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Oxfam Scotland

Working to improve the lives of the world's poorest people, at home and abroad.

Subject: agriculture

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Scotland unites against hunger at IF launch

The biggest campaign against hunger ever launched in Scotland got off to a lively start in Glasgow yesterday. The IF Campaign is a huge coalition of UK-based organisations, including Oxfam, who share the vision of a world where everyone has enough to eat. We also have huge ambitions: to reach 20 million people across the UK with our message and inspire 5 million of them to get involved. Between now and the G8 in June, we're...

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"Climate Change Is Killing Us"

By Jamie Livingstone, Oxfam Scotland Campaign Manager "Climate change is killing us". Andrew Chikwanda could scarcely put it more bluntly. It's his first day as Acting Director of Kahama District in Tanzania, but his biggest challenge is obvious. The rain does still fall on these vast plains - sometimes too hard. The problem is it does so less regularly and much more randomly. Helping farmers...

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Modern day 'clearances' highlighted by Holyrood event. Motion laid down in the Scottish Parliament – MSPs urged to show their support

Oxfam Scotland today [Thu 22nd] highlighted the scandal of the modern day 'clearances' being carried out in the developing world by creating a crop of Scotland silhouettes outside the Scottish Parliament. The event marked the publication of the major new report 'Land and Power', which reveals 227 million hectares of land has changed hands - an area equivalent to twenty nine times the land mass of Scotland. (1) Publication...

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