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Briefing paper

Emerging Good Practices on Embedding Human Rights into Seafood Procurement

30/07/2025

2 documents

41 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

As seafood demand rises, it has been accompanied by a growing understanding of persistent human rights abuses. Recent reports have highlighted how poor procurement practices can contribute to abuses, while stronger practices can reduce them. This report reviews the current landscape and how buyers are enhancing their procurement practices to align with their human rights […]

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Briefing paper

Moving the Middle: Oxfam’s Behind the Brands assessment of the global agribusiness sector

31/03/2023

2 documents

56 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

Oxfam’s agribusiness scorecard is a benchmarking tool that measures global agribusinesses’ policies and implementation plans on five issue areas: women’s economic empowerment, land, climate change, small-scale producers, and transparency and accountability. Oxfam selected seven companies – Archer Daniels Midland (ADM), Barry Callebaut, Bunge, Cargill, Louis Dreyfus Company, Olam Group and Wilmar International. The scorecard measures […]

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Technical briefing

Doing Business on Uneven Ground: Advancing land equality is key to addressing climate change and farmer rights

25/10/2022

6 documents

62 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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Overview

Land is the bridge between companies’ environmental and social sustainability agendas, and it is foundational to both. To implement their commitments on climate change, net zero emissions, human rights, women’s empowerment, and farmer livelihoods, companies must focus on land in agricultural value chains: who controls it, who can access it, who has rights to it, […]

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Issue briefing

Gender equality: it’s your business

06/03/2012

1 documents

24 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

This Briefing for Business is intended for senior managers in global and national companies, especially those retailing and producing food and fast-moving consumer goods, and which source goods or labour in developing countries. Although many companies already do much to protect human rights in their operations and value chains, there is more that they can […]

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Issue briefing

Think Big Go Small: Adapting business models to incorporate smallholders into supply chains

01/05/2010

1 documents

20 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

Food and beverage companies are facing a rapidly changing world. Global demand is rising as the world’s population grows. Yet the planet’s ability to meet this demand is threatened by factors such as droughts and other expected consequences of climate change, together with land degradation and biofuel production. At the same time consumers everywhere are […]

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Issue briefing

Better Jobs in Better Supply Chains

22/03/2010

2 documents

20 pages long

Languages: Chinese, English

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This is the fifth in a series of Briefings for Business that Oxfam has published recently, the purpose of which is to offer ideas and insights into topical poverty issues and what they mean for business. Oxfam believes business plays a key role in poverty reduction by creating jobs that enable people to work their […]

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Issue briefing

Oxfam Poverty Footprint: Understanding Business Contribution to Development

01/11/2009

1 documents

15 pages long

Languages: English

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Corporate responsibility

Overview

Companies around the world are increasingly concerned about the impacts that their businesses have on societies in their home countries as well as abroad. For many companies operating in developing countries, impacts on society are related to the effects of their operations on development and poverty reduction, and in turn play an important role in […]

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Issue briefing

Now or Never: Climate change: time to get down to business

01/09/2009

1 documents

16 pages long

Languages: English

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Corporate responsibility

Overview

Climate change affects poor people first and worst. It is a major obstacle to development and poverty alleviation, as well as a serious threat to business supply chains and markets in developing countries. Oxfam believes that companies can help to determine whether the world wins or loses the fight against climate changes. It cannot be […]

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Issue briefing

A Business Case for Fighting Poverty

01/05/2009

1 documents

12 pages long

Languages: English

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Corporate responsibility

Overview

Action on poverty can benefit business performance, as well as building a better world in which to operate. This is the second paper in Oxfam’s Briefings for Business; series, which aims to develop the debate on the role of the private sector in poverty reduction by offering ideas and insights into topical poverty issues and […]

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Issue briefing

Business and the Millennium Development Goals: Your call to action

01/05/2008

1 documents

6 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

The MDGs were adopted in the context of increasing global insecurity, and poverty was perceived as a key factor fuelling it. The role of business, albeit important, was seen as no more than complementary to the obligation of the international community to meet the Goals. Consequently, the private sector was called upon primarily to ‘make […]

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