GROW: The Issues
Campaign Themes
FOOD PRICE SPIKES
When you spend 80% of your income on food, as many poor families are forced to do, a sudden increase in food prices can be devastating.SUPPORT FOR SMALL-SCALE FARMING
Small-scale farmers are too often left behind in development efforts. It is high time we gave them the support they deserve, so that they can realize their full potential.CLIMATE CHANGE
Rising temperatures are causing crop yields to fall, while extreme weather events are becoming more frequent and severe, with devastating impacts.
LAND GRABS
All over the world, land transactions are forcing vulnerable farmers to leave the land that guarantees their livelihood. This land is then used to produce biofuels or food exports, or simply for speculation that drives up profits.
In depth
- COP17 as seen by Oxfam
- Extreme weather endangers food security: 2010-11: A grim foretaste of future suffering and hunger?
- Growing a Better Future: Food justice in a resource-constrained world (summary)
- Land and Power: The growing scandal surrounding the new wave of investments in land (summary)
- A Dangerous Delay: The cost of late response to early warnings in the 2011 drought in the Horn of Africa (summary)
- A safe and just space for humanity: Can we live within the doughnut?
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