A/HRC/43/44/Add.6 111. The Government promotes healthy diet initiatives at the global level, such as the Mediterranean diet and other traditional diets, which are local, healthy and sustainable. This is a very important initiative especially now that the CFS is working on the implementation of Voluntary Guidelines on Food Systems and Nutrition. 112. In the aftermath of global food prices crises, the G7/G8 countries committed themselves by launching the 2009 L'Aquila Food Security Initiative (AFSI) with the following priorities: dynamic transformation of rural areas; responsible investment; sustainable agriculture, nutrition, food security; and nutrition in areas of conflict and crisis. 113. In 2012, the G8 launched the New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition, a development project aimed at feeding ten food insecure countries in Africa. Its goal was to achieve "sustained and inclusive agricultural growth in Africa" and "bring 50 million people out of poverty by 2022". Italy agreed to pledge 63 million dollars. However, in 2015, it had only disbursed 12 million, 19% of the pledge, highlighting a limited interest of Italian cooperation in this initiative. Comments: We deem of extreme importance that data included in the Report are accurate. As indicated in the G7 Biarritz Progress Report 2019 (weblink, pag. 72), the Italian pledge for 2015 was US$ 131 million with a disbursement rate in that year of US 36 million namely, 24% of the amount pledged. We would welcome that these right figures are reflected in the final version of the Report. In addition to the NAFSN launched by the G7 in 2012, you may wish to consider a more contemporary effort of the G7 in the area of food security and nutrition. Since the adoption of the “G7 Broad Food Security and Nutrition Development Framework” on broad efforts to lift developing countries out of hunger and malnutrition by 2030 at the Elmau Summit in 2015, reiterated at the G7 Taormina Summit in 2017, the G7 Food Security Working Group has produced on annual basis the official document “Financial Report on Food Security an Nutrition”. These annual documents well illustrate the level of commitment paid by Italy (weblink, pages 14-15) to this sector in partner countries both in terms of qualitative and quantitative data as well as in terms of bilateral and multilateral engagement. 114. Despite all these initiatives, in early years of 2010; there was no structural change in the global economic order to protect developing countries from future economic downturn. As a result, hunger and malnutrition are increasing especially in Sub-Saharan Africa, from where Italy receives most of its new immigrants. VIII. Conclusions and recommendations 117. Of her many recommendations already contained in the report, the Special Rapporteur urges the Government and other stakeholders to prioritize the following issues: (…) (b) Move from a charity-based approach to a full implementation of the right to food to eliminate hunger and food insecurity. The State has a duty to protect, respect and fulfil the right to food, and this cannot be achieved by the sole actions of food charity organizations. (..) (h) Use the Rural Development Plan under the PAC to provide direct support to small-scale farmers in the reduction of the costs of production. Comments: This sentence may be misunderstood. If you mean to support small farmers’ income through a direct payment, in order to reduce their production costs, it would be more appropriate to refer to the first pillar of the CAP - instead of the Rural Development (second pillar). The latter, in fact, does NOT include measures to support small farmers’ incomes. 20