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First session of the second day at CSD

On the second day, 2/7/2014, delegates at the Commission on Sustainable Development at JHUMUNC presented different ideas on how to improve their food system based on the countries they represented.

Throughout the first session of the second day, there were three basic questions that delegates asked at Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD). First, “Can we rely on GMO?” second, “What are other ways that everybody has sufficient amount of food?” Third, “What are other innovative technologies to provide more food for everyone?”

With respect to the question “Can we rely on GMO?” there were two viewpoints arguing for the safety and effectiveness of using GMO to solve the food support problem.

Countries such as the Dominican Republic, Afghanistan, and Ghana were anti-GMO, believing that GMO is safe to be used and effective to solve the food support problem. To support their ideas of anti-GMO, they each said, “Modified growth is not necessarily good for the population,” and “The study shows that using GMO is bad for the health,” and even that “GMO healthy might be true, but it is not affective in solving the problem.”

On the other hand, countries such as New Zealand and Haiti strongly showed that they are pro-GMO that it is not only affective but also might have a malicious to the health. They each supported by saying, “GMO work for some countries. It will not create a problem. What works in urban areas might not in rural areas,” “The government should lead citizens to understand what GMO is and use it.”

In addition on “What are other ways that everybody has sufficient amount of food?” There were many ideas conveyed by many delegates.

The ideas were “The world should increase agriculture, plant species for maximize the outcome, without disease and improvement in growth. . . Promote food wasting systems. . . Educate every country first to make it decide what is the best for them.” They addressed that this issue “Needs to have the international community’s attention.” One stated, “Let the United Nations regulate instead of the government so that each country has a sustainable food supply. . . The food in the world should be distributed equally.”

Lastly, with respect to “What are other innovative technology to provide more food supply.” Delegates suggested many different innovative ideas.

Ideas included water treatment, drilling water for a solution to water irrigation, water with fertilizer directly—which has shown useful for solving the problem, water basin project-Detoxifying water and providing new clean water.

During the first session of the second day at Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD) there were three five minute immoderate caucus that delegates wanted to have more unofficial talk with other delegates to create resolution papers and merge them, if necessary.