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35.
Encourages developing countries to establish regional arrangements, where
they do not exist, with the support of the international community and development
partners to ensure adequate food production and thereby contribute to ensuring food
security, in particular in developing countries that have scarce fertile land;
36.
Acknowledges the adoption by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the
United Nations of a regional approach towards ensuring food security, and expresses its
appreciation for the current collaboration with all Rome-based institutions working
comprehensively towards the realization of the right to food;
37.
Encourages the Special Rapporteur on the right to food and the Working
Group 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;
38.
Encourages the Special Rapporteur to continue his collaboration with
relevant international organizations and United Nations agencies, programmes and funds, in
particular the Rome-based ones, including the Food and Agriculture Organization of the
United Nations, the International Fund for Agricultural Development and the World Food
Programme, in order to contribute to ensuring that the right to food is promoted further
within these organizations, in accordance with their respective mandates, including for the
advancement of smallholders and agricultural workers in both developing and least
developed countries;
39.
Expresses concern at the negative impact on the full enjoyment of the right to
adequate food of insufficient purchasing power and the increased price volatility of
agricultural commodities on international markets, particularly on people in developing
countries and on net food-importing countries;
40.
Stresses the need to address the root causes of excessive food price volatility,
including its structural causes, at all levels, and the need to manage the risks linked to still
high and excessively volatile prices in agriculture commodities and their consequences for
global food security and nutrition, as well as for smallholder farmers and poor urban
dwellers;
41.
Encourages the Special Rapporteur, within his existing mandate, to explore,
in consultation with Member States and relevant stakeholders, ways and means of raising
the capacity of countries, particularly developing countries, including least developed and
net food-importing developing countries, to ensure the realization and protection of the
right to adequate food for their populations, and to report on his findings to the Human
Rights Council;
42.
Takes note with appreciation of the report of the Special Rapporteur on
women’s rights and the right to food and the recommendations contained therein, 1
including the addendum thereto which explores how the right to food is integrated into the
activities of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations;2
43.
Decides to extend the mandate of the Special Rapporteur on the right to food
for a period of three years, to enable the mandate holder to continue to work in accordance
with the mandate established by the Human Rights Council in its resolution 6/2 of 27
September 2007;
1
2
A/HRC/22/50.
A/HRC/22/50/Add.3.
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