All or
Nothing
By
Brenda Ruiz in Baltimore (People's Daily)
The room housing the hundred or so
delegates of the Food and Agricultural Organization reeked of stubbornness. The
committee moved to an unmoderated caucus and suddenly the room was broken into
three main groups. Bits and pieces of a working paper drifted between the
delegates of Venezuela, New Zealand, and
Sudan. They spoke of the need to develop agricultural tools and to educate
people on how to use them. Employees would be hired to educate people through
the process of handing out/ reading books aloud, hosting workshops in towns,
and playing radio podcasts. Their paper called for strict micro managing to
generate the millions in funding, essential to the production of cost-efficient
innovations.
Delegates of Bolivia, Pakistan, and
Indonesia chose to place most of their focus on deciding ways to implement
incentives or subsidies for farmers. The Delegate of Pakistan spoke several
times of the idea to use technology to make plants more resistant to pests and
harsh weather conditions, as well as more fruitful and easier to plant. The
delegate is in the process of asking the delegate of the United States about
funding in skittles
for their project, should it come to pass. If the delegate of the U.S. refuses
such an outstanding proposal, the trio would try to get their funding from
public-private partnerships.
The United States is completely
against using GMO's unless there is a country where it's deemed absolutely
necessary. The US wants to get the reconstruction process started as quickly as
possible by using IMF loans and relying on how people feel through the process.
But how realistic is this? Many delegates questioned how smoothly the idea
would transition from paper.
China, Canada, and Syria are more
for implementing agriculture technology and education for those countries in
need. Malaysia, Netherlands, North Korea support them fully and ask that more
research be done as well.
All of these countries have
contributed stellar ideas in session today, the only problem is themselves. If
no one of these groups of delegations mentioned before can bring their pride
down from it's pedestal, and work together
with others, no one needing food will get fed.
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