Policy Papers

Following the dramatic food price increases in 2007–08, an estimated 150 million people joined the ranks of those who go hungry.

The human face of global food price rises is often missing amongst the abstract discussions of macro-economic trends and global food price indices. In order to understand the im

Malawi is a country of small-scale producers farming tiny plots of land. Traditionally, they grow maize and other crops using rainwater.

Brazil has made impressive recent strides in reducing poverty, food insecurity and hunger.

As financing for climate change adaptation in developing countries begins to flow, it is essential that the governance of funding at the global and country level be shaped so that the needs

Today, the world’s natural resources are under increasing pressure and are often the object of important power struggles between corporations, states and communities. National go

The floods of 2010-2011 devastated homes, lives, and livelihoods across the country.

India is home to a quarter of the world’s hungry people.

For families living in Nepal’s remote highland regions, chronic food insecurity and hunger are part of daily life.

This report is a contribution to the Oxfam campaign ‘Grow: Food.Life.Planet’. It explores a range of scenarios for food p

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In contrast to intensive agricultural practices that require widespread forest clearing, agroforestry systems combine tree growing with the production of other crops or animals.

The 2008 food price crisis had a devastating impact on poor Guatemalans, pushing an estimated 450,000 people into poverty.

Today, the world produces enough to feed all seven billion of its inhabitants – but nearly a billion people still go without.

In 2010, millions of men, women, and children were killed, raped, displaced, injured, or recruited by force in armed conflicts throughout the world.

Growth is back on the development agenda, promoted by bilateral and multilateral donors, and the G20, as the most effective way to lift people out of poverty.

This report focuses on the production challenge contained with the ambitious question of “Who will feed the world?” It acknowledges that this is just one part of the solution to feeding the

The current health system in Ghana is unfair and inefficient. It doesn’t have to be. The government can and should move fast to implement free health care for all citizens.

Over the last few years Oxfam has been following closely the reform of the UN’s gender equality architecture and most recently, the establishment of UN Women.

Poor-quality, or “substandard”, medicines threaten patients and public health in developing countries.