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South Africa, like many middle income countries, faces the challenge of how to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the context of high levels of inequality and persistent hunger and malnutrition. High, and rising, prices force too many people to choose between […] View resource Research report Squeezed: Life in a Time of Food Price Volatility, Year 1 results 23/05/2013 9 documents 110 pages long Languages: English, French, Spanish Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Agriculture Food prices Food security Overview Half a decade after the price spike of 2007-2008, food price volatility has become the new norm: people have come to expect food prices to rise and fall rapidly, though nobody knows by how much or when. So what does the accumulation of food price rises mean for well-being and development in developing countries? And […] View resource Briefing paper No Accident: Resilience and the inequality of risk 21/05/2013 6 documents 39 pages long Languages: English, French, Spanish Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Aid effectiveness Capacity building Climate change adaptation Conflict Development methods Disaster risk reduction Disasters Drought DRR Floods Food prices Humanitarian practice Inequality Overview A new international emphasis on building resilience offers real promise to allow the poorest women and men to cope with, and ultimately thrive, in the face of shocks, stresses, and uncertainty. But only if risk is more equally shared globally and across societies – this will require a major shift in our approach to poverty […] View resource Briefing paper Learning the Lessons? Assessing the response to the 2012 food crisis in the Sahel to build resilience for the future 16/04/2013 5 documents 40 pages long Languages: English, French, Spanish Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Aid effectiveness Civil society Disaster risk reduction Disasters Drought DRR Food prices Food security Resilience Overview In 2012, the Sahel region of West and Central Africa was once again hit by a severe food crisis, affecting over 18 million people at its peak. At the start of 2012, when the crisis began to unfold, many governments, donors and aid agencies were determined not to make the same mistakes again. This report […] View resource 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 Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Agroforestry Aid effectiveness Capacity building Development methods Finance Food prices Food security Overview 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 […] View resource Briefing paper Better Rules for a Better Future: Regulating private sector agriculture 29/11/2012 1 documents 32 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Agriculture Debt Finance Food prices Food production Food security Investment Smallholder agriculture Trade policy Women farmers Overview In various communities across Southeast Asia, the unregulated influx of large-scale private agricultural investments has led to land grabbing, food insecurity and environmental degradation. Women, who are primarily responsible for putting food on the table, are especially affected by these problems. These challenges can be expected to increase as the Association of Southeast Asian Nations […] View resource Case study Cash Transfers in Nairobi’s Slums: Improving food security and gender dynamics 08/10/2012 1 documents 14 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Cash transfers Development methods Food prices Food security Gender mainstreaming Overview In Kenya, a combination of factors led to the food crisis of 2008-9, which put around 9.5 million people at risk of starvation. About 4.1 million of those affected were living in informal settlements (slums) in the capital, Nairobi. Oxfam and Concern Worldwide developed a joint programme to address this unfolding emergency. The programme, implemented […] View resource Briefing paper The Hunger Grains: The fight is on. Time to scrap EU biofuel mandates. 17/09/2012 8 documents 33 pages long Languages: English, French, Italian, Spanish Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Advocacy Agriculture Agroforestry Business Campaigning Food prices Food production Food reserves Food security Investment Land rights Natural resources Women farmers Overview EU biofuel mandates, a subsidy to big business that could cost every adult about €30 each year by 2020, deprive millions of people of food, land and water. Countries with poor protection of land rights are magnets for land deals-most of which are to grow crops that can be used for biofuels. If the land […] View resource Issue briefing Extreme Weather, Extreme Prices: The costs of feeding a warming world 05/09/2012 3 documents 14 pages long Languages: English, French, Spanish Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Drought Extreme weather events Floods Food prices Food security Overview Climate change is making extreme weather much more likely. As the 2012 drought in the USA shows, extreme weather means extreme food prices. Our failure to slash greenhouse gas emissions presents a future of greater food price volatility, with severe consequences for the precarious lives and livelihoods of people living in poverty. This briefing draws […] View resource Research report Extreme Weather Events and Crop Price Spikes in a Changing Climate: Illustrative global simulation scenarios 05/09/2012 1 documents 60 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Food prices Food security Overview Agriculture is highly sensitive to climate variability and weather extremes. Various impact studies have considered the effects of projected long-run trends in temperature, precipitation and CO2 concentrations caused by climate change on global food production and prices. But an area that remains underexplored is the food price impacts that may result from an expected increase […] View resource Posts navigation Prev page Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 … Page 7 Next page Spotted an error? Let us know