Select Committee

Bond

BII0092 - Investment for development: The UK’s strategy towards Development Finance Institutions

Written Evidence Mar. 01 2023

Inquiry: Investment for development: The UK’s strategy towards Development Finance Institutions
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: International Development Committee (Department: Department for International Development)

Found: BII0092 - Investment for development: The UK’s strategy towards Development Finance Institutions Bond

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Written Question

Agriculture: Ecology

Monday 20th February 2023

Asked by: Dan Carden (Labour - Liverpool, Walton)

Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if her Department will make an assessment of the potential impact of increasing funding for agroecology on levels of food insecurity.

Answered by Mark Spencer - Minister of State (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)

Our food system is dependent on maintaining a healthy and sustainable natural environment, providing us with the inputs we need to continue to grow, rear and produce food domestically. This is complemented by international trade to provide our high level of food security.

Our farming reforms aim to support a highly productive food producing sector, meeting our commitment to broadly maintain current levels of food production, alongside environmental improvements that benefit us all. Our schemes will ensure our long-term food security by investing in the foundations of food production: healthy soil, water, and biodiverse ecosystems.

UK food supply comprises domestic production excluding exports, plus imported food, and the production to supply ratio has remained stable over the last two decades. Production to supply ratios are regularly kept under review as part of our wider ongoing work on food security. The UK Food Security Review is a review of the evidence landscape for all aspects of food security, and the 2024 edition will take account of any new data sources produced since 2021.

We are currently undertaking research to examine future land use and agricultural strategies to balance environmental and food production outcomes. This work is helping to inform the development of the Land Use Framework.

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Select Committee

Soil Association

ECFS0041 - Environmental Change and Food Security

Written Evidence Jan. 26 2023

Inquiry: Environmental Change and Food Security
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Environmental Audit Committee

Found: ECFS0041 - Environmental Change and Food Security Soil Association Written Evidence

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Select Committee

Sustain: the alliance for better food and farming

ECFS0047 - Environmental Change and Food Security

Written Evidence Jan. 26 2023

Inquiry: Environmental Change and Food Security
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Environmental Audit Committee

Found: ECFS0047 - Environmental Change and Food Security Sustain: the alliance for better food and farming Written

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Select Committee

CPRE the countryside charity

ECFS0063 - Environmental Change and Food Security

Written Evidence Jan. 26 2023

Inquiry: Environmental Change and Food Security
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Environmental Audit Committee

Found: ECFS0063 - Environmental Change and Food Security CPRE the countryside charity Written Evidence

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Select Committee

Landworkers' Alliance - Farmers Union

ECFS0017 - Environmental Change and Food Security

Written Evidence Jan. 19 2023

Inquiry: Environmental Change and Food Security
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Environmental Audit Committee

Found: ECFS0017 - Environmental Change and Food Security Landworkers' Alliance - Farmers Union Written Evidence

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Deposited Papers

Jan. 19 2023

Source Page: I. Resolutions adopted by the Governing Council at its forty-fourth session. 23p. II. Report of the consultation on the twelfth replenishment of IFAD’s resources. Recovery, rebuilding, resilience. 129p. III. Letter dated 16/01/2023 from Andrew Mitchell MP to the Deposited Papers Clerk regarding the above documents for deposit in the House Libraries. 2p.
Document: IFAD_Report_Recovery_Rebuilding_Resilience.pdf (PDF)

Found: dated 16/01/2023 from Andrew Mitchell MP to the Deposited Papers Clerk regarding the above documents for

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