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NGO scaremonger? Or pharmaceutical flunky?
Trade can be an engine for development if its benefits reach those living in poverty. Oxfam has argued for this for more than a decade. Philip Stevens of the Emerging Markets Health Network, in a Wall...
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An unmitigated disaster
A few weeks before Oxfam’s GROW Campaign launched in 2011, I went up to New York with our president Ray Offenheiser and head of our policy (and lead Poindexter) Gawain Kripke to meet with a handful of...
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Is sustainability just a sideshow at African mining conference?
A guest post by Keith Slack, Global Program Manager, Extractive Industries Mining industry big-wigs will gather in South Africa next week for Mining Indaba, billed as the “world’s largest mining...
View ArticlePresident Obama, tear down this (trade) wall…
The President’s State of the Union address last night contained a lesser announcement of the launching of a US-EU free trade agreement: “And tonight, I am announcing that we will launch talks on a...
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As BP trial begins, communities and businesses call for restoration and...
Today marks the beginning of arguably the biggest trial of this young century. The U.S. Department of Justice goes to court with global oil giant, BP. After spilling 4.9 million barrels of oil into the...
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Oxfam urges food consumers to peek Behind the Brands
Vicky Rateau is the GROW Campaign Manager at Oxfam America. As a society, we get upset by food companies processing horsemeat to sell to us in the grocery store. It’s troubling to customers; some...
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Food companies can’t escape the bigger questions
Yesterday Oxfam released the Behind the Brands Report and Scorecard aimed at shedding light on the global food system and its massive social and environmental footprint. The food system employs one...
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Are women from Mars, Mondelez or Nestle?
The launch of our Behind The Brands campaign and Oxfam’s first campaign action call to Mars, Mondelez International, and Nestle to tackle gender inequality in their cocoa supply chains garnered an...
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The Times’ Friday news dump
It is often said that politicians who want to bury a bad story, put out their news late on a Friday afternoon in order to avoid the media scrutiny. It’s called the Friday news dump. Today at 5pm, our...
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Land Rights Behind the Brands: No one has their lights on!
Monique van Zijl is the Policy Advisor for Economic Justice at Oxfam Novib. Huh? It can’t be! I’m astounded. According to the Oxfam Behind the Brands Scorecard, none, not one of the Big 10 food...
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Kick in the Behind, or No Company Left Behind?
Jonathan Jacoby is Policy and Campaigns Manager in the Private Sector Department at Oxfam America. The ingredients of a memorable event can be hard to come by. I may be (am) biased, but Oxfam’s...
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Can cocoa companies do more for women?
My colleagues and I were surrounded by women dressed in their best. Their colorful, patterned pagnes, or cloth wraps, were everywhere I turned in the village of Kouadioyaokro, Cote d’Ivoire (Ivory...
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From Earnestness to Action
Yesterday Oxfam received a response to its call to action from Nestlé, one of the three chocolate companies we’ve engaged on behalf of women cocoa farmers. We welcome Nestlé‘s letter as an indication...
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The Farmers Behind the Brands
Erinch Sahan is a Private Sector Policy Advisor at Oxfam Great Britain. Badou Allouko on her farmland, where she grows cocoa to sell and vegetables for personal consumption, in Sankro, Ivory Coast in...
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Transparency Behind the Brands: Murky waters?
Frank Mechielsen is the Private Sector Lobbyist at Oxfam Novib. Do the Top 10 companies featured in the Behind the Brands Scorecard have transparent policies? Do they share their practices with the...
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Behind the Brands: The Human Right to Water AND Supply Chain Responsibility
Suzanne Zweben is a Senior Advisor in the Private Sector Department of Oxfam America. Lake Izabal in Guatemala is an area of great biodiversity and natural resource wealth. Photo: Edgar Orellana /...
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Climate Change Behind the Brands: It’s no magic trick
David Waskow is Oxfam America’s climate change program director. When I read headlines like this one last week, “Vietnam Coffee Harvest May Drop 30% on Drought,” I’m left with the feeling that the...
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Workers Behind the Brands: We’ve Got Some Good News and Some Bad News
A sample of beans from numerous sacks of cocoa to make sure they are the appropriate size and volume at the Cooperative Entente de Le Bia in Sankro, Ivory Coast in January. Photo: Peter DiCampo / Oxfam...
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A pop-up gallery event—Cambodia: Losing Ground
For our readers who live in Washington, DC or who are planning to visit this month, you are cordially invited to a pop-up gallery exhibit in Washington, DC, from April 10th to the 21st, featuring...
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The Growing Battle between Mining and Agriculture
By Keith Slack, Global Program Manager, Extractive Industries. This post originally appeared on the blog of the US Institute of Peace’s International Network for Economics and Conflict. “Si a la vida,...
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