Draft Resolution 1.

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United Nations World Health Organisation
Agenda : Concerns Regarding Poor Sanitation and Food Shortages
Globally.
Authors: People’s Republic of China, Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka,
United States of America,
Sponsors: United Arab Emirates, Kingdom of Denmark, Federative Republic of
Brazil, Ukraine, Kingdom of Morocco;
Signatories: Japan, Georgia, Republic of Korea, Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, Republic of Yemen,
Kingdom of Spain, Republic of Gautemala, Republic of Haiti, Central African Republic, Republic of
Finland, Hellenic Republic, Czech Republic, Commonwealth of Australia, Portuguese Republic, United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Kingdom of Thailand, Republic of Madagascar,
Republic of Seychelles, Republic of Lebanon, Democratic Republic of Congo, Republic of Cuba,
People’s Democratic Republic of Algeria, Federal Republic of Nigeria, Republic of India, Syrian Arab
Republic, Republic of Turkey, Republic of Zimbabwe, Republic of Poland, Ireland, Republic of Iceland,
Republic of Mauritius, Republic of South Africa, Principality of Monaco, Republic of Austria, Republic
of Colombia, Kingdom of Bhutan, Republic of Cote d’Ivoire, Slovak Republic, Republic of Tajikistan,
Islamic Republic of Mauritania, Kingdom of Norway, Jamica, French Republic, Sultanate of Oman,
Togolese Republic, Republic of San Marino, Republic of Uganda, Islamic Republic of Pakistan, Kyrgyz
Republic, Turkmenistan, Republic of Congo, Republic of Singapore, Republic of China, Republic of
Indonesia, Islamic Republic of Iran, Commonwealth of the Bahamas, Federal Republic of Germany, The
Italain Republic, Republic of Senegal, State of Kuwait, State of Israel, Commonwealth of Dominica,
Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, Swiss Confederation, New Zealand, Kingdom of Netherland, Republic of
Kenya, State of Qatar, Republic of Mozambique, Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, Republic of
Kazakhstan, Kingdom of Sweden, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia;

Recalling the Declaration of the World Summit on Food Security, particularly the Five Rome
Principles for Sustainable Global Food Security,

Expressing concern that the multiple and complex causes of the food crises that occur in different
regions of the world, affecting developing countries, especially net food importers, and their
consequences for food security and nutrition require a comprehensive and coordinated response in the
short, medium and long term by national Governments and the international community, reiterating that
the root causes of food insecurity are poverty and inequity,

Noting with appreciation the work undertaken by relevant international bodies and organizations,
including the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the International Fund for
Agricultural Development and the World Food Programme, on agricultural development and on
enhancing food security and nutrition,

Recognizing that we can Stock up on non-perishable food items that can be used in case of a
shortage and strengthen social protection and safety nets for vulnerable groups

Deeply concerned that at the current rate of progress the provision of drinking water will be
insufficient to satisfy the needs of a very large number of people by the year 2050 and that the lack of
progress in the provision of basic sanitation services is likely to have dramatic environmental and health
consequences in the near future,

Recalling the UN General Assembly has said that the human right to water and sanitation and
acknowledged that they are essential to the realization of all human rights. It has also adopted a
resolution addressing the global food crisis and calling on the international community to urgently
support countries affected by the food security crisis through coordinated action,

1. Reiterates the need to adequately and urgently address agriculture development and food security
in the context of national, regional and international development policies, taking into account the
importance of enhancing synergies between sustainable agriculture, biodiversity, food security, nutrition
and development policies;

2. Stresses the need to address the root causes of excessive food price volatility, including its
structural causes, at all levels, and the need to manage the risks linked to high and excessively volatile
prices in agriculture commodities and their consequences for global food security and nutrition, as well
as for smallholder farmers and poor urban dwellers;

3. Urges Member States and international organizations to pursue policies and strategies that
improve the functioning of domestic, regional and international markets and ensure equitable access for
all to those markets;

4. Calls upon Member states and the World Trade Organisation to take measures to promote trade
policies that would be capable of promoting further trade in agriculture products, identifying the
obstacles to trader which have the most serious impact on the world’s poor and contributing to supporting
small-scale and marginalized producers in developing country,

5. Stresses the need to remove food export restrictions or extraordinary taxes for food purchased for
non-commercial humanitarian purposes by the World Food Programme, and not to impose them in the
future;
6. Also Stresses the need to significantly reduce post-harvest and other food losses and waste
throughout the food supply chain through, inter alia, increased promotion of appropriate harvesting
practices, agro-food processing and appropriate facilities for the storage and packaging of food;

7. Encourages international, regional and national efforts to strengthen the capacity of developing
countries, in particular their small-scale producers, in order to enhance the production, productivity and
nutritional quality of food crops and to promote sustainable practices in pre-harvest and post-harvest
agricultural activities;

8. Calls upon Governments to implement fully the provisions concerning water resources in general
and water supply and sanitation in particular as contained in Agenda 21, and the recommendations of the
Commission on Sustainable Development;

9. Suggests the use of new technologies and methods to address the problem of food security and
poor sanitation, in particular

a) Sanitation systems that reduce waste water and pollution on-site through dry sanitation latrines or
ecosan systems and more sophisticated closed-loop ecological sanitation alternatives,

b) Implement advanced wastewater treatment systems to transform sewage waste into nutrient rich
compost to be used in agriculture for producing food,

c) Aquaponics and hydroponics to grow crops in arid areas, to boost the production and food,

d) Using genetic engineering and mixed breeding to make newer varities of food crops that require less
nutrients and water to make them grow in areas with less fertile soil,

e) Vertical farming in Urban Areas, meaning that food crops can be grown in Urban areas in big multi-
storied buildings,

f) Making waste food redistribution systems so that the wasted food can be used for betterment of poor
people,

g) Developing food sharing apps that connects surplus food from resturants to underprivilaged people,

h) Using new agricultural practices such as Agroforestory to gain more output from same agricultural
land,
i) Advancing toilets equipped with sensors and technology to monitor waste level and water usage.

10. Invites Member states and other stakeholders to give appropriate consideration to the issue of
food security and poor sanitation in the discussions on the development in the near future;

11. Calls upon member states to provide subsidies to developing and crisis affected countries in the
form of agricultural and sanitation products

12. Requests the developed nations to establish a statutory non-government body to investigate and
regulate climate changes and act as an alarm to alert countries about food shortages or upcoming crisis.