International Development - Tenth Report
Here you can browse the report together with the Proceedings of the Committee. The published report was ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 15 July 2008.
Contents
Terms of Reference
Summary
1 Introduction
The global food crisis
The World Food Programme's response
DFID's response
Structure of this report
2 The WFP—origins and transformation
From food surplus to food assistance
Responding to the 'new face' of hunger
Social protection
'In-kind' food donations
The WFP as a humanitarian actor
Darfur and southern Sudan
Common Humanitarian Funds (CHF)
Zimbabwe
Hunger and malnutrition
The WFP's wider 'Enabling Development' activities
Nutrition
3 The current food crisis
Causes of the food crisis
Increased demand
Energy prices
Biofuels
Decreased supply
Export restrictions, stockpiling and speculation
Rising food prices: trends
The appropriate response from the WFP, DFID
and the international community
The WFP's response
DFID's response
The international community's response
4 Food security in the 21st century
The relationship between the WFP, FAO and
other agencies
Making the system more effective: rethinking
the architecture
UN system coherence
One lead UN agency on hunger
Reprioritising agricultural development
Donor support to agriculture
New opportunities to drive agricultural development
Supporting farmers in the current food crisis
Genetic modification
5 Conclusion
List of conclusions and recommendations
Annex A: The Committee's visit programme
in Ghana
Annex B: The Committee's visit programme
in Rome
List of acronyms
Formal Minutes
Witnesses
List of written evidence
List of Reports from the Committee in the current Parliament
Oral and Written Evidence - HC 493-II
22 April 2008
17 June 2008
Written Evidence
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