Journée internationale des femmes 2012

Collecting clean water from a tap stand.

Recent fighting between M23 rebels and Congolese Government soldiers forced thousands of people, already displaced by years of fighting, to flee their homes again.

Map of some of the many rebel groups in eastern DRC, as of November 2012:pinterest.com/pin/223702306462492869/

More on Oxfam's humanitarian response to thecrisis in Democratic Republic of Congo

Photo: Kate Holt/Oxfam, November 2012

Originally proposed at the Copenhagen climate talks in 2009, the Green Climate Fund is meant to provide funds to help poor countries cope as climate change kicks in and as weather becomes more extreme and unpredictable. But three years on, and as initial funding runs out, the Fund remains empty.

In these photos, from Oxfam's opening media stunt at UN climate talks in Doha, people representing recent extreme weather events– including Superstorm Sandy, the Sahel drought and the Pakistan floods – face a closed bank teller with the amount each disaster cost.

Climate 'fiscal cliff' looms for developing countries if leaders come to Doha with no new money

Photo: Oxfam

Originally proposed at the Copenhagen climate talks in 2009, the Green Climate Fund is meant to provide funds to help poor countries cope as climate change kicks in and as weather becomes more extreme and unpredictable. But three years on, and as initial funding runs out, the Fund remains empty.

In these photos, from Oxfam's opening media stunt at UN climate talks in Doha, people representing recent extreme weather events– including Superstorm Sandy, the Sahel drought and the Pakistan floods – face a closed bank teller with the amount each disaster cost.

Climate 'fiscal cliff' looms for developing countries if leaders come to Doha with no new money

Photo: Oxfam

Hungry for Land Conference
Oxfam has been invited to talk to the Landgrabs conference. Mwanahamis Salimu was among one of the 5 speakers and charmed the public with her presentation on women and land in Tanzania.

Credit: Photo courtesy of slow food

Hungry for Land Conference
Oxfam has been invited to talk to the Landgrabs conference. Mwanahamis Salimu was among one of the 5 speakers and charmed the public with her presentation on women and land in Tanzania.

Credit: Photo courtesy of slow food

Credit: Giorgio Gori

Credit: Giorgio Gori

Martha Mwasu Waziri is Mama Shujaa wa Chakula 2012 (Female Food Hero). She wins 10 million Tanzanian Shillings ($6,325) to buy farming equipment of her choice.

Martha is from Dodoma Region where using environmental protection methods, she learnt from Inades Formation, she has managed to reclaim 18 acre of land that had been eroded by a river. Now it is productive farm land. With the increasing environmental pressures from climate change and over use of land we will need many more heroes like Martha who can literally save our land.

Martha says she wants to share the knowledge she gained during the last weeks with Mama Shujaa wa Chakula and she dreams of turning her farm into a demonstration farm to show others what can be done. She also wants to build a structure to use for her youth work in the village.

More on theFemale Food Heroes project.

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According to a report commissioned by the EC, in 2008, 42 per cent of the crops used for EU biodiesel and 24 per cent of the crops used for EU ethanol were grown outside the EU. Problems with the data mean that the actual level of imports is likely to be higher. Soy, oil palm and sugarcane represent the bulk of the crops used for biofuels grown outside the EU. As the proportion of biofuel in fuel rises, imports will too. Modelling of the impact of meeting 10 per cent of demand for diesel using biodiesel suggests that, by 2020, Europe could require a fifth of all the vegetable oil produced globally just to meet its demand for fuel.

Source: Ecofys, Agra CEAS, Chalmers University, IIASA and Winrock, Biofuels Baseline 2008 (EC Tender No. TREN/D1/458/2009), October 2011

Land used to power European cars with biofuels for one year could produce enough wheat and maize to feed 127 million people.

With the world’s poorest at greater risk of hunger as a result of spiraling food prices, Oxfam is calling on the EU to rethink its dangerous love affair with biofuels.

In a new GROW campaign report,The Hunger Grains, Oxfam warns that Europe’s growing appetite for biofuels is pushing up global food prices and driving people off their land, resulting in deeper hunger and malnutrition in poor countries.

“This new alliance – is a nice complement at best, a deflection at worst. The role of the private sector is important, but they will not be able to make up for the G8’s broken promises,” said Ndiaye. “Smallholder farmers need the freedom to pursue their own growing strategies, not take overly-prescriptive tips on farming from G8 leaders, or one size fits all technologies from far away CEOs.”
Photo Credit: Victoria Marzilli / Oxfam
Read More atwww.oxfam.org/g8-2012

“This new alliance – is a nice complement at best, a deflection at worst. The role of the private sector is important, but they will not be able to make up for the G8’s broken promises,” said Ndiaye. “Smallholder farmers need the freedom to pursue their own growing strategies, not take overly-prescriptive tips on farming from G8 leaders, or one size fits all technologies from far away CEOs.”
Photo Credit: Victoria Marzilli / Oxfam
Read More atwww.oxfam.org/g8-2012

“This new alliance – is a nice complement at best, a deflection at worst. The role of the private sector is important, but they will not be able to make up for the G8’s broken promises,” said Ndiaye. “Smallholder farmers need the freedom to pursue their own growing strategies, not take overly-prescriptive tips on farming from G8 leaders, or one size fits all technologies from far away CEOs.”
Photo Credit: Matthew Hale / Oxfam
Read More atwww.oxfam.org/g8-2012