Salimata Kone (pictured) is a cocoa farmer and lives with her husband and children near Divo, a city in southern Côte d’Ivoire. She took part in a project to improve her family …
3 ways Coronavirus is having an impact on small producers and how to build back better
Ulrike JorasThe Coronavirus is raging around the world. While many countries have started easing lockdowns, others still have restrictions in place or had to re-introduce measures because of renewed outbreaks. For …
Podcast: Duoi talks to farmers about Coronavirus in the Philippines
Power in the Pandemic PodcastDuoi takes us out to visit farmers on the Midpulo Unified Agriculture Cooperative to explore how the coronavirus pandemic has affected food systems and farming in the Philippines. Power in …
Coronavirus is jeopardizing the incomes of small-scale farmers
Uwe GneitingWhy now is the time for companies to step up to their commitment to higher farmer incomes. In this unprecedented time full of uncertainty, two things are clear. First, the …
Feminist leadership in action
Damaris Ruiz, Yohanka Valdes, Maritza Gallardo Lopez and Tamsin SmithTamsin 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 …
