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Cultivating Hunger: An Oxfam study of food, power and poverty

01/01/1985

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48 pages long

Languages: English

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Cultivating Hunger argues the case for change in a system of world food production and distribution which is failing disastrously. It examines the myths that lie behind the horrifying statistics – the myths that mask the real causes of hunger; the myths that may in fact perpetuate the problem.

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Land for People: Land tenure and the very poor

01/01/1985

1 documents

73 pages long

Languages: English

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Whoever owns the land also holds power. In the Third World the poor do not always have their own land. Oxfam, in its support for the poor overseas, increasingly has to face the problems of land tenure, problems which have to be overcome if the poor are really to escape from their poverty.

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Silver Shackles: Women and development in India

01/01/1984

1 documents

108 pages long

Languages: English

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Relegated by Indian culture and traditions to a position of inferiority, women remain shackled by lack of access to education and health care, increasing unemployment and the deficiencies of their legal status. Burdened at home and exploited at work, women are India’s vast “invisible” labour force – yet they have been virtually by-passed by Indian […]

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Selective Feeding Programmes

01/01/1984

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97 pages long

Languages: English

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Originally produced to accompany the Oxfam Feeding Kit, at the time of the large-scale famine in Ethiopia in the 1970s, this book has been expanded into a comprehensive manual for use in treating different degrees of malnutrition in emergency situations. The first part of this book describes the assessment and monitoring of the nutritional needs […]

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Implementing Multiple Drug Therapy for Leprosy

01/01/1984

1 documents

54 pages long

Languages: English

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The system of multiple drug therapy for leprosy recommended by the World Health Organisation in 1982 is an extremely effective treatment which, if widely introduced and effectively operated, could result in a dramatic reduction of the incidence and severity of leprosy throughout the world. This book, written in the form of extended answers to a […]

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Weather Alert! Evidence of a hidden crisis for the world’s poor

29/09/1983

1 documents

15 pages long

Languages: English

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Millions of the world’s poorest people are threatened by freak weather conditions. This year’s unprecedented climatic extremes brought drought to the rich world hitting agriculture in Australia and South Africa particularly hard and substantially reducing the 1983 grain harvest in the USA. England experienced its hottest July on record. In the poor world a […]

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The Poverty of Diplomacy: Kampuchea and the outside world

01/01/1983

1 documents

36 pages long

Languages: English

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A survivor of the Khmer Rouge regime said: “It was inconceivable to us that we would all be left to perish. Every time I heard heavy artillery I thought: The UN is coming at last.” It was not the UN, but Vietnamese forces. Since then the Kampucheans have struggled to rebuild their country. For reasons […]

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Against The Grain: The dilemma of project food aid

01/01/1982

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144 pages long

Languages: English

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For years food has been gien to Third World countries to help in their development. But it has made little impact. Too often the food aid tail wags the development dog. Yet the effectiveness of food aid as a tool for development has gone virtually unchallenged.

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The Great Health Robbery

01/01/1981

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59 pages long

Languages: English

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Poor health and poverty often go together – in Britain and in other parts of the world. Yemen is no exception. Here people die from diseases that could be prevented – diarrhoea, TB and so on.

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One in Ten: Disability and the very poor

01/01/1981

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48 pages long

Languages: English

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Today, one in ten of the population of the Third World is disabled. The International Year of Disabled People is a good time to look at what causes that disability and what can be done about it. This booklet is designed to do that by increasing an understanding of what ‘ needs to be done […]

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Cultivating Hunger: An Oxfam study of food, power and poverty

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Land for People: Land tenure and the very poor

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Silver Shackles: Women and development in India

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Selective Feeding Programmes

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Implementing Multiple Drug Therapy for Leprosy

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Weather Alert! Evidence of a hidden crisis for the world’s poor

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The Poverty of Diplomacy: Kampuchea and the outside world

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Against The Grain: The dilemma of project food aid

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The Great Health Robbery

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One in Ten: Disability and the very poor

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