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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.

How can the UK government justify arms sales that fuel the war in Yemen?

Laura Gyte

April 25th, 2019 Conflict, Food security, Humanitarian, In the news, Protection

Laura Gyte describes why Oxfam intervened in a court case brought against the UK government over arms sales. UPDATE: on 20 June the Court of Appeal ruled that UK arms …

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Halimo Mahamed Ali collecting water, Somaliland. Climate change has dramatically impacted her life. Photo: Dustin Barter

Debt: a noose around Somalia’s future

Dustin Barter and Mohamed Ahmed

February 6th, 2019 Aid, Conflict, Debt, Food security, In the news, Livelihoods

Full debt cancellation is the only way forward for Somalia, write Dustin Barter, Oxfam’s Senior Campaigns and Policy Manager in Somalia, and Mohamed A. Ahmed, Independent Debt Specialist. As the …

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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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Tinned food at a foodbank. Credit: Oxfam/Sarah Brodbin

Realising the right to food – a global challenge

Mary Anne MacLeod

April 16th, 2018 Food security, General, Research

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Food fair held alongside the food security conference Credit: Oxfam

Influencing for food security in the South Caucasus

Shekhar Anand and Jacky Repila

November 30th, 2017 Food & livelihoods, Food security, General, Influencing

What strategies can be used to raise the voices of smallholder farmers so that food security policies reflect their needs? Shekhar Anand and Jacky Repila share learning from Oxfam’s national …

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Farmers at Ruti irrigation scheme, Gutu District, Masvingo Province (from left to right: Elastos Manyanga, Katinos Mudadi, Davison Chara, and Ipaishe Masvingise). Photo: Martin Walsh/Oxfam, December 2013

Love in the drylands, how irrigation is changing lives in Zimbabwe

Martin Walsh

October 5th, 2017 Climate Change, Drought, Food security, General

Climate change is placing increasing stress upon the livelihoods of people living in the world’s drylands. Smallholder irrigation can help improve food security in areas with unpredictable rainfall. Here Senior …

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Research-into-Use for climate change adaptation

Sue Moore

January 13th, 2017 Climate Change, Food & livelihoods, Food security

Sue Moore explains the use of Research-into-Use and explores what this means for researchers, practitioners and ultimately, those most vulnerable to the effects of climate change. ‘We want water, not …

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Big food is improving but a transformation is needed

Erinch Sahan

April 19th, 2016 Food & livelihoods, Food security

OPINION:  With the release of the latest Behind the Brands report, Erinch Sahan takes us through how the ‘Big 10’ food and beverage companies have progressed on their social and environmental …

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El Salvador: the struggle to survive El Niño

Elizabeth Stevens

February 9th, 2016 Climate Change, Disasters, Food & livelihoods, Food security, Humanitarian

The global El Niño weather phenomenon is being exacerbated by climate change. The UN’s humanitarian agency predicts that in 2016 over 60 million people around the world will be affected …

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Delicious, disgusting, dangerous – how global eating habits are changing

John Magrath

November 27th, 2015 Food & livelihoods, Food security, General, Methodology, Research

There’s a food revolution going on all over the world and the young are at the forefront of it; but how much are they the leaders? And how much are …

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