food crisis

Oxfam at the World Social Forum 2009: Solutions for the crisis should come from the bottom up

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

Oxfam at Davos – time for a rethink, not business at usual

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

Oxfam: global food crisis will worsen - 1bn hungry people need help now

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

A Billion Hungry People

High food prices have brought into sharp focus an existing global food crisis that affects almost one billion people.read more

Fair Trade, Food Sovereignty and the Food Crisis

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…”

President-elect Obama presented with urgent “Call to Action” to end food crisis

Rising food prices in the Sahel

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

Oxfam response to EU decision on €1bn for world’s poorest farmers

Oxfam welcomes the EU’s €1bn for the world’s poorest farmers, finally agreed to after long negotiations.read more

EU ministers set to fudge €1 billion food package for poor farmers

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

G20 must put fight against poverty at the center of global economic reforms

Global leaders must not squander historic opportunity for reformWashington, DC – The G20 must avoid small-scale tinkering and instead take immediate, aggressive actionread more

Oxfam welcomes the world’s first shipment of sustainable palm oil, but warns much still to do

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

Ghana: Impact of food prices on rice farmers

Higher food prices have pushed millions of people in developing countries further into hunger and poverty.read more

Millions more Ethiopians going hungry as aid effort stalls

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

The World Bank and IMF must keep focus on tackling the food and climate crises for world’s poorest people

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

Oxfam condemns lethargic reaction to global food crisis – Billions of vital funds missing

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

Oxfam resumes operations in Zimbabwe

Urges government to grant full permission to all civil society organizationsInternational aid agency Oxfam remains cautiously optimistic about resuming humanitarian aid in Zread more

Afghanistan: Time running out to avert winter of hunger

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

Biofuels

They’ve been championed as a solution to climate change and as a way to reduce our insatiable desire for oil.read more

Lift ban on humanitarian aid to Zimbabwe, says Oxfam

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

Oxfam Works on Longer-term Solutions to Help Ethiopians Survive Drought

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