Topic: Ensuring Food Security Despite the Increasing Frequency of Extreme Weather Events

Code: RES 1/1

Topic: Ensuring Food Security Despite the Increasing Frequency of Extreme Weather Events

The Food and Agricultural Organization,

Noting the lack of access to information of agricultural techniques in many rural areas,

Recalling the goal of the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) to promote sustainable practices and provide technical assistance as requested by member states,

Keeping in mind the mandate of the FAO to collect, analyze, and spread agricultural information,

Guided by the long-term Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to ensure universal prosperity and security,

Understanding that climate change is the main root of the increasing risks of extreme weather events,

Realizing that current funding directed towards aiding nations facing a present and consistent threat from specific extreme weather conditions is insufficient,

Recognizing the success of the Early Warning - Early Action programme (EWEA), which depends on the availability of current and accurate data, as well as rapid transportation,

Reaffirming the progress made by the Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS) to preserve and support traditional agricultural systems,

Cognizant of the utility of the Special Fund for Emergency and Rehabilitation Activity,

Expressingappreciation for the Agroecology Knowledge Hub (AKH) for their efforts to congregate and distribute agricultural information,

Acknowledging the significant increase in the reliability of agricultural output that implementing sustainable techniques that defend against extreme weather events can provide,

1. Calls upon an expansion of SFERA to mitigate the events of extreme weather events after their occurrence which more specifically:

1. Encourages the 50 countries with the highest GDP per capita to contribute .01% of their total GDP as a goal;

1. Allocates money for countries facing extended extreme weather events such as droughts, heat waves, cold snaps, and monsoons, which:

1. Would be used to provide food for citizens affected by extreme weather events;

1. Would also be used in ways researched by the subsidiary group to the GIAHS to help agricultural practices continue long-term;

1. Would be used to open food distribution centers when necessary in areas affected by natural disasters;

1. Encourages the expansion of the GIAHS with the creation of a research task group to investigate the opportunities for implementing sustainable practices in different countries which:

1. Would congregate and utilize existing sources of information such as the AKH;

1. Would determine which solutions would be most effective based on the area its applied to;

1. Would also investigate emerging technologies that can be applied;

1. Results would be published and directed towards government officials at request;

1. Calls for the AKH to create an information network to distribute existing knowledge and the new discoveries of the GIAHS research task group:

1. That collaborates internationally and with the FAO to solve local issues;

1. That would be composed of an administrative hierarchy with officials and representatives from each nation;

1. With representatives who would then incorporate information and techniques into their own national or state research institutions or communities using the area’s native language, including:

1. the distribution of pamphlets;

1. lecturing and seminars;

1. demonstrations and examples;

1. They would also work with the local government as a neutral party and state/provincial government in resolving larger local issues caused by natural disasters;

1. They would work with the local communities and strengthen any informal communication or idea-sharing communities;

1. The actions of this group would make progress towards creating sustainability for rural farming communities;

1. Expands jurisdiction of the (EWEA) to provide predictive information about environmental disasters to more Member States:

1. Expands the EWEA’s operations into more at risk member-states across the globe in ways that would require the consent and cooperation of potential beneficiary nations;

1. Requests open sharing of predictive information by the EWEA with participating governments and relevant NGOs such as The Climate Relief Fund to individually create a complementary response to impending disasters;

1. Encourages current and future participating governments of EWEA to improve their direct communication with at-risk residents of rural communities:

1. this involves an improvement in communications infrastructure in order to guarantee fast and reliable communication with recipients of the system;

1. this governmental cooperation has a long-term effect of greater communication between government and at-risk rural communities, leading to a decreasing need of supranational interference so the country becomes more self-sufficient;

1. Expands operations to develop emergency protocols to effectively react to extreme weather events in ways reflective of the information procured by the research task group;

1. creates plans for accessing areas cut off by disasters, such as the flooding of roads;

1. makes a plan for citizens not able to access proper resources and provides food by opening food distribution centers or delivering food to people;

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