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 advisor and co-author of the report, I do think we have some fascinating findings to present). No, it's the fact that a company as large as Unilever is voluntarily opening up its operations, procedures and supply chain to an NGO known for
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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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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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Oxfam's online discussion on Making the food system work for women got off to a great start last week. Here Lauren Ravon summarises the debate so far and invites you to join in.
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Ten experts on food and gender issues will be taking part in an online discussion from next week - and you can take part too.
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As organisations around the globe celebrate World Food Day, Richard King, our Policy Researcher on all things 'food security' reflects on the latest estimates of global hunger in the new FAO State of Food Insecurity report.
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As banks and private investors scramble to buy land in the developing world, vulnerable people are losing their homes and livelihoods. Oxfam's Kate Geary explains how and why the World Bank can take a stance to stop this.
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Oxfam and IDS are starting work on Life in a Time of Food Price Volatility, a four-year project to track the human impact of food price rises in 10 countries. In the second of her posts on food price research, Naomi Hossain of IDS reports back on one research trip to the rubber tappers of Indonesia.
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As Oxfam and IDS start work on Life in a Time of Food Price Volatility, a four-year project to track the human impact of food price rises in 10 countries, Naomi Hossain of IDS explains that the view that wages rise to meet inflation is not the experience of those living on precarious wages in Dhaka.
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Tracy Carty, Climate Change Policy Adviser at Oxfam GB, on how more extreme weather events caused by climate change will affect food prices in the future.
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