The G8 must keep its end of the deal
This blog by Mahamadou Issoufou, Executive Director, The Federation of Unions of Farmers Groups, is cross posted from the Huffington Post. This piece is part of a series of blogs by leading NGOs to...
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The G8 is on the trail to food security this week. How will we know if they...
Porter McConnell is the Oxfam policy lead for the G8 Camp David summit. This Friday, G8 leaders are making a big announcement on food security. We expect the launching of a new initiative. Past summits...
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G8 Leaders set a bold goal, with a questionable plan to achieve it
Victoria Marzilli is Oxfam America’s new media specialist. As the G8 Summit came to a close, we had a bit of a surprise twist in the outcome. There was more movement on food security than we expected...
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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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Imagine this: in a few months, the heads of most of the biggest and most important countries will get together for a couple of days. A few leaders from developing countries will tag along. The media...
View ArticlePresident Obama, tear down this (trade) wall…
The President’s State of the Union address last night contained a lesser announcement of the launching of a US-EU free trade agreement: “And tonight, I am announcing that we will launch talks on a...
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What’s the return on investment on the New Alliance?
An initiative to increase private sector investment in agriculture, the New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition was born at last year’s G8, hosted by the US. The New Alliance signals an emerging...
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G8 extractive partnerships put transparency rhetoric to the test
Isabel Munilla is Senior Policy Advisor, Extractive Industries at Oxfam America. When I got my start in the Publish What You Pay movement as the Director of its US coalition in early 2010, I would have...
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Is Feed the Future delivering results?
Oxfam’s GROW and Aid Effectiveness teams are monitoring the US government’s Feed the Future food security program to determine if/how it is delivering for smallholder farmers around the world. Our...
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Oxfam says course-correction needed on the New Alliance for Food Security
Hamisi Abdalla Rubalati grows maize, cassava and other vegetables on his land in Kisarawe District, Tanzania (2008). Like many other developing nations, Tanzania has seen large-scale foreign investment...
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