Niger — Question

Part of the debate – in the House of Lords at 3:26 pm on 25 January 2012.

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Photo of The Earl of Sandwich The Earl of Sandwich Crossbench 3:26, 25 January 2012

Will the Minister join me in commending BBC correspondent Mike Wooldridge and his colleagues for outstanding coverage of the famine in West Africa? One point that he made, which the noble Baroness mentioned, was that food prices had risen 40 per cent in a single year, out of reach of the local population. What is DfID doing for longer-term sustainability? The noble Baroness mentioned cattle; perhaps she would comment on agriculture as a whole.