Fisheries
Fisheries
Fisheries are critical elements of poor people’s diets, especially in Africa, and are major sources of income, employment and national revenues. DFID is working with international partners to combat illegal fishing and to enable fisheries to contribute more effectively to economic growth, welfare and poverty reduction.
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Agriculture
Agriculture
Agriculture and renewable natural resources are fundamental to reducing poverty and hunger. Not just because some 2.5 billion people in developing countries depend on agriculture for their livelihoods, but also because agriculture and broader natural resource use are the economic core of many poor countries and an important source of wider economic growth.
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Food and hunger
Food and hunger
All of us, in rich and poor countries alike, are feeling the effects of the current global food crisis caused by rising prices. For people in the UK, daily foods have become more expensive. But for world's poorest people, they have become unaffordable. Without enough money to buy food, millions go hungry every day, with under-nourishment playing a part in more than half of all child deaths.
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