A taste of honey: Reaching marginalised women in Ethiopia
Wednesday, April 17th, 2013 Posted in Ethiopia, Food security, Women's rights | No Comments »[caption id="attachment_6186" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Women bee keepers in Amhara, Ethiopia"][/caption] "Collective Action" holds great promise for multitudes of women whose primary livelihood is dependent on their ability to farm the land and access markets. ...
“This is the time to change things for Somalia”
Wednesday, April 10th, 2013 Posted in Somalia, Women's rights | No Comments »Fartuun Adan, one of Oxfam's partners in Somalia and head of the Elman Peace Center and Sisters Somalia, recently did an interview with Arabs Today TV. She talks about her work in Somalia to support survivors of sexual violence, help ...
Promises, Power and Poverty: Corporate land deals and rural women in Africa
Tuesday, April 9th, 2013 Posted in Food security, Gender, Land, Pan Africa, Tanzania, Women's rights | No Comments »[caption id="attachment_6121" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Tatu, a woman farmer in Tanzania, harvesting potatoes"][/caption] A new Oxfam briefing paper, Promises, Power and Poverty: Corporate land deals and rural women in Africa, reflects the unfortunate finding from recent research that the promises of development ...
Making markets work for women smallholders in Tanzania
Sunday, March 31st, 2013 Posted in Agriculture, Food security, Tanzania, Women's rights | No Comments »[caption id="attachment_6052" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Farming in Tanzania"][/caption] As we launch the findings of our research on Women's Collective Action in agricultural markets, Global Research Adviser Martin Walsh, who helped to develop the ...
Tanzanian women talk about land
Monday, March 18th, 2013 Posted in Land, Tanzania, Women's rights | 2 Comments »[caption id="attachment_5946" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Women's Land Dialogue"][/caption] In Morogoro, Tanzania, Oxfam held a series of Women’s Land Dialogues – opportunities for rural women to discuss how their land and property rights can be improved. Women sat on benches under the shade of ...
Unleashing the power of women farmers in Ethiopia
Saturday, March 9th, 2013 Posted in Agriculture, Ethiopia, Food security, Women's rights | No Comments »[caption id="attachment_5903" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Bedria Hussein"][/caption] On International Women’s Day, a thousand women – mostly farmers – gathered in Ziway in central Ethiopia to celebrate the power and potential of women food producers. One of the ...
Tato Boru: Inspiring women bringing change in Ethiopia
Friday, March 8th, 2013 Posted in Ethiopia, Water/sanitation, Women's rights | No Comments »[caption id="attachment_5886" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Tato at home"][/caption] Life for women in Moyale, in southern Ethiopia, is slowly changing - led by amazing women like Tato Boru. She sheltered people fleeing ...
Helping Rwandan women’s thriving pineapple businesses
Thursday, March 7th, 2013 Posted in Agriculture, Food security, Rwanda, Women's rights | No Comments »[caption id="attachment_5875" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Uwamwezi solar drying her pineapples"][/caption] An Oxfam project in Rwanda is helping entrepreneurial rural women get access to the techniques, markets and technology they need to set up thriving pineapple businesses. Women ...
Ten biggest food and beverage companies failing millions of people who grow their ingredients
Tuesday, February 26th, 2013 Posted in Governance, Pan Africa, Press release, Women's rights | No Comments »New Oxfam campaign ranks social policies of food and beverage companies The social and environmental policies of the world's ten biggest food and beverage giants are not fit for modern purpose and need a major shake-up, says international agency Oxfam The “Big ...
Ethiopia’s Female Food Hero awards reach exciting finale
Monday, December 10th, 2012 Posted in Ethiopia, Food security, Women's rights | No Comments »[caption id="attachment_5546" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Ethiopia's Female Food Hero finalists"][/caption] Women grow and prepare much of the world’s food, overcoming the increasing environmental pressure from climate change, yet such efforts are rarely acknowledged. That’s why Ethiopia’s first ever Female Food Heroes competition ...