Cameron: Summit is critical moment for food security crisis

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Lord Cameron has described the Food Security Summit, aimed at tackling the deepening global crisis, as a "critical moment".    The foreign secretary promised to help strategise finance plans getting money into "the poorest countries, to help the poorest people." Report by Alibhaiz. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00 This is an absolutely critical moment, not just because this silent crisis is growing,

00:06 but because we cannot separate it from other global crises.

00:10 Putin's illegal invasion brought this home as he deliberately sought to rob us of one

00:17 of the world's great breadbaskets.

00:20 His cynicism was plain for all to see.

00:23 He obstructed the Black Sea Grain initiative.

00:26 He then walked away from it.

00:28 He then tried to destroy the very supplies that the world needs.

00:32 But I saw for myself in Ukraine, in the port of Odessa, there is good news.

00:38 Ukraine is pushing Russia back in the Black Sea, and with the new unity facility between

00:44 UK insurance brokers and the government in Kiev, shipping insurance for their food exports

00:50 is affordable once more.

00:52 There is a vital link between food security and development on the one hand, and the problem

00:58 of state fragility and conflict on the other.

01:02 Of course, farmers can farm, traders can trade.

01:06 But without the rule of law, without property and land rights, without peace, without trusted

01:11 institutions, you cannot get your product to market.

01:16 And that's why it is time to change the way we do development.

01:20 We will work as partners on strategies and plans which developing countries can own and

01:26 deliver.

01:27 We will push to unlock the full potential of development finance.

01:31 I want us to watch as all those millennium development, all those multilateral development

01:37 banks, look at their balance sheets, work out how much more they can lend, and we work

01:41 with them to get that money into development, into the poorest countries, helping the poorest

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