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Subject: food security

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Florence Kitonyo owns Amani Café in Lango Baya and is struggling with high food prices. Credit: Eleanor Farmer/Oxfam

Squeezed: living with volatile food prices

Food prices have been rising globally for over five years. As we launch Squeezed, our new research report on food price volatility, Richard King explains how food price pressure is affecting people's wellbeing and development around the world.  ...

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Women farmers of Barangay Aquino, Municipality of Esperanza, Province of Sultan Kudarat.  Photo credit: Dante Dalabajan

Risk, fragility and resilience: lessons from typhoons and conflict

As we launch our new paper  No Accident,  Dante Dalabajan reflects on resilience and shares lessons from Mindanao, a conflict-afflicted region, which has been hit by two devastating typhoons. ...

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Housing for the upper middle class rises above the shacks of the rag picker community in Shanti Busti, Lucknow, India. Credit: Tom Pietrasik/ Oxfam

Why inequality matters

Inequality impacts on the welfare of us all. It affects everything, including social cohesion, the economy, politics, gender relations, environmental concerns and sustainability. NGOs ignore inequality at their peril, thankfully Oxfam has plenty to say about it. ...

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The World Bank and land grabs

At the beginning of its Land and Poverty Conference this week, the World Bank Group put out a statement on land that follows many months - and in some cases years - of campaigning and lobby by organisations all over the world for the Bank to take land-grabbing more seriously. ...

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Tatu in Tanzania, a female food hero finalist in 2012, harvesting potatoes that she sells, along with other vegetables, in the city of Dar es Salaam some 350kms away

Broken promises: rural women hit hardest by corporate land deals

Tatu in Tanzania, a female food hero finalist in 2012, harvesting potatoes that she sells, along with other vegetables, in the city of Dar es Salaam some 350kms away. Small-scale women farmers are the backbone of Africa's food system, but, as corporations buy up huge swathes of rural land, they are losing out at every turn. Marc Wegerif, Oxfam's Economic Justice Campaign Manager for the Horn, East and Central Africa,...

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Making markets work for women smallholders in Tanzania

As we launch the findings of our research on Women's Collective Action in agricultural markets, Global Research Adviser Martin Walsh, who helped to develop the methodology for the case studies, summarises the results and recommendations of the Tanzania study. ...

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On World Water Day, is it all about cooperation or who can make the biggest splash?

The UN named 2013 the year of water cooperation, but is it just an ideal or is it a reality? ...

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Women smallholders in Mali. Credit: Colin McQuistan/Oxfam

Can smallholder women farmers feed the world?

Women farmers produce more than half of all food worldwide and currently account for 43 percent of the global agricultural labour force. (Source: UN Food and Agriculture Organization) ...

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Future of agriculture banner. Text reads 'What is your vision.'

What's your vision for the future of agriculture?

Forecasts indicate world food production must grow at least fifty per cent by 2050, to feed a population of nine billion people. But can this be done in a way that eradicates hunger, preserves the environment, and ensures farming is an attractive and viable career path? ...

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Tomatoes for sale. Bvumbwe Market, Thyolo. Southern Malawi. Credit: Abbie Trayler-Smith/Oxfam

As global agri-investment increases, policies must put local people centre stage

Corporate interest in agricultural investment is up, but a new report shows that policies are skewed against inclusive investments. We need to reshape them so investments meet local people's needs and aspirations. ...

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