Short Diplomatic Course

“United Nations For Tackle The Issues of Food Crisis”

Yogyakarta, May 12th 2018

Council : United Nations General Assambly

Country : Republic of India
Delegates : Rahma Widya Hartati, Yusril Eza Mahendra

“In the end, the art of hunger can be described as an existential art. It is a way of looking death
in the face, and by death I mean death as we live it today: without God, without hope of
salvation. Death as the abrupt and absurd end of life. ”

― Paul Auster.

Topic Area: India’s Point of View and Solutions of Food Crisis

The worst food crisis since 1974 broke out in 2007. Higher world market prices of food
commodities (especially wheat, rice, soya and maize) sparked an unprecedented increase in the
number of hungry people. Despite moderately lower prices since the summer of 2008, the number
of the hungry continued to rise in 2009. This food crisis has placed the fight against hunger on the
international agenda.

India is one of the largest food producing countries in the world, but millions of Indians
still sleep with hungry stomachs. According to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
report in 2015, India accounts for a quarter of the world's malnourished population. Furthermore,
about 51 percent of women between the ages of 15 and 59 suffer from anemia and 44 percent of
children under the age of five have less weight.
 The Indian government's food policy has two components. One is to sell food grains at
subsidized prices through PDS and the other is the minimum price support of grain foods and the
procurement of food grains to build stock through the levy system. In the PDS, food grains are
sold to a family of poverty line (BPL) below the lower price and above the higher priced BPL
family called the targeted PDS. To sell food grains through PDS, the government buys food from
the market. but the BPL family list is not perfect. There are even some really poor families being
excluded from the list and some rich families included in the BPL list due to the intervention of
political parties.

Our actions is not because we are in the opposite part in food crisis, but to defense our
national priorities and the our people prosperity. We would like to convey this idea to the
participating countries in this meeting. As our contribution to this crisis, the Repulic of India
would like to purpose these solutions to be consider :

1. Stabilizing Population Growth.

2. Selling food grains at subsidized prices through PDS, provision of minimum food
grain prices and procurement of food grains to build stock through the levy system

3. Create sustainable land management policies for sustainable food security. Land
conservation, soil erosion must be stopped, pollution must be controlled and soil
fertility should be restored to increase food production.