A/RES/74/244
International Year of Fruits and Vegetables, 2021
Governments, as appropriate, adopted at the Second International Conference on
Nutrition, which was jointly organized by the Food and Agriculture Organization of
the United Nations and the World Health Organization, in Rome from 19 to
21 November 2014, 1
Recalling also its resolution 70/259 of 1 April 2016, by which it proclaimed the
United Nations Decade of Action on Nutrition (2016–2025), as well as its resolution
72/306 of 24 July 2018 on the implementation of the Decade, and the need to promote
sustainable food systems that foster diversified, balanced and healthy diets that
include a variety of foods and consumption of an abundance of fruits and vegetables,
Recalling further its resolution 73/165 of 17 December 2018, entitled “United
Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural
Areas”,
Recognizing that the agriculture sector is inextricably linked with the entire food
system and that agricultural technologies and digitalization can add value throughout
the food system by improving the sustainability of storage, transport, trade,
processing, transformation, retail, waste reduction and recycling, as well as
interactions among these processes,
Recalling its resolution 72/239 of 20 December 2017, by which it proclaimed
the United Nations Decade of Family Farming (2019–2028), and the global launch of
the Decade in Rome on 29 May 2019, and cognizant of the important contributions
of fruits and vegetables, particularly indigenous crops, to food security, nutrition,
livelihoods and incomes of family farmers, especially small -scale family farmers,
Calling upon Member States to take effective measures, as appropriate, to help
to integrate smallholders into global production, value and supply chains for the
sustainable production and consumption of fruits and vegetables,
Taking note of the Global Strategy on Diet, Physical Activity and Health,
adopted in 2004 by the World Health Assembly of the World Health Organization, 2
Concerned about the high levels of loss and waste in the fruit and vegetable
supply/value chains and the negative economic, environmental and social impacts of
such loss and waste, and in this regard inviting Member States and other relevant
stakeholders to strengthen the capacity-building of developing countries to adopt
innovative approaches and technology in combating loss and waste of fruit s and
vegetables,
Recognizing that the observance of an International Year of Fruits and
Vegetables in 2021 by the international community would contribute significantly to
raising awareness on these issues,
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Decides to declare 2021 the International Year of Fruits and Vegetables;
2.
Invites all Member States, organizations of the United Nations system,
other international and regional organizations and other relevant stakeholders,
including civil society, the private sector and academia, to observe t he International
Year, as appropriate, through activities aimed at raising awareness of and directing
policy attention to the nutritional and health benefits of fruit and vegetable
consumption, the contribution of fruit and vegetable consumption to the pro motion
of diversified, balanced and healthy diets and lifestyles, reducing loss and waste of
fruits and vegetables and sharing best practices in this regard;
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World Health Organization, document EB136/8, annexes I and II.
World Health Organization, document WHA57/2004/REC/1, resolution 57.17, annex.
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