The struggle for women to own land
Saturday, July 16th, 2011 Posted in GROW campaign, Tanzania, Women's rights | 1 Comment »The economy of most African countries depends on women who are deprived of the right to own land. They toil all day on land that they have negligible control over. They sustain the breadbasket regions of many countries ...
The East Africa food crisis was not inevitable and solutions exist
Friday, July 15th, 2011 Posted in Drought, Ethiopia, GROW campaign, Kenya, Somalia | No Comments »The drought in East Africa is an urgent humanitarian crisis, but one which also highlights the underlying problems people face in having sustainable and affordable access to food. It was well known that failing rains would affect farmers, pastoralists and other ...
Finding Tanzania’s Female Food Hero
Saturday, July 2nd, 2011 Posted in GROW campaign, Tanzania | No Comments »[caption id="attachment_2400" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Women rice farmers in Tanzania"][/caption] Oxfam ambassador, actress Kristin Davis (aka Charlotte from Sex and the City) teamed up with the leading Tanzanian actor, Steven Kanumba, to launch a nationwide competition to find Tanzania's "Female Food Hero ...
New survey: Rising food prices are changing what people eat
Wednesday, June 15th, 2011 Posted in GROW campaign, Kenya, Tanzania | No Comments »A new survey carried out by Oxfam and GlobeScan finds that the rising cost of food is forcing people to change what they eat - either eating less or differently. 76 percent of over 2,000 Kenyans surveyed said they had ...
The human face of hunger: Rankin in Turkana
Tuesday, June 14th, 2011 Posted in Drought, GROW campaign, Kenya | No Comments »[caption id="attachment_2180" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Etiir Eregae, Turkana. Photo: Rankin"][/caption] Renowned photographer Rankin recently visited communities affected by chronic drought in Turkana, northern Kenya, as part of the launch of Oxfam's new GROW campaign. The portraits - and the stories of the people ...
Archbishop Desmond Tutu: World hunger is man-made and only we can end it
Monday, June 13th, 2011 Posted in Drought, Food security, GROW campaign, Pan Africa | No Comments »By Archbishop Desmond Tutu There are some problems so big and so entrenched it is easy to believe they will never be solved. Hunger is one of these problems. I doubt if there is a single moment in our history when all ...
Land grabs – zero sum game
Wednesday, June 8th, 2011 Posted in GROW campaign, Pan Africa, Women's rights | No Comments »I recently attended the African Women's Land Rights conference, which Oxfam helped organise. I was struck by a presentation from Nidhi Tandon about land grabs in Africa. You can download the powerpoint and the notes to explain it here . ...