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Committee Summary
The FAO leads with the primary goals of ensuring food stability and global security while highlighting the importance of sustainability and environmental consciousness. In an ever-increasing context of climate change, food security is threatened by unpredictable weather events, droughts, floods, disease, and dramatic temperature fluctuations. This places extreme stress on vulnerable communities who struggle to establish stable food systems, eventually leading to food insecurity, economic instability, and climate-driven displacement.
Here at BruinMUN 34, the Food and Agriculture Organization is beyond excited to address the incredibly pertinent topics of ensuring crop stability in climate-impacted communities and reforming industrialized animal agriculture systems.
Delegates will be encouraged to propose innovative solutions that strengthen crop resistance through climate-adaptive technologies, sustainable resource management, international collaboration, and community-focused support. Secondly, the committee will investigate the ethics and navigation of industrialized animal agricultural systems, commonly referred to as “factory farming.” With this industry being highly extractive of natural resources such as land and water while also significantly contributing to greenhouse gas emissions, this topic lies at the critical intersection of food security, animal welfare, and resource exploitation. Delegates will be challenged to consider policy reforms that promote both efficient and sustainable agricultural systems while prioritizing environmental stewardship.
MEET THE CHAIR
LAUREN CHEN
Dear Delegates,
My name is Lauren Chen, and I am super excited to be your chair for FAO for BruinMUN 34! I am a fourth-year Human Biology and Society Major and Global Health Minor from Orange County, which has heavily influenced my interest in the intersectionality between health, nutrition, our environment, and underlying sociopolitical patterns that are especially pertinent to the workings of the FAO. In my free time, I love baking, cooking, crocheting, music, and really any type of creative hobbies, which pretty much encapsulates my love for creative ideas and outside-the-box thinking.
This is my eighth ongoing year in MUN, with my journey starting in my freshman year of high school. After numerous conferences and even competing in BruinMUN myself during my junior and senior years, I have continued to remain involved in MUN here at UCLA for the last four years. During my senior year of high school, I had the greatest honor of serving as a senior teacher in my program, providing guidance and advice to my freshman students, whom I am eternally grateful for alongside my wonderful advisors. Their continued support has inspired me to remain actively engaged in BruinMUN and remind me of the importance of empowering others to make all voices heard. Beyond teaching me the power of advocacy and communication, my time in MUN has given me cherished memories, challenged me out of my comfort zone, and connected me with unbreakable friendships that will last a lifetime.
The Food and Agriculture Organization is a specialized agency within the General Assembly of the United Nations that operates with the primary goal of achieving food and security for all. Ensuring global access to sufficient, high-quality food is its central concern, and it continues to work towards this goal through managing international food production, storage, transportation, and distribution, while also formulating effective agricultural programs to bolster food security and nutrition, especially within rural communities.
I look forward to hearing innovative solutions that highlight modern technologies and creative approaches to food and environmental justice while remaining grounded in cultural competency and respect.
Please reach out if you have any questions at all. I’m excited to meet you all soon, and see you in FAO!
Sincerely,
Lauren Chen | Chair, FAO | BruinMUN 34