Interdependence - John Mazziotti

John Mazziotti

Mr. Roddy

GPHC

September 30th, 2019

In Class Interdependence 

Any UN Organization: UN Food Organization
The United Nations Food Organization declared the third month in a row for the current dipping food prices at the beginning of September. The Food and Agriculture Organization measured how food in the world slowly started becoming more abundant. This is equated to less of a demand for food, allowing prices to drop. Global Cereal rates rose by 23 million tonnes of cereal in the last 3 months. This can seem concerning that we may be producing too much food, but it turns out that we made about 4 million tonnes less than predicted this month; when predicted in October.
Any IGO: NATO
Recently, the Saudi-Arabia oil fields were attacked and blown up via Iranian drone strike. Nato is currently not prepared to fend off more attacks from happening in the near future. Nato has agreed to concentrate counter-attack forces in the Saudi-Arabia oil regions. Nato is saying that their opposing forces have missiles that their current missile defence technology cannot defend against. Thus, Nato needs to plan their intentions carefully.

Collective Security or Hybrid IGO: IFC
The IFC is a hybrid IGO and has d=just recently invested $1 million into Flat6labs. Their aims for this investment is that it will “Support Tech Entrepreneurship”. This investment also aims to boost women entrepreneurs as well. Half of the money was invested from different governments, multilateral development banks, and private sector stakeholders. Flat6labs is also turning to other organizations to hopefully raise the money to their $10 million dollar goal.

Food: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-global-economy-food/world-food-prices-dip-in-aug-for-third-month-running-u-n-fao-idUSKCN1VQ0WH
 Nato Isn’t Ready to Fend Off Attacks: https://breakingdefense.com/2019/09/natos-not-ready-for-saudi-style-drone-attacks-its-a-serious-problem/
IFC Invests in Flat6labs: https://www.wamda.com/2019/09/international-finance-corporation-invests-1-million-flat6labs-tunis

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