International Development written question – answered at on 12 October 2011.
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what steps his Department is taking to improve awareness of (a) nutrition and (b) agriculture in developing countries; and if he will make a statement.
The UK is committed to long-term efforts to tackle hunger and undernutrition, as captured in our recently published strategy “Scaling Up Nutrition: the UK's position paper on undernutrition”. It sets out the steps the Department will take to comprehensively scale up its nutrition programmes over the next four years, reaching 20 million children under the age of five, in addition to humanitarian assistance.
The Government are also working with international partners to address issues of food security. In June, G20 Agriculture Ministers agreed an action plan on food price volatility and agriculture to take forward concrete actions in this area. On the basis of the action plan and through work of international organizations—DFID has taken specific actions including; strengthening research, innovation and dissemination, mobilizing the G20 agriculture research networks and promoting efforts to scale up responsible investments and activities related to agricultural production and food security, in cooperation with the multilateral development banks and the private sector.
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