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Free Front Line Africa

01/01/1991

1 documents

20 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Debt

Overview

Oxfam has been working with people in southern Africa since the early 1960s – providing support for their efforts to improve the quality of their lives. During the last decade their efforts have been undermined by a growing debt crisis, falling prices for their exports, the lack of effective international aid, and, in many cases, […]

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Brazil: A mask called progress

01/01/1991

1 documents

130 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Based on Oxfam’s 20 years of development experience in Brazil, A Mask Called Progress examines the conflicts that have brought many traditional communities to the edge of extinction, and threaten to destroy one of the richest natural environments on earth. In their own words, the people of the Brazilian rainforest – rubber-tappers and indigenous people […]

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Common Ground: How changes in the common agricultural policy affect the third world poor

01/01/1987

1 documents

101 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The picture of mounting European food surpluses set against the constant spectre of Third World food shortages is a familiar one. But the cost of these surpluses and their effect on world trade is leading to increasing pressure for change in the European Community’s agricultural policies.

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The Hunger Crop: Poverty and the sugar industry

01/01/1987

1 documents

122 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Sugar, tea coffee and palm oil are the backbone of many Third World economies. But the processing and marketing of these commodities is controlled by the rich industrialised nations. This unequal exchange leaves Third World producers highly vulnerable to market conditions – and it is poor people who are hardest hit.

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Muck and Brass

01/01/1980

1 documents

44 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

While the people of the Third World struggle against a chronic scarcity of resources, the rubbish thrown away by British householders each year amounts to a pile sixty times the size of the Great Pyramid. This report proposes a domestic reclamation strategy for the UK which will create jobs, save imports and make better use […]

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