Guest post by Oxfam campaigner Jill: Last week I was dressed as a banana, this week I'm handing in a petition to Nick Clegg asking him to join 'Team Betty' Monday May Bank Holiday I spent 3 hours dressed as a banana,  I was many Oxfam volunteers on tour with Coldplay across the country asking Coldplay fans to sign a petition; the latest action from the GROW campaign - to ask Nick Clegg to champion small scale farmers...

Rio - Thank you for securing a win for small-holder farmers ...

Friday saw the end of the Rio+20 conference and, rather appropriately, outside it was wet and rainy. During my time in Rio it has been uncharacteristically wet and stormy, a subtle indication of the shifting seasons and weather patterns that this conference was meant to address. On Thursday I had access to the plenary hall, a vast cavernous space in semi-darkness with row upon row of desks and laptops, where delegates and leaders were...

A friend from London and I have a long standing joke about how great we Scots are as inventors. We are certainly a small nation that likes to lead the way: the T.V, telephone and tarmac - and that's just the T's! More recently Scotland has been leading the way in a different area. The three year anniversary of Scotland's world leading climate change legislation is just days away, and this year saw another first with Scotland...

As a campaigning organisation we regularly ask you, our supporters, to sign action cards and petitions or take online actions. But what happens to those actions after you take them? Over the last few weeks we, along with our campaigning partner The Co-operative, have been encouraging you to ask the UK Government to champion smallholder farmers at the Rio Sustainability Summit next week. Last week Deputy Prime Minister Nick...