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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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Briefing paper

A Toxic Legacy: Glencore’s Footprint in Colombia and Peru: European banks and investors must take responsibility

16/11/2023

6 documents

27 pages long

Languages: English, Spanish

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Glencore’s business model continues to have severe consequences for local communities and the environment. Several scandals have provided evidence of Glencore’s involvement in human rights violations, corruption, tax avoidance and environmental destruction. Glencore’s mines have had devastating impacts on their surrounding environments, with grave consequences for the communities living beside them. This report elaborates on […]

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Research report

Recharging Community Consent: Mining companies, battery minerals and the battle to break from the past

22/09/2023

2 documents

48 pages long

Languages: English, Spanish

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With mining set to expand as part of the sweeping energy transition, it is imperative that future mining only proceed with the full support and consent of Indigenous peoples and frontline communities. In the first policy brief of its kind to focus on the public policy commitments of mining companies extracting five key transition minerals […]

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Evaluation report

Impact Evaluation of Regional Influencing Work in Horn, East and Central Africa: A case study of the Rights in Crisis and Extractive Industries initiatives

28/11/2022

1 documents

38 pages long

Languages: English

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Oxfam’s Horn, East and Central Africa (HECA) Regional Platform was established in 2016. Among the platform’s far-reaching portfolio are two influencing initiatives – the Rights in Crisis network and Extractive Industries programme. Despite their ambitious scope and the challenging context, this report confirms that Oxfam has contributed effectively to change at all levels. These changes […]

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Research report

Designing Sustainable Water Supply Systems in Tajikistan: A step-by-step guide to design, construction and ownership

30/05/2022

2 documents

21 pages long

Languages: English, Russian

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Tajikistan is often described as the poorest country in Central Asia, with GDP per capita consistently lower than any of its regional neighbours. Its water and sanitation infrastructure is severely dilapidated, suffering from decades of underinvestment and the failure to address widespread damage suffered during the country’s civil war (1992–1997). Efforts to ensure everyone has […]

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Briefing paper

Unfarmed Now, Uninhabited When? Agriculture and climate change in Iraq

31/03/2022

1 documents

37 pages long

Languages: English

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Small-scale farmers in Iraq are among the most affected groups in Iraq by climate change and water scarcity. With the reduction of rainfall and soaring temperature, agricultural production is dropping, and farmers’ ability to cope is hindered. Affected farmers are exhausted and feel that they are left alone in the face of crisis. Many farmers […]

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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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Briefing paper

Negotiating Consent: Lessons in defending the right to decide

09/12/2021

3 documents

31 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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Indigenous peoples have long asserted and defended their rights and customary land tenures against the unlawful enclosure of their territories. Yet, despite normative recognition of the right to free, prior, and informed consent (FPIC)—and public commitments by major multinational companies, international financial institutions, and global banks to apply the standard of consent—power imbalances continue to […]

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Briefing paper

Precarity and the Pandemic: A survey of wage issues and Covid-19 impacts amongst migrant seafood workers in Thailand

30/07/2021

1 documents

20 pages long

Languages: English

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This report presents findings from an extensive survey of migrant workers in the Thai seafood industry conducted by the CSO Coalition. The report focuses on the issue of low wages, the gender pay gap and the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on these issues and the workers who experience them. It also aims to develop […]

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Case study

Bringing Clean Energy and Co-Benefits to Remote Communities in Tajikistan and Afghanistan

03/02/2021

1 documents

24 pages long

Languages: English

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This case study shows how clean, affordable and reliable electricity can be provided to thousands of people even in the poorest, most remote and difficult terrains. It illustrates how this simultaneously reduces energy poverty and carbon emissions while generating multiple co-benefits, including increased incomes, improved food security and community well-being, reduced deforestation, improved health from […]

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