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Regreening the Sahel: A quiet agroecological evolution

05/11/2020

1 documents

20 pages long

Languages: English

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Across large areas of the Sahel region of West Africa, one of the poorest and most environmentally precarious areas of Africa, a decades-long revolution in agroecology has produced remarkable results in improving food security and reversing environmental degradation. It has been lauded for having been led and spread by numerous local farmers, although the story […]

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Guidelines and toolkits

Writing for Impact: Lessons from Journalism

20/03/2019

3 documents

6 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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Most of us obtain most of our information about what is going on in the world from some form of journalism – listening to the news on the radio, reading a newspaper, watching the TV or increasingly, from ‘citizens journalism’ like Twitter. We are so used to hearing or seeing news stories that we may […]

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Briefing note

Making Maize Markets Work For All in Southern Africa

12/09/2016

1 documents

12 pages long

Languages: English

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In most of sub-Saharan Africa, maize is a staple food crop – grown on some 33 million hectares of the total 194 million hectares of cultivated land. Southern African also has some of the highest malnutrition rates in the world. Small-scale maize producers in the region face numerous obstacles and are both buyers and sellers […]

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Issue briefing

El Nino Key Messages: Urgent action now can prevent major suffering and loss

20/11/2015

1 documents

8 pages long

Languages: English

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Millions of poor and vulnerable people face hunger and poverty this year and next because of record global temperatures, droughts and erratic rains in 2014 and 2015, followed by the development of possibly the most powerful El Niño on record. This briefing makes the case to urgently scale up humanitarian response in countries already in […]

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Media briefing

Entering Uncharted Waters: El Nino and the threat to food security

01/10/2015

2 documents

18 pages long

Languages: English

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Millions of poor people in Southern Africa, Asia and Central America face hunger and poverty this year and next because of droughts and erratic rains as global temperatures reach new records, and because of the onset of a powerful El Nino – the climate phenomenon that develops in the tropical Pacific and brings extreme weather […]

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Case study

Transforming Lives in Zimbabwe: Rural Sustainable Energy Development Project

17/08/2015

1 documents

27 pages long

Languages: English

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This case study contains a series of mini-reports on the renewable energy access work undertaken by Oxfam and Practical Action in the Ruti and Himalaya communal areas of Zimbabwe. The project, entitled Rural Sustainable Energy Development (RuSED), began in 2011 and will run until January 2016. It is being led and implemented in association with […]

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Issue briefing

Coffee Rust Fungus Threatens Employment Collapse in Central America

14/08/2014

1 documents

8 pages long

Languages: English

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Coffee rust is having a serious impact on the livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of poor people in Central America who earn their income from growing coffee or working on coffee farms. Rising temperatures due to climate change have encouraged the fungus to spread, however the fundamental problem is the underlying vulnerability of the sector, […]

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Case study

Irrigation Schemes and Weather Extremes: The challenge for Zimbabwe

10/07/2014

1 documents

8 pages long

Languages: English

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Smallholder farmers in Zimbabwe have always had to contend with swings of climate, but with the right kind of support they can achieve remarkable increases in production. Climate change is increasing both drought and heavy rainfall. This case study of an irrigation project shows how adaptation efforts can be very successful, but also that more […]

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Issue briefing

Growing disruption: Climate change, food, and the fight against hunger

23/09/2013

6 documents

21 pages long

Languages: English

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This briefing paper explores how the failure to tackle climate change threatens all aspects of food security – availability, access, utilisation, and stability. The changing climate is already jeopardising gains in the fight against hunger, and it looks set to worsen. It threatens the production and distribution of food. It threatens people’s ability to access […]

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Case study

Effective Ways of Linking Relief and Rural Development: Oxfam’s experience of implementing programmes using EU Food Facility funds

19/12/2012

1 documents

14 pages long

Languages: English

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Aid is often criticised for breaking ‘humanitarian’ and ‘development’ aid into silos; EU aid is often criticised for being overly bureaucratic. Both criticisms are largely unfounded in the case of the EU Food Facility (EUFF) which was set up in response to the 2008 food price spike which threatened millions of people with hunger. Oxfam […]

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