A/HRC/12/31* page 23 desirable and fiscally sustainable for developing States, or to combat volatility on the international markets of agricultural commodities. Now is the time to achieve the reform of global governance that will allow us to define the realization of the right to food as a global common good. 42. The Special Rapporteur is encouraged that the issue of the right to adequate food is increasingly raised in contexts in which it was much less visible in the past. In its draft strategic framework and medium-term plan for the period 2010-2013, FAO now considers adding governance and the right to food to its efforts to combat hunger. The right to food was also a key element of the High-level Meeting on Food Security for All, convened in Madrid on 26 and 27 January 2009 by the Prime Minister of Spain and the Secretary General, who pleaded for inclusion of the right to food in the work of the High-level Task Force on the Global Food Security Crisis as a basis for analysis, action and accountability. Such a shift is essential, and it is not limited to institutional or governance components. The right to food should guide all our efforts, whether they relate to rural development and support for agriculture or to social protection. 43. On 27 April 2009, the contact group for the revitalization of the Committee on World Food Security held the first of a number of meetings, which should lead it to make proposals to transform the Committee into a body that could achieve this. The Committee, currently one of the committees listed in article 5, paragraph 6, of the Constitution of FAO, has the task of assisting the Council of FAO in its functions. It should transform itself into something far more ambitious: a forum in which Governments, international agencies and civil society organizations could discuss issues, such as those listed in the present report; which calls for more cooperation between States, to the extent required for the realization of the right to food; and which could lead to the adoption of guidelines revised at regular intervals on the range of issues that could contribute to this objective. The Committee should ensure improved coordination among Governments, international agencies and non-governmental organizations in implementing these guidelines; it could facilitate achievement of a consensus on emerging issues, as well as improve accountability, by monitoring the efforts of Governments and international agencies in the implementation of the guidelines. 44. As a member of the contact group, the Special Rapporteur proposed that the revised Committee on World Food Security should combine the three core functions of coordination, learning and monitoring progress. This could be achieved by transforming the Committee into a platform: (a) to adopt guidelines, based on the joint understanding of the obstacles to the realization of the right to adequate food; (b) to request Governments and international agencies to identify a set of targets to be achieved in the implementation of the guidelines; (c) to receive reports on the achievement of these targets, on which the Committee should comment with the assistance of a high-level panel of experts; and (d) to revise the guidelines in the light of the difficulties encountered in their implementation. 45. The above proposal is based on the diagnosis of the reasons for our failure to eradicate hunger and acute malnutrition, referred to in the introduction of the present report. A revitalized Committee on World Food Security could contribute significantly to addressing each of these problems. It would significantly increase accountability, particularly if the targets to be achieved by States are set at the national level, through participatory processes involving civil society organizations and leading to the identification of clear, time-bound priorities on the basis of the