The priority of course is to mitigate hunger and poverty and give relief to the some 800 million malnourished people in urban and rural areas. This objective was already set at the 1974 World Food Conference, but could not be reached to this day, more than 20 years later. Solutions to these problems have to be sought in various fields. In principle it is the task of each individual country to solve its problems, the international community of states can only support those individual approaches. The indispensable preconditions for sustainable development are human rights, democracy and the possibility for people from all classes participating in economic activities.
Governmental action has to be clearly oriented to development.
A socially balanced population policy, adequate medical care and education policy have to be mentioned here as cornerstones. Good governance, concentrating on the creation of employment, avoiding unproductive expenses and fighting corruption, is essential to establish a stable framework for food security. Legal security, in particular secured land property and long-term land utilization rights, are an important prerequisite for the economic development of a country. In this connection, particular consideration has to be given to the purchase of land and land utilization on the basis of equal rights. International and regional cooperation has to support primarily strategies of sustainable development in those countries which actually pursue such strategies, and should be concentrated on the least developed countries.