Plan AC-just governments ought to ensure food security for its citizens

I affirm.
A Interpretation: The aff has the right to formulate policy making issues
B violation: The neg might make arguments as to why policy actions are bad.
Note- This is preempted just in-case the negative actually says that policy actions
are bad
C is the standards:
1. Effective clash- When students debate about issues that are happening within the
status quo and effect everyone of our lives, it allows them to look into a more critical
point of view as if they were implementing a policy creating more effective clash within
debate rounds because of all the issues happening in the status quo, there are a variety
of topic areas that both competitors can decide and which strategies to take with direct
refutation. Ineffective clash prevents debate from being what debate is really supposed
to be and policy making ensures that.
2. Education- Exploring issues associated with the policy world promotes better education
inside and outside the debate community because of the amount of correlation it has
with other classes in school for example world geography. Allowing debaters to engage
in policy events allow students to learn from these actions that are happening inside the
status quo and have a broad mind and keeping up to date with events that effect their
lives
3. Debating about current issues throughout the world- Policy actions are debated based
on current events which forces students to explore issues happening in the status quo
and debating about issues that actually effect their daily lives.
All in all, substance should take priority throughout this whole debate, if not, it is a
violation of effective clash and taking policy actions are good.
4. Real World Education Debating about policy actions is more real world so debating
about it increases education. Reading more topic literature about a specific policy action
increases awareness and education about what is happening in those countries and how
to fix those situations
D voter- Vote on education- Education is important because it is one of the prime
outcomes of debate. When education is being hurt, one of the whole purposes of debate is
being destroyed by education. It is better for education to run policy actions
Next is framework
Ought implies a moral obligation and the resolution is a question of moral principles so I value morality. This is the best value
for this round because it clearly defines how a just government must act. Therefore, any negative value automatically
collapses into the affs value of morality because all actions and values are based on the concept of what is moral or not ie
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libertarianism collapses to morality because no one can have legit rights granted by libertarianism without those rights being
moral.
The standard is maximizing well-being. 3 warrants. One- policies must maximize expected well-being Woller
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Moreover, virtually all public policies entail some redistribution of economic or political resources, such that one group's gains must come at another group's ex- pense. Consequently,
public
policies in a democracy must be justified to the public, and
especially to those who pay the costs of those policies. Such [but] justification cannot simply be assumed a priori by
invoking
some higher-order moral principle. Appeals to a priori moral principles, such as environmental
preservation, also often fail to acknowledge that public policies inevitably entail trade-offs among competing values. Thus since policymakers cannot justify inherent value
conflicts to the public in any philosophical sense, and since public policies inherently imply winners and losers, the policymakers' duty [is] to the public interest requires
them
to demonstrate
that
the redistributive effects and value trade-offs implied by their polices are somehow to the overall advantage of society. At the same time, deontologically based
ethical
systems have severe practical limitations as a basis for public policy. At best, [Also,] a priori moral principles provide only general guidance to ethical dilemmas in public affairs and do not
themselves suggest appropriate public policies, and at worst, they create a regimen of regulatory unreasonableness while failing to adequately address the
problem or actually making it worse.

Two-issues within the status quo concerning food security never maximizing well-being. The
policy issues which are being presented imply a dramatic shift in the status quo in order to
ensure well-being which is what a just government must do.
Three- The negative has no ground on maximizing well-being because they have to prove the
clear negation of the resolution in the first place and negation means that they have to defend
that just governments ought not to ensure food security which is in no way moral or maximizes
well-being because it denies people the way of life. If they in any form maximize well-being,
then you default to the affs framework because I maximize well-being under comparative
worlds in an aff world to alleviate the negative impacts of food insecurity
Next, I define just government as a basic government with the basic features ie a leader of
some sort and with all the just features to make a government. Just in this case means that a
government has the bare minimum in order to set up an institution. Under this definition, you
could consider that North Korea is a just government as well as someone like USA. If the
government has a foundation and necessary governmental parts, then in the aff world, it is a
just government.
Contention 1 is inherency: Somalia is experiencing a major food crisis due to
lack of food security
Buisness Standard 14(http://www.business-standard.com/article/international/somalia-s-food-security-crisis-expected-to-worsen-un-114070700702_1.html)
War-torn Somalia is sliding back into an acute hunger crisis with parts of the capital facing
emergency levels just short of famine, the United Nations warned today."Somalia's food security crisis is
expected to worsen over the next several months following poor performance of the major rainy
season, shrinking humanitarian assistance and access, increasing malnutrition, conflict and surging food prices," the
UN's Food Security and Nutrition Analysis Unit (FSNAU) said. The warning comes three years since over 250,000 people, half of them children, died in a devastating famine. In
Mogadishu, the UN said the crisis is expected to spiral into "emergency" phase, just one step short of famine on its classification scale of

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hunger. Prices of grain have already soared by up to 60 per cent since March in some
areas, FSNAU added.
Contention 2 is the harms:
A- Famine leads to death which Somalia is on the brink of
Mokyr and Grada 02 -
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http://irserver.ucd.ie/bitstre
am/handle/10197/449/ogradac_article_pub_037.pdf?sequence=3) Two broad classes of causes were responsible for augmented mortality during
famines. The first is directly nutrition-related, and includes some cases of actual starvation.
More often, however, victims of this class succumb to nutritionally sensitive diseases brought on
by impaired immunity, or to poisoning from inferior foods that would have been
discarded in normal times. The other is indirect: death is caused by the disruption of personal life
and the normal operation of society resulting from famine, but was not the
B- The rebel groups of Somalia have increasing influence due to lack of food
security
Times of Malta 14 (http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20140623/world/kenyan-jets-hit-al-shabaab-bases-in-somalia-kill-80.524709-Monday, June 23,
2014, 15:51-no author)

Officials and diplomats have said towns cleared of Al Shabaab are in a dire sta\te in Somalia, with food
stocks emptied and largely abandoned by their inhabitants, creating what
one envoy described as "ghost towns". They say al Shabaab still controls tracts
of countryside, making it difficult for supplies to be moved to the towns.
Somalia's government is struggling to impose order since the AU peacekeepers, backed by Somali troops, drove al
Shabaab out of the capital Mogadishu in 2011. More than two decades of conflict have left Somalia
in ruins, while al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab has continued guerrilla-style attacks and suicide bombings.

Thus the plan: The US will intervene inside Somalia to prevent a food crisis by
ensuring food security
Contention 3 is solvency: USA solves the Somalia crisis best due to wide range of
food security policies it can implement
USAID 14 (http://www.usaid.gov/somalia- Last updated: July 01, 2014)
Since 1991, Somalia has essentially been a collapsed state. The social costs of war have been enormous, leaving Somalia with some of the lowest human development
indicators in the world. In 2011 and 2012, the worst drought that East Africa has seen in 60 years led to famine in southern Somalia, uprooting thousands of families and
putting millions at severe risk. Food security has improved, largely driven by humanitarian assistance from
USAID who is working to increase stability and reduce the appeal of extremism in
Somalia through programming that fosters good governance, promotes economic
recovery and growth, offers youth skills training, and works to increase social
cohesion through improved community with government relationships. Our programs are
planned and carried out with local partners in the context of Somali culture and values
USA is capable of solving for Somalian crisiss
Plan AC-just governments ought to ensure food security for its citizens

Advantage 1- Plan contains Al-Shabaab presence who are one of the root causes
of the Somalian crisis-proven by drone attacks on the militants
Reuters 14 (http://www.aljazeera.com/news/africa/2014/01/us-missile-kills-top-al-shabab-commander-2014127144648535712.html)
A senior al-Shabab commander who masterminded a wave of suicide attacks by the armed group has been killed in a US missile
strike, two Somali security officials said. Both sources and a Somali government spokesman named the target as
Ahmed Mohamed Amey, a chemicals expert also known as Isku Dhuuq, Reuters news agency reported. The intelligence officials said Amey was killed
alongside his driver on Sunday. A US official said the missile strike occurred in a remote area near Barawe, a coastal rebel
enclave that was the site of a failed raid by American commandos in October targeting a fighter known as Ikrima. It was not clear if the missile was launched from a drone. The
security sources said Amey was close to al-Shabab leader Ahmed Abdi Godane, who since taking charge in 2008 has restyled the group as a global player in the al -Qaeda
franchise - a transformation that was highlighted when it killed at least 67 people in an attack on a Kenyan shopping mall in September. Late last year, the US
military deepened its involvement in Somalia, sending a handful of officers to Mogadishu to
help advise and support Somali forces and AU troops, who have been battling al-Shabab
since 2007These attacks have proven that USA has been successful so far in containing al-
Shabab and attacking one of the core purposes of the Somalian food crisis
Advantage 2- Plan prevents the increase of the famine
Wolf (Byron Wolf-ABC news reporter-http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2011/07/famine-in-africa-what-is-the-us-doing/)
Finally, with famine reaching epic levels in many areas, and rising food prices elsewhere, al Shabaab, the
radical Islamist group that rules much of Somalia, agreed to allow aid in. The United Nations sent its first emergency aid flight last week. The United States has
provided more than $383 million in emergency food assistance to the region since
October, resulting in the distribution of more than 347,720 metric tons of food aid,. But al
Shabaabs restrictions have allowed only a fraction of it $43 million to reach victims in Somalia. That figure includes last weeks $21 million contribution of 19,000 metric
tons of emergency food rations through the United Nations World Food Program. Somalia has been without a central government now for two decades and law and order is
enforced in most areas outside of the capital of Mogadishu by al Shabaab, which has ties with al Qaeda. Two years ago Shabaab expelled foreign aid groups, accusing them of
undermining the strict Islamic state it seeks to build in Somalia. The timing could not have been worse as rainy season after rainy season began to fail, plunging an already food
insecure region into famine. Desperate Somalis now trek for weeks to reach refugee camps in neighboring Kenya and Ethiopia, where the situation in the host community is not
much better. The refugees risk violence from armed groups along the way. Many have had to bury children who starved to death before reaching the relative safety of the camps.
Yet despite the dangers of travel and the dire conditions in the camps themselves, thousands of Somalis continue to stream across the border each day. The United States Agency
for International Development quotes humanitarian agency estimates that about half of the children younger than 5 who arrive at the Dolo Ado transit center in Ethiopia are
malnourished. They quote relief group estimates that nearly one in five of children between 6 months and 5 years of age residing in refugee camps in northern Kenya are
severely malnourished. Although the United Nations sent in a first shipment of aid to Somalia last week, other private groups are reportedly reluctant to follow suit, worried about the tenuous
security situation in the country and unsure about al Shabaabs promises. The U.S. State Department, however, said earlier this month that it would take al Shabaab at its word and test its
willingness to cooperate. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton last week directed her staff to explore what was needed to head off a humanitarian catastrophe, her representative
told reporters. The United States Agency for International Development has mobilized its
disaster emergency response teams to identify aid priorities and coordinate assistance
arriving in the region. USAID has also set up a task force to oversee the effort from its
Washington, D.C., headquarters.
Plan AC-just governments ought to ensure food security for its citizens
Since the US is donating a lot of money for aid to Somalia and already increasing its influence
to help mitigate the crisis it has the best ability to prevent the famine
A- Food security solves to prevent famine
Fraser 13 (Monday, 24 June 2013 | developing countries, farming | Evan Fraser | Add comment http://www.foodsecurity.ac.uk/blog/index.php/2013/06/want-to-feed-nine-billion/)
First, many people argue that if we want to avert apocalyptic famines, we are going to need about 50-100%
more food by 2050 to keep up with demand. And this will require new science to give farmers the
tools they need to boost harvests. But while this may be true, we cannot continue to repeat the mistakes of the last 50 years where we have
allowed industrial monoculture that depend on fossil fuel to dominate our croplands. Rather, whats required is to develop new types
of partnerships between farmers and scientists to help develop locally
appropriate solutions to local problems. This is especially true for small scale African
farmers, many of whom only produce about 20% of the food they could (see Figure S4a for
maize for example pdf) due to a lack of soil nutrients, good quality seeds, and better
Underview
A) Plan is topical- US is a just government and is justified in intervening in
other countries conflict in order to ensure well-being and security for its
citizens because of its hegemonic figure, it has a duty to increase food
security and alleviate as many negative impacts as possible and both US
and Somalia both meet my definitions of a just government.
B) I defend implementation of the plan because the plan implies
C) Aff gets RVI- because of time skew in that the neg gets more speech time
during rebuttals to skew my ground as well. Whereas I have only a 4 minute
and 3 minute rebuttal which in it is hard to cover the whole list of
arguments within that time.
D) All theory violations must be clarified during CX- 1. Fair ground- I need to be
fully aware of what ground the negative is taking with pre-fiat implication
and that means it is unfair if I dont have an idea what position they are
taking on theory.
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A/T imperialism K
1. Turn- Imperialism is good
2. Imperialism solves for poverty much better than the negative does

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A/T Counterplan to any other country
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A/T just govts dont violate rights
1- The plan doesnt violate rights, it actually increases it by ensuring food security to everyone in
Somalia
2- Under my definition, a just government is a government with only the concrete features to
formulate a government. So a just government is a true government theoretically. No they dont
violate rights-its more of a step in the right direction. Since a jus government can be any
government, if they implement a policy that will benefit their people they are assumed to be
just ie since north korea is a just government under my definition and if they implement a policy
of food security, then it is a step in the right direction in order to be even more just than they
are right now
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A/T food sovereignty counter plan
1. Perm the counter plan- food sovereignty and food security are not mutually exclusive
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A/T