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Briefing note

The Time is Now: How world leaders should respond to the food price crisis

03/06/2008

3 documents

16 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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Global food prices are up 83 per cent compared with three years ago. The resulting food price crisis constitutes an unprecedented threat to the livelihoods and well-being of millions of rural and urban households who are net food buyers. Around the world, Oxfam International and many of its partners have seen soaring prices force people […]

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Briefing note

What Agenda Now for Agriculture? A response to the World Development Report 2008

19/10/2007

3 documents

13 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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After two decades of indefensible neglect, agriculture is back on the agenda. The World Bank’s publication of the ‘World Development Report 2008: Agriculture For Development’ (hereafter WDR), the first WDR on agriculture since 1982, reflects this renewed interest in the sector’s potential to reduce rural poverty and inequality.

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Journal article

Approaches to reducing maternal mortality: Oxfam and the MDGs

01/03/2005

8 pages long

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Approaches to reducing maternal mortality: Oxfam and the MDGs

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The political momentum of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), coupled with a technical consensus about how to tackle maternal mortality, greatly improves the prospect of reducing women’s death and disability rates. In its campaigning and advocacy work on the MDGs, Oxfam will focus on the need to raise the national and international finance for the […]

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Briefing paper

Millstone or Milestone? What rich countries must do in Paris to make aid work for the poor

01/02/2005

1 documents

11 pages long

Languages: English

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At the start of March, international development ministers from the world’s richest countries will gather round the table in Paris to identify the actions needed to make aid work for one billion people living in extreme poverty. Two years ago in Rome, these same countries made a series of commitments to reform the aid system, […]

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Briefing paper

The Cost of Childbirth: How women are paying the price for broken promises on aid

01/03/2004

1 documents

30 pages long

Languages: English

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One women dies every minute as a result of problems in pregnancy or childbirth. The vast majority of these deaths are avoidable. Yet on current trends the international target of reducing maternal deaths by three-quarters by 2015 will be missed. Northern governments could transform the prospects of reaching the target by increasing the aid that […]

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Briefing paper

Dumping Without Borders: How US agricultural policies are destroying the livelihoods of Mexican corn farmers

01/08/2003

1 documents

33 pages long

Languages: English

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The Mexican corn sector is in acute crisis because of the influx of cheap subsidised corn imports from the US. Poor Mexican farmers cannot compete against US producers, who receive $10bn a year in subsidies. Action is required at the WTO Ministerial Conference in Cancun in September 2003 to end agricultural dumping, together with action […]

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The Time is Now: How world leaders should respond to the food price crisis

What Agenda Now for Agriculture? A response to the World Development Report 2008

Approaches to reducing maternal mortality: Oxfam and the MDGs

Millstone or Milestone? What rich countries must do in Paris to make aid work for the poor

The Cost of Childbirth: How women are paying the price for broken promises on aid

Dumping Without Borders: How US agricultural policies are destroying the livelihoods of Mexican corn farmers