World Food and Agricultural Development Policy

HC Deb 02 December 1963 vol 685 cc125-6W

58. Mr. Hooson

asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, whether he will seek to call a conference of the world's major food exporting and importing countries to formulate a world food and agricultural development through the agency of the United Nations.

Mr. Soames

Questions of world food and agricultural development policy will be fully covered in forthcoming conferences and trade negotiations for which preparations have already begun. These matters are already being discussed at the F.A.O. Conference; talks on commodity problems have begun in the G.A.T.T., and world trade in agricultural products will come within the scope of the Kennedy Round negotiations. The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development takes place next Spring.