"The UK's International Development Secretary Justine Greening said the goal should be not just to feed people in developing countries, but to change the way the food industry works in those countries.
"If we're going to fix this, we've got to fix it at source and that means making sure that the children at the sharp end of the nutrition crisis do get properly fed and do get properly brought up," she said.
"But also fixing the underlying problem of the fact that a lot of these countries have an agricultural sector that doesn't work effectively and that's why we need to get business investing in it so that they can create the sorts of supply chains that we're used to over here in the UK.""
This does not sound good to me, few in fact are impressed...
"Today sees David Cameron host a "hunger summit" in London, the first in a series of events leading up to the G8 summit in 10 days' time. The event will include a meeting of the New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition, a private investment initiative launched by the G8 in order to expand the reach of multinational companies into Africa. The UK government has pledged £395m of taxpayers' money to the scheme.
African civil society groups have condemned the New Alliance as part of a "new wave of colonialism" that will hand over their farmland to foreign investors and destroy their livelihoods. Over 40 companies have signed up to the initiative, including agribusiness giants Monsanto, Syngenta and Diageo, as well as Unilever, whose headquarters are the location of today's hunger summit.
We stand in solidarity with African civil society in rejecting the New Alliance. We call on the prime minister to withhold the £395m in UK aid money that he has pledged to the initiative, and to invest it instead in support for ecological smallholder farming in Africa. Members of the public are invited to join our protest outside Unilever House at 10am today.
John Hilary War on Want, Kirtana Chandrasekaran Friends of the Earth, Deborah Doane World Development Movement, Martin Drewry Health Poverty Action, Teresa Anderson The Gaia Foundation, Kate Metcalf Women's Environmental Network, Nick Dearden Jubilee Debt Campaign, Dan Taylor Find Your Feet, Pete Riley GM Freeze, Claire Robinson GMWatch"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/2013/jun/07/back-african-smallholders-not-agribusinessIgnorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.