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Resolution
9/81
RESOURCES FOR FOOD PRODUCTION AND
AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT
THE CONFERENCE
,
Noting
the United Nations
General Assembly
Resolution 35/56 on the International Development Strategy for the Third UN Development Decade which inter alia stressed the key importance of food and agriculture in the fight against hunger and poverty,
Recalling
the Declaration on the Eradication of Hunger and Malnutrition of the
World Food Conference
,
Aware
that still hundreds of millions of people continue to suffer from hunger and malnutrition,
Noting
further the priority assigned to food and agricultural development in the deliberations of Heads of State at the Lagos, Ottawa, Melbourne and Cancún meetings,
Noting
also the serious concern expressed by the Executive Heads of organizations in the
United Nations system
to the current session of the
General Assembly
with the deteriorating situation facing all organizations of the United Nations system with regard to the declining level of concessional resources in real terms available for international technical cooperation and other development activities,
Recalling
the repeated endorsement by the international community of the need to ensure an increased flow of resources on a sustained, continuous and more predictable basis, to support economic and social development programmes. of the developing countries, particularly in the fields of agriculture and rural development,
Recognizing
the current economic difficulties facing both developed and developing countries and the need for economy in public expenditures, and considering that these difficulties reinforce the need to confront the acute necessities of the large hungry and malnourished proportion of the world's population,
Reaffirming
its belief that the Food ant Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is an indispensable instrument of international cooperation in the efforts of the international community to overcome hunger and malnutrition,
Recognizing
with appreciation in this connexion the nature and level of collaboration between FAO and multilateral funding organizations, including the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the International Fund for Agricultural Development IFAD the
World Bank
, and the Regional Development Banks.
Reiterating
its general approval of the strategies and priorities for 1982-83 and over the medium term as proposed by the
Director-General
and the need to implement these by provision of funds through the assessed contributions to the Regular Programme and adequate extra-budgetary contributions to FAO's Special Action Programmes and other Trust Funds,
1.
Calls Upon
all Member Nations to give the highest priority to food and agricultural development in their national development plans, to make every effort towards greater self-reliance in their development, including follow-up of the recommendations of
WCARRD
, and to take all necessary steps to avoid reducing the production and availability of food supplies for the poorest sections of the world's population;
2.
Invites
all the developing countries to pursue the policy of collective self reliance in food and agriculture, to develop cooperation between themselves, including cooperation between those with untapped agricultural production potential ant those with available financial resources to develop mutually beneficial collaborative arrangements for food production;
3.
Affirms
that greater self-reliance calls for fuller international cooperation including not only economic and technical cooperation between developing countries but also increased external aid and assistance to investment and technical assistance in food and agricultural development by countries in a position to provide these;
4.
Strongly
Urges
Member Nations to take all possible steps without delay to ensure the replenishment of the resources particularly concessional resources, for food and agricultural development of the multilateral financing institutions, in particular to replenish IFAD,
See also Resolution 3/81.
to assure the attainment of the agreed target for pledges to the UNDP for the Third Programming Cycle (1982-86), to provide adequate support to the Special Action Programmes and other extra-budgetary activities of FAO, as well as to fulfil the targets for
WFP
and the IEFR;
5.
Reaffirms
the special position and importance of the Food and Agriculture Organization in the fight against hunger and malnutrition through its four main roles of information, policy, advice, and support for operational activities, including the Technical Cooperation Programme, and the need for providing adequate resources both to the Regular Programme and to extra-budgetary activities supported thereunder;
6.
Requests
the
Director-General
to continue with his efforts to streamline the programmes, staffing and administrative costs of the Organization and to make improvements in efficiency and economy and, in the exercise of his responsibility under Article XVIII.1 of the Constitution, to put forward his proposals for the next Programme of Work and Budget on the basis of his best judgment of the world food situation, taking into account the views of all Member Nations on their needs and constraints.
(Adopted
25 November 1981
)