Sciongrad wrote:"The purpose of this resolution is to help low-income food deficit nations implement the polices suggested in clause 1-3.
Considering what Food Welfare Act already does, I'm increasingly failing to see why further resources should be thrown at the nations that are already smooching off of the better-doing ones.
Food Welfare Act wrote:ENCOURAGES all nations to research more efficient irrigation and drainage technology to prevent crop shortages and wasteful water use; to research plant breeding techniques and soil fertilization techniques, as well as employ crop rotation, and weed, insect, and pest control;
Looks to me like that already does what you want this proposal to do. Or, at the very least, that if a nation has failed to do the above, its current bad situation is entirely its own fault, as WA already instructed it to do otherwise. Additionally, the committee created in FWA already "[sends] scientists to nations needing assistance in the creation of beneficial farming practices". (OOC: I'm starting to think it's significant duplication.)
The World Assembly has a long history of spending money to improve global health - this resolution builds off of that longstanding commitment.
OOC: I have a memory failure, can you point out the resolutions that use other nations' resources to improve a "not-well-off nation's" health situation? Not including the ones with humanitarian aid in a disaster, as those are, hopefully, another kettle-o-fish entirely.
"So frankly, I do not think it is unfair that wealthier nations need to contribute resources towards combating global hunger."
Aside from the fact that the majority of WA nations not residing on the same planet and that a famine is hardly global if it's just one or two nations, didn't you say...
Sciongrad wrote:"Although do not conflate giving technology freely with giving tools and equipment freely."
Yet what you argue now is that material help should indeed be given for free, if the nation in question is unable to pay for it. That the help comes from the WA is irrelevant, as it ultimately is paid for (OOC: since WAGF