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Briefing note

Making Maize Markets Work For All in Southern Africa

12/09/2016

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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

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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

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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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Case study

Five Critical Factors for Working Well in Partnerships

31/05/2016

1 documents

8 pages long

Languages: English

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What are the critical factors in managing a good partnership? My experience coordinating the REE-CALL (Resilience through Economic Empowerment, Climate Change Adaptation, Leadership and Learning) programme in Bangladesh over the past five years has taught me that no matter how big the programme, or how complex, success depends on five critical factors. Partnering for Impact […]

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Case study

How We Set Up a Network of Partners to Achieve Greater Influence

31/05/2016

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7 pages long

Languages: English

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This paper examines how networking and networks can be used as a tool to develop partnerships. This analysis aims to answer several key questions, such as: ‘Why is networking important?’ ‘How will networking impact the development of projects and activities?’ Partnering for Impact series To do the work it does, Oxfam works closely with partners […]

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Case study

Comment bien gérer un partenariat dans le cadre d’une intervention humanitaire

31/05/2016

2 documents

8 pages long

Languages: English, French

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Durant deux années, Haïti est frappé successivement de plusieurs catastrophes, le cout humain est considérable, comment faire face? Oxfam tente alors de renouer des liens avec une organisation locale avec qui il y avait eu des différends dans le passé. série « Partnering for Impact » Le partenariat est le pilier de la façon dont Oxfam conçoit […]

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Research report

Evaluation of General Mills’ and Kellogg’s GHG Emissions Targets and Plans: Independent Assessment conducted by Winston Eco-Strategies for Oxfam’s Behind the Brands Initiative

25/05/2016

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43 pages long

Languages: English

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Extreme weather is threatening food supply chains around the world. The food and agriculture sector has a significant stake in mitigating climate change but is also responsible for up to 25 percent of total global emissions. The largest food and beverage companies have responded to the challenge, in part by setting targets to reduce emissions, […]

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Technical briefing

Setting and Implementing Science-Based Targets: Recommendations for food and beverage companies

25/05/2016

1 documents

6 pages long

Languages: English

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The food and beverage sector is both a significant driver of global climate change and among the sectors most adversely affected. Food and beverage companies have a major role in reducing global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and in ensuring that the long term mitigation goal established in Paris at COP 21 is translated into action. […]

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Issue briefing

Hot, Hungry and Starved of Investment: Supporting smallholders to build a climate-resilient agricultural sector in southern Africa

24/05/2016

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12 pages long

Languages: English

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As the African Development Bank meets in southern Africa, one of the strongest and most sustained El Nino events on record – turbocharged by climate change – is causing severe drought, failed harvests and a hunger crisis across the region. This is being made worse by record high temperatures as a result of global warming. […]

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