PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
(4 March 2025)

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps is he taking to engage philanthropic organisations in (a) global nutrition and (b) food security investments.

Asked by:
Wendy Morton (Conservative)

The UK Government works closely with philanthropic organisations on food security investments and to deliver global nutrition outcomes.

On global nutrition, we partner with the Gates Foundation and the Children's Investment Fund Foundation, via the Child Nutrition Fund. The Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Office co-chairs the Action Review Panel on Child Wasting which includes philanthropic organisations, to take action on acute malnutrition.

On food security investments, the UK co-funds agricultural research with the Gates Foundation. Over the last 15 years this collaboration, drawing on UK science and expertise, has led to significant impacts including climate resilient nutritious crops and livestock vaccines for smallholder farmers.

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