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Rosalinda Pineda-Ofreneo traces the origins of the nation’s debt crisis, and – with evidence from projects supported by Oxfam – she illustrates the social and environmental impact […] View resource Book Cereal Banks – At Your Service?: The story of Toundeu-Patar: A village somewhere in the Sahel 01/01/1991 1 documents 57 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Development methods Finance Food security Overview Food security is one of the major concerns of people living in sub-Saharan Africa. In recent years, cereal banks have become a widespread and popular response to the problem. View resource Book Brazil: A mask called progress 01/01/1991 1 documents 130 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Agriculture Land rights Natural resources Pastoralism Overview Based on Oxfam’s 20 years of development experience in Brazil, A Mask Called Progress examines the conflicts that have brought many traditional communities to the edge of extinction, and threaten to destroy one of the richest natural environments on earth. In their own words, the people of the Brazilian rainforest – rubber-tappers and indigenous people […] View resource Book Free Front Line Africa 01/01/1991 1 documents 20 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Debt Overview Oxfam has been working with people in southern Africa since the early 1960s – providing support for their efforts to improve the quality of their lives. During the last decade their efforts have been undermined by a growing debt crisis, falling prices for their exports, the lack of effective international aid, and, in many cases, […] View resource Book Social Survey Methods: A field guide for development workers 01/01/1991 2 documents 132 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Development methods Research methods Overview Well-organised and cost-effective surveys provide vital information for planning development projects. Social Survey Methods uses straightforward language to guide the reader through the choice of an appropriate, affordable research method, the implementation of the research, and how to communicate the findings to key decision-makers, community organisations and other interested parties. View resource Book The Oxfam Report: It’s time for a fairer world 01/01/1991 1 documents 33 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Overview For nearly 50 years, Oxfam has worked with poor people in the developing world to make the world a fairer place – with some heartening successes, on a small scale. But it is still a fact that, throughout the South, one person in three does not have enough to eat. The reasons, as this report […] View resource Discussion paper War and Famine in Africa 01/11/1990 1 documents 40 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Conflict Disasters Food security Protection Overview Up to half of all the people who suffer from food insecurity in Africa have been affected by war. Local conflict is a long-term and growing problem, made worse by the continent’s shrinking resource base. In War And Famine In Africa, Mark Duffield shows how internal wars are fought on a terrain of semi-subsistence economies, […] View resource Book Central America Options for the Poor 01/01/1990 1 documents 63 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Aid effectiveness Conflict Disasters Protection Social protection Overview Oxfam has worked alongside poor people in Central America for more than 25 years, through wars, earthquakes and revolutions. In up-to-date and readable form, this book presents the background to the current social and political crises in the region. Oxfam projects are described in detail. Ordinary people tell their own stories: of life in refugee […] View resource Book Income Generation Schemes for the Urban Poor 01/01/1990 1 documents 143 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Development methods Finance Gender mainstreaming Overview Income generation schemes in urban areas of the Third World are many and varied. However, too often such schemes fail to achieve sustainable economic viability and depend on continued funding by development agencies. This book examines the reasons for failures or successes and stresses that those wishing to help the urban poor improve their incomes, […] View resource Book Credit & Savings for Development 01/01/1990 1 documents 81 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Development methods Finance Overview Poor people in Third World countries often have no access to credit for either short-term needs or long-term investment in their small business enterprises. Even when credit is available, the high rates of interest charged may lead to permanent indebtedness. This book examines various methods of making credit available to poor people as part of […] View resource Posts navigation Prev page Page 1 … Page 531 Page 532 Page 533 … Page 537 Next page Spotted an error? Let us know