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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 blogRoom to improve: Why food and beverage companies need to push for better sourcing
From makers of candy bars to cereal, the biggest brands are poised to help solve the world’s most pressing challenges. But can their suppliers deliver?
Politics of poverty blogThe EU should blacklist the US as a tax haven
Tax avoidance and evasion will only grow if Europe doesn’t have the guts to confront the world’s second largest offender.
Politics of poverty blogThis International Women’s Day, we need to listen to women and girls in Central America
The Trump administration thinks a security-first approach will effectively address the root causes of migration from the region. Think again.
Politics of poverty blogWhat do a Dutch supermarket and human rights have to do with your grocery list?
Whole Foods could learn something from a Dutch supermarket about reducing human suffering.
Politics of poverty blogNo more secret deals
Why a decision in Ukraine this week could change how communities rich in oil, gas, and minerals shape their own destiny.
Politics of poverty blogAll eyes on Ukraine: the EITI needs to bring gender in from the cold
Yasmine has a message for the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative.