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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 blogIn 2020, Dignity for All means everyone deserves a seat at the table
We can solve America’s gravest challenges if we commit to seeing and reaching beyond our borders.
Politics of poverty blogIs the Trump administration about to end the US refugee resettlement program?
Zeroing out refugee admissions at a time of unprecedented need would strike at the core of what makes America great.
Politics of poverty blogShould we talk about gender at a tax conference?
If we’re serious about the fight to achieve gender equality, we need to talk about it. Everywhere.
Politics of poverty blogIndigenous peoples are defending their rights in court—and winning
What a groundbreaking court decision in Guatemala means for environmental justice and indigenous rights.
Politics of poverty blogWhat I learned from Cyclone Idai and Kenneth survivors in Mozambique
How a notebook full of hopes and fears transformed into concrete actions to improve peoples’ lives.
Politics of poverty blogOn steroids: President Trump’s anti-immigration policies
Another week, another unrelenting assault on the human rights of refugees and immigrants.