FAO resolution at KMUN2012

Committee: FAO
Topic: Proposing new paradigms of aid for the horn of Africa
Signatories: Chad, Kenya, Ethiopia, United Kingdom, Costa Rica, Argentina, China, Chile, Switzerland, India, South Sudan, Germany, Sudan, Djibouti, Egypt, Turkey
Deeply concerned that people of the Horn of Africa, with their nationalities of Somalia, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, Sudan, and South Sudan, is suffering under successive years of fatal famine,
Reminding all nations of the celebration of the 64th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights which recognizes the rights to standard of living,
Reaffirming this committee’s resolution numbered as FAO-A2, on which the member nations of the FAO have agreed upon working against food price volatility to protect poor households and rural farmers,
Noting with satisfaction the past efforts of various relevant UN bodies, governments of the member nations, and nongovernmental organizations, empowering underdeveloped nations of resilience,
Regretting a recent closure of a MSF(Medicins Sans Frontieres) office in Somalia after its two personnel have victimized by a terrorist attack, and any other frustrations against NGO activities in the region,
Stressing the fact that there should be enhancement of current missions and programs, as well as implementation of new methodologies to resolve the region’s fundamental politic chaos,

1) Promotes the integration of agricultural and industrial aspects(industrialization of agricultural industry) through combining resources in the Horn of Africa with developed nations’ industrial capacity with the partnership with African Union and FAO to;
a) Pursue general good of the Horn of Africa to develop general economy to step out of famine with fairness and transparency with new paradigms suggested,
2) Promoting better transportation in the Horn of Africa for the purpose of better distribution of crops both domestically and internationally by;
a) Receiving aids from developed countries in order to build new railroads and reinforcing currently existing railroads to transport the year’s harvest from arable regions to arid regions, in case where land transportation is promoted
b) Requesting aids from developed countries in order to stabilize river systems to transport the year’s harvest from arable regions to arid regions, in case where river transportation is promoted
3) Urging the developed nations to allow developing countries to take their technologies that consists of;
i) Bio-technologies, which indicates certain positive qualities such as but not limited to;
ii) Limited use of a Genetically Engineering technique which is expected to grant the plants flexibilities towards standing hostile conditions of Africa in support of irrigation system;
iii) Help regional farmers yield their food claiming their ownership upon the produced crops to revive the first level industry presented by agriculture;
iv) Promotion of biodiversity that allows the farmers in the Horn of Africa to diversify the plants they grow ultimately warding off plant-related diseases and reducing the use of pesticide;
v) The establishment of seed data-base for better accessibility of various seeds to ascertain what seed is appropriate for a certain land use
vi) Vaccines for plant-related diseases,
a) Cash crop-related technologies, which will allow the region to independently produce refined-cacao and coffee beans that can be sold in higher price than the crude ones, in order to allow the governments to provide the local farmers with financial aid,
b) Infrastructure-related technologies to pursue for betterment of living condition of people and to allow the region to be free from draught that consists but not limited to:
i) Irrigation technology,
ii) Technology for reviving the arid regions
4) Promotes Feed-in-Tariffs system to encourage developed nations and multinational corporations to share their skills with the developing nations in a mutual contract in order to increase farming land in developing nations and provide financial benefit to the developed nations in vice versa;
5) Requests the United Nations General Assembly to agree upon establishment of a UN Peacekeeping Operation(PKO) in the region as an effort for some areas such as:
a) Coastal countries, to implement peaceful atmosphere within the nation which local military rebel such as Al-Shabab threaten rural farmers and force them to grow money-making crops, instead of main food crops of the region;
b) Newly independent countries, to help its newly founded government to peacefully gain control through all of its territory;
c) Refugee camps, to protect unarmed civilians without any nationality from local military rebels;
6) Urges an implementation of an emergency plan to make farmers be aware of upcoming weather conditions by:
a) collaborate with FEWSNET(Famine Early Warning Systems Network) to locate future weather fluctuations or possible disasters via satellite such as but not limited to:
i)sudden precipitation of lack of precipitation
ii)natural disasters
iii)drought
b) conduct the emergency plan by taking actions such as:
i) making governments to activate their irrigation system when FEWSNET predicts possible drought
ii) making NGOs prepare surplus amount of food before possible drought or natural disasters
iii) dispense telephones to the horn of Africa. In consecutive regions within walking distance
7) Urges governments to introduce a ‘charter to end extreme hunter’ that is designed to:
a) enforce ‘accumulate tax’ on the rich in the Horn of Africa to invest in local food production
b) Request ‘accumulative tax’ on the rich in the Horn of Africa to provide aid to the financially lowest 10%.