Escalating oil and gas prices, climate change and the switch to biofuels are already leading to a Global Food Crisis, and the pressure from population growth has the combined effect of increasing demand and reducing supply, with loss of soil fertility, reduction of crop yields and extended desertification.

For them, This Global Food Crisis will serve only to deepen the extreme hardship in their lives.

The World Bank president, Robert Zoellick, has put forward a 10-point proposal, which I shall summarise: fund the World Food Programme properly; support emergency food for work programmes; bring in more seeds and fertilisers; double the amount of research; invest in agribusiness; support small farmers; ease subsidies on biofuels; remove export bans; support fairer trade through the Doha process; and support more G8 collective action, through the Global Food Crisis response facility, for example.

Some problems are a result of factors beyond its control, such as the Global Food Crisis, climate change, external interference in various parts of Africa, and so on.

The loss of fish stocks would almost certainly result in a Global Food Crisis, but of potentially far more serious consequence is the fact that it would almost certainly change the very nature of the oceans and their interaction with the rest of life on our planet.

I thank the hon. Gentleman for his intervention and his compliment that he thinks my point is not wholly without merit, but it might test your patience, Mr Deputy Speaker, if I tried to shoehorn into the debate on the amendment possible solutions to the Global Food Crisis and productivity in agriculture.