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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 blogCOP24 in Poland: Why our best hope for progress isn’t moving fast enough
Well into the evening in frigid Katowice, the world’s national governments concluded the latest global climate summit with a decision that made measurable progress—while leaving many others frustrated with its lack of visionary boldness.
Politics of Poverty blogThe gift that keeps on giving: Winners and losers of the Trump tax cuts
Surprise, surprise. Trump’s “tax reform” only privileged the wealthy and well-connected—Big Pharma chief among them. What went wrong and how Oxfam is teaming up with investors to flip the script.
Politics of Poverty blogThe people of Yemen want to be seen and heard, and above all, to survive.
Here’s how we can end US support for the war, and give the Yemeni people hope.
Politics of Poverty blogRighting the many wrongs at Peru’s polluted oil Block 192
Industry interests have trampled on indigenous rights for decades in the Amazon. Does a recent victory for prior consultation signal a departure from oil business-as-usual?
Politics of Poverty blogThe Vanishing: Women’s rights and LGBTI rights under the Trump administration
Oxfam analyzes the annual human rights report and it’s grim.
Politics of Poverty blogHow are governments doing in their efforts to fight inequality?
The United States ranks last among G7 countries in our new inequality index.