How To Feed 18 Million People In One Day, All The Time
World Growth
August 7, 2012
How To Feed 18 Million People In One Day, All
The Time
New Report: UK Aid Policy Undermines Food Security; Warns Development NGO; David Cameron Can Correct This At The Olympics Hunger Summit
Melbourne – Development NGO, World Growth, today commended United Kingdom Prime Minister, David Cameron, for drawing attention at the Olympics to the looming problem of food security, but pointed out UK aid policies needed to be changed. In a new report, [The Development Tragedy —How Donor Aid Priorities and Land Use Policies Threaten Food Security], released to coincide with the Hunger Summit, World Growth research demonstrates how UK aid policies are hindering increases in the global supply of food.
Ambassador Alan Oxley, chairman of World Growth, made the following comments:
"The fresh spike in grain prices caused by drought in the United States is a graphic reminder of the vital need to increase food production. Last year the United Nations forecast world population could rise from 7 billion today to 10 billion by 2050. Yet the policies of all major aid donors undermine the action needed to increase food production. David Cameron needs to reverse this at the Olympics Hunger Summit."
"Over the last decade, the share of global aid to support agriculture in poor countries shrank from 8.6 percent of all aid to 5.2 percent. This mirrors the reduction in the share of aid to support economic growth. The United Kingdom and other rich countries have instead given priority to redistributing wealth, increasing transparency, ensuring gender equality and protecting the environment.”
"As noted British development economist Professor L. Alan Winters advised the G20 in 2010, increasing economic growth is key to reducing poverty.”
Ambassador Oxley pointed out that, like other Western donors, in forest-endowed developing countries, the UK now gives priority to halting conversion of forest land for production of vital food staples, such as grains and vegetable oils such as palm oil; and funds projects to establish less productive industries on the grounds of claims that this will reduce emissions of greenhouse gases.
“The British Government’s position on food security and deforestation is clear - David Cameron’s Government considers that food security should be considered less important than preserving forest land.”
"It is disappointing that the UK Government shapes aid policy by listening to anti-growth groups like the World Wide Fund for Nature rather than on the facts.”
“Salient facts are that developing countries targeted by the UK have relatively more forest land than the UK and have already set aside forest areas to protect biodiversity which exceed international standards. They have plenty of land to increase agricultural production. World Bank research also shows forest clearance is not a major source of greenhouse gases.”
For more information on World Growth visit www.worldgrowth.org.
To contact World Growth email
info@worldgrowth.org.
World
Growth Palm Oil Green Development Campaign
New Sustainability Strategies Threaten Food
Security
Press Release - September 5, 2011
Carbon Footprint” Risks Misuse and
Economic Damage, NGO Research Finds
Press Release -
June 30, 2011
NGO Warns The Greens and Xenophon Senate
Bill on Palm Oil Labelling Will Harm The Poor and Damage
Australian Relations with Malaysia and
Indonesia
Press Release - June 22, 2011
World Growth Forestry and Poverty
Project
The Green Campaign in the Antipodes
Special Newsletter – August 22, 2011
NGO to Western Retailers – CSR Policies
Can Harm The Poor
Press Release - August 14, 2011
New Report – Leading Companies’ CSR
Policies Contradict Intended Purpose of Responsible Business
Programs
Press Release – May 20, 2011
World Growth In The News
Proposed palm oil law 'goes against Aussie
govt policy'
New Straits Times - June 27, 2011
Cattle ban will mean food shortage for
Indonesia's poor
The Age Editorial by Alan Oxley -
June 9, 2011
Retailers' Standards 'Aid Poor
Farmers'
The Australian - May 23, 2011
Resources
Restricting Growth: The Impact of
Industrialized Country Climate Strategies on the World’s
Poor
December 2011 – A World Growth Report
Avoiding Green Protectionism
December
2011 - A World Growth Briefing
A Roadblock to Food Security; How Halting
Land Conversion Threatens Food Security in Africa — A Palm
Oil Case Study
November 2011 – Green Papers: Issue
IX
Trees Before Poverty; The World Bank’s
Approach to Forestry and Climate Change
November 2011
– A World Growth Report
Abuse of Sustainability Standards; An Attack
on Free Trade, Competition and Economic
Growth
September 2011 – A World Growth Study
Grappling with Inordinate Uncertainty;
Measuring the Carbon Footprint of Tropical Land-Use
Change
June 2011 - A World Growth Study
Corporate Social Responsibility – How
Global Business is Getting it Wrong in Emerging
Markets
May 2011 – A World Growth Study
A Poison, Not a Cure; The Campaign to Ban
Trade in Illegally Logged Timber
May 2011 – A World
Growth Study
World Bank’s New Anti Poor Palm Oil
Policy
May 2011 – Green Papers: Issue VIII
Green Protectionism and the Lacey
Act
April 2011 – A World Growth Submission
How REDD Will Impoverish the Developing
World and Reduce Biodiversity; An Indonesian Case
Study
March 2011 – A World Growth Study
The Economic Benefit of Palm Oil to
Indonesia
February 2011 – A World Growth Study
World Bank’s Revised Palm Oil Strategy
Undermines Economic Development & Restricts Global
Markets
February 2011 – A World Growth
Submission
Palm Oil and Food Security: The Impediment
of Land Supply; How Environmentalists and “No
Conversion” are Inflating Food Prices
December 2010
– A World Growth Study
REDD and Conservation: Avoiding The New Road
To Serfdom
December 2010 – A World Growth
Study
The Issue of Indirect Land Use Change
Associated with Biofuel Consumption; Submission to the
European Commission
October 2010 – A World Growth
Submission
Green Risk and Red Ink: WWF’s Threat to
Free Enterprise
October 2010 – Green Papers: Issue
VII
The RSPO and a Carbon Intensity Standard —
Issues, Facts and Necessity
October 2010 – Green
Papers: Issue VI
Whither Poverty Reduction? The World
Bank’s Visible Green Hand
August 2010 – A World
Growth Submission
Clarification of the European Commission’s
Position on the Renewable Energy Directive
August
2010 – Green Papers: Issue V
Green Protectionism: The New Tool Against
Forestry in Developing Countries
June 2010 – A
World Growth Study
Caught Red Handed: The Myths, Exaggerations
and Distortions of Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth and
Rainforest Action Network
May 2010 – Green Papers:
Issue IV
Greenmail
May 2010 – Green Papers:
Issue III
Collateral Damage: How the Bogus Campaign
Against Palm Oil Harms the Poor
December 2009 – A
World Growth Study
Conversion – The Immutable Link between
Forestry and Development
December 2009 – A World
Growth Study
The New Face of European Environmental
Protectionism: Forestry and Climate Change
December
2009 – A World Growth Briefing
Forestry and Biodiversity: A Healthy
Report
December 2009 – A World Growth Study
Green Poverty
November 2009 – Green
Papers: Issue II
Don’t Bag Indonesia’s
Poor
October 2009 – Green Papers: Issue I
Palm Oil – The Sustainable
Oil
September 2009 – A World Growth Study
Back to Basics: Restoring Economic Growth to
the Aid Agenda
September 2009 – A World Growth
Study
Forestry And The Poor: How Forestry Reduces
Poverty
August 2009 — A World Growth Study
Forestry and Development: Building the
Foundations for Sustainability
April 2009 — A World
Growth Study
Winners All: How Forestry Can Reduce Both
Climate Change Emissions and Poverty — A Pro-Development
Program
December 2008 - A World Growth Study
The Real Climate Threat to Developing Countries — Early, Deep Cuts in Emissions;
December 2007 — A World Growth Study
Technologies for Reducing Greenhouse Gas
Emissions — Strategic Outlook;
November 2007 – A
World Growth Study
Building a Pro-Development Global Strategy
on Climate Change;
August 2007 – A Study by Alan
Oxley, Chairman of World Growth and former Chairman of the
GATT.
About World
Growth
World Growth is an international non-governmental organization established with an educational and charitable mission to expand the education, information and other resources available to disadvantaged populations to improve their health and economic welfare. At World Growth, we embrace and celebrate the new age of globalization and the power of free trade to eradicate poverty and improve living conditions for people in the developing world. For more information on World Growth, visit www.worldgrowth.org
Copyright © 2012 World Growth | Home | Privacy Policy | Contact Us
ENDS