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Making progress on food security in India
22 March 2013 | Rebecca David

As the debate on the national Indian Food Security Bill reaches parliament, Oxfam India Program Officer Rebecca S. David outlines the benefits of such policies in one state in Central India.

At a public hearing organized by Oxfam and the State Right to Food Network Sonkali, a widowed mother and landless labourer, told people how she lost her only sense of security – a ration card entitling her to food subsidies through the state government’s Public Distribution System (PDS).

agriculture, food biil, food security, India
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Sahel food crisis update: lifting a heavy load
24 January 2013 | Chris Hufstader

Before completely turning my back on 2012, I am reflecting on Oxfam’s work in the Sahel over the last year. After a season of poor or erratic rains across the region in 2011, Oxfam and many other humanitarian groups feared that another bad harvest in 2012 would push millions into starvation.

agriculture, cash for work, cash grants, drought, food security, Sahel food crisis, Sénégal, small-scale farmers
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Day 6: Growing a More Food-Secure World
16 December 2012 | Harold Poelma

An agriculture that is resilient and sustainable, and provides sufficient safe, affordable food for all, will be built on four cornerstones: comparative advantage, open trade, markets that work for both producers and consumers, and an African continent that contributes positively to food production.

By Harold Poelma, Managing Director of Cargill Refined Oils Europe

agriculture, Cargill, competition, food chain, food security, International trade, markets, Private Sector, resilience, technology
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Day 3: We can reduce fossil fuel use, but we need chemical fertilizer
11 December 2012 | Prem Bindraban

We mustn’t allow emotions to cloud our understanding of fundamental natural laws. To feed a world of 9 billion people without chemical fertilizers would irreparably damage biodiversity. Let’s reduce fertilizer overuse in China and shift that to Africa, where lack of fertilizer is a major cause of hunger.

By Prem Bindraban, Director of ISRIC (World Soil Information)

agribusiness, agriculture, agrochemicals, fertilizers, food security, fossil fuels
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Day 3: Why eat oil when we could eat sunlight?
11 December 2012 | Anna Lappé

Anna Lappé argues we should feel a sense of urgency and a sense of hope in transitioning towards more ecological farming. We know how to farm without costly reliance on fossil fuels and we know the freedom it brings from corporations’ monopoly control.

by Anna Lappé, Founding Principal of the Small Planet Institute

agribusiness, agriculture, food security, fossil fuels, organic farming, sustainable farming
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Day 1: Apply what we already know works
9 December 2012 | Kanayo F. Nwanze

In many unlikely and inhospitable places, smallholders are already feeding themselves and their communities and leading their nation’s economic growth. Many of the solutions to farming’s challenges exist. They need tailoring to each locale and long-term reliable policy support.

 
By Kanayo F.
agriculture, food security, poverty, sustainable livelihoods
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Sahel food crisis: Let's close the funding gap
27 July 2012 | Joel M Bassuk

In the Sahel region of West Africa, a severe food crisis has been expected since late 2011. The aid community estimates that some 18.7 million people are now being affected and are now at risk.The UN estimates that $1.6 billion is needed to meet the needs of all these people, but their international appe

drought, food security, humanitarian response, mali, Sahel food crisis
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Fighting for food security in India
18 July 2012 | Biraj Swain

In India over the past 15 years, the debate about food, under a rights-based perspective, has become increasingly complex. Concerns about famine, emergency relief and technology-driven green revolutions have given way to discussions on the state's failure to deliver public distribution programmes, the discrimination these programmes perpetuate, legal entitlements to land, climate change, price volatility and the role of NGOs. In other words, the debate has shifted from starvation and subsistence to dignity and justice.

agriculture, food rights, food security, IDS, Oxfam India, small scale farmers
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G20 wraps up, but leaves those in poverty behind
20 June 2012 | Victoria Marzilli

How could world leaders simply ignore the nearly one billion people living in poverty? That’s the question that many international aid agencies are asking as this year’s G20 Summit comes to a close. The self-designated forum for global economic issues, they seem to have forgotten the "global" part. While Mexican President Felipe Calderon set out an ambitious agenda for the summit including food security, sustainable development and climate change, most of the discussion was focused around the Euro crisis.

Financial Transactions Tax, food security, g20, inequality, Mexico, Tax dodging
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G20 Summit begins in Los Cabos and leaders lunch in paradise
19 June 2012 | Victoria Marzilli

The G20 Summit is officially underway in sunny Los Cabos, Mexico. The usual tourists in San Jose del Cabo (one of the two towns of Los Cabos) have been replaced by camera crews, journalists, and development junkies all abuzz with the issue of the day: the euro crisis. But what Oxfam and other major organizations are campaigning for is for G20 leaders to think much broader than the European Union.

big heads, food security, g20, Mexico, stunt
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