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Global summitry—and mountains still to climb
Judy Beals is the Campaigns Director at Oxfam America. In the past six weeks, world leaders met not once, not twice, but three times to discuss and deliver global solutions to global challenges. The...
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After a long haul, SEC finally acts for oil, mining transparency
It took far longer than I—or any of us at Oxfam—expected, but the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has finally issued binding regulations to implement the oil, gas, and mining disclosure...
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Fight world hunger from your kitchen table: Celebrate World Food Day with Oxfam
Click here to view the embedded video. Credit: Oxfam America Action Corps and Grazioso Pictures Inc. Last week, I managed an (almost) zero mile meal. My backyard chickens provided eggs for a crustless...
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Disappearing Land. Is World Bank’s Head In the Sand? “Invisible Hand”
Two campesinos (farmers) in northern Guatemala (2012). Pablo Tosco/Intermón Oxfam Paul O’Brien is the vice president, policy and campaigns, for Oxfam America. Washingtonians: I...
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Never mind the waste… here are the benefits of food aid monetization
Rice distributed and sold in Liberia. Photo: Ruby Wright/Oxfam International With Farm Bill negotiations simmering on the back burner and an all-consuming Congressional focus on dealing with the fiscal...
View ArticleFortuna audaces iuvat: Mercenary reborn as African investor
Although I don’t know quite what to say, I can’t not say something about this. Erik Prince and his private security services company, Blackwater, gained notoriety in Iraq. Prince had an inside track...
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Elections and Oil—Ghana’s Choice
Ghanaians go to the polls for presidential and parliamentary elections this Friday and political observers and polls both indicate an extremely tight contest between the ruling National Democratic...
View ArticleUS intellectual property policy and access to medicines in the developing...
Rohit Malpani is a campaigns advisor at Oxfam and leads the organization’s access to medicines campaign. Oxfam’s response to Progressive Economy’s “Trade Fact of the Week” 11/28/12 is cross posted from...
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The Future of Agriculture needs a fertile conversation
A little over three months ago, I sat attentively listening to the give and take between Nigerian Female Food Hero, Susan Godwin, and Chicago Council on World Affairs Senior Fellow, Roger Thurow....
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Is sustainability just a sideshow at African mining conference?
A guest post by Keith Slack, Global Program Manager, Extractive Industries Mining industry big-wigs will gather in South Africa next week for Mining Indaba, billed as the “world’s largest mining...
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Can cocoa companies do more for women?
My colleagues and I were surrounded by women dressed in their best. Their colorful, patterned pagnes, or cloth wraps, were everywhere I turned in the village of Kouadioyaokro, Cote d’Ivoire (Ivory...
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From Earnestness to Action
Yesterday Oxfam received a response to its call to action from Nestlé, one of the three chocolate companies we’ve engaged on behalf of women cocoa farmers. We welcome Nestlé‘s letter as an indication...
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The Farmers Behind the Brands
Erinch Sahan is a Private Sector Policy Advisor at Oxfam Great Britain. Badou Allouko on her farmland, where she grows cocoa to sell and vegetables for personal consumption, in Sankro, Ivory Coast in...
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Social conflict, extractive industries, national human rights institutions...
Emily Greenspan is an extractive industries policy and advocacy advisor with Oxfam America. Oxfam America’s Extractive Industries Team today released new research: Human Rights and Social Conflict in...
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The Growing Battle between Mining and Agriculture
By Keith Slack, Global Program Manager, Extractive Industries. This post originally appeared on the blog of the US Institute of Peace’s International Network for Economics and Conflict. “Si a la vida,...
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Defending community rights in Ghana: 3 Lessons for us all
“You cannot link the extraction of minerals and community development—not at all,” says Augustine Niber. Augustine Niber, Executive Director of the Centre for Public Interest Law in Accra, Ghana....
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Global bigwigs push back on big oil
The chair of the Africa Progress Panel, former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, has pushed back on an oil industry attack against the landmark US Dodd-Frank Act oil and mining payment disclosure...
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Mothers: A great return on investment
As a mother of two, I now know that all my years of schooling did not prepare me nearly as well for working life as being a mother. As all mothers know, mothers are the ultimate project managers and...
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Zambian Copper and a new “AIDs crisis”?
“Africa is suffering from a new AIDs crisis: ‘Air-conditioned Induced Decisions.’ Our leaders live in air-conditioned homes, travel in air-conditioned cars, work in air-conditioned offices. And it...
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How inclusive and sustainable is Feed the Future?
Emmanuel Tumusiime is a researcher on economic justice and agriculture at Oxfam America. USAID released its 2012 progress report on Feed the Future (FTF), the US government’s multi-agency global hunger...
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