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The global food crisis

MPs call for more food security aid

By Chris Flood

Published: January 27 2010 18:39 | Last updated: January 27 2010 18:39

Support for agriculture in the developing world has been “consciously and deliberately” run down by the government, according to a parliamentary committee.

It urged the Department for International Development to double the current level of aid provided to food security and sustainable agriculture programmes.

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