global food production

All around the world, millions of small-scale farmers, fishers and workers endure inhumane conditions to produce the food we all eat. We can change this. Join us and help us reveal what is behind the price of the food we buy. Together, we can tackle this injustice and help stop the human suffering behind our food.

Asgedech Wolde Tensay won the 2015 Female Food Heroes award in Ethiopia for her exemplary efforts to increase productivity in her farm by using new technologies. Born and raised in a small village far from the capital Addis Ababa, she dreamed of a very different life to the one she is living now.

Carolina Chelele won Season 5 of Female Food Heroes in Tanzania and has become a community leader. Now that she's a winner, the mother of four and the sole provider for her household educates family members and other people in her village about different farming methods.

Monica Maigari is a smallholder farmer and teacher from Madakiya, Nigeria. In 2014, her accomplishments as a farmer and women’s advocate won her recognition as an Oxfam Female Food Hero. Since then, she has deepened her local community involvement while sharing her expertise with influential audiences.

On a planet with enough food for everyone, 821 million people – one in nine – go hungry day after day, year after year. It doesn't have to be this way. The Female Food Heroes competition is an innovative Oxfam project which shows how local women farmers can help end world hunger.

The seafood industry is worth more than $150bn per year. But it comes at an unacceptable price: the suffering of the people who produce it. In Southeast Asia, workers describe the harsh conditions that are far too common in this industry. Stand with them and help us reveal what’s behind the price of food we eat.

Did you know that some fishermen in Southeast Asia report working at sea for up to 14 hours a day and 27 days a month, earning as little as $0.50 per hour?  Whether it is fished or farmed, sold in local markets or stocked on supermarket shelves, too much of the food we buy is produced at the expense of human welfare. Learn more and take action.

Rice, soy beans, corn, wheat and palm oil together lead to more greenhouse gas emissions than any country’s individual footprint, apart from China and the United States, according to new Oxfam research into the food industry and climate change.

The World Bank’s 'Turn Down the Heat: Confronting the New Climate Normal' report delivers a troubling new assessment of the impact climate change is having on food security, water resources and ecosystems. It warns that without action heat waves and other weather extremes that occur once every hundred years, if ever, would become the new climate normal putting millions of people at risk.