Content Type: Policy Brief / Publishing Institution: Oxfam Publishing / Political Geography: Germany

Author:: Oxfam Publishing
Publication Date:: 06-2018
Content Type:: Policy Brief
Institution:: Oxfam Publishing
Abstract:: Inequality is rampant across the global economy, and the agro-food sector is no exception. At the top, big supermarkets and other corporate food giants dominate global food markets, allowing them to squeeze value from vast supply chains that span the globe, while at the bottom the bargaining power of small-scale farmers and workers has been steadily eroded in many of the countries from which German supermarkets and others from around the world source. The result is widespread human suffering among the women and men producing our food.
Topic:: Agriculture, Labor Issues, Food, Private Sector, Farming, and Supply Chains
Political Geography:: Europe and Germany

Publication Date:: 06-2012
Content Type:: Policy Brief
Institution:: Oxfam Publishing
Abstract:: The German economy is clearly slowing in the face of the latest phase of the Eurozone crisis. We expect the impact of the crisis on business investment and exports to cause the economy to contract in Q2 before recovering slowly in H2. As a result, GDP growth is now forecast to slow to 0.7% in 2012 overall from 3.1% last year, before accelerating to 1.4% in 2013.
Topic:: Economics, Industrial Policy, Markets, and Financial Crisis
Political Geography:: Europe and Germany

Publication Date:: 09-2012
Content Type:: Policy Brief
Institution:: Oxfam Publishing
Abstract:: In 2009, EU governments committed to sourcing 10 per cent of transport energy from renewable sources by 2020: they are set to meet this target almost exclusively using biofuels made from food crops. By putting a mandate in place, European governments are propping up powerful industry and farming lobbies without spending a penny from national budgets: as direct subsidies and tax exemptions are phased out, the cost is increasingly borne by the consumer. For example, by 2020 biofuel mandates are likely to cost UK consumers between £1bn and £2bn more each year—that's about £35 from every adult—and to cost German consumers between €1.37bn and €2.15bn more—up to €30 per adult. EU governments have replaced subsidies paid out of the public purse with a subsidy that consumers, often without their knowledge, pay directly to big business.
Topic:: Security, Agriculture, Development, Energy Policy, and Food
Political Geography:: United Kingdom, Europe, and Germany

Author:: Roman Krznaric
Publication Date:: 03-2007
Content Type:: Policy Brief
Institution:: Oxfam Publishing
Abstract:: How change happens is a central issue in almost every field of academic inquiry. Historians debate how National Socialism emerged in Germany. Economists investigate the drivers of economic growth. Sociologists examine the rise of radical Islam. Psychologists discuss the incentive structures that alter human behaviour. Geographers study the role of climate in the rise and fall of civilization.
Topic:: Civil Society, International Political Economy, and Political Economy
Political Geography:: Germany

Publication Date:: 05-2007
Content Type:: Policy Brief
Institution:: Oxfam Publishing
Abstract:: Poverty and suffering could be ended in our lifetime, and our leaders must do everything in their power to make this happen. This was the clear demand of the 40 million people in 36 countries who took part in the Global Call to Action Against Poverty in 2005. A year later, in the space of just one day, 24 million people across the world stood up against poverty as part of World Poverty Day.
Topic:: Education, Health, and Poverty
Political Geography:: Russia, United States, Japan, United Kingdom, Europe, Canada, Asia, France, Germany, and Italy

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