Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how her Department plans to provide more high-impact nutrition interventions as a means of preventing famine.

DFID is supporting high-impact nutrition interventions as part of our response in Yemen, South Sudan, Nigeria and Somalia, and in many other countries where malnutrition remains of concern. This includes treatment for acute malnutrition and support for safe infant and young child feeding. In all four famine-risk countries, nutrition interventions are being provided alongside other services, such as food assistance, essential health support and provision of water, sanitation and hygiene services to help address the causes of malnutrition and to help avert famine.