International Development: Forestry - Question

Part of the debate – in the House of Lords at 2:37 pm on 21 March 2017.

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Photo of Lord Cameron of Dillington Lord Cameron of Dillington Crossbench 2:37, 21 March 2017

With DfID’s new and welcome emphasis on the promotion of agriculture as the bottom rung of our wider economic agenda, does the Minister agree that forestry and agri-forestry have a vital role to play in sustaining soils and encouraging the sustainable management of water and grazing, and that therefore forestry has a really important role to play in the wider economic agenda generally within sub-Saharan Africa, in particular?