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The Climate ‘Fiscal Cliff’: An evaluation of Fast Start Finance and lessons for the future

25/11/2012

1 documents

10 pages long

Languages: English

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After a year of extreme weather, developing countries face a climate ‘fiscal cliff’ at the end of 2012, as Fast Start Finance expires and the Green Climate Fund remains empty. New Oxfam analysis of Fast Start Finance reveals that much of it has been a false start. Governments have not delivered on commitments made in […]

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Discussion paper

How Can a Post-2015 Agreement Drive Real Change? Revised Edition: The political economy of global commitments

21/11/2012

1 documents

22 pages long

Languages: English

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What are the lessons of the Millennium Development Goals process to date? What has been their impact on aid and national government decision making? This paper seeks to inform the post-2015 debate by examining these questions. It argues that leverage over national governments and civil society involvement will increasingly eclipse leverage on aid as the […]

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Briefing paper

Commodities of War: Communities speak out on the true cost of conflict in eastern DRC

20/11/2012

2 documents

28 pages long

Languages: English, French

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More than 760,000 people have been displaced in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo since the beginning of 2012, in the Kivu provinces alone. This reflects a new dimension to the ongoing crisis for the country. Areas that were relatively stable are again under attack as the Congolese army fights M23 rebels, and new localised armed […]

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Research report

The Adaptation Challenge: Key issues for crop production and agricultural livelihoods under climate change in the Russian Federation

15/11/2012

1 documents

40 pages long

Languages: English

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Climate change has serious implications for global food production and food security. This report uses data on current changes and future scenarios to examine possible impacts on crop production in the Russian Federation. It considers what measures Russia might need to make to achieve its aim of playing a leading role in ensuring global food […]

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Briefing paper

Salt, Sugar, and Malaria Pills: How the Affordable Medicine Facility-malaria endangers public health

24/10/2012

4 documents

28 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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The Affordable Medicine Facility-malaria has shown no evidence that it has saved the lives of the most vulnerable or delayed drug resistance. Rather, this global subsidy has incentivised medicine sales without diagnosis and shown no evidence that it has served poor people. It poses a risk to public health and could skew investment away from […]

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Book

From Poverty to Power, 2nd Edition: How active citizens and effective states can change the world

23/10/2012

14 documents

488 pages long

Languages: English

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Seismic events have convulsed global markets since 2008, when From Poverty to Power was first published. World news has been full of stories reflecting a profound sense of uncertainty about global futures. In response, this new edition of From Poverty to Power has been fully revised and now includes an in-depth analysis of the human […]

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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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Campaign report

Growing a Better Future in Viet Nam: Expanding Rights, Voices and Choices for Small-scale Farmers

16/10/2012

1 documents

52 pages long

Languages: English

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Viet Nam has an enviable record of reducing hunger and poverty: over the past 20 years poverty levels have been reduced by more than half. Many people speak of an era of new opportunities and prosperity, yet the struggle to overcome poverty, and end hunger and gender injustice is not won. With one in five […]

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Briefing paper

Planting Now (2nd Edition): Revitalizing agriculture for reconstruction and development in Haiti

15/10/2012

8 documents

26 pages long

Languages: English, French, Haitian Creole, Spanish

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Agriculture in Haiti has suffered three decades of crisis and institutional neglect. Nevertheless, almost 60 percent of Haitians live in rural areas and rely on farming for their livelihoods. For that reason, agriculture must play a central role in post-earthquake reconstruction. However, the plans and programs of the Haitian government and the international community have […]

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Briefing note

‘Our Land, Our Lives’: Time out on the global land rush

04/10/2012

3 documents

26 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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Land eight times the size of the UK was sold off globally in the last decade, enough to grow food for a billion people, equivalent to the number of people who go hungry in the world each night. More than 60 per cent of investments in agricultural land by foreign investors between 2000 and 2010 […]

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