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CORONAVIRUS UPDATE

As the globe tackles Coronavirus, this blog is highlighting the challenges of those affected and the systemic changes needed.

Salimata, one of the cocoa farmers involved in the Enhancing Livelihoods cocoa project in Côte d’Ivoire, pictured alongside her plot of maize. Photo: Lono

Working with companies on women’s economic empowerment in value chains

Ulrike Joras

August 27th, 2020 Agriculture, Food & livelihoods, Women's Economic Empowerment

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 …

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A pineapple farmer from Rwanda walks to her farm. Since joining the Tuzamurane Cooperative, she feels empowered and has saved enough money to buy a cow and support her family. Photo: Aurelie Marrier d’Unienville/Oxfam

3 ways Coronavirus is having an impact on small producers and how to build back better

Ulrike Joras

June 29th, 2020 Agriculture, Women's Economic Empowerment

The 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 …

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Podcast: Duoi talks to farmers about Coronavirus in the Philippines

Power in the Pandemic Podcast

May 22nd, 2020 Agriculture, Health

Duoi 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 …

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Annan has a small piece of land in Wadi Fukin, an area surrounded by Israeli settlements and behind the barrier nearby Bethlehem. Photo: Oxfam

Coronavirus is jeopardizing the incomes of small-scale farmers

Uwe Gneiting

April 30th, 2020 Agriculture, Private sector

Why 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 …

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In the Dominican Republic, the Coalition for the Rights and Life of Women demonstrate to demand a presidential veto of a law criminalising abortion even in cases of rape or harm to the mother or baby. Credit: Lorena Espinosa, Oxfam in Dominican Republic.

Feminist leadership in action

Damaris Ruiz, Yohanka Valdes, Maritza Gallardo Lopez and Tamsin Smith

May 23rd, 2019 Agriculture, Gender, Inequality, Influencing, Participation and Leadership, Violence Against Women and Girls

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 …

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A revitalised Malawi tea industry shows that institutional investors are key to helping improve jobs in supply chains. Photo: Abbie Trayler-Smith

Investors driving better quality jobs

Rachel Wilshaw

March 7th, 2019 Agriculture, Inequality, Influencing, Livelihoods, Private sector

Rachel 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 …

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Are supermarket canned tomatoes now free from labour exploitation?

Tim Gore

February 26th, 2019 Agriculture, Food & livelihoods, Inequality, Livelihoods, Private sector, Rights

Tim 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 …

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Participative scenario development: Imagining Bangladesh's future. Photo: John Magrath

Imagining alternative futures

John Magrath

February 5th, 2019 Agriculture, Climate Change, Food & livelihoods, Food security, Methodology, Participation and Leadership, Research, Youth

Programme 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 …

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A market system development approach has enabled women in the OPT to transform their lives. Here, Thuraya measures the density of sugar in the syrup she produces. Suhaib Jarrar / Oxfam OPTI

Making markets work in fragile settings

Shekhar Anand

January 22nd, 2019 Agriculture, Livelihoods, Private sector, Women's Economic Empowerment, Youth

Oxfam 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 …

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Bilal (left) stand with his brother Youssef in their family field, Gaza. Photo: Lorenzo Tugnoli/ Oxfam/ Contrasto

Listening to Gaza’s farmers: Keeping Oxfam accountable to communities

Alhasan Swairjo

January 10th, 2019 Agriculture, Food & livelihoods, ICT4D, Innovation

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