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Evaluation report

Women Engagement Strategy: A case study of Female Food Heroes (FFH) Ethiopia’s Program

30/08/2025

1 documents

58 pages long

Languages: English

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This evaluation of Oxfam’s Female Food Heroes (FFH) Initiative in Ethiopia highlights the critical yet underrecognized role of rural women farmers, who contribute up to 70% of household food production but remain marginalized in policies, services, and decision-making. Since 2012, the FFH Award has celebrated outstanding women farmers, providing them with visibility, leadership training, and […]

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Evaluation report

Synthesis Report for Female Food Heroes (FFH) Engagement Strategy in Nigeria & Ethiopia

30/08/2025

1 documents

12 pages long

Languages: English

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This synthesis report consolidates findings from two external evaluations of Oxfam’s Female Food Heroes (FFH) initiative in Nigeria and Ethiopia, conducted in 2024–2025. Since its launch in 2012, the program has celebrated and empowered women smallholder farmers, enhancing their leadership, visibility, and contributions to food security, gender justice, and rural livelihoods. The evaluations found that […]

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Journal article

Flow, Food, and Flood: Embodied aquaculture in a climate-stressed world

08/05/2025

10 pages long

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Flow, Food, and Flood: Embodied aquaculture in a climate-stressed world

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This essay draws from a larger study that explores gender and social inclusion in small-scale aquaculture in Ubon Ratchathani Province, Thailand, using a feminist political ecology (FPE) lens. Through qualitative research, we examine how fish farmers’ embodied experiences reveal the intersections of labour, emotional well-being, and food security within broader socioeconomic and environmental challenges. Hydropower […]

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Briefing paper

Biofuel Blunders: Time to fix two decades of EU policies driving food insecurity

11/09/2024

3 documents

87 pages long

Languages: English, French

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Since 2003, EU policymakers have promoted biofuels to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but they have turned out to be a disaster for the climate, human rights and food security. Studies have shown that, when emissions from land-use changes are taken into account, biodiesel made from vegetable oils, such as palm, soy or rapeseed oil, emits […]

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Research report

Adoption Rate and Trends in Adoption of Conservation Agriculture in Ethiopia

31/03/2022

1 documents

44 pages long

Languages: English

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Since 2019 the Ethiopian Ministry of Agriculture has offered extension advice on conservation agriculture (CA). However, agricultural policy focuses mainly on intensive tillage whereas CA calls for zero or minimum tillage. Policy seems to favour productivity over sustainability, with CA adoption remaining low. Supply-side constraints include lack of access to high-quality inputs, credit, and machinery. […]

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Case study

Scaling sustainable agriculture: multiplying the Farmer-to-Farmer Agroecology movement in Cuba

15/01/2021

1 documents

24 pages long

Languages: English

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This is the inspiring story of the Farmer-to-Farmer Agroecology Movement (MACAC) in Cuba. The movement has spread across Cuba and inspired over 200,000 farmers to take up agro-ecological farming practices. The story shows that it possible for a social movement to take sustainable agroecological farming systems to scale. Their experience counters the logic of conventional top-down approaches of agricultural extension and shows that locally specific solutions developed and disseminated by farmers themselves can provide […]

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Briefing paper

COVID-19 and Vulnerable, Hardworking Kenyans: Why it’s time for a strong social protection plan

10/11/2020

1 documents

18 pages long

Languages: English

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Seven NGOs, the Kenyan government, the European Union and the Danish and German governments are working together to implement a ’Safety Nets’ programme targeting Kenya’s millions of informal workers. With rising food insecurity and sexual and gender-based-violence, mounting job losses, poor access to water and sanitation, and a lack of formal safety nets, the Kenyan […]

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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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Briefing note

Later Will Be Too Late: How extreme levels of hunger have not been averted despite alarms

13/10/2020

3 documents

10 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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In July 2020 Oxfam warned that by the end of this year more people could die from hunger related to the COVID-19 pandemic than from the disease itself. But the response of the international community to global food insecurity has been dangerously inadequate. The threat of 'COVID famines' and widespread extreme hunger is setting off […]

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Briefing paper

Evitar el Etnocidio: Pueblos indígenas y derechos territoriales en crisis frente a la COVID-19 en América Latina

21/07/2020

2 documents

21 pages long

Languages: English, Spanish

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Mientras el mundo entero trata de ponerse a salvo de la pandemia, los pueblos indígenas de América Latina agonizan y algunos podrían llegar a desaparecer. El abandono estatal y la ausencia de servicios adecuados de salud integral y agua segura los hace extremadamente vulnerables al virus que se extiende a toda velocidad por el continente. […]

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