Growing hunger, flat-lining yields, a scramble for fertile land and water and rising food prices are all symptoms of a global food system that is failing us. We have entered a new age of crisis where depletion of the earth’s natural resources and increasingly severe climate change impacts will create millions more hungry people.
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Oxfam launches global GROW campaign
A broken food system and environmental crises are now reversing decades of progress against hunger according to new Oxfam analysis. Spiralling food prices and endless cycles of regional food crises will create millions more hungry people unless we transform the way we grow and share food. On June 1 Oxfam launches a new global campaign to ensure everyone has enough to eat, always.
South Sudan facing most violent year since end of civil war
South Sudan is facing its most violent year since the end of the civil war in 2005, international agency Oxfam warned today, and it urged the UN Security Council, as it visits the region, to ensure that civilians are better protected.
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40,000 Kiwis take part in Oxfam’s Biggest Coffee Break
The aroma of Fairtrade coffee looks set to linger long after Fair Trade Fortnight (May 7-22) for the thousands of Kiwis around the country who made the conscious choice to support coffee growers in the developing world by taking part in Oxfam’s Biggest Coffee Break.
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From the village to the global market: Fairtrade handicrafts in Indonesia
The Forum Fair Trade Indonesia (FFTI) is working to promote Fairtrade in Indonesia and to improve market access for local producers so they can compete fairly in the economy, earn a better price for their products and work their way out of poverty.
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Lifting the floor, by Barry Coates
As published in the Otago Daily Times, 12 May 2011
Amid the jubilation over higher dairy prices that are boosting our flagging economy, spare a thought for those who are suffering. It has been a bad year for the 44 million people in poor countries who slipped into hunger since the surge of food prices in June 2010. That’s four million every single month, nearly the population of New Zealand. For those of us who have seen the pain of chronic hunger and the effect that it has on children, even one hungry person in our world is too many.
