Attachment

PREAMBLE

THE PARTIES TO THIS CONVENTION,

CONFIRMING their continued commitment to the still valid objectives of the Food Aid Convention 1999, to contribute to world food security, and to improve the ability of the international community to respond to emergency food situations and other food needs of developing countries;

SEEKING to improve the effectiveness, efficiency, and quality of food assistance in preserving the lives and alleviating the suffering of the most vulnerable populations, especially in emergency situations, by strengthening international cooperation and coordination, in particular among the Parties and stakeholders;

RECOGNISING that vulnerable populations have particular food and nutritional needs;

AFFIRMING that States have the primary responsibility for their own national food security, and therefore for the progressive realisation of the right to adequate food as set out in the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) voluntary guidelines to support the progressive realisation of the right to adequate food in the context of national food security adopted by the FAO Council in November 2004;

ENCOURAGING governments of food insecure countries to develop and implement country-owned strategies that address the root causes of food insecurity through long-term measures, and that ensure proper linkages between relief, recovery and development activities;

REFERRING to international humanitarian law and the fundamental humanitarian principles of humanity, impartiality, neutrality and independence;

REFERRING to the principles and good practice of humanitarian donorship, endorsed in Stockholm on 17 June 2003;

RECOGNISING that the Parties have their own policies related to providing food assistance in emergency and non-emergency situations;

CONSIDERING the World Food Summit Plan of Action adopted in Rome in 1996, as well as the Five Rome Principles for Sustainable Global Food Security identified in the Declaration of the World Summit on Food Security of 2009, in particular the commitment to achieve food security in all countries and the ongoing effort to reduce poverty and eradicate hunger that was reaffirmed by the United Nations General Assembly in the United Nations Millennium Declaration;

CONSIDERING the commitments made by donor and recipient countries to improve development aid effectiveness by applying the principles of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development’s (OECD) Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness adopted in 2005;

DETERMINED to act in accordance with their World Trade Organisation (WTO) obligations, in particular any WTO disciplines on food aid,

HAVE AGREED AS FOLLOWS: