Overseas Aid: Farmers

(asked on 12th June 2015) - View Source

Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if she will make an assessment of the implications for her Department's policies on corporate partnerships of the findings of the report of the Independent Commission for Aid Impact, Business in Development, published in May 2015; and what steps she plans to take to ensure that UK aid protects the livelihoods of small-scale farmers.


Answered by
Grant Shapps Portrait
Grant Shapps
Secretary of State for Defence
This question was answered on 19th June 2015

DFID published its management response to the Independent Commission for Aid Impact’s Business in Development report on 11 June. The management response sets out the eight actions DFID will take in response to ICAI’s findings on DFID’s work with the private sector, including our corporate partnerships.

There are many ways in which DFID protects the livelihoods of small-scale farmers, for example by helping 6 million farmers in 40 countries across Asia and Africa adapt to climate change, securing the right to land and property for 5.8 million people (including 2.6 million women), and funding research into new technologies to increase productivity. We will make further programming decisions during the forthcoming spending review.

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