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Innovation case study: R4 Rural Resilience Initiative
R4 helps farmers and communities manage risk using four strategies: improved resource management (risk reduction), insurance (risk transfer), microcredit (prudent risk taking), and savings (risk reserves).
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Behind the Brands
Oxfam’s Behind the Brands campaign assesses companies’ performance on social responsibility, compares them with their peers, and challenges them to use their enormous power to help create a more just food system.
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Haiti Livelihoods Program
Oxfam works with men and women farmers in the rice-growing area of Haiti’s Artibonite Valley to raise their voices and improve their livelihoods.
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Politics of poverty blogNo time for empty promises on women’s rights
Some donors think they’re funding transformational gender equality projects. Why our latest research suggests they’re wrong.
Politics of poverty blogThe Puerto Rico earthquakes and the long road to recovery
A fragile island scrambles to respond as the US continues to deny its citizens the help they deserve.
Politics of poverty blogCrafting a feminist foreign policy—together
Help us envision a bold new approach to foreign policy in the US.
Politics of poverty blogThe Trump administration should stop sending asylum seekers to countries that are not safe
How “safe third country” agreements are effectively working to dismantle the US asylum system.
Politics of poverty blogThis is what democracy looks like
It’s time to deliver opportunity for all—not just the privileged few.
Politics of poverty blogHow protecting immigrant farmworkers benefits everyone in the food chain
A new compromise bill in Congress finds common ground at a time when we desperately need it.