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Food insecurity is rising, but political will to fight it remains in question.
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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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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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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 blogWhat will it take to stop the killing of land rights activists?
Mining companies and governments need to understand and respect the right to free, prior, and informed consent. The lives of activists are on the line. New research from an Oxfam partner provides a compelling starting point for defending community consent in Southern Africa.
Politics of Poverty blogExploring climate migration, those affected, and how you can make a difference
Oxfam is participating in the Global Climate Action Summit to put a face to the millions of people who are forced to flee their homes due to climate change, and help find solutions to climate-changed related migration.
Politics of Poverty blogOxfam agrees with Elizabeth Warren’s blueprint to “drain the swamp”
Senator Warren’s new bill roots out corruption keeping inequality so high in the US.
Politics of Poverty blogThe Best States to Work Index: Oxfam’s new tool to rank US states in labor policies
Workers in the United States are facing wage stagnation and poor employment conditions that are holding their families back. This index measures which states are taking action.
Politics of Poverty blogThe Peruvian paradox: surging mineral production, lagging tax revenues
Peru must improve tax collection and ensure that mining revenues address the persistent poverty in mining communities.
Politics of Poverty blogShould women be considered a sector when it comes to humanitarian and development funding?
It seems like more development financiers are stepping up with funds to address gender inequality—but are those funds enough?