It's less than a week since we launched our latest campaign, to stop land grabs but so much has been going on in the UK and around the world that we've be manically busy - and loving it! To launch the campaign Oxfam supporters headed to London with some hard hats, tape, banners and diggers to grab some of our capitals better known landmarks. It generated some great media coverage and supporters took to social media sites...

Radio DJ Sara Cox is swapping her microphone for an oven to host a special one off pop up restaurant with Oxfam. On Thursday 13th September the popular radio one DJ will be cooking a South American themed three course dinner for forty guests at Hackney City Farm in London.  Co-hosted with Oxfam, Sara is entertaining a varied group of diners including fellow DJs, well known food bloggers and local food producing heroes. ...

The games are back! Following on from the sporting success of our Top 10 Olympic Oxfam facts, here are five tidbits of trivia about the Paralympic games: The Paralympics and Oxfam both have their origins in England during World War II. Dr Ludwig Guttman, the Paralympics' creator, began using sports as physical therapy for injured soldiers in 1944 - 2 years after Oxfam was created to support people affected by famine in Greece. ...

One tap of a stick on a single drum may get you wiggling your toes but an energetic troop of drummers and percussionists putting their whole weight behind a tune will get you jumping and dancing and waving your hands in the air.  One text or signature on a petition to tackle hunger in West Africa is a crucial and important call to action - 600,000 is a thunder roll that cannot be ignored. This week your drum beat was heard on...

Did you know Trailwalker and Trailtrekker participants together walked a whopping 157,200 miles this year - nearly 20 times the distance the Olympic torch travelled before it reached the Olympic stadium! Unsurprisingly, our most popular blog this week was the one that captured the zeitgeist: our top 10 Olympic Oxfam facts! Here's a less fun fact: in Yemen, it's not uncommon for girls to be married when they're only...

As you can see from the photo above, one of the lovely Latitude festival goers we met gave us the link to Mission Explore Food - an e-book about (re)discovering food. Use the code and it's free! The Guardian wrote an article that coincided with the start of our Food Power summer, talking about the way people power is revolutionising the way we do food. The People's Supermarket is one way of shopping more fairly. After...

After having recently graduated from a degree in History and International Relations, I wanted to get involved with Oxfam's GROW campaign which I knew has been successfully trying to raise awareness of the broken global food system. I was part of an exciting campaign team at Camp Bestival in Dorset this July which spoke to festival goers about the issues and engaged them in practical solutions. The campaigns team included ten diverse and...

We in the UK are surrounded by food. Shops and markets on every high street are stocked to show an abundant and constant supply of fresh food from all corners of the world, whilst adverts tempt us to eat more. So when you hear the figure that 1 in 7 people in the world go hungry each day, it is easy to assume that this affects people in other countries, because how could people go hungry when there is so much food around us? ...

Green Party leader Caroline Lucas recently joined Oxfam staff and volunteers in Brighton to champion charity shopping and donating to Oxfam. In the run-up of Rio+20, the UN conference on sustainable development, she emphasised the importance of working together for a better future for everyone. She said: "The money that you are raising by passing over your clothes to a charity shop makes a massive difference in terms of enabling...