A/HRC/25/57 wide range of stakeholders in support of global, regional and country-led actions for the realization of the right to food. It is also a learning tool, as it will be revised in the light of both successes and failures in the implementation of the recommendations, so that policies are gradually improved and the range of options available to States is enlarged. 47. The role of CFS should gain in importance in the future, as we become more aware of the interdependence of efforts at the local, national, regional and global levels, and of the need to accelerate learning. Indeed, just as local-level initiatives cannot succeed without support from national-level right-to-food strategies, efforts at the domestic level require international support to bear fruit. Together with the Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, the Special Rapporteur has argued, for instance, for the establishment of a Global Fund for Social Protection, for overcoming financial obstacles and building international solidarity in order to fulfil the right to food and the right to social protection in developing countries, particularly those where vulnerability to covariant risks such as drought and food price volatility are high.44 The initiative was presented at the thirty-ninth plenary session of CFS in October 2012, and to the Social Protection Inter-Agency Cooperation Board, as well as in various other forums. The proposal was supported by the European Parliament45 and was among the key recommendations that emerged from global consultations led by the High-level Panel of Eminent Persons on the Post-2015 Development Agenda.46 48. The ninth Ministerial Conference of WTO, held in Bali, Indonesia, from 3 to 7 December 2013, which failed to place food security above trade concerns, provides a textbook illustration of the need to improve coherence of global governance for the realization of the right to food: no area, not even trade, should be left aside from discussions concerning this paramount objective.47 The redefinition of the global development goals provides another opportunity to move towards this objective. In the outcome document of the Rio+20 Conference, entitled “The future we want”, Heads of State and Government reaffirmed their “commitments regarding the right of everyone to have access to safe, sufficient and nutritious food, consistent with the right to adequate food and the fundamental right of everyone to be free from hunger.”48 In its final report of May 2013, the High-level Panel of Eminent Persons on the Post-2015 Development Agenda proposed to include ensuring “food security and good nutrition” among the universal goals and targets to be agreed, with target 5 (a) referring to ending hunger and protecting the right of everyone to have access to sufficient, safe, affordable and nutritious food. Similar conclusions emerged from the Madrid High-level Consultation on Hunger, Food Security and Nutrition in the Post-2015 Development Framework, convened on 4 April 2013. At its fortieth plenary session, building on this emerging consensus, CFS highlighted “the essential role of food security and nutrition and poverty eradication in the elaboration of the 44 45 46 47 48 See O. De Schutter and M. Sepúlveda, “Underwriting the poor: a global fund for social protection”, Briefing Note 7 (October 2012). Available from www.srfood.org. European Parliament resolution of 18 April 2013 on the impact of the financial and economic crisis on human rights, P7_TA(2013)0179, para. 26. Report of the High-level Panel of Eminent Persons on the Post-2015 Development Agenda, A New Global Partnership: Eradicate Poverty and Transform Economies through Sustainable Development (United Nations, May 2013), p. 60. In November 2011, the Special Rapporteur had warned about the risks of a misalignment between the trade and the food security agendas. See O. De Schutter, “The World Trade Organization and the post-global food crisis agenda: putting food security first in the international trade system”, Briefing Note 4 (November 2011). Available from www.srfood.org. United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, “The future we want” (outcome document), para. 108. 19