Climate change is threatening global food production, yet food companies are major contributors to greenhouse gas emissions and deforestation. Here Danielle Smith our private sector policy officer explains why food …
What’s needed to improve business’s role in development?
OxfamThis week top business representatives meet in Mexico City to discuss how to make development more effective. The lack of financial transparency among companies involved in development initiatives needs to …
Behind the Brands: what progress one year on?
Erinch SahanIn February 2013 we launched an ambitious campaign using the power of consumers and investors to hold the world’s biggest food and drinks companies to account for what happens in …
Small is beautiful on World Food Day
Erinch SahanWith ‘Sustainable Food Systems’ the theme of this year’s World Food Day, Erinch Sahan reminds both governments and private sector investors of their duty to actively support small-scale farmers, the unsung …
Have we tipped the balance?
OxfamTo celebrate World Food Day, we are releasing Tipping the Balance – 2012’s report on agricultural investment and market governance – as an eBook. Maria Michalopoulou ponders how the debate has …
Behind the Brands – the companies respond
OxfamThe week saw the launch of the second phase of our Behind the Brands campaign, calling on food and drinks companies to protect the land rights of communities affected by …
Closing the policy gap for small-scale farmers in Guatemala
OxfamIn the second of a series of posts exploring the impact of government policy on small-scale agriculture, Celeste Molina asks what is needed for Guatemala’s small farmers to fulfil their potential …
Making markets work in emergencies and everyday life
Carol BradyIn the run up to World Humanitarian Day, we’re looking at different aspects of humanitarian work and how it is evolving to better meet people’s needs. Here, Carol Brady explains …
A call to policy makers: support small-scale agriculture
Erinch SahanThere’s an agricultural bonanza happening right now in the developing world. Global partnerships are being struck, key players are being mobilised and grand declarations are being made to change the …
What’s the poverty footprint of cut flowers? Oxfam’s new report with IPL
Rachel WilshawIn our latest Poverty Footprint report, released today, we’ve teamed up with IPL (owned by ASDA and the biggest importer of fresh produce into the UK). Our report aims to …