Often, livelihoods projects in smallholder-based supply chains – such as tea or cocoa – aim to create solutions that benefit all links in the chain: by addressing a challenge in the supply chain (e.g. crop productivity …
A fresh approach to visual communications in development: allow me to illustrate
Isabelle Kermeen2020 brought many surprises. At the beginning of the pandemic, the last thing I expected was to be coaching voice actors down a crackly line to a recording studio in …
Who is asking whom? Does it matter?
Cecile Pomarede, Alexia Pretari and Jaynie VonkIn this blog we look at data from DRC, Zambia and the Occupied Palestinian Territory to see how interviewer and interviewee characteristics, especially gender, affect household-level information. Gender is one important factor …
On human rights, the US must repair, reflect, and re-engage
Vicki GassOn January 16, Julio David González Arango, an Indigenous land defender involved in peaceful resistance to a mining operation in Guatemala, was shot in his home. The next day, two other …
Agricultural Sheroes – The hidden stories of Palestinian Women
Asmaa AbuMeziedThe agriculture sector in the Occupied Palestinian Territory is debilitated by multifaceted structural challenges. However, within the sector itself, women face another layer of challenges arising from the gender roles and responsibilities …
Change in social norms around men’s unpaid care work
Lucia RostSocial norms which restrict men’s participation in unpaid care work need to change in order to achieve gender equality. But, how do these norms change? Lucia Rost shares insight from …
The Food Fight Continues
Irit TamirIn 2013 Oxfam launched the Behind the Brands campaign which sought to influence the sourcing policies of the world’s ten biggest food and beverage companies. Over the three years, the campaign achieved …