Food aid. 1. Members undertake that all types of food aid shall not be directly or indirectly, explicitly or implicitly, linked to commercial food exports to beneficiary countries.
2. In the case of emergency assistance or for critical food needs arising from natural disasters, climatic disasters or humanitarian crises or in post-crisis situations, such assistance shall be provided exclusively on the basis of requests and commitments, or in response to appeals from specialized United Nations food aid agencies, other regional or intergovernmental agencies, or in response to an urgent government-to-government appeal immediately after a natural disaster. This emergency assistance will be provided exclusively in the form of grants. All means must be explored to provide food aid through the purchase of local staple foods in the neighbouring country or countries, with donors agreeing to provide cash and logistics instead of exporting food surpluses.
3. Food aid for other purposes, including programmes and projects aimed at raising the nutritional standards of the most vulnerable groups in least-developed and net food-importing developing countries, is provided exclusively in the form of untied financial grants for use in the purchase of local food products for and by the recipient country. This food aid must be sold on urban markets and the proceeds used to improve the production and marketing conditions of national food products or to purchase national agricultural surpluses for food security programmes.
4. Members shall adopt legislation on the purchase of national food products for food security stocks and nutritional programmes, guaranteeing purchase prices to farmers covering their production costs.
Food aid. Taking into account the annual evaluation of the needs of therefugee population, other Community resources may also be mobilisedfor UNRWA's food aid programme to meet the specific needs ofvulnerable groups. The amounts, quantities and characteristics ofthe commodities, cash and services provided and all other conditionsrelated to support to the food aid programme will be subject toseparately agreed conditions, based on annual requests from UNRWA.
Food aid. Taking into account the annual evaluation of the needs of the refugee population, other Community resources may also be mobilised for UNRWA's food aid programme to meet the specific needs of vulnerable groups. The amounts, quantities and characteristics of the commodities, cash and services provided and all other conditions related to support to the food aid programme will be subject to separately agreed conditions, based on annual requests from UNRWA.
Food aid a) Members agree that the provision of all forms of food aid shall not be tied directly or indirectly, explicitly or implicitly, to commercial exports of agricultural products or of other goods and services to recipient countries.
b) In the case of food aid for emergency or critical food needs arising from natural disasters, crop failures or humanitarian crises and post-crisis situations, such aid is exclusively provided on the basis of pledges and commitments to, or in response to appeals from, specialized United Nations food aid agencies, other relevant regional or international intergovernmental agencies, or in response to an urgent government-to-government ministerial request for assistance in meeting food needs in the immediate aftermath of a natural disaster. This emergency food aid is provided exclusively in fully grant form. Whenever possible all means of providing food aid through purchases of local staples in the same country or in neighboring countries should be explored, the donors agreeing to provide cash and logistic means instead of exporting food surpluses.
c) Food aid for other purposes, including under programs and projects to enhance nutritional standards amongst vulnerable groups in least-developed and net food-importing developing countries, is provided exclusively in the form of untied financial grants to be used to purchase food for or by the recipient country. This food aid must be sold on the domestic urban markets and revenues must be used to improve production and marketing conditions for domestic food production or to buy domestically produced food surpluses for domestic food security programs.
d) Members enact national legislation that favors procurements of food for national food security reserves and national nutrition programs from local peasant production surpluses, guaranteeing reasonable prices that cover production costs.
a) Members recognize and operationalize farmers’ rights in the International Undertaking of Plant Genetic Resources and implement mechanisms to ensure that farmers primarily benefit from their traditional knowledge and contributions and resources.
b) Members assess the environmental, social and economic impacts of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) on Food Security with the full and informed participation of civil society and prior and democratic consent of peoples and meanwhile call for a moratorium on all field-testing, commercialization and trade of GMOs in food and agriculture. The Biosecurity Pr...
