Current+food+consumption+patterns+and+global+sustainability

Committee: Environmental Commission, sub-commission 2 Delegation: Sudan Topic: Current food consumption patterns and global sustainability Even though Sudan is a country rich in agricultural resources and fertile grounds, too many Sudanese suffer from malnutrition. The fast increase in desertification has caused more than mere food issues, such as causing people to flee elsewhere in the hope to find better alternatives. Because Sudan is increasingly hit by water scarcity together with soil erosion and land degradation, it is difficult to conceptualize an amelioration in current food consumption patterns. According to an FAO report, about 6.7 million Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), returnees, and other vulnerable people have to be targeted for food assistance, despite the expected above average crop and rapid growth in the economy, .The total food aid needs are estimated at about 800 000 tonnes. In order to resolve this escalating issue, the government of Sudan strongly emphasises the importance of economic development in order to improve the country’s food supply and cause the gradual elimination of dietary deficiencies, in order to improve the overall nutritional status of the country’s population. Furthermore, it also brings about qualitative changes in the production, processing, distribution and marketing of food.

1. Calls upon the More Economically Developed Countries to be more active in helping Less Economically Developed Countries to combat the deterioration in their consumptions patterns by: a. temporarily halting or decreasing the research in biofuels based on agricultural resources such as wheat, which decreases the international availability for export and the inflation of many food products vital to the populations of the LEDC’s b. asking funds and benefits in order to make import prices decrease so to appease the escalated inflation rates tormenting LEDC’s

2. Urges a specially conceived summit to be organized in order to discuss the growing issue of food shortages and stimulate international awareness

3. Encourages a long-term initiative to be created so to: a. ensure global sustainability as to what concerns the ubiquitous availability of basic food resources to LEDC’s b. optimize efforts for a long-term and crucial development of LEDC’s in order to grow more fully autonomous and self-sufficient c. create a U.N.body specifically created to focus on global sustainability and food consumption patterns, which are topics that are of increasing importance in the con text of a devastating economic crisis