Situation of Food and Agriculture in Africa

A/RES/36/186View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1982.

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?

3 subjects

Africa Agricultural Development Food Problems

What’s in this document?

19 operative paragraphs

Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General on food problems in Africa 116 and expresses its concern at the inadequacy of the results achieved in the implementation of its resolution 35/69;

Urges all the countries of Africa to implement, in accordance with their national development programmes and priorities, measures to increase substantially their 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 increase fo0d production through, inter alia, the provision, on a priority and long-term basis, of additional financial and technical assistance to Africa by organizations of the United Nations system, such as the International Fund for Agricultural Development, the United Nations Development Programme and other organizations involved in the financing of agricultural development, and through an increase in lending by the World Bank to the agricultural sector in Africa;

Stresses that international assistance should not only take the form of food aid and the corresponding additional support but, more important, should also support national efforts for the restoration and development of agricultural production, specifically crops and livestock, in the regions affected;

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;

Calls for the urgent consideration of the adoption of a positive and flexible approach to the financing of agricultural development by external institutions and Governments, which would finance, inter alia, recurrent expenditure in connection with investment and the cost of factors of production, and for the granting of concessional terms as appropriate;

Recognizes the role of the international community. the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the World Food Programme in mobilizing food aid and agricultural assistance in Africa, and requests existing and new duuor countries to increase the resources required to meet African needs for food aid and agricultural development;

Recommends that the Programme for the Control of African Animal Trypanosomiasis and Related Developmt:nt, endorsed by the Conference of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations at its twentieth session in its resolution 8179 of 28 November 1979, should be implemented on an urgent basis under the over-all coordination of that organization and with the active financial and technical support of the international community;

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 relating to food production, agricultural processing, integrated research and extension services;

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

A significant improvement in their food situation and the laying of the foundations for the attainment of selfsufficiency in cereals, livestock and fish;

Significant progress towards attaining a 50 per cent reduction in post-harvest losses, through, inter alia, the construction of storage facilities;

An improved transport infrastructure to facilitate food distribution at the national, subregional and regional levels;

Expanded and more 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 Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa, in consultation with the Secretary- General of the Organization of African Unity, to take every necessary measure, including the holdin_g of joint meetings, with a view to considering the possihilifies for implementing General Assembly resolution 35/.'.J9 and the p1esent resolution;

Requests the Secretary-General, in consultation 13. with the Organization of African Unity and organs and bodies of the United Nations system, in his final report called for in resolution 35/69:

To identify the problems perceived in the attainment of the goals set forth in paragraph I O above;

To estimate the amount of external resources needed to attain those goals;

To report on the level of technical and financial resources which the United Nations system will deploy towards the attainment of those goals and to suggest ways of attracting extra funding;

To report on the action-oriented plans of the relevant organs and organizations of the United Nations system which will implement the present resolution.

11 ' See Food and Agriculture Organizalion of the United Nations, Report o( the World Conferenet· on Agrarian Reform and Rural Dei·elopment,

Rom,•, 12-20 Ju/_1· 1979 tWCARRD/REP). part one; transmitted to the mcmhers of the General -\,scmhly hy a note of the Secretary-General (A/ 111 Ibid., part one.

"14/48.'i). 112 Ibid .. chap. I.

"' A/S-1 I.' 14. anne, I

( c) "' "Famine in Africa" (document CM/1106 IXXXVI) of the Organization of African Unity).

116 A/36/149.

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