued at the national, regional and international levels on the right to adequate food. If indicators and benchmarks are to be relied on in measuring progress towards meeting the objective of world food and nutrition security, they should be based on the different components of the human right to adequate food be disaggregated in order to measure the impact of the policies pursued on all vulnerable groups, particularly women, children, indigenous peoples, displaced persons and refugees, as well as small-holders and rural landless labourers. 51. If a scientific body is to be established as part of a new global partnership for food and agriculture, the experts appointed to that body should be carefully selected in order to ensure their full independence and impartiality. It is also crucial that we build on the expertise of the important expertise accumulated within the Rome-based agencies of the United Nations (FAO, the International Fund for Agricultural Development and the World Fund Programme), and that, in any area already covered by the International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science and Technology for Development, the latter research be taken as the departure point. Not only would there be little point in repeating that enterprise; offering to do so would raise the suspicion that the conclusions reached by the Assessment have been set aside because they are inconvenient. 52. If a new global fund is to be established as part of a new global partnership for food and agriculture, it should serve the existing agencies working in these areas. Any competition for resources should be avoided. However, a new fund could have the added value of including in its mechanisms the global reinsurance fund (see paragraph 44 above); it could also serve to manage the virtual international reserve which could be established in order to meet the urgent needs of countries without disrupting markets, and to finance international buffer stocks as a part of international commodity agreements.