Select committee: International Development Committee
Recommendation 16
Second report - Food insecurity
Published 1 Jul 2022
Addressed to Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
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Recommendation (the committee's words)
publish a comprehensive strategy setting out its plan to address food insecurity; and a) increase humanitarian funding for food assistance programmes to reflect increased global food and fuel costs and to meet need. b) To promote sustainable agriculture, the Government must increase support to agricultural development programmes in middle-and-lower-income
From: International Development Committee, Second report - Food insecurity (HC 504), 1 July 2022
Government response
The government responded to the whole report on 20 October 2022 (deadline 1 September 2022).
Summary written by Accountability Index from the government's response. It is not the government's own words.The government agrees with the Committee's conclusion that the world faces a catastrophic hunger crisis, and responds to its recommendations by marking each as accepted or partially accepted.
- On publishing a comprehensive strategy to address food insecurity, the government "Partially Accept[s]". It points to the FCDO's "comprehensive action plan" and offers to make the latest full version available to the Committee "on request".
- It accepts the recommendation to increase humanitarian funding for food assistance, stating that it "is intending to increase our humanitarian funding to £3 billion over the next 3 years" as set out in the international development strategy.
- On empowering the Global Alliance for Food Security, it "Partially Accept[s]". It says the Alliance "is not yet at a stage of securing the provision, delivery and distribution of food assistance" and that "GAFS must not duplicate processes that already work well".
- It accepts the recommendation to support Ukraine's food exports, citing £10m of support to Ukrainian Railways to help repair bridges and other rail infrastructure and facilitate grain exports.