Situation of Food and Agriculture in Africa

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1981.

What other versions does this mandate have?

3 versions · 1981–1983

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/37/245

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
1983	A/RES/37/245	Situation of food and agriculture in Africa	—	—
1982	A/RES/36/186	Situation of food and agriculture in Africa	1,487	27%Compare
1981	A/RES/35/69	Situation of food and agriculture in Africa	1,347	–

What subjects does this mandate have?

5 subjects

Africa Agricultural Development Economic Development Food Problems Programmes of Action

What’s in this document?

17 operative paragraphs

I.

Takes note with satisfaction of the Lagos Plan of Action for the Implementation of the Monrovia Strategy for the Economic Development of Africa and, in particular, of the provisions related to food and agriculture; 1110 2.

Urges all the countries of Africa to implement, in accordance with their national development programmes and priorities, measures to increase substantially their national food and agricultural production;

Calls upon the international community to continue to support efforts undertaken by African countries at the national, subregional and regional levels to in-

"" See Report of the World Food Conference. Rome, 5-16 November 1974 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.75.11.A.3). chap. II.

'"'' Official Records c,f" the General Assembly, Thirty~fifth Session, Supplement No. 19 (A 1 35/19).

'"' See Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Report of the Conference of FA 0, Twentieth Session, Rom,•. 10-28 November 1979 (C 79/REP and Corr.2). para. 33 "" See A/S-11 /14, ,mnex I.

,.,., Ibid., chap. I

crease food production through. inter alia, the provision, on a priority basis, of additional financial and technical assistance to Africa by the International Fund for Agricultural Development. the African Development Bank and the United Nations Development Programme and an increase in lending by the World Bank to the agricultural sector in Africa:

Appeals to the international community to provide urgently additional food aid to African countries to meet the current emergency needs in the region. particularly as called for by the Economic and Social Council in paragraph 7 of its resolution 1980 /58:

Calls upon current and prospective donor countries to achieve without delay the minimum target of the Food Aid Convention of I 980, 1111 of 10 million tons of cereal aid annually. as well as the minimum target of 500,000 tons of grains for the International Emergency Food Reserve, as agreed upon in the relevant decisions of the General Assembly:

Urges Governments and the international organizations concerned to provide the necessary technical, financial and food assistance to food security projects in the region, especially in the countries of the Sahe] and the Sudano-Sahelian countries, in the framework of their own activities, including strengthening the Food Security Assistance Scheme of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations through the participation of current and prospective donors:

Urgently appeals to the international community to offer its immediate assistance for the effective suppression of the present upsurge of the African migratory locust, which, if not immediately controlled, may engulf a large part of the continent:

Urges the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations to continue to play its leading role in the co-ordination of the locust control efforts in the region;

Recommends that the Programme for the Control of African Animal Trypanosomiasis and Related Development, endorsed by the Conference of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations at its twentieth session in its resolution 8 /79 of 28 November 1979, should be implemented on an urgent basis under the over-all co-ordination of that organization and with the active financial and technical support of the international community:

Requests the Secretary-General, in consultation with the organs, organizations and bodies of the United Nations system, to co-operate with the Organization of African Unity in undertaking a study on the establishment of regional food trade and distribution organizations in Africa and to submit a report thereon to the General Assembly at its thirty-sixth session through the Economic and Social Council:

Urges all relevant organs, organizations and bodies of the United Nations system to intensify their activities in Africa to assist Governments, inter alia, in the areas of direct government participation in food production, agricultural processing. integrated research and extension services;

Also urges the international community to assist countries in the African region to achieve. between 1980 and 1985, the following goals:

A significant improvement in their food situation and the laying of the foundations for the attain-

"" See Official Records of the General Assemhlv. Thirty~fUth Session. Supplement No. /9 (A/Yi,1 \9). part one. para. 32. For the text o\' the Convention, see TD,i\V HE•\ I .6 'I '· ment of self-sufficiency in cereals, livestock and fish products:

Significant progress towards attaining a 50 per (b) cent reduction in post-harvest losses, through, inter a/ia, the construction of storage facilities;

An improved physical infrastructure to facilitate food distribution at the national, subregional and regional levels:

Greater and effective agronomic research, with special emphasis on improved seeds and an adequate supply of fertilizers, pesticides and other chemicals suitable for African conditions:

Further urges all relevant organs, organizations and bodies of the United Nations system to expand their training programmes in the building up of national capabilities for the preparation, execution, monitoring and evaluation of agricultural development projects;

Requests the Secretary-General, in consultation with the Organization of African Unity and organs, organizations and bodies of the United Nations system, to submit a preliminary report on the progress made in the implementation of the present resolution to the General Assembly at its thirty-sixth session.

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