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The latest news, stories, reports, opinion and analysis from Oxfam Policy & Practice staff around the world.

Subject: private sector

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Kalpana Oli, spraying insecticide on her mustard crop, in Surkhet, Nepal. Kelpana is a member of a Co-operative, which is supported by Oxfam’s Enterprise Development Programme. Credit: Oxfam / Aubrey Wade

A call to policy makers – support small-scale agriculture

There's an agricultural bonanza happening right now in the developing world. Global partnerships are being struck, key players are being mobilised and grand declarations are being made to change...

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Preparing roses for export in a Kenyan packhouse. Credit: Gerry Boyle/Oxfam

What’s the poverty ‘footprint’ of cut flowers? Oxfam’s new report with IPL

In our latest Poverty Footprint report, released today, we've teamed up with IPL (owned by ASDA and the biggest importer of fresh produce into the UK).  Our report aims to help IPL and their...

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Comfort Adeniyi, a cocoa farmer, on her farm in Ayetoro-Ijesa in southwest Nigeria. Photo: George Osodi/Panos for Oxfam America

You spoke and companies listened

Less than two months ago, Oxfam called on the three largest chocolate companies to do more for the women who grow the cocoa used in Oreos, M&Ms and Crunch bars, to name just a few....

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Wage ladder – what’s next?

The worldwide garment industry produces enormous wealth - surely workers can share in these gains? A question posed by today's guest blogger, Ivo Spauwen of the Fair Wear Foundation, who writes...

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The Great Tax Robbery: How Britain became a tax haven for fat cats and big business, by Richard Brooks

The deep levels of economic pain and austerity that are currently felt by so many people across the UK started in 2007 with the first banking crash. Many have argued that the roots of disaster were...

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Comfort Adeniyi, a cocoa farmer, on her farm in Ayetoro-Ijesa in southwest Nigeria. Photo: George Osodi/Panos for Oxfam America

Are women from Mars?

Our Behind The Brands campaign launch kicked off with a call for Mars, Mondelez International and Nestlé to stop ignoring the women who are working in their cocoa supply chains....

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Hom Market, Hanoi, Viet Nam (2008). Abbie Trayler-Smith/Oxfam

Is Unilever setting an example for others to follow?

Oxfam's recent report on labour rights in Unilever's supply chain in Viet Nam revealed a gap between policy and implementation, but the company's commitment to transparency sets an example...

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Young workers discuss their labour rights with support from Oxfam, Bac Ninh province, Viet Nam. Credit: Oxfam/Abbie-Trayler-Smith

High ideals and hiccups – three wishes for Unilever and employers everywhere

Applause today must go to Unilever's courageous decision to allow Oxfam unfettered access to its operations and supply chain in Vietnam. This has resulted in a new report that reveals both...

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Monitoring the production line for dishwasher liquid bottles. Credit: Unilever Viet Nam

Oxfam and Unilever – no longer such strange bedfellows?

Oxfam GB has today published a groundbreaking report on labour rights in Unilever's supply chain. It is groundbreaking not so much because of its content (although as the project's technical...

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From Poverty to Power book

From Poverty to Power - what's changed since 2008? Q&A with author Duncan Green

The new edition of From Poverty to Power, Oxfam's flagship publication on global development publishes today, we ask the author Duncan Green to reflect on what's changed since...

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