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It shows that with the right business opportunities and training, women working in rural agriculture can be savvy business people, innovators, breadwinners, and community leaders. View resource Case study Seizing an opportunity to support farmers: How Oxfam helped create Bolivia’s first national comprehensive agricultural insurance scheme 25/09/2013 1 documents 9 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Agriculture Climate change adaptation Community building Development methods Fair trade Labour standards Land rights Livelihoods Natural resources Participation Smallholder agriculture Wellbeing Women farmers Overview This is the story of how Oxfam in Bolivia took considerable risks to help a sympathetic government create a national agricultural insurance scheme. This involved weathering a political storm and carefully navigating the difficult space between the government and popular organizations. Oxfam’s work in Bolivia shows how important it is to seize opportunities, to change […] View resource Research report Policy Options for Agricultural Investments and Governance of Markets: In support of small-scale agriculture in Nigeria 22/08/2013 1 documents 42 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Agriculture Economic empowerment Enterprise Inequality Local Government Smallholder agriculture Women farmers Overview In 2012 Oxfam and IIED joined forces to create Tipping the Balance a global report exploring the connection between the policy and practice of investment and market governance in small scale agriculture in four countries: Nigeria, Tanzania, Guatemala and the Philippines. This research report examines the role of policy in Nigeria in influencing corporate investment […] View resource Evaluation report Report of a Baseline Survey of Women Domestic Workers in Mukuru Informal Settlement – Nairobi Kenya 01/08/2013 1 documents 33 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Aid effectiveness Discrimination Fair trade Food security Gender mainstreaming Gender training Gender-based violence Girls' education Housing Investment Labour standards Livelihoods Maternal and child health Programme management Protection Research methods Sustainable livelihoods approach Welfare Wellbeing Women farmers Overview Through this project, Oxfam gained insight into the lives of thousands of women in Mukuru informal settlements who work as casual domestic workers and that these women faced serious livelihood challenges which include low and delayed pay, poor working conditions and sexual exploitation as well as physical and psychological abuse. Despite these challenges, they continue […] View resource Discussion paper The Future of Agriculture: Synthesis of an online debate 30/07/2013 3 documents 80 pages long Languages: English, French, Spanish Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Agriculture Climate change adaptation Fiscal policy Food prices Food production Food security Land rights Smallholder agriculture Women farmers Overview The fear that global demand for food will outstrip supply has led to significant debate. Oxfam hosted an online discussion in December 2012 to get beyond the question of securing steady supplies of raw materials for food and beverage companies and to rise above polarized discourses on large-scale industrialized vs. smallholder farms. The two-week debate […] View resource Case study Functional Adult Literacy: Sustainable, women-focused capacity-building in Ethiopia 23/07/2013 1 documents 2 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Agriculture Business Capacity building Co-operatives Collective enterprise Community building Development methods Economic empowerment Enterprise Enterprise development Livelihoods Participation Smallholder agriculture Sustainable livelihoods approach Training Value chains WEL Women farmers women's collective action Women's Economic Leadership Overview In Limu, Ethiopia, Oxfam worked with partners and local government to develop a Functional Adult Literacy (FAL) programme for smallholders to enhance women’s economic leadership, increase production and improve the quality of organic coffee. The programme combined literacy classes with training on agricultural and financial capacity-building. This approach increased attendance and improved smallholders’ skills across […] View resource Briefing note Blind Budgets: Budget transparency and public spending for small-scale producers 23/07/2013 2 documents 14 pages long Languages: English, Spanish Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Agriculture Finance Food production Food security Livelihoods Smallholder agriculture Women farmers Overview In Latin America and the Caribbean, national budgets remain blind to the special needs and priorities of small-scale producers. This undercuts the productivity and food security of millions of women and men who manage small-scale farming operations and provide up to 60 per cent of the food supply. With a new index, Oxfam evaluates budget […] View resource Case study The Lead-Firm Model: Connecting smallholders to high-value markets in Tanzania 23/07/2013 1 documents 2 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Agriculture Capacity building Co-operatives Corporate responsibility Development methods Economic empowerment Enterprise Enterprise development Finance Livelihoods Smallholder agriculture Sustainable livelihoods approach Training Value chains WEL Women farmers Women's Economic Leadership Overview In Tanzania, Oxfam adopted the ‘Lead-Firm’ Model and partnered with Katani Ltd. to improve smallholder access to markets for sisal. Katani agreed to improve the production and processing capacity of the smallholders, and committed to purchase all quality sisal fibre. Both Oxfam and Katani funded training for smallholders, while Oxfam supplied them with loans to […] View resource Briefing note From Promises to Priorities: Putting small-scale, family producers at the centre of a fair food production system in Latin America and the Caribbean 23/07/2013 2 documents 14 pages long Languages: English, Spanish Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Agriculture Food production Food security Smallholder agriculture Women farmers Overview Despite the growth in the agricultural sector in Latin America and the Caribbean, eight out of every 10 farmers, small-scale producers who are at the base of domestic food production, remain largely excluded from the related benefits. Government efforts for strengthening agriculture allocate public resources to few lines of spending that favour a minority. Investment […] View resource Evaluation report Effectiveness Review: Disaster Risk Reduction Programming in Ethiopia’s Somali Region 01/07/2013 4 documents 58 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Climate change adaptation Community building Disaster risk management Disaster risk reduction Disasters Drought DRR Food security Impact evaluation M&E Monitoring and evaluation Pastoralism Propensity score matching Quasi-experimental evaluation Resilience Women farmers Overview The activities of two separate projects in Ethiopia’s Somali region were covered by this review. One was the third phase of the cross-border ‘Regional Drought Decision’ programme, which focused on building the capacity of community-based disaster risk management committees, as well as the construction of water storage facilities and the setting up of some pilot pastoralist […] View resource Posts navigation Prev page Page 1 … Page 6 Page 7 Page 8 … Page 10 Next page Spotted an error? Let us know