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Research report

Essential but Invisible and Exploited: A literature review of migrant workers’ experiences in European agriculture

05/06/2024

4 documents

73 pages long

Languages: English, Spanish

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This report – derived from work implemented by Oxfam Intermón and the University Institute for Studies on Migration (IUEM) of Comillas University in the EU SafeHabitus project – is based on a review of academic and non-academic literature from the past five years. It assesses research on working, living, health and transport conditions for migrants working […]

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Discussion paper

Towards Achieving Gender Equity in the Food Sector: What can investors do?

08/02/2024

2 documents

33 pages long

Languages: English, Portuguese

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Women and gender-diverse people represent an important constituency in the food value chain. Among all working women globally, about one in three works upstream in the food value chain. These women face increasing barriers to safety, recognition and advancement. Yet very little about their experiences has been documented. In the limited instances where the women […]

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Discussion paper

Towards Meaningful Human Rights Impact Assessments: From supermarket commitments to best practice action

11/01/2024

2 documents

55 pages long

Languages: English

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This discussion paper focuses on the commitments that Dutch, German and UK supermarkets made as part of the Behind the Barcodes campaign to conduct human rights impact assessments (HRIAs). To understand whether supermarkets are meaningfully implementing those commitments and to support learning, this paper analyses the HRIAs that supermarkets have published in the past four […]

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Guidelines and toolkits

Human Rights Impact Assessment Framework

26/05/2023

1 documents

20 pages long

Languages: English

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Companies are increasingly engaging in Human Rights Impact Assessments (HRIAs). To assess the quality of company-commissioned HRIAs, Oxfam has developed criteria that cover both process and content. They are key to ensuring that the research captures all relevant adverse risks to human rights, to support companies in understanding how their practices have an impact on […]

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Discussion paper

Price Interventions as a Part of Living Income Strategies: Lessons learned from piloting a price premium mechanism for basmati rice farmers in Pakistan

06/03/2023

1 documents

49 pages long

Languages: English

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Small-scale farmers produce many globally important products such as rice, cocoa, cotton and vanilla. Poverty is widespread among these farmers, and there is an urgent need to increase their incomes. A living income – what a household needs to afford a decent standard of living for all its members – is a human right. It […]

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Research report

Towards a Living Income for Cocoa Farmers in Ghana: Assessing companies’ efforts to date

14/02/2023

2 documents

64 pages long

Languages: English

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This report analyzes existing strategies and interventions implemented by cocoa and chocolate companies operating in Ghana to raise the income of cocoa farmers in their supply chains. It has two main aims: first, to complement companies’ learning efforts by pulling together and distilling lessons and insights from across the sector; and second, to strengthen transparency […]

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Research report

The Workers Behind the Citrus Fruits: A focused Human Rights Impact Assessment of Coop Sweden’s Moroccan citrus fruit supply chains

20/04/2022

1 documents

101 pages long

Languages: English

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This paper reports on a focused human rights impact assessment (HRIA) of Coop Sweden’s Moroccan citrus supply chains. The HRIA aimed to assess the actual and potential human rights impacts at the production stage of the value chain in Morocco, to identify their root causes, and to provide recommendations to relevant stakeholders concerning their mitigation […]

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Briefing paper

Turning Point: A three year update on US supermarkets’ progress and pitfalls

07/04/2022

1 documents

45 pages long

Languages: English

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Since the outbreak of COVID-19, the global landscape of the food retail industry has dramatically shifted. There is now greater awareness of how wealth and gender inequalities have been exacerbated; the power of workers in the United States (US) has been awakened; the vulnerability of global supply chains has been exposed; big retailers are competing […]

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Research report

Behind the Barcodes 2022 Supermarket Scorecard and Data

05/04/2022

8 documents

Languages: English

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This is the 2022 update to the Supermarket Scorecard, part of the Behind the Barcodes campaign that Oxfam launched in 2018 to expose the economic exploitation faced by millions of small-scale farmers and workers in food supply chains, and mobilize the power of people around the world to help end it. The Supermarket Scorecard assesses […]

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Research report

Behind the Barcodes Scorecard Data 2018-2022

05/04/2022

4 documents

Languages: English

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The Supermarket Scorecard assesses supermarkets’ policies and practices on human rights in their supply chains. We analysed whether supermarkets are transparent and accountable in the ways they ensure that workers’ rights are respected, small-scale farmers are prosperous and the women who produce our food are treated fairly. These are the four pillars of the Scorecard. […]

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