Food reserves Archives - Oxfam Policy & Practice

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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Annual report

SeedsGROW Progress Report: Harvesting global food security and justice in the face of climate change

30/09/2015

1 documents

77 pages long

Languages: English

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This first progress report for the five-year Sida programme provides a comprehensive review of programme activities, progress towards outcomes, risks encountered and lessons learned in the first 18 months – from 1 October 2013 to 31 March 2015. It also discusses adjustments required to Year 2 implementation as a result of these findings. SeedsGROW – thanks […]

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Evaluation report

Resilience in Mali: Evaluation of increasing food security

26/03/2015

5 documents

65 pages long

Languages: English, French

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This evaluation is presented as part of the Effectiveness Review Series 2013/14, selected for review under the resilience thematic area. This report documents the findings of a quasi-experimental evaluation carried out in March/April 2014 that sought to assess the impact of the activities of the ‘Increasing Food Security’ project. This project includes two related initiatives […]

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Evaluation report

Resilience in Niger: Evaluation of improving livelihoods through integrated water resource management

26/03/2015

3 documents

60 pages long

Languages: English

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This evaluation is presented as part of the Effectiveness Review Series 2013/14, selected for review under the resilience thematic area. This report documents the findings of a quasi-experimental evaluation carried out in March 2014 that sought to assess the impact of the activities of the project ‘Improving Livelihoods through Integrated Water Resource Management in Niger’. […]

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Media briefing

Hot and Hungry: How to stop climate change derailing the fight against hunger

25/03/2014

3 documents

20 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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Climate change threatens to put back the fight to eradicate hunger by decades – and our global food system is unprepared to cope with the challenge. New evidence from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is likely to show that the impact of climate change on global hunger will hit harder and sooner than previously […]

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Case study

Taking the long view: Transforming the way community water management is viewed and conducted in northern Kenya

25/09/2013

1 documents

7 pages long

Languages: English

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For several years, Oxfam has been working with communities in Turkana and Wajir, Kenya, building the capacity of local water committees to better manage their water supplies and hold higher authorities to account. Instead of short incentive-based workshops with little follow-up, Oxfam has taken a longer-term approach by developing a toolkit to provide regular training […]

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Case study

Promoting Local Food Security Reserves in the Sahel: The case of AAAE in Burkina Faso

11/07/2013

3 documents

8 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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Burkina Faso relies on subsistence agriculture to meet the basic needs of a large part of its population. Environmental challenges such as land degradation and desertification particularly affect the northern semi-arid provinces, where the most vulnerable groups struggle with food security. Increasing food prices since 2007 mean that improvements in food access and availability are […]

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Research report

Managing Price Risk in Local Food Reserves: Analysing the prospects for a stabilisation fund in Mali and Niger

02/07/2013

2 documents

28 pages long

Languages: English, French

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Local food reserves can contribute to food security strategies and have the potential to empower communities. These collective initiatives are set up and owned by small-scale producers with the objective of increasing the availability and access to food, or of increasing income by managing the food-price cycle. But the rate of failure among local food […]

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Case study

Community based disaster risk reduction in Sri Lanka: A compendium of good practices

01/06/2013

1 documents

20 pages long

Languages: English

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The compendium presents good practices of the community based disaster risk reduction (CBDRR) approach implemented under a Disaster Preparedness project in the North and East of Sri Lanka, supported by the Disaster Preparedness ECHO (DIPECHO). Learning drawn from the project can be replicated and built into future interventions. The compendium also highlights the post-conflict scenario, […]

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Research report

First Line of Defence: Assessing the potential of local food reserves in the Sahel

21/10/2012

3 documents

46 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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Acute food crises continue to reverse positive development trends in sub-Saharan Africa. As the international community attempts to address the challenges of food security, the focus has largely been on two issues: the devastating effects of food price volatility on the most vulnerable populations, and recurrence of acute food crises. Food reserves have potential to […]

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