Ban impacts poor farmers

Most affected: Oil palm smallholders worldwide who plant the crop as a route out of poverty will be hit by British supermarket chain Iceland Foods’ move to ban palm oil products from its own-brand range.

IN Nigeria and across Africa and the wider developing world, it is well known that the United Kingdom is one of the largest donors of international aid.

The fact that the UK meets the 0.7% target for international deve­lopment spending is lauded by the elites, but it is the on-the-ground manifestation of that 0.7% target that reaches the people – schools, roads, food parcels, medical care, all funded (and branded) by the British taxpayer.