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Earth Day: Climate Change Behind the Brands - it’s no magic trick
22 April 2013 | David Waskow

To support Earth Day, 22 April we’re posting this analysis of how Big food companies must deal with the causes and the consequences of climate change.

When I read headlines like this one last week, “Vietnam Coffee Harvest May Drop 30% on Drought,” I’m left with the feeling that the tablecloth is being pulled out from under the dishes on the table.

Behind the Brandks, climate change, CO2, Earth Day, greenhouse emissions, Kellogg's, Nestle, resilience, Unilever
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Meeting the women at the heart of the GROW campaign – part 1
14 March 2013 | Tim Gore

I’ve just taken over at Oxfam International as Head of Advocacy, Policy and Research for the GROW campaign. Getting to grips with the broad range of issues covered in the campaign – from land grabbing and sustainable agriculture to climate change and volatility of food prices – is a bit daunting.

climate change, South Africa, women farmers
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Day 8: Frame new ideas within indigenous knowledge
18 December 2012 | Dr. Florence Wambugu

Experts’ ideas about how resource-poor farmers could improve productivity ought to be guided by indigenous knowledge. Low-cost, micro-innovations that make use of local resources have great potential but are often overlooked by mainstream developers of agricultural technology.

By Dr. Florence Wambugu, CEO, Africa Harvest Biotech Foundation International (AHBFI)

agriculture, climate change, GMO, indigenous, Kenya, livestock, pastoralists, sustainable livelihoods, technology
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Who will stand up for the poorest countries in a 2015 global climate change deal?
13 December 2012 | Tim Gore

In the middle of the second week of the UN climate change conference in Doha was a simple ceremony to mark the hand-over of the chair of the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) negotiating group from Gambia to Nepal. It is undeniable that this group of 48 of the poorest countries in the world in recent years has grown in strength and stature at the climate change negotiating table.

climate change, COP18, Fast Start Finance, qatar, UNFCCC
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Day 4: Sustainable food production promotes healthy food and healthy living
12 December 2012 | Sarojeni V. Rengam

The challenges faced by biodiversity-based ecological agriculture are not primarily technical but political. Evidence from three countries shows farming without fossil fuels works. But such methods will only be adopted widely once we prevail over the political power of agribusiness.

By Sarojeni V. Rengam, Executive Director of the Pesticide Network Asia and the Pacific.

biodiversity, climate change, fertilizers, food, fossil fuels, organic farming, Sustainable Rice Intensification
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Day 2: A Less Risky Business
10 December 2012 | Shenggen Fan

We must invest in reducing the two greatest risks smallholders face: weather-related risk from climate change and market-related risk from globalization. Hope lies in stress-tolerant crops and innovative insurance plans, as well as social safety nets and other public welfare programs

By Shenggen Fan, Director General, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

agriculture, climate change, commodity speculation, food prices, public welfare programs, small holder farmers
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Live blog: Closing hours of Doha climate summit
6 December 2012 | Richard Casson

Read the latest from behind the scenes with Oxfam's team as UN climate talks draw to a close in Doha, Qatar. (Time stamps are Arabia Standard Time - AST).

climate change, COP18, doha, global warming, live blog, qatar, UN, UNFCCC
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A year on from Durban, Lindi and Ndivile bring their story to Doha
5 December 2012 | Richard Casson

"What the people in there need to understand," Lindi Nzwana says to me as she points her finger toward the door of a meeting room, "is that we cannot wait any longer. For us, climate change is something that we are experiencing today. That we are going through now."

climate change, COP18, gender, South Africa, women
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Photo blog: Behind the scenes with Oxfam's team at UN climate talks
2 December 2012 | Richard Casson

Here's a statistic that I found when browsing the archives of the UNFCCC website the other day: At the UN climate talks that took place in Copenhagen in 2009, the US sent a delegation of about 190 people. Eritrea, on the other hand, could afford to send 8.

climate change, COP18, doha, qatar, staff
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Three facts and three photos about extreme weather in 2012
28 November 2012 | Richard Casson

As UN climate talks continue in Qatar this week, here's a look at some of what made 2012 another year of extreme weather, with impacts often seen on the food we eat and the farmers who grow it around the world. 

FACT: June 2012 was the 328th consecutive month with a global temperature above the 20th century average

climate change, COP18, doha, food, GROW, horn of africa, pakistan, sahel, UNFCCC, US, weather
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