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Therefore, Trump imposed tariffs to Wealth-creating technologies include
address what he sees as unfair situations. information and communications
However, this is certainly not the best technology, biotechnology, materials
approach because it will backfire, resulting technology, nanotechnology, and artificial
in trade wars that result in losses for all intelligence, most of which are possessed by
parties and tension in economic and developed countries. We hope that
political relations, such as the situation developments in these fields will address
between Europe and the United States over many of the challenges facing the world,
the Ukraine issue and the peaceful rise of whether related to climate, energy, food,
China. As for how to address these issues, healthcare, education, or everything related
we do not know how, but certainly not to human life.
through the imposition of trade
restrictions. Therefore, other solutions For the World Food Programme, it plays an
must be sought and concessions must be important political role due to its response to
made by all parties. humanitarian crises resulting from armed
conflicts or climate change. It provides
Q5: We would like to learn more about information on the humanitarian situation in
your position as Egypt's Permanent Yemen, Sudan, Gaza, and elsewhere. Egypt
Representative to the Food and cooperates with the World Food Programme
Agriculture Organization of the United on school feeding by providing technical and
Nations (FAO), the World Food financial support.
Programme (WFP), and the International
Fund for Agricultural Development As for the International Fund for
(IFAD). What are the impacts of US Agricultural Development, it is concerned
President Trump's policies on African with agricultural projects and smart
countries that rely on USAID for food and agriculture. The problem lies in the
agriculture? possibility of reducing US contributions to
the United Nations as a whole, as we have
First, it's important to get to know these witnessed its withdrawal from the World
institutions. The FAO provides the latest Health Organization, the International
technologies to develop agricultural and Population Fund, and the ban on funding for
food production and addresses food the United Nations Relief and Works Agency
security. With the world's growing for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA).
population, expected to reach 10 billion by
2060, pressures on countries' strategic
resources such as food, water, and energy
are increasing. This is where science, or the
scientific breakthrough, comes in to
improve consumption efficiency, develop
resources such as water treatment and
desalination, and increase food production.
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