Topic: 2026 – Combating Malnutrition
Country: Belarus
Delegate Name: Asher Sternberg
Children across the world face malnutrition, malnutrition in children is a violation of children’s rights. Eating right is good for children’s development and growth, especially in early childhood, one of the most valuable times in child development. There are many ways malnutrition takes place whether it is undernutrition, micronutrient deficiencies, or overweight/ obesity. Some of the historical facts and statistics of malnutrition in children are, in south asia there are 56 million kids who are malnourished and in sub-saharan Africa there are 62 million children who are malnourished. In 2024, 6.6% of children under five suffered from wasting and 1.9 suffered from severe wasting, that amounts to about 43 million and 12 million. Obesity and being overweight is an issue in all areas of the world, there are about 35.5 million malnutrition cases of overweight and obese children across the world. There have been some resolutions that have been passed on malnutrition for example the UN Decade of Action on Nutrition (2016–2025) World Health Organization, it was a resolution eliminating malnutrition. In Belarus the amount of babies who died before five decreased from 15000 in 1990 to 2500 in 2023. Belarus has good food security, ranked 23 in the world. Belarus is exporting agricultural products and machines to other countries to help end horrors of malnutrition. Around 20% of fertilizers come from Belarus. Belarus is extremely food self-sufficient at around 96%. The Republic of Belarus would like to see cheaper options for fertilizers and agricultural appliances for the countries that might not be able to afford a mass amount of appliances. Another thing The Republic of Belarus wants to see is educating the people about malnutrition. Belarus also has an idea for a way we could do it called “AC/DC” agricultural decisions of countries, in the idea each country could decide how they would inform their citizens about malnutrition. Over all the Republic of Belarus wants to see the end of malnutrition. And a way to inform people about it.
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