We’re all feeling the pinch as the costs of basic foods like rice, corn, and wheat reach record highs. But the world’s poorest people are suffering most.
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17 December 2009
November rains that were expected to ease the hunger crisis in East Africa have failed yet again in some of the worst hit areas. Millions of people face at least another six months of hunger and destitution.
18 November 2009
We ranked the Summit against five key criteria and found that not one was fully achieved, as delegates left Rome without tackling many of the biggest challenges of food security and agriculture.
15 November 2009
The UN could drastically reduce the 24,000 deaths occurring daily around the world from hunger-related causes, provided countries agree that it coordinates all the different initiatives to fight hunger.
12 November 2009
Monday’s UN World Food Summit in Rome (16-18th) could be a waste of time and money unless world leaders intervene now to salvage it. International agencies ActionAid and Oxfam say governments are at risk of throwing away a great chance to stop more than one billion people going hungry.
16 October 2009
Half the world’s food is lost as waste and a billion people – one in every six of the world’s poorest – cannot access enough of the other half and so go hungry every day. Our leaders have another chance to put that right.
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Coordinating Donor Interventions in Three West African Countries
5 November 2009
Governments and aid agencies must rise to the challenge
26 January 2009
Power and possibilities within the cocoa and chocolate sector
19 January 2009
Small farmers, big companies, developing countries.... Here we try to make sense of this pressing global crisis.
Oxfam invests in eco-friendly coffee processing, and helps farmers grow a world-class crop.
Malcolm Fleming, one of our media officers in Scotland, travelled to Malawi, where he spoke to a poor family which has learned how to manage its food supplies, through a government program.
Higher food prices have pushed millions of people in developing countries further into hunger and poverty. Here are some recent examples of small farmers in Ghana trying to cope, and what Oxfam is doing to help.
