Topic: 2024-Famine in Conflict Zones
Country: Algeria
Delegate Name: Maximus Hengeveld
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Famine in Conflict Zones
The People’s Democratic Republic of Algeria
Maximus Hengeveld
Forest Hills Eastern High School
Famine is described as “extreme deprivation of food”. The FAO and other organizations currently rely on the IPC system to detect and find where current famines might be to give aid to them. Currently IPC detects 168 million are going through food crises, these are all seen in war zones such as; Afghanistan, Myanmar, Pakistan, Sudan, Yemen, and the Gaza Strip. Additionally, because of the Ukraine and Russia war, Ukraine has ceased its export of surplus grain. This has caused prices for food to rise, and it decreased the emergency food aid for others that need it. The United Nations has given humanitarian aid to those in conflict zones to try and help, and they have implemented early warning systems to help monitor those who they think will enter a famine. The FAO cannot fix this problem by itself and requires other UN countries to aid these famines and go through the potential costs of this. Algeria wants to help and solve this problem with other UN nations.
Algeria has not had a major role in helping these famines so far. Although Algeria hasn’t had the best part in helping, they have been taking refugees from these war zones, and working with the World Food Programme (WFP) to provide food for them. It is estimated that Algeria has taken in over 173,000 refugees and given them safety. Algeria would like to help more but they are limited due to the fact that they are having some of their own internal problems right now with food. Due to this Algeria would like to request the help of other UN nations to aid in fixing its own internal problems with food.
Algeria needs to work with other nations more to help them with the aid of famine in war zones. They also could work on their own internal problems with food so they can start sending out more aid. Algeria would like to have invested more resources to aid those that need it. Additionally Algeria would like to help rebuild the post-conflict and development efforts in these war zones so they can sustain themselves. Finally Algeria encourages the committee to work with other nations to help aid these famines.
