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

Affirms that increasing food production and improving access to food by low-income people in developing countries will contribute to the alleviation of poverty and the elimination of malnutrition and help to raise their standard of living; urges all countries, particularly developed countries, to strengthen their efforts to create a more favourable international economic environment, in particular a more open agricultural trading system which will stimulate food production and productivity in developing countries, and in this context stresses the importance of the urgent and full implementation of the agreements contained in the Final Act of the Uruguay Round; attaches special importance to the assistance from FAO to developing countries on policy transformation and technical assistance in the light of the Final Act of the Uruguay Round and in the context of the Uruguay Round decision on measures concerning the possible negative effects of the reform programme on least developed and net food-importing developing countries; requests the organizations and bodies of the UN system, and the multilateral financial institutions, to assist interested developing countries in the formulation and implementation of national water policies and strategies.

Adopted without vote, 92nd meeting

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Adopted at the 92nd plenary meeting, 19 Dec. 1994.