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Photo of Svetlana Arkhipova in her vegetable garden

These case studies provide interesting insight on the situation in five emerging economies on key issues of food security, climate change and energy access and how Oxfam and partners are campaigning for change.

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Jacoba Armoed working in the field, South Africa. Photo: Oxfam

As a result of climate change and its impact on food production, small-scale women farmers in the Western Cape of South Africa are now eating less or nothing at all, and saving the little food they do produce for their families to eat.

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Oxfam has launched a photo exhibition in Durban where local women farmers show the impact of climate change in their own communities.

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Oxfam organized a dinner party in the sea at COP 17 in Durban to provide a stark illustration of the effects that extreme weather will have on our already creaking food system.

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International agency Oxfam today welcomed the prestigious Human Rights Award given to the South African HIV and AIDS organization the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) by the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung/ Foundation.

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A caregiver, counselor, and role model, Itumeleng Modimola has nurtured a commitment to care for others into a sanctuary of support for families affected by HIV/AIDS in South Africa’s North West Province.

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South Africa’s health and social service system is unable to meet demands, so local organizations like Pholo Modi Wa Sechaba are working to fill the crucial gaps. Credit: Brett Eloff/Oxfam America

Local organizations help people with HIV and AIDS learn to live positively.

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