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Agricultural technology for sustainable development
Decade of Action on Nutrition (2016–2025), 2 the International Year of Plant Health,
2020, 3 and the United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration (2021–2030), 4
Recalling the adoption of the 10-Year Framework of Programmes on
Sustainable Consumption and Production Patterns by the United Nations Conference
on Sustainable Development in 2012, 5
Reaffirming the Paris Agreement 6 and its early entry into force, encouraging all
its parties to fully implement the Agreement, and parties to the United Nations
Framework Convention on Climate Change 7 that have not yet done so to deposit their
instruments of ratification, acceptance, approval or accession, where appropriate, as
soon as possible,
Welcoming the Sendai Declaration and the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk
Reduction 2015–2030, adopted at the Third United Nations World Conference on
Disaster Risk Reduction, 8
Welcoming also the Buenos Aires outcome document of the second High-level
United Nations Conference on South-South Cooperation, held in Buenos Aires in
March 2019, 9
Recalling relevant strategies and programmes of action, including the Istanbul
Declaration and Programme of Action for the Least Developed Countries for the
Decade 2011–2020, 10 the SIDS Accelerated Modalities of Action (SAMOA)
Pathway, 11 and the Vienna Declaration and Vienna Programme of Action for
Landlocked Developing Countries for the Decade 2014–2024, 12 reaffirming the
importance of supporting Agenda 2063 of the African Union and the programme of
the New Partnership for Africa’s Development, 13 and recognizing the major challenge
to the achievement of durable peace and sustainable development in countries in
conflict and post-conflict situations,
Welcoming the United Nations strategic plan for forests 2017–2030, 14 and
acknowledging that forests and trees outside forests provide essential ecosystem
services, such as timber, food, fuel, fodder, non-wood products and shelter, as well as
soil and water conservation and clean air, and that forests and trees outside forests
contribute substantially to climate change mitigation and adaptation and to the
conservation of biodiversity, prevent land degradation and desertification and reduce
the risk of floods, landslides and avalanches, droughts, dust and sand storms and other
disasters,
Welcoming also the United Nations Decade of Family Farming (2019–2028) 15
and noting that sustainable agricultural technology, digitalization as well as
technological, social, economic and institutional innovations build on the knowledge
and capacities and respond to the needs and realities of smallholders and family
farmers, in particular women and youth in rural areas, and in that regard highlighting
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See resolution 70/259.
See resolution 73/252.
See resolution 73/284.
A/CONF.216/5, annex.
Adopted under the UNFCCC in FCCC/CP/2015/10/Add.1, decision 1/CP.21.
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1771, No. 30822.
Resolution 69/283, annexes I and II.
Resolution 73/291, annex.
Report of the Fourth United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries, Is tanbul,
Turkey, 9–13 May 2011 (A/CONF.219/7), chaps. I and II.
Resolution 69/15, annex.
Resolution 69/137, annexes I and II.
A/57/304, annex.
See resolution 71/285.
See resolution 72/239.
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