We, the Heads of State and Government, or our Representatives and the Representatives of the European Community who have assembled in one at the world summit on Food Security to take

urgent action to eradicate hunger from the world,

Reminding ​ all nations to undertake all necessary actions required at national, regional and global levels and by all States and Governments to halt immediately the increase in – and to significantly reduce – the number of people suffering from hunger, malnutrition and food insecurity,

Reaffirming ​ the importance and significance of the Sustainable Development Goals adopted in 2015 and particularly its Goal 2: End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition, and promote sustainable agriculture, to be achieved within the agreed timeframe,

Stressing ​ the necessity of enhancement of global governance building on existing institutions and fostering effective partnership, which can be served as catalysts for strengthening international coordination and governance for food security,

Affirming ​ that measures have to be taken to ensure access – physical, social and economic – by all people to sufficient, safe and nutritious food with particular attention to full access by women and children, while noting that food should not be used as an instrument for political and economic pressure,

Alarmed ​ by severe risks posed by climate change to food security and the agriculture sector with its expected impact fraught with danger for smallholder farmers in developing countries, notably the Least Developed Countries (LDCs), and for already vulnerable populations,

1. Urge ​ the international community to come together and mitigate the risk of natural disasters especially among the LDCs, including the measures of installing more resilient infrastructure and helping to restore damaged infrastructure;

2. Welcome ​ the initiatives from the member states that are technologically more advanced and capable of helping those countries in need for more extensive infrastructure for realizing better and stable access to food;

3. Stress ​ the importance of mitigating water shortages and excessive groundwater extraction, which have posed serious limitations toward sustainable agricultural production;

4. Renew its appeal ​ to end any domestic conflicts, which above all pose severe impact to availability and access to food, endangering thousands of refugees within and outside the territories;

5. Recommend ​ [20%] increase of foreign aid to the agricultural sector in order to reverse the

decline in international funding for food security in developing countries especially the LDCs,

and promote new investment to increase sustainable agricultural production and productivity, reduce poverty and work towards achieving food security and access to food for all;

6. Support ​ active technology transfer to the LDCs, including such technologies as water

filtration, irrigation techniques, promotion of large-scale agriculture, and genetically modified crops;

7. Call for ​ the actions to eliminate various types of inequality within the respective member states that often worsen the degree of access to food, including gender, rural-urban, and income level related inequalities;

8. Emphasize ​ the importance of bilateral trades agreements related to food security and agriculture which can make use of the comparative advantages of two states and thus are mutually beneficial;

9. Recommend ​ that those states with food surplus supply their food and/or grain with a much more reduced price that is equivalent of [20%] of an international market price;

10. Endorse ​ various forms of international cooperation in fostering more effective partnerships in increasing the level of access to food, including South-South Cooperation, Cooperation with NGO actors and other non-state actors, and innovative trade-and-infrastructure partnership such as One Belt One Road Initiative;

11. Reconfirm ​ the principle that sovereign states have the rights to protect its citizens and the

agriculture sector with their own national and food security.

Resolution

2019 GSG/UN Summit on Food Security

We, the Heads of State and Government, or our Representatives and the Representatives of the European Community who have assembled in one at the world summit on Food Security to take urgent action to eradicate hunger from the world,

Reminding ​ all nations to undertake all necessary actions required at national, regional and global levels and by all States and Governments to halt immediately the increase in – and to significantly reduce – the number of people suffering from hunger, malnutrition and food insecurity,

Reaffirming​ the importance and significance of the Sustainable Development Goals adopted in 2015 and particularly its Goal 2: End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition, and promote sustainable agriculture, to be achieved within the agreed timeframe,

Stressing ​ the necessity of enhancement of global governance building on existing institutions and fostering effective partnership, which can be served as catalysts for strengthening international coordination and governance for food security,

Affirming​ that measures have to be taken to ensure access – physical, social and economic – by all people to sufficient, safe and nutritious food with particular attention to full access by women and children, while noting that food should not be used as an instrument for political and economic pressure,

Alarmed​ by severe risks posed by climate change to food security and the agriculture sector with its expected impact fraught with danger for smallholder farmers in developing countries, notably the Least Developed Countries (LDCs), and for already vulnerable populations,

1. Urge ​ the international community to come together and mitigate the risk of natural disasters with directly or indirectly harm the agricultural sector especially among the LDCs so as not to affect the food security of the nation, in terms of:

a. Promoting the installation of more resilient infrastructure in order to promote safety in terms of sanitation and production of food.

b. Accepting initiatives that would help restore damaged infrastructure;

2. Welcome​ the initiatives from the member states that are educated, more technologically more advanced and capable of helping those countries in need of more stable infrastructure and better education for gaining skills in order for there to be more stable access to food;

3. Make concrete actions ​ toward mitigating water shortages and excessive groundwater extraction, which have posed serious limitations toward sustainable agricultural production;

4. Enhance its efforts ​ to end any domestic conflicts, which above all pose severe impact to

availability and access to food, endangering thousands of refugees within and outside the

territories;

5. Recommend​ an increase of foreign aid according to the capacity of each state to the

agricultural sector in order to reverse the decline in international funding for food security in developing countries especially the LDCs

6. Promote ​ active development of LDCs having autonomy while making new investments to increase sustainable agricultural production and productivity, reduce poverty and work towards achieving food security and access to food for all;

7. Suggests funding for research initiatives to provide solutions for agriculture to develop in and lands;

8. Introduce ​ and train citizens to utilize advanced technology and/or machinery so as not to cause a shock and waste of funds on food security especially among the LDCs for the self-sufficiency in the long run of that state;

9. Support​ active technology transfer to the LDCs, including such technologies as water filtration to prevent infectious diseases, irrigation techniques, and training of citizens which leads to the promotion of sustainable agriculture, and crops that can realize higher yield in production;

10. Support the LDCs in terms of active technology which can help the state to become more independent and developed especially in food security, at the same time, provide partnership and training for these technological issues, such as water filtration, irrigation techniques and promotion of large agriculture and all the other related technology.

11. Encourage reduction of carbon footprint by prohibiting certain activities that contribute to the increase in fuel, electricity, and gases to further maximize the resources that the international community has and have a wider supply of food for everyone.

12. Encourage​ states to advertise and inform the citizens on different matters regarding

population control in order to have enough food for everyone to be distributed equally among the people;

13. Call for ​ the actions to eliminate various types of inequality within the respective member states that often worsen the degree of access to food, including gender, rural-urban, and income level related inequalities;

14. Emphasize​ the importance of multilateral agreements related to food security and sharing agricultural technologies which can make use of the comparative advantages of two or more states and thus are mutually beneficial;

15. Agrees ​ to promote self-sufficiency among all nations in order to reduce dependence on other

nations and food insecurity overall;

16. Recommend​ that those states with food surplus, and with food waste over 100kg/year per capita, waste by consumers at consumption, move to redistribute the food surplus to areas experiencing food insecurity;

17. Endorse ​ various forms of international cooperation in fostering more effective partnerships in increasing the level of access to food, including South-South Cooperation, Cooperation with NGO actors and other non-state actors, and innovative trade-and-infrastructure partnership such as One Belt One Road Initiative;

18. Reconfirm ​ the principle that all the sovereign states and unions made up from states have the rights to protect its citizens and the agricultural sector and all other sectors relating to food and their own national food security.

a. The citizens should have the right to be able to consume food that are of similar amounts by equally distributing the food.

b. The government should enforce rules and regulations to ensure food security among

all citizens

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