Food and agricultural problems : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly.

Reaffirms that urgent action should be taken to increase food production; and that the national food strategies, plans and programmes of developing countries should play a central role in the process of establishing priorities, in co-ordinating national and international funding and in the application of technology and human resources development, in order to promote food production and increase the national self-reliance of the developing countries; appeals to the international community to provide, as a matter of extreme urgency, the logistic agricultural inputs, and fulfil the unmet aid needs of the drought and famine-affected African countries; urges developed countries to provide the International Development Association with the necessary financial resources, to enable it to cover any shortfall and to increase its assistance to developing countries, particularly in the development of food and agriculture; urges all countries to refrain from creating obstacles to agricultural imports and all exporting countries, to endeavour to limit export subsidies and analogous practices which might hinder trade; urges the World Food Council to mobilize and sustain greater efforts in the struggle to overcome hunger, to continue to review and report on major problems and policy issues, and to continue to serve as a co-ordinating mechanism in the field of food and other related policy matters within the UN System.

Adopted without vote, 119th plenary meeting

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Adopted at the 119th plenary meeting, 17 Dec. 1985.
In: Resolutions and decisions adopted by the General Assembly during its 40th session, 17 September-18 December 1985, 28 April-9 May and 20 June 1986. - A/40/53. - 1986. - p. 143-145. - (GAOR, 40th sess., Suppl. no. 53).