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Local Solutions, Global Urgency: Addressing climate, conflict, and fragility in the Sahel and Horn of Africa

13/02/2026

2 documents

20 pages long

Languages: English, French

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Climate change, conflict, and fragility converge most acutely in the Sahel and Horn of Africa, creating vulnerability cycles that undermine livelihoods, fuel displacement, and strain already fragile governance systems. Extreme climate events interact with weak institutions and insecurity, disproportionately burdening women, youth, and displaced groups. Yet these same groups are also central to resilience – […]

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Briefing paper

Water-Driven Hunger: How the Climate Crisis Fuels Africa’s Food Emergency

30/04/2025

1 documents

18 pages long

Languages: English

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This paper calls for an integrated water and food security management in eight Eastern and Southern African countries—Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Somalia, South Sudan, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. These countries, identified as Hunger Hotspots for 2025 and among the 30 most water insecure globally, are also experiencing the severe impacts of climate variability. The paper strongly […]

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Briefing note

Putting An End To World Hunger – The European Union’s role in transforming the global food system

16/12/2024

1 documents

20 pages long

Languages: English

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Farmers around the world produce more than enough to feed everyone on the planet, yet since 2017 hunger has increased sharply. Promoting food production and distribution that are socially equitable and environmentally sustainable is a necessity, in Europe and globally. This paper highlights the European Union’s role in addressing global hunger and supporting a sustainable and […]

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Discussion paper

From Generation to Distribution: Investigating Ghana’s power sector’s value chain and its implications for reliable, affordable, and clean energy supply

23/07/2024

1 documents

39 pages long

Languages: English

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This report, published by Oxfam partner, the Africa Center for Energy Policy (ACEP) examines the Ghana's power sector value chain and its implications for reliable, affordable and clean energy supply. The work outlines the role of the Ghanian government in the electricity sector, and outlines three salient challenges facing the energy sector: 1) The role […]

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Briefing note

Climate Plans for the People: Civil society and community participation in national action plans on climate change

25/03/2024

5 documents

25 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English, French, Portuguese, Spanish

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In 2024, all countries will be updating and submitting their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs). These national climate plans outline commitments towards tackling climate change. These plans impact all walks of life and must therefore be inclusive of the whole of society. By examining recent practices across 11 countries, Oxfam found that NDCs were not sufficiently […]

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Journal article

Caregivers at the frontline of addressing the climate crisis

10/12/2020

19 pages long

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Caregivers at the frontline of addressing the climate crisis

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This article draws on Oxfam’s work in Pakistan. It explores the burdens of addressing the climate crisis on the unpaid labour of poverty-stricken women in Badin, Pakistan. A case study methodology has been used to highlight the experiences of four women farmers in Badin and understand the impact of climate change on their care workload. […]

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Journal article

Debt and climate: entangled emergencies derailing women’s rights and gender justice

10/12/2020

14 pages long

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Debt and climate: entangled emergencies derailing women’s rights and gender justice

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As a new debt crisis is hitting the global South, aggravated by the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, governments and economies will face growing difficulties and challenges to deal with climate emergencies, adaptation, and mitigation. As we have seen in the past, debt crises tend to have a negative impact on women’s rights and […]

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Case study

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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Discussion paper

Removing Carbon Now: How can companies and individuals fund negative emissions technologies in a safe and effective way to help solve the climate crisis?

19/08/2020

1 documents

20 pages long

Languages: English

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Carbon removals are an important part of the solution of the climate crisis, hundreds of gigatons of CO2 will likely need to be removed from the atmosphere this century with the help of a wide range of negative emission technologies. This paper sets out to answer which negative emissions techniques are available on the market […]

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