Oxfam India's CEO Nisha Agrawal is here in the UK this week to mark 60 years of Oxfam working in India, responding to emergencies and helping to pull millions of people out of poverty.
Oxfam first started working in India in response to the famine in Bihar in 1951. Today Oxfam works to help people find ways of making a living and ensuring that they have access to education and health services. Oxfam also...
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Researcher Sally Rangecroft has been racing against the clock and against chilling winds, snow storms, high altitude and limited daylight to complete her field work in Bolivia, where she is studying Andean rock glaciers and what might happen to them as the climate heats up and changes.
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Oxfam economic policy adviser Ruth Kelly unveils her new paper, published today, on a really simple, bad policy that rich countries can fix - biofuels.
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Oxfam and IDS are starting work on Life in a Time of Food Price Volatility, a four-year project to track the human impact of food price rises in 10 countries. In the second of her posts on food price research, Naomi Hossain of IDS reports back on one research trip to the rubber tappers of Indonesia.
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As Oxfam and IDS start work on Life in a Time of Food Price Volatility, a four-year project to track the human impact of food price rises in 10 countries, Naomi Hossain of IDS explains that the view that wages rise to meet inflation is not the experience of those living on precarious wages in Dhaka.
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For over 40 years now, UNESCO has been celebrating International Literacy Day by reminding the international community that literacy is a human right and the foundation of all learning.
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Tracy Carty, Climate Change Policy Adviser at Oxfam GB, on how more extreme weather events caused by climate change will affect food prices in the future.
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