Lord Chidgey – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for International Development

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Chidgey on 2014-04-09.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government, in relation to aid to Ethiopia, whether they have liaised with the government of the United States about the co-ordination of development assistance in the agricultural sector.

Lord Bates

The UK is part of the US-led ‘New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition’ in Ethiopia, which entails regular dialogue and coordination of our work in the agricultural and related sectors. DFID and USAID are co-donors to the national safety net programme, which provides cash and food for some seven million food insecure Ethiopians, most of whom are rural farmers. We also collaborate closely on land issues; DFID’s new land certification programme in Ethiopia builds on work by USAID to test certification methodologies.