Topic: 2024-Famine in Conflict Zones
Country: Venezuela
Delegate Name: Jackson Bunda
SUBMITTED TO: The Food and Agriculture Organization
SUBJECT: Famine in Conflict Zones
PROPOSED BY: The Republic of Venezuela
NAME: Jackson Bunda
SCHOOL: Forest Hills Northern
Alarmed by the extreme food shortages along the border regions, noting the closing of farms and factories as well as the increasing number of food riots, Venezuela recommends the UN, including the Food and Agriculture Organization, take further action to lower famine in Conflict Zones by increasing Humanitarian Aid. Your support and involvement are crucial in this endeavor.
As Venezuela continues to encounter famine in conflict zones, supplying food to its citizens remains a top priority. Venezuela, on its own, has taken measures to actively distribute food through programs such as CLAP (Local Committees for Supply and Production), Mercal, and Bodega, all of which work to deliver essential staple cooking ingredients to those in need. Venezuela has also actively participated in the UN with Cuba, Turkey, and China to trade oil and natural minerals for food. Venezuela has also actively participated globally within the UN, previously within the FAO, where it has constantly advocated for greater food distribution and supported the Universal Declaration of Human Rights affirmation, which declared all people were equally entitled to the right to food and adequate living. However, Venezuela believes that in order to handle its own, as well as many other countries’ conflicts in famine zones, further actions need to be taken as 60% of Venezuelans face food insecurity, and 25% of UN Nations worldwide also suffer from significant forms of food insecurity.
To address these problems, Venezuela proposes a key solution: increasing Humanitarian Aid. This action, if implemented, would allow Venezuela and other countries to pool and expand commercial funding, re-establish plantations and farms throughout affected countries, and create opportunities for economic development. Venezuela also suggests that the UN should play a role in increasing Food Security, which would then, in turn, lower Famine in Conflict zones by providing safe seeds and fertilizers that align with select countries’ agricultural policies and disseminating knowledge on agrarian practices to rehabilitate newly established farms.
SOURCES:
United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)
https://www.unocha.org/
Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
https://www.csis.org/
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
https://www.fao.org/
The World Factbook
https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/
