According to paragraph 2 of article 11, the States parties, recognizing the “fundamental right to everyone to be free from hunger”, “shall take, individually and through international cooperation, the measures, including specific programmes, which are needed: (a) to improve methods of production, conservation and distribution of food […] and (b) taking into account the problems of both food-importing and food-exporting countries, to ensure an equitable distribution of world food supplies in relation to need”.