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  1. “Let us also recommit to providing immediate humanitarian assistance, building the resilience of the most vulnerable and strengthening sustainable, resilient and inclusive food systems, in line with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its Sustainable Development Goals.”

    2023-05-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9327 (2023) · source

  2. “Secondly, support for the accelerated and full implementation of the African Continental Free Trade Area is critical in averting food supply chain disruptions on the African continent, especially for regions that may be experiencing drought conditions and the impact of climate-change-induced situations that could aggravate conflict triggers. Thirdly, we advocate the need to integrate peacebuilding objectives into the creation of resilient food systems, with a backward interlock of food security objectives into peacebuilding programmes and activities. In conclusion, I would like us to recommit to acting with urgency, at scale and in concert, to respond to the urgent food security and nutrition needs of the millions of vulnerable people around the world, whose situation has been exacerbated by conflicts.”

    2023-05-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9327 (2023) · source

  3. “That calls for support for initiatives including, first, the African common position on sustainable food systems; secondly, the further implementation of the African Union’s Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme and its results framework; thirdly, regional food security facilities, such as the Economic Community of West African States’ Regional Food Security Reserve; and fourthly, the effective and full implementation of the $1.5 billion African Emergency Food Production Plan facility of the African Development Bank to boost food security, nutrition and resilience on the continent.”

    2023-05-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9327 (2023) · source

  4. “As we know, short-term actions to respond to crises are not sufficient. Long-term development investment is key to breaking the vicious circle of hunger and conflict. In that regard, and with a focus on the African continent, which is acutely aligned with food insecurity and conflict concerns, I would like to make three brief points. First, our actions must focus on building resilience in economies and food systems.”

    2023-05-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9327 (2023) · source

  5. “As a third measure, we urge the strengthening of prepositioned assets, including global humanitarian hubs such as the International Humanitarian City in Dubai and regional humanitarian hubs such as the one in Accra, to be able to interconnect food stocks quickly and effectively with humanitarian needs. The international humanitarian community must also deepen its national and regional coordination mechanisms for programming and responding to humanitarian crises and work to align its interventions with national and regional response plans. In addition, major donors must cooperate to shift funds out of separate silos to enable integrative work, in a manner that does not prioritize food distribution to vulnerable communities over the sustainable approach of helping them to reconstruct their food systems.”

    2023-05-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9327 (2023) · source

  6. “Next, we encourage the strong deployment of diplomatic, political, legal and humanitarian tools to reverse the rapid and dramatic deterioration in food security observed in conflict-affected settings and urge the international community to make unified calls demanding that parties to conflict comply with their obligations under international law, including international humanitarian law and international human rights law. Such demands, where necessary, must also specifically request the parties to refrain from targeting food systems and other livelihood support infrastructure.”

    2023-05-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9327 (2023) · source

  7. “More specifically, we would like to share some priority areas of global action with respect to global emergency measures. As a first measure, we must act with urgency, and at scale, to respond to the acute food insecurity and nutrition needs of the millions of vulnerable people in conflict situations around the world, especially in Africa, which is the hardest hit. The vulnerable populations in places such as Burkina Faso, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mali, the Sudan, South Sudan, Somalia and Haiti can no longer wait until there is a perfect outcome among all the parties to their conflicts. Amid the prevailing challenges, we must press on to remove barriers obstructing food systems, particularly human- made obstacles, and deliver assistance where it is most needed.”

    2023-05-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9327 (2023) · source

  8. “As we reflect on more than five years of the implementation of resolution 2417 (2018) and the important contribution it has made in establishing the interlinkages between conflict and hunger, as well as the need for global respect for norms relating to a population’s right to food, Ghana believes that the most important task before us is breaking those destructive links, even in the midst of ongoing conflict, and ensuring that food systems promote peace and its associated positive effects on the supply of safe and nutritious food to civilians. In that regard, we continue to urge the international community to implement a series of emergency measures and simultaneously pursue long-term development investments to break the vicious circle of hunger and conflict.”

    2023-05-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9327 (2023) · source

  9. “2) That grim reality is affirmed by the Global Report on Food Crises 2023, which outlines the scale and dimension of the problem of conflicts causing hunger, particularly in African countries affected by conflicts. For many such persons, the right to food, which is acknowledged under the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights and expressed in the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, is an illusion, as their capacity to have physical, social and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food is severely impaired.”

    2023-05-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9327 (2023) · source

  10. “In normal times, that objective is difficult to achieve for many States but, in violent situations, it can become an almost impossible task for any State. In that regard, we continue to emphasize the need to prioritize the global actions that preserve peace, prevent conflicts and trigger the early deployment of pacific means for the resolution of disputes before they lead to violence between or within States. Indeed, as noted in the concept note, the World Food Programme and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations reported in 2020 that, “70 per cent of the world’s population experiencing acute hunger is in conflict-affected areas.” (S/2023/307, p.”

    2023-05-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9327 (2023) · source

  11. “Let me begin by thanking you personally, Mr. President, for Switzerland’s choice of the topic for this open debate and for your able leadership of the Security Council’s proceedings today. I convey the warm regards of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, who is unable to be here in person today owing to pressing matters of State. I also thank the Secretary-General for his statement and note with appreciation the additional briefings by the President of the International Committee of the Red Cross and the civil society representative. The need to maintain food security and preserve access for civilian populations to essential services is fundamental to the stability and well-being of any society.”

    2023-05-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9327 (2023) · source