food crisis
Posted Thu, 01/29/2009 - 17:23 by muenda
Oxfam International is participating at the 9th World Social Forum (WSF) in Belém, Brazil to share experiences and to strategize with other organizations and networks on waysread more
Posted Wed, 01/28/2009 - 12:08 by muenda
Leaders meeting at the World Economic Forum in Davos this week should seriously consider how the economic crisis can be a catalyst for new models of growth and a new way of doing busread more
Posted Mon, 01/26/2009 - 10:24 by muenda
Urgent action is needed to prevent hundreds of millions more people slipping into hunger as a result of volatile food prices and increasing energy and water scarcity, said internatioread more
Posted Mon, 01/26/2009 - 09:37 by muenda
High food prices have brought into sharp focus an existing global food crisis that affects almost one billion people.read more
Posted Wed, 12/31/2008 - 15:58 by muenda
As the year 2008 comes to a close, the world must cope with a recent assertion made by the Food and Agriculture Organization that “one billion people will go hungry around the globe next year for the first time in human history…”
Posted Tue, 12/16/2008 - 15:31 by muenda
Posted Sun, 11/30/2008 - 18:44 by muenda
Based on a survey by Oxfam International and Save the ChildrenIn the Sahel region of West Africa, the ability to access food has become the key issue in terms of food securiread more
Posted Mon, 11/24/2008 - 14:43 by muenda
Oxfam welcomes the EU’s €1bn for the world’s poorest farmers, finally agreed to after long negotiations.read more
Posted Thu, 11/20/2008 - 13:01 by muenda
Ahead of a crucial meeting this Friday in Brussels to decide the fate of the proposed EU food crisis package, leading anti-poverty campaigners expressed their concern that no new resread more
Posted Thu, 11/13/2008 - 00:10 by muenda
Global leaders must not squander historic opportunity for reformWashington, DC – The G20 must avoid small-scale tinkering and instead take immediate, aggressive actionread more
Posted Tue, 11/11/2008 - 00:01 by muenda
11 Nov: The world’s first shipments of certified sustainable palm oil have left Malaysia for the Netherlands where it will be used by European consumer goods manufacturers andread more
Posted Wed, 10/15/2008 - 18:21 by muenda
Higher food prices have pushed millions of people in developing countries further into hunger and poverty.read more
Posted Fri, 10/10/2008 - 09:52 by muenda
The number of Ethiopians needing emergency assistance has leapt by 40 percent from 4.6 million to 6.4 million people since June, according to latest official figures from the Unitedread more
Posted Tue, 10/07/2008 - 08:02 by muenda
Washington DC: The World Bank and the IMF must cushion developing countries from the financial crisis that is threatening to hit them hard, while also tackling the challenges of food and furead more
Posted Wed, 09/24/2008 - 16:53 by muenda
As world leaders meet in New York at a special Summit on poverty, aid agency Oxfam slammed the lack of urgency by the international community in tackling the ongoing food crisis nowread more
Posted Fri, 09/05/2008 - 09:10 by muenda
Urges government to grant full permission to all civil society organizationsInternational aid agency Oxfam remains cautiously optimistic about resuming humanitarian aid in Zread more
Posted Fri, 08/29/2008 - 23:00 by muenda
Millions of Afghans face food shortages; mortality rates for women and children could riseWith Afghanistan’s bitter winter drawing nearer, international agency Oxfam wread more
Posted Wed, 08/20/2008 - 09:49 by muenda
They’ve been championed as a solution to climate change and as a way to reduce our insatiable desire for oil.read more
Posted Tue, 08/12/2008 - 15:41 by muenda
While acknowledging ongoing negotiations to resolve the political crisis in Zimbabwe, international aid agency Oxfam International is concerned about the continuing lack of attentionread more
Posted Tue, 08/05/2008 - 09:37 by muenda
When asked about solutions to a drought that is gripping parts of Ethiopia and spreading hunger among millions of people, government officials tick off lists of broad ideas.read more