Written questions

Development Aid: Farmers and Women

Commons · Question 47683 · Tabled 24 Apr 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office · Official record

Answered 2 May 2025

Question

Asked by Wendy Morton

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of planned changes to the level of future spending on official development assistance on programmes supporting

Answer

Answered by Stephen Doughty, 2 May 2025

The Government recognises the important role women smallholder farmers play in agrifood systems in developing countries, and that investing in women and girls and breaking down the barriers they face supports inclusive development. Decisions on how the Of...