Welcomes the conclusions and recommendations of the World Food Council at its tenth ministerial session. held at Addis Ababa from 11 to 15 June 1984, 12 in partic ular those relating to the African region:
3
Notes with appreciation the encouraging response by the international community to the various appeals made for the alleviation of the present critical food supply situa tion in Africa; 4.
Welcomes the unanimous adoption by the Commit tee on Food Aid Policies and Programmes on 8 November 1984 of a resolution on the food crisis in Africa, 13 and calls for its full and prompt implementation;
5
Urgesthe international community, in view of the continued critical food supply situation in a large number of African countnes, to sustain and increase its efforts to provide the additional food aid required on an emergency basis, as well as technical and other forms of assistance needed in that connection;
6
Urgesthe international community also to respond generously to the urgent need for agricultural inputs for the rehabilitation of agriculture and animal husbandry;
7
Calls uponthe international community to continue to support efforts undertaken by African countries at the national, subregional and regional levels to increase food production through, inter alia, the provision, on a priority and long-term basis, of additional financial and technical assistance to Africa by organizations of the United Nations system, such as the International Fund for Agricultural Development, the United Nations Develop ment Programme and other organizations involved in the
financing of agricultural development, and through an increase in lending by the World Bank to the agricultural sector in Africa;
8
Takes note of the efforts already undertaken by African countries in the field of food and the formulation of agricultural policies, and encourages them to pursue and strengthen these efforts, especially in the definition and implementation of national food strategies, plans and pro grammes;
9
Requeststhe Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its fortieth session, through the Eco nomic and Social Council at its second regular session of 1985, a progress report on the implementation of the pres ent resolution, with particular emphasis on the role and activities of the United Nations system in assisting the African countries towards the solution of their food and agricultural problems.
5 Report of the United Nations Conference on Snence and Technology ji,r Development. Vienna, 20-31 August 1979 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E. 79.1.21 and corrigenda), chap. VII. 6 Resolution 35/56, annex. 7 Official Records of the General Assemhli-. Thmy-ninth Sessum, Supple ment No. 37 (A/39/37). 8 Ibid., annex, resolution 6 (VI), sect I. para. I 1 Q Ibid .. para. 3.
IOAJS-11114, annex I I I A/39/270-E/1984,97.
I 2 See Ofjicial Records of the General -tssl'lnblr. Thirtr-ninth Snsion, Sup {'lcment No. 19 (A/39/19), part one.
11WFP1CFA: 18/18 ·\dd.l para. 34
14 Report of the World Food Conference, Rome, 5-16 Novemher /974 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E. 75.11.A.3), chap. I.
1 S See Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Report o/ the World Conference on Agrarian Reform and Rural Development, Rome, 12-20 July 1979 (WCARRD/REP), part one _ l_2_7 1" WFP CFA: I 71 I 9: transm11ted to the Economic and Social C'ounnl as document E/ 1984/1 I 7.
1' See 0/ficiu/ Records of th<' (il'llerul Assemh/v, Thmr-e1ghth Ses.rnm. ,\'111111!,·mcNi N(i_ /Q (A '38 1 f9}, part one, para. 44
