March 21
Africa: Global Water Crisis Looms Yet Only One in Four of the Biggest Food and Agriculture Corporations Say They're Reducing Water Use and Pollution
Only 28 percent of the world's most influential food and agriculture corporations report they are reducing their water withdrawals and just 23 percent say they are taking action to… Read more »
December 11, 2023
Africa: COP28 Draft Text a 'Scandal That Has Failed Us All'
In response to the Global Stocktake draft text released tonight, Nafkote Dabi, Oxfam International's Climate Change Policy Lead, said: Read more »
Africa: Oxfam Reaction to the Possibility of 'Abatement' Language in the Final Text of COP28
On the term ''abatement'' appearing in the final text regarding the phase-out of fossil fuels, Oxfam International's Climate Change Policy Lead Nafkote Dabi said: Read more »
May 11, 2023
Africa: Chocolate Giants Reap Huge Profits As Promises to Improve Farmers' Incomes 'Ring Hollow'
Ghanaian cocoa farmers' paltry incomes fell on average by 16 percent since the start of the pandemic --while the confectionary profits of the four biggest public chocolate… Read more »
April 13, 2023
Africa: For Every $1 the IMF Encouraged a Set of Poor Countries to Spend On Public Goods, It Has Told Them to Cut Four Times More Through Austerity Measures
Multilateral lender's role in helping to insulate people in low- and middle-income countries from economic crisis is incoherent and inadequate, says Oxfam Read more »
April 10, 2023
Africa: False Economy - Financial Wizardry Won't Pay the Bill for a Fair and Sustainable Future #AfricaClimateCrisis
2023 could be a turning point. A year when the world emerges from unprecedented crises, and governments deliver progressive reforms that build a brighter future for all, and for… Read more »
Africa: Oxfam Warns of Rich Country Financial Wizardry That Puts Their Own Interests Ahead of the World's Poorest People #AfricaClimateCrisis
New Oxfam analysis describes a $27 trillion black hole - accumulating at around $3.9 trillion a year to 2030 - that low- and middle-income countries face to meet climate-related… Read more »
March 30, 2023
Africa: The EU Chooses Fuel Over Food to the Loss of Millions Going Hungry #AfricaClimateCrisis
Today, the EU chose fuel over food in the provisional agreement reached on the Renewable Energy Directive (RED), the EU law that incentivises the burning of crops to fuel cars and… Read more »
November 22, 2022
Africa: G20 Verdict - Oxfam Criticizes G20 for Lack of Action to Tackle Extreme Inequality
G20 world leaders have failed to take definitive action to tackle poverty, hunger, climate, debt and deprivation that is crippling millions of people around the world, says Oxfam. Read more »