Tamsin Smith interviews Damaris Ruiz, Yohanka Valdes, and Maritza Gallardo Lopez, from Oxfam’s Latin America & Caribbean (LAC) Regional Women’s Rights and Gender Justice group. They share five ways they …
Investors driving better quality jobs
Rachel WilshawRachel Wilshaw, Oxfam GB’s Ethical Trade Manager, explains why investors are key to improving working conditions in global supply chains. At the World Economic Forum in January, an exchange between …
Are supermarket canned tomatoes now free from labour exploitation?
Tim GoreTim Gore shares three key findings from Oxfam’s human rights impact assessment of the Italian processed tomato sector. There have been a range of media and NGO reports in recent …
Imagining alternative futures
John MagrathProgramme Researcher, John Magrath, describes the process of applying ‘participatory scenario development’ to explore how Bangladesh might achieve zero hunger and zero carbon emissions by 2041. It is tempting to …
Making markets work in fragile settings
Shekhar AnandOxfam OPT’s Economic Justice team shares four lessons learned from their market system development (MSD) work with small-scale farmers in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT). Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian …
Will business continue to feed climate change?
OxfamOPINION: As business representatives gather for a climate summit in London Irit Tamir explains why the food and beverage sector should play a prominent role in reducing global emissions. The …
Farming and food security: sharing learning from Colombia to Georgia
OxfamSharing experiences with other country programmes can lead to strategic insights. Nino Edilashvili, Oxfam’s Food Security Programme Officer in Georgia, recently attended a conference in Colombia to learn about how …
Towards economic empowerment: together
OxfamDrawing on their experiences visiting Serbian cooperatives and businesses last March, Audrey Lejeune, Programme Learning Adviser, and Shekhar Anand, Regional Livelihood Development Lead, explain why bringing people together can lead …
Five issues the 2015 climate agreement needs to address
OxfamSmall scale farmers in Asia and around the world are facing the stark reality of increasingly unpredictable weather patterns. What issues do agricultural communities identify as most important to address? …
