Food and Famine

A/RES/525(VI)View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1952.

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15 subjects

Agricultural Credit Agricultural Development Agricultural Equipment Agricultural Statistics Agricultural Training Fertilizers Financial Assistance Food Production Food Reserves Food Shortage Food Transport Hunger Non-Governmental Organizations Report Preparation Technical Cooperation

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10 operative paragraphs

Urges all governments co-operatively to attack the problems of hunger and famine by:

Giving high priority to food production programmes and continuing their efforts to accomplish the other objectives recommended in resolution 202 (III);

( b) Placing adequate emphasis on food production in their national economic development plans;

( c) Facilitating the transport of food to potential or actual emergency famine areas by the most expeditious means;

Intensifying their co-operation with the Food and Agriculture drganization m its efforts to increase food production by strengthening national agricultural services; increasing the availability of agricultural implements and fertilizers at reasonable cost; making maxill_\um use of domestic capital and of such foreign financial assistance as may be available for the establishment or expansion of agricultural credit systems; carrying out necessary land reform measures; improving the collection of technical and statistical information; and participating in technical assistance prngrammes designed to increase food production and overcome the causes of famines;

Further urges all governments to promote and facilitate the work of the voluntary non-governmental agencies organized to meet famine conditions and to promote agricultural development; to further public -awareness and participation in such work; to correlate and integrate the resources and programmes of such voluntary organizations with their own relief resources and programmes; and to furnish current listings of the functions, programmes and potential resources of agencies of this kind within their countries;

Calls on the people in all countries to give increasing support to the work of voluntary non-governmental agencies as an essential complement to governmental programmes for alleviating the suffering caused by emergency famine and as a means to enable individual citizens to further the humanitarian objectives of the Charter;

Endorses the recommendation of the Economic and Social Council in its resolution 405 (XIII) of 31 August 1951 that the Food and Agricultural Organization, in instances of pending critical food shortages or famine, make emergency reports thereon ;

Expresses the hope that the results of the study to be undertaken by the Council of the Food and Agriculture Organization of suitable ways and means whereby an emergency food reserve can be established and made available promptly to member States thre~tened_ or affecte_d by serious food shortages or famme _will be a~ailable f?r c~nsideration by the Economic and Social Council at its fifteenth session, and _looks fonyard to receiving the report of the Economic _and Social Council thereon immediately after the Council has completed its consideration of the matter· ' 6.

Reque.rts all States Members of the United Nations to offer their fullest co-operation to the Food General Auembly-Sixth Session

and Argriculture Organization so as to facilitate its study as described in paragraph 5 above;

Requests the Secretary-General, in consultation with the Directors-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization and of the World Health Organization, and with the executive heads of other organizations concerned, to prepare, for consideration by the Economic and Social Council at its fourteenth session, recommendations concerning procedures to bring about promptly concerted and effective action by governments, inter-governmental organizations and voluntary agencies in the event of actual or potential famines of an emergency character caused by disasters of the type mentioned in the preamble of the present resolution;

Recommends the observance of the principle that assistance to regions suffering food shortages and famine should not be made subject to demands for political, ec(momic or military privileges for the countries according such assistance;

Requests the Economic and ~ocial Council to include in its report to the General Assembly a special section on the problem of food shortages and on the steps taken by specialized agencies and by the governments of Member States to deal with the problem.

365th plena,ry meeting,

26 January 1952.

Reaolution on food ahortagea and famine

Adopted by the sixth session of the Food and Agricultu,.e Or_qani::ation Conference in Rome in December 1951

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