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Briefing note

‘The Longest Lean Season’: How urgent action is needed to counter the devastating humanitarian impacts of the El Nino drought in Southern Africa

21/11/2016

1 documents

12 pages long

Languages: English

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Although the El Nino weather event has ended, the humanitarian needs resulting from the drought in Southern Africa remain huge, and are still deepening. With the next harvests not due until March/April 2017, governments, donors and humanitarian actors must urgently provide food and other assistance to support people through this long, hard lean season. Farmers […]

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Briefing paper

Climate Finance Shadow Report 2016: Lifting the lid on progress towards the $100 billion commitment

03/11/2016

2 documents

24 pages long

Languages: English

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In the global push to tackle climate change, international climate finance is essential. Climate finance, both public and private, helps developing countries adapt to climate extremes and develop in a low carbon way. This briefing examines reported international public climate finance flows, taking into account the funding commitments of developed countries under the United Nations […]

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Briefing paper

Burning Land, Burning the Climate: The biofuel industry’s capture of EU bioenergy policy

26/10/2016

7 documents

44 pages long

Languages: English, French, Italian, Spanish

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There is overwhelming evidence of the harm caused by the European Union’s current bioenergy policy to people in developing countries, to the climate and to Europe’s own sustainable development. The policy is on a collision course with the Paris climate agreement and the United Nations 2030 Sustainable Development Goals. This briefing follows the trail of […]

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Research report

Malawi2020: Vulnerability and Risk Assessment in the tea industry

13/10/2016

1 documents

38 pages long

Languages: English

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In June 2016, Oxfam conducted a Vulnerability and Risk Assessment (VRA) exercise in Mulanje, Southern Malawi, in the context of the Malawi2020 Tea Revitalization Programme (Malawi2020). This programme aims to achieve a competitive, profitable tea industry that can provide living wages and incomes for its workers by 2020. The VRA sought to address the key […]

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Evaluation report

Resilience in Chad: Impact evaluation of reinforcing resilience capacity and food security in Bahr el Gazal and Guera

21/09/2016

5 documents

69 pages long

Languages: English, French

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This evaluation is presented as part of the Effectiveness Review Series 2014/15, selected for review under the resilience thematic area. This report documents the findings of a quasi-experimental evaluation carried out in December 2014 that sought to assess the impact of the activities of two projects: the ‘reinforcing resilience capacity in Bahr el Gazal’ project, […]

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Research report

Consolidated Gender Analysis for the Ethiopian Drought Response

16/09/2016

1 documents

40 pages long

Languages: English

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This report is the first to be published by the project ‘Institutionalising Gender in Emergencies’, which is funded by the European Community Humanitarian Aid Office (ECHO) and implemented by Oxfam in Dominican Republic, Pakistan, Ethiopia and South Sudan. It is a gender analysis developed in collaboration with CARE Ethiopia and combines a desk review with […]

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Briefing note

Making Maize Markets Work For All in Southern Africa

12/09/2016

1 documents

12 pages long

Languages: English

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In most of sub-Saharan Africa, maize is a staple food crop – grown on some 33 million hectares of the total 194 million hectares of cultivated land. Southern African also has some of the highest malnutrition rates in the world. Small-scale maize producers in the region face numerous obstacles and are both buyers and sellers […]

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Briefing note

A Preventable Crisis: El Nino and La Nina events need earlier responses and a renewed focus on prevention

18/07/2016

2 documents

24 pages long

Languages: English, Spanish

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The devastating impacts of the 2015-16 El Nino will be felt well into 2017. This crisis was predicted, yet overall, the response has been too little too late. The looming La Nina event may further hit communities that are already deeply vulnerable. To end this cycle of failure, there is an urgent need for humanitarian […]

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Case study

Briefing note on the Africa Climate Change Resilience Alliance (ACCRA)

30/06/2016

1 documents

5 pages long

Languages: English

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The Africa Climate Change Resilience Alliance (ACCRA) has been working over the last 7 years (from November 2009 to December 2016) to influence climate resilience policy and practice in Uganda, Mozambique and Ethiopia. This brief highlights ACCRA’s unique contribution to enhancing the governance of adaptation and planning processes through a multistakeholder process that builds on:(a) […]

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Briefing paper

Feeding Climate Change: What the Paris Agreement means for food and beverage companies

27/06/2016

1 documents

36 pages long

Languages: English, Italian

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The Paris Agreement marked a major breakthrough in support for climate action from many parts of the business community, including from key actors in the food and beverage sector. But despite significant progress, much work remains both to cut greenhouse gas emissions and to support the millions of people already hit by climate change. As […]

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