Dear delegates!

This essay represents a short analysis of the Report of the Expert based on your own opinion. 

There are some criteria to write a good essay that will be accepted by the Expert:

Structure

• Your work should count 200-300 words on the average. (+-10%)
• Your work should be divided into 3 parts: the introduction, the main body, the conclusion. 

1. The introduction describes the agenda in general. 
2. The main body requires you to show the knowledge of the Expert Report. 
3. The conclusion is a part where you can show you ideas 

Requirements

• Principles of a good essay: focus on current situation, development of ideas mentioned in the Report, unity, coherence, and correctness
• Your essay should represent your own opinion on the issue (with description of the current situation, measures taken by the UN), not the position of a particular country.
• You should carefully examine the Report of the Expert in order to write the essay in accordance with the agenda.
• Your work should be written in official style and be informative.
• Avoid plagiarism!

Helpful questions you may ask yourself

Why is habitat destruction a problem? Who does suffer from it? Is it possible to solve the problem? Are there any obstacles preventing problem solving?

Good luck!

Dear delegates,

After writing an essay, accepted by the Expert, and passing an interview, you will be distributed a country or an organization from the list of observers for its presentation at the Churkin Moscow International Model United Nations 2023. The next stage of pre-model work is writing a Position Paper which represents a quite short speech in which delegates are to state their representative’s position on the agenda and suggest solutions that fall in line with their national stance. If you want to add some your own ideas to the position of a represented state/organization, they can’t contradict their official course, statements of the officials and the UN Charter, for sure.

Your Position Paper should be clear, well-structured and informative. The volume of your report remains at your discretion, though, in general, it varies from 1 to 2 sheets A4 (Times New Roman, 14 font). 

Please, remember about time limit for speaking that will be set up during the conference! 

P.s. This concerns only the document that you are going to send to the Expert. You can prepare any amount of written text to use during the work at the conference but in the Position Paper you need only to clarify your state’s/organization’s view of the agenda. 

Writing a Position Paper will help you examine the agenda deeper, understand better the views of the country/organization, distributed to you, and prepare yourself for the upcoming session. For those of you, who take part in the MUN for the first time, this might seem a bit intimidating but it’s extremely important for a fruitful work during the conference.

According to our committee’s agenda (Habitat destruction caused by human agricultural activities), we advise you to research and present the following aspects in your Position Paper:

• Geographical characteristics of the country (especially climate conditions, the size of the area used for agriculture, water availability)
• Some information on the economy of the state: the level of economic development; the share of people employed in agriculture
• Ecological problems connected with natural resources (water, soil etc.) used in agriculture
• Stable of ecosystems (existing challenges, for example, threat for endangered species or biodiversity loss)
• Peculiarities of the agricultural policy of the state
• Measures taken/suggested by a national government/organization in the field of agriculture and nature restoration
• The information about membership in the International Organizations mentioned in the Report of the Expert
• A list of theses to include in the Resolution, suggested by your delegation (what you would like to suggest to the International Community). 

For the delegates, representing observers, may be useful to research:

• The history of the represented Organization, it’s credentials and competence.
• The mechanisms of interaction with its members.

You shouldn’t do the following:

• • Completely retell the content of the Expert’s Report.

• You hadn’t better trust Wikipedia as it isn’t a reliable source!

To prepare yourself better you can use the following sources:

• FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization)
• UNEP (United Nations Environment Programme)
• The speeches of the officials of the state/organization.
• The sources used in the Report of the Expert
• The websites of national ministries
• the Sustainable Agriculture Network
• Organizations Promoting Regenerative Agriculture
• Feel free to address to different UN bodies!

We hope this information will be useful for you during preparation for the conference. We wish you fruitful and interesting work! See you in the fields of the C-MIMUN 2023!

Report of the Expert