Oxfam Working Papers

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, […]

Much has been written and said about the fuller, more equal and less onerous role which rural women, especially in African countries should play in the context of national socio-economic development and about the policies and programmes to be pursued to bring this about. The starting point of this study is the observations and analysis […]