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Research report

The Adaptation Challenge: Key issues for crop production and agricultural livelihoods under climate change in the Russian Federation

15/11/2012

1 documents

40 pages long

Languages: English

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Climate change has serious implications for global food production and food security. This report uses data on current changes and future scenarios to examine possible impacts on crop production in the Russian Federation. It considers what measures Russia might need to make to achieve its aim of playing a leading role in ensuring global food […]

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Book

From Poverty to Power, 2nd Edition: How active citizens and effective states can change the world

23/10/2012

14 documents

488 pages long

Languages: English

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Seismic events have convulsed global markets since 2008, when From Poverty to Power was first published. World news has been full of stories reflecting a profound sense of uncertainty about global futures. In response, this new edition of From Poverty to Power has been fully revised and now includes an in-depth analysis of the human […]

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Campaign report

Growing a Better Future in Viet Nam: Expanding Rights, Voices and Choices for Small-scale Farmers

16/10/2012

1 documents

52 pages long

Languages: English

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Viet Nam has an enviable record of reducing hunger and poverty: over the past 20 years poverty levels have been reduced by more than half. Many people speak of an era of new opportunities and prosperity, yet the struggle to overcome poverty, and end hunger and gender injustice is not won. With one in five […]

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Evaluation report

Effectiveness Review: Climate Change Advocacy Programme, South Africa

08/10/2012

4 documents

53 pages long

Languages: English

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At the end of 2011, South Africa hosted the 17th Congress of the Parties (COP17) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Oxfam identified this as an important opportunity to champion pro-poor adaptation and mitigation and ensure that people’s voices, especially from Africa, were heard. As a consequence, its existing climate change […]

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Issue briefing

Extreme Weather, Extreme Prices: The costs of feeding a warming world

05/09/2012

3 documents

14 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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Climate change is making extreme weather much more likely. As the 2012 drought in the USA shows, extreme weather means extreme food prices. Our failure to slash greenhouse gas emissions presents a future of greater food price volatility, with severe consequences for the precarious lives and livelihoods of people living in poverty. This briefing draws […]

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Research report

Extreme Weather Events and Crop Price Spikes in a Changing Climate: Illustrative global simulation scenarios

05/09/2012

1 documents

60 pages long

Languages: English

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Agriculture is highly sensitive to climate variability and weather extremes. Various impact studies have considered the effects of projected long-run trends in temperature, precipitation and CO2 concentrations caused by climate change on global food production and prices. But an area that remains underexplored is the food price impacts that may result from an expected increase […]

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Discussion paper

Climate Change Risks and Supply Chain Responsibility: How should companies respond when extreme weather affects small-scale producers in their supply chain?

28/06/2012

2 documents

24 pages long

Languages: English, Spanish

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What role can companies play in strengthening the capacity of small-scale producers in developing countries to adapt to climate change, and in doing so, make their global value chains more resilient? While some leading companies have made progress in taking greater responsibility for what happens throughout their supply chains, there has been little discussion about […]

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Guidelines and toolkits

Participatory Capacity and Vulnerability Analysis: A practitioner’s guide

01/06/2012

2 documents

43 pages long

Languages: English

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Oxfam’s participatory capacity and vulnerability analysis (PCVA) tool is a risk analysis process designed to help staff and partner organisations engage with communities in contexts where natural disasters are significant drivers of poverty and suffering. PCVA has its roots in two proven social development methodologies. First, it stems from capacity and vulnerability analysis (CVA) methodology. […]

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Case study

Promoting Gender Equality in Disaster Risk Reduction: Oxfam’s Experiences in Southeast Asia

01/05/2012

1 documents

32 pages long

Languages: English

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This compilation of case studies illustrates the close ties between our concern for gender equality and our efforts in humanitarian crises and disaster risk reduction (DRR). They do not claim to be comprehensive, but simply reflect some recent Oxfam experiences in Cambodia, Indonesia, Myanmar and Vietnam. They are examples of how natural hazards like cyclones […]

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Education resource

Heroes and Heroines: Explore the 2012 Olympic Games

01/05/2012

2 documents

Languages: English

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Use the Olympic and Paralympic games to explore the values of respect, excellence, friendship and equality. Consider what makes a hero or a heroine and explore case studies of people who have made the world fairer. With separate packs for primary and secondary teachers, these resources include creative curriculum-linked teaching ideas for Literacy, PSHE, Citizenship, […]

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