Longtime supporters of Oxfam's work know that we have a long and creative history of working with our global ambassadors, Coldplay. This week, we've taken this collaboration to new creative heights with the announcement of a crowd-sourced project that asks fans of the band to contribute to a video highlighting the global injustice of land grabs. Every two days, an area of land the size of Chicago is sold to foreign investors in developing...
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Meet IF. It might be one little word, but we're hoping it's going to make 2013 the beginning of the end of the global hunger crisis.
Right now, 1 in every 8 people live without enough to eat. More than 2 million children die every year from malnutrition and millions more face a life of stunting, pain and lost potential. Yet, this is completely preventable - our planet provides enough food for every single person....
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It's been a fantastic first week of land campaigning with stunts, action and a social sonic boom.
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One billion people will go to bed hungry tonight. This is a huge number, and unjust because the world produces enough food to feed everyone. And yet women and children are living in poverty and hunger because families and communities cannot feed themselves. It shouldn't be this way.
Oxfam, as part of its GROW campaign, will draw attention to the subject of world hunger by staging a stunt outside the Conservative Party conference...
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This week, because of your support, we made an important step. We helped get hunger and the broken food system high on the world's agenda.
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Visit www.sahel2012.org to find out more about the crisis in West Africa
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Over the summer we're asking festival goers across the UK to share their Food Power ideas - ways to eat, shop and grow our way to a fairer food future.
Check out some of the stories and articles that people have shared with us below, and if you've read something recently send it in to campaigning@oxfam.org.uk and we'll get it on here for everyone to read.
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Oxfam staff are as excited by the Olympics as the rest of the UK. You might be surprised by how much we and the sporting competition have in common. Here are our top 10 Olympic Oxfam facts!
All of the countries where Oxfam works are represented at London 2012. 10 of them have already won at least one gold medal!
Oxfam works in 3 of London 2012's top 10 (so far) medal winning countries: China,...
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