June 2, 2020
Throughout the upcoming weeks and months, Power Shifts is partnering with the Oxfam in Depth podcast to share the experiences of people living through the Coronavirus outbreak in our new Power in the Pandemic podcast. We’ll be hearing from people across the world as they tell us how COVID-19 is affecting their lives and how their communities are organizing to tackle the effects of the crisis.
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It’s World Food Day today – why is global progress going into reverse?
October 16, 2017
Guest post from Larissa Pelham, who is a food security wonk with probably the longest job title in Oxfam (see end for its full glory) World Food Day has come around again and with it the annual report on the State of World Food Insecurity. In a year which declared a potential ‘four famines’ – with South Sudan tipping into famine
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Why aren’t we using government purchasing to promote the right to food (among other things)? Great farewell paper from Olivier de Schutter
May 29, 2014
Oliver de Schutter, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food reaches the end of his term at the end of May, leaving some pretty big shoes to fill. He summarized his arguments in March with a final report to the Human Rights Council, but kept on going til the end, with a really thought-provoking briefing note on government procurement.
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Hunger Grains: Are EU policies undermining progress on development?
November 29, 2013
An earlier version of this piece appeared in the October issue of the Government Gazette Today we fear EU ambassadors will agree a really bad deal on EU biofuel reform. In 2009 EU governments agreed that by 2020 10% of the energy used in transport would have to come from renewable sources. This target will almost exclusively be met by
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Unpacking India’s historic new Food Security law
October 4, 2013
M. Kumaran, Oxfam India’s food justice program coordinator, unpacks India’s historic new Food Security Act On 2nd September, 2013 the Indian Parliament ushered in a new legally-enforceable regime in India’s struggle against hunger through the historic National Food Security Act 2013. The Act injects more resources into India’s food and nutrition programmes and establishes an independent grievance redress system for
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‘Squeezed’: how are poor people adjusting to life in a time of food price volatility?
May 23, 2013
Ace IDS researcher Naomi Hossain introduces the first results of a big Oxfam/IDS research project on food price volatility If the point of development is to make the Third World more like the First, then we aid-wallahs can pack our bags and go home. Job done. The most striking finding of Squeezed, the first year results from the four year
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What’s the link between land grabs, trade rules and climate change? Good new briefing from Sophia Murphy
March 12, 2013
You can rely on Sophia Murphy for crisp, credible analyses of agricultural trade and food issues. Her latest paper, Land Grabs and Fragile Food Systems, is up to her usual standard. She locates the current row over land grabs in some broader debates that have rather fallen off the agenda, namely globalization and trade rules. Made me come over all
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Fighting for food security in India
July 16, 2012
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What does the UN’s first Africa Human Development Report say about food security?
May 16, 2012
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Food fight at the WTO: de Schutter v Lamy on whether trade leads to food security
December 20, 2011
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Introducing Growbag, a round up of new research on food, farming and climate by guest blogger Richard King
August 5, 2011
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Africans and food security: what do opinion polls tells us?
April 7, 2011
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