For the model un project i was a chair. As a chair i ran the debate and kept it going, as well as made suggestions for types of debates and topics. I also wrote the background guide and set up the crisis with the crisis team. I really enjoyed being a chair in the middle school/high school conference and am looking forward to doing it next year. My committee went very well, including our crisis, we discussed malnutrition around the world, as well as our crisis that had to do with a virus in bananas. Over all people collaborated very well and were able to create some very interesting resolutions for malnutrition and our crisis. 



My Background Guide:



Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)

Hello, my name is Jack Campbell, I am a 9th grade at HTH. I will be your chair for the FAO in this HTH and HTM conference. I have been a part of the Model UN for about a year now, and I have been to many conferences. I am looking forward to the conference, good luck. if you have any questions email me at Jcampbell@hightechhigh.org.

Vocabulary
Agriculture: growing of vegetables and grains
Malnutrition: when someone does not have access to food for a variety of reasons and can therefore not be healthy
Undernourished: food intake is not enough to sustain energy

Essential Question
What are some new and creative ways to solve world hunger, starvation, and malnutrition in your country and other countries around the world?

Background Info
Every year around 15 million children die of hunger and one in twelve people around the world is malnourished. This includes 160 million children who are under the age of 5. Everywhere around the world there is hunger and starvation problems. In developing and developed nations people go hungry and starve due to poverty, lack of resources, or lack of successful farming practices. where they live. Poverty is directly linked to starvation in all countries because it prevents people from purchasing necessary resources, such as clean water and nutritious food. Lacking both of these leads to malnutrition. Reduced resources as well directly affects starvation because it reduces the amount of food that people receive and can purchase, this happens mostly in rural and devastated areas and can lead to malnutrition and starvation.

UN Involvement
The Food and Agriculture Organization is a division of the United Nations which works to reduce hunger and stop starvation. Their mandate is to “Raise levels of nutrition, improve agricultural productivity, better the lives of rural populations, and contribute to the growth of the worlds economy.” The FAO emerged in the late 19th century as the International Institute of Agriculture, but was later renamed the Food and Agriculture Organization by Franklin D. Roosevelt.

The impact of the FAO is to “Share critical information about food, agriculture, and natural resources in the form of global public goods.” The FAO tries to predict which areas will experience food shortages. Food shortages can result from droughts, poor agricultural practices (like over farming) and infections or contaminations from pollution. The FAO has succeeded in attempts to improve agriculture in countries, such as their effort to Democratic Republic of the Congo’s peace process through financial and food support, where people began to work in producing agriculture to sustain communities.

The FAO tries to improve communities’ agricultural production to sustain their populations. The organization strongly believes that through agricultural support, hunger and malnutrition can be effectively solved.

Questions to consider
Is starvation and hunger a problem in your country?
What actions have been taken previously to improve the situations?
How is your government trying to solve issues relating to starvation or malnutrition?
What does your country believe the UN should do to solve these problems?
How does your country support the FAO in their mission to end hunger and stop starvation?

Helpful sites
http://www.fao.org/hunger/en/
http://www.worldhunger.org/articles/Learn/world%20hunger%20facts%202002.htm
http://www.wfp.org/hunger/malnutrition