State of Global Food Insecurity

A/RES/76/264View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 26a Agriculture development, food security and nutrition, published in 2021.

Who cites this mandate in the budget?

2 entities

Entity	(Sub-)Programme	Title	Total mandates cited	Expenditure
	Programme 23	Humanitarian assistance	56
	Programme 10	Trade and development	74

Historical expenditure covers the complete programme or subprogramme, not this mandate. For an overview of all UN entities and programmes, see UN entities and programmes.

Who cites this mandate in the budget?

2 entities

Entity	(Sub-)Programme	Title	Total mandates cited	Expenditure
	Programme 23	Humanitarian assistance	56	—
	Programme 10	Trade and development	74	—

Historical expenditure covers the complete programme or subprogramme, not this mandate. For an overview of all UN entities and programmes, see UN entities and programmes.

What subjects does this mandate have?

5 subjects

Food Aid Food Prices Food Security Food Shortage Sustainable Agriculture

What’s in this document?

18 operative paragraphs

Calls upon the international community to urgently support countries affected by the food security crisis through coordinated actions, including the provision of emergency food supplies, food programmes, financial support, and increased and diversified agricultural production, and to promote a universal, rules-based, open, non-discriminatory and equitable multilateral trading system under the World Trade Organization;

Also calls upon the international community, including the Group of Seven and the Group of 20, to place global food security at the top of their agendas and to support multilateral efforts in finding affordable solutions to the crisis;

Welcomes the initiative by the Secretary-General to establish a Global Crisis Response Group on Food, Energy and Finance, with a Steering Committee chaired by the Deputy Secretary-General, and takes note with appreciation of the analysis and recommendations contained in the first report of the Group on the three-dimensional crisis;

Calls upon Member States and other relevant stakeholders to keep food and agriculture supply chains functioning, including capacity for seeding, protecting standing crops, rearing livestock, infrastructure for processing food, and all logistical systems, ensure the continued trade in and movement of food and livestock, products and inputs essential for agricultural and food production to markets, minimize food loss and waste, support workers and farmers, including women farmers, in agriculture and food supply chains to continue their essential work, including cross-border, in a safe manner, mobilize and allocate adequate resources and enhance sustainable infrastructure and institutional capacities for an accelerated implementation of sustainable agriculture and food systems, provide continued access to adequate, safe, affordable and nutritious food, and provide adequate social safety nets and assistance to minimize the negative effects of loss of livelihoods and increasing food prices on food insecurity and malnutrition, and underlines that this is exacerbating existing high levels of acute food insecurity and humanitarian needs;

Urges Member States and all relevant stakeholders to cooperate in the area of science, research, technology and innovation, including traditional knowledge, to bring sustainable practices to everyone, including women, youth, the poor, people in vulnerable situations, smallholder family farmers and micro-, small and medium-sized enterprises; leverage the role of digitization and artificial intelligence in supporting sustainable agriculture, which can help to improve the overall harvest quality and accuracy; and strengthen agroecological and other innovative approaches to sustainable agriculture and food systems that enhance food security and nutrition;

Calls upon Member States to remain committed to keeping a strong focus on the sustainable transformation of the global agrifood system, aiming for a global system that can deliver sufficient, safe, affordable, nutritious food and healthy diets for all people and provide employment and income, particularly in rural areas, while at the same time fully respecting planetary boundaries in line with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development,³ the Paris Agreement,⁴ the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change⁵ and the Convention on Biological Diversity⁶ and its upcoming post-2020 global biodiversity framework;

³Resolution 70/1.

⁴See FCCC/CP/2015/10/Add.1, decision 1/CP.21, annex.

⁵United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1771, No. 30822.

⁶Ibid., vol. 1760, No. 30619.

Calls upon Member States and all relevant stakeholders to support farmers, including small-scale and family farmers, with technical means and assistance that enable them to produce their crops and livestock sustainably to generate income, promote social equity and eradicate poverty, including rural poverty, and protect the environment;

Urges Member States and other relevant stakeholders to refrain from hoarding food and commodities, including but not limited to wheat, maize, millet, rice, sunflower oil and fertilizers;

Stresses the need to keep trade channels and markets open for the movement of food, fuel, fertilizer and other agricultural inputs and outputs, and notes the importance of working towards eliminating all forms of protectionism;

Recognizes the critical role of the private sector in support of sustainable food systems and the positive contribution and improved quality of multi-stakeholder partnerships as a means to engage all key actors, and stresses the need for further efforts to strengthen strategic partnerships with the private sector;

Stresses the need to keep fuel prices affordable to limit the volatility of essential food prices, and calls upon countries not to hoard energy commodities, which causes shortages and price increases, and notes the importance of increasing energy efficiency and upscaling renewable energy policies and practices;

Calls upon the international financial institutions to find urgent, affordable and timely solutions to support developing countries, in particular those highly indebted, in responding to the food security crisis, through, but not limited to, facilitating, as appropriate, access to debt relief, concessional finance and grants;

Calls upon Member States, the United Nations, humanitarian and development organizations and other relevant actors to urgently and effectively respond to, prevent and prepare for rising global food insecurity affecting millions of people, especially those who are facing famine or the immediate risk of famine, including by enhancing humanitarian and development cooperation and providing urgent funding to respond to the needs of the affected population, and calls upon Member States and other relevant stakeholders to contribute further to the Central Emergency Response Fund;

Calls upon Member States to heed the urgent United Nations humanitarian appeal to assist countries facing armed conflict, drought, starvation and famine with emergency aid and urgent funding;

Encourages Member States to support national pathways and action areas emanating from the 2021 United Nations Food Systems Summit convened by the Secretary-General to help to accelerate action to promote sustainable agriculture and food systems;

Calls for ensuring affordable access to foodstuff purchased by United Nations agencies, in particular the World Food Programme;

Requests the Secretary-General to report periodically to Member States on new developments in the global food security situation and to present further options for actions to be considered by the membership, at the national, regional and global levels, including through the Global Crisis Response Group on Food, Energy and Finance, to alleviate and reduce the growing levels of food insecurity, especially those affecting developing countries;

Also requests the Secretary-General to brief the General Assembly on a regular basis on the implementation of the present resolution.

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