§ The Secretary of State for International Development (Hilary Benn)The Department for International Development has published a new policy paper on Agriculture, "Agriculture and poverty reduction: unlocking the potential".
The paper sets out DFID's commitment to agriculture as a fundamental part in the Government's approach to achieving the millennium development goals. The paper provides details of DFID's current activities in agriculture through both its central and country programmes, and outlines DFID's approach to 137WS finding new ways of reversing agriculture's relative decline and stagnation in many of the world's poorest countries.
A copy of this policy paper has been placed in the House of Commons Library, and comments are welcome. The contact point is agriculture@dfid.gov.uk.