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Heather Morgan Per.3 Committee: WFP Topic: Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO) Country: Iran __Country Policy: __  The study of genetically modified organisms has been a controversial topic. In 1973 by two American physicists, Herbert Boyer and Stanley Cohen launched a world-wide phenomenon of possibilities for the global community. In 1994, the first Genetically Modified food ever released to the general public was the longer lasting tomatoes. As time went but, the idea of GM crops continued to flourish within the international community. In 2007, countries who apposed of this idea, have now taken the affect of how wonderful this idea is, because these foods can help certain disease, such as malnutrition, starvation, and death. Distribution of new, GM crops can stop world hunger. If they are used in the US and Europe to increase production, this technology can be applied to under- developed countries. However, this technology would affect rural farmers in these countries. Between a quarter and half a million children develop blindness every year as a result of vitamin A deficiency, and most of them die. The United Nation resolved in 2002 to end Vitamin A deficiency, but despite the distribution of vitamin supplies there has not been much progress. GMO can also be more resistant to disease, pesticide, drought, and temperature. As well as higher protein, vitamin, minerals, and amino acids. __UN Actions: __  The UN’s World Health Organization (WHO) passed a document in May of 2000. This document states that countries can use GM crops for the purpose of aid that there country are in desperate need to feed their people. The FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization) released into the environment, this will help GMO into the environment, and this will help create a universal guideline of safety standards. In the UN office of May 2008, Germany held an international workshop on access to justice with respect to GMO’s. This workshop brought together to identify the most pressing needs and challenges regarding the information of GMO. __Solutions: __  Iran will like to decrease it at a resemble rate, a rate where it can’t go higher or lower. Then we would like to do some research on how to keep the vitamin A in these organisms, but take away the deficiency from these organisms. I would like to work any countries that believe the same way. Sources: [] [] [] []  <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">