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Briefing paper

Water Dilemmas: The cascading impacts of water insecurity in a heating world

29/09/2023

4 documents

19 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English, French

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This briefing paper presents findings from Oxfam’s recently commissioned research on climate predictions for 2040 and 2050 in the Middle East, the Horn, East and Central Africa (HECA), West Africa and Asia regions. Analyses show how temperature increases will influence water insecurity in these regions and the potential impacts on food security, the spread of […]

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Briefing paper

Unfarmed Now, Uninhabited When? Agriculture and climate change in Iraq

31/03/2022

1 documents

37 pages long

Languages: English

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Small-scale farmers in Iraq are among the most affected groups in Iraq by climate change and water scarcity. With the reduction of rainfall and soaring temperature, agricultural production is dropping, and farmers’ ability to cope is hindered. Affected farmers are exhausted and feel that they are left alone in the face of crisis. Many farmers […]

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Journal article

Rural women’s participation in solar-powered irrigation in Niger: lessons from Dimitra Clubs

10/12/2020

14 pages long

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Rural women’s participation in solar-powered irrigation in Niger: lessons from Dimitra Clubs

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The relative lack of women’s participation in energy-related development projects around the world to transform agricultural productivity has been a source of significant concern globally. Out of 181 countries, Niger holds the current position for being the second most vulnerable to climate change. Despite the emphasis on women’s participation in solar-powered irrigation initiatives in Niger […]

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Journal article

Gender in the modernisation of waste management: key lessons from fieldwork in Bhutan, Mongolia, and Nepal

10/12/2020

18 pages long

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Gender in the modernisation of waste management: key lessons from fieldwork in Bhutan, Mongolia, and Nepal

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The waste sector is a significant and growing source of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Most developing countries are minor contributors to global GHG, and produce limited emissions from municipal solid waste. However, as poor countries become integrated into global circuits of production and consumption, their contributions to global GHG emissions are likely to increase […]

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Journal article

Can we turn the tide? Confronting gender inequality in climate policy

10/12/2020

14 pages long

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Can we turn the tide? Confronting gender inequality in climate policy

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Emerging global crises such as climate change, massive migrations, pandemics, and environmental degradation are posing serious risks to humanity, threatening ecosystems and rural livelihoods across the globe. The poor, and especially the most marginalised among the poor, are disproportionately affected. Climate change in particular is expected to exacerbate pre-existing social inequalities, including gender inequalities. Therefore, […]

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Guidelines and toolkits

Influencing for Impact Guide: How to deliver effective influencing strategies

15/09/2020

3 documents

81 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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Oxfam’s Influencing for Impact Guide is designed for civil society organizations, Oxfam teams and partners, activists and campaigners. It aims to support them to develop and deliver effective influencing, advocacy and campaigning strategies that tackle the structural causes of poverty, inequality and environmental crisis: strategies with impact to help shift unequal and unjust power relations, […]

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Media briefing

The Hunger Virus: How COVID-19 is fuelling hunger in a hungry world

09/07/2020

3 documents

21 pages long

Languages: English

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COVID-19 is deepening the hunger crisis in the world’s hunger hotspots and creating new epicentres of hunger across the globe. By the end of the year 12,000 people per day could die from hunger linked to COVID-19, potentially more than will die from the disease itself. The pandemic is the final straw for millions of […]

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Briefing paper

Unfair Harvest: The state of rice in Asia

20/03/2019

1 documents

32 pages long

Languages: English

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Small-scale producers grow most of the rice in Asia, providing food security, jobs and income across the region. However, a combination of worsening inequality in food value chains and the crippling impacts of climate change are leaving rice farming systems at a critical juncture. These challenges threaten the viability of rice production that underpins the […]

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Briefing paper

Companies Spoke. Did their Suppliers Listen? Tracking Behind the Brands sustainability commitments through the supply chain with the ‘agribusiness scorecard’

04/03/2019

2 documents

40 pages long

Languages: English

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Between 2013 and 2016, Oxfam’s Behind the Brands campaign sought to drive more sustainable sourcing policies and practices among the 10 biggest food and beverage companies globally. Oxfam is now focused on how the “Big 10” are implementing their commitments. How are they engaging their suppliers, such as global agribusinesses, on sustainability issues? Agribusinesses are […]

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Guidelines and toolkits

Outcomes-Based Programming for Water and Sanitation: Oxfam’s vision and monitoring framework

31/10/2018

1 documents

24 pages long

Languages: English

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Oxfam aims to achieve greater sustainability and governance of water and sanitation services, especially for the poorest, most marginalized and most vulnerable people. To do this, we need to change the way we programme: from designing the intervention to establishing the monitoring system, we need to focus on outcomes. This framework provides ideas for what […]

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