Food and livelihoods Archives - Oxfam Policy & Practice

Briefing paper

The Private Sphere Trap: Women and the climate crisis in Iraq

10/06/2025

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19 pages long

Languages: English

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This Oxfam briefing paper examines the intersection of gender inequality and climate change in Iraq, focusing on the agricultural sector. Women in Iraq face systemic barriers that confine them to the "private sphere," limiting their participation in decision-making processes critical to climate adaptation and mitigation. Through qualitative research, including focus group discussions and key informant […]

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Briefing paper

Land, Peace and Security: Secure access to land as a vital guarantee for the protection of communities in the Sahel

26/05/2025

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26 pages long

Languages: English, French

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The lack of secure access to land is a major driver of physical and food insecurity, violence, and violations of the fundamental rights of internally displaced persons (IDPs) and their host communities. This briefing paper outlines the causes and consequences of restricted land access and explores its links with protection risks in the context of […]

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Briefing paper

Water-Driven Hunger: How the Climate Crisis Fuels Africa’s Food Emergency

30/04/2025

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18 pages long

Languages: English

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This paper calls for an integrated water and food security management in eight Eastern and Southern African countries—Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Somalia, South Sudan, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. These countries, identified as Hunger Hotspots for 2025 and among the 30 most water insecure globally, are also experiencing the severe impacts of climate variability. The paper strongly […]

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Briefing paper

The Roadmap Towards Gender Transformation in the Kampala Declaration and the CAADP Ten-Year Implementation Plan and Strategy (2026-2035): Defining Africa’s response metrics in the third iteration of the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme

14/04/2025

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38 pages long

Languages: English

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The newly launched 10-year Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) Strategy and Action Plan (2026–2035) represents a crucial initiative for enhancing productivity and fostering cohesive agricultural development throughout the continent. The forthcoming results framework for this strategy will lay out the objectives to be pursued in the transformation of the agriculture sector and will serve […]

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Briefing paper

Raising the Bar: Supermarkets must urgently address structural exploitation of cocoa farmers

10/04/2025

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36 pages long

Languages: English

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Most cocoa farmers in main cocoa producing countries Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana are poor, even though they are at the heart of the supply chain for a luxury good: chocolate. For decades they have been receiving low farm gate prices, which don’t allow them to earn a living income for their families. At the same […]

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Evaluation report

Together Against Poverty Phase II Project Learning Review – Advocacy in Action: Stories of Change and Learnings for the Future

10/03/2025

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17 pages long

Languages: English

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Oxfam, through the four-year, multi-country program Together Against Poverty Project -Phase II (TAP2), has implemented impactful interventions contributing to strategic policy and practice outcomes in agriculture, aid effectiveness, and gender equality. Throughout the project, Oxfam has undertaken continuous learning and adaptation to ensure that our different advocacy and program tactics and strategies, which include research, […]

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Briefing note

Putting An End To World Hunger – The European Union’s role in transforming the global food system

16/12/2024

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20 pages long

Languages: English

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Farmers around the world produce more than enough to feed everyone on the planet, yet since 2017 hunger has increased sharply. Promoting food production and distribution that are socially equitable and environmentally sustainable is a necessity, in Europe and globally. This paper highlights the European Union’s role in addressing global hunger and supporting a sustainable and […]

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Discussion paper

Defining and Assessing Transformational Climate Change Adaptation: A framework for application to agri-food projects

11/12/2024

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62 pages long

Languages: English

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This discussion paper proposes a framework of four indicators of transformational adaptation – the breadth and depth of change, the intention to achieve transformation, scale and sustainability – and provides a framework to apply these indicators to four types of interventions in agri-food systems. The paper was co-commissioned with Catholic Relief Services.

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Briefing note

The Triple Nexus in Somaliland: Lessons from integrated humanitarian-development-peacebuilding work in El-Afweyn district

22/11/2024

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14 pages long

Languages: English

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Oxfam is committed to working with communities before, during and after crises. In Somaliland, we have been piloting approaches that aim to achieve greater synergy between our humanitarian, development and peacebuilding programming and influencing. This innovative ‘triple nexus’ work recognises that communities' needs and ambitions are not met along the false silos created by aid agencies. […]

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Briefing paper

Food Wars: Conflict, Hunger, and Globalization, 2023

16/10/2024

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35 pages long

Languages: English

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Most wars of the late 20th and early 21st centuries have been “food wars”: food and hunger were used as weapons, food and food-related water and energy infrastructure were damaged intentionally or incidentally, and food insecurity persisted as a legacy of conflict destructiveness. Frequently, food insecurity, in turn, is a trigger or underlying cause of […]

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