Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 34652

Africa and Asia: Conservation

Tabled: 28 February 2025
Answered: 11 March 2025
Named Day

Question

Bell Ribeiro-Addy

Labour — Clapham and Brixton Hill

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that the conservation projects it funds in (a) Africa and (b) Asia do not lead to (i) forced evictions and (ii) violent abuses of Indigeno

Answer

Mary Creagh
Defra aims to take a do no harm approach to aid programming. Official development assistance (ODA) projects are required to undertake risk management and due diligence assessments in order to understand and mitigate programmatic risks, including understan...
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