food crisis

My colleague Marc Cohen, a senior researcher at Oxfam America, reflects on the 25th anniversary since the devastating famine of 1984 in Ethiopia. He was in the country a few months ago.

Farida Bena, the Head of Oxfam International and Ucodep Campaign office in Italy, reports on yesterday’s very special meeting with Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.

On July 2, just days before the G8 Summit starts, Oxfam, UCODEP and GCAP Italy took the voices of 1.5 million people from around the world to Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi – and demanded action against poverty.

Yesterday, I had an interesting career change for a day: I was a corn on the cob in Oxfam’s biofuels performance.

As all the camera’s pointed at me, it felt like being a star, but it was a little scary at the same time. Everyone else was safely guarded from the cameras by their ‘big heads’, while I was out in the open. It was also quite tiring, because I had to squat down all the time.