A Resolution to Reduce Food Scarcity

WGA/4/13

Sponsored by Zachary Wardlaw, Dominic Tedesco of Father Ryan High School

The delegates above represented the Delegation of Malta.

This legislation was filed in the Economic and Financial category

Presented as part of the MUN B 2023 conference

1	Acknowledging that the inflation of food in Malta has increased by 10.7% in the month of August
2	2023.
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4	Noting that global hunger levels have over doubled since the COVID-19 pandemic.
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6	Reaffirming the UN-established resolution of 28/3180, which involves eradicating world hunger.
7	Acknowledging that the UN established global food security as a major issue as stated in document
8	A/76/L.55.
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10	Further Noting that the Russian-Ukraine war has increased food prices by over 17%.
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12	Emphasizing that the continuing increase in food inflation could devastate low-income families and
13	the world as a whole.
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15	We the Declaration of Malta hereby:
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17	Encourages the members of the United Nations to help provide the human right of food to
18	countries that struggle to provide it for themselves.
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20	Recommends that the largest food suppliers in the world including but not limited to The United
21	States, China, and India diversify the territories to which their produced food is exported.
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23	Declares that in return countries such as Malta would export goods such as petroleum and
24	electrical equipment to the United States, China, and India.
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26	Further requests that a $106 million international loan be created as an emergency fund for
27	countries that suffer from intense food scarcity. This fund will be sourced from the United Nations
28	Food and Agriculture Organization.
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30	Affirms that the United Nations recognizes this specific issue is a dire problem and must be acted
31	hastily upon.
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