Solving Problems without Borders

Each year, the Entomological Society of America’s (ESA) Student Affairs Committee (SAC) organizes and moderates the student debate competition at the annual ESA meeting. However, 2016 was a special year. ESA hosted the XXV International Congress of Entomology’s (ICE) meeting in Orlando, Florida, and thus the ESA SAC worked in tandem with the ICE SAC to organize the International Student Debate Competition. Topics for the debates reflected the ICE 2016 theme of “Entomology without Borders.” Each debate involved teams making a choice regarding policy surrounding international issues. The teams discussed the following topics:

Below, each topic is presented with an unbiased introduction, followed by the solution-specific stances of each of the debating...