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Working Papers
Title: Labour Rights in Unilever's Supply Chain: From compliance to good practice. An Oxfam study of labour issues in Unilever's Viet Nam operations and supply chain
Authors: Rachel Wilshaw, Liesbeth Unger, Chi Do Quynh, Thuy Pham Thu
Date: February 2013Title: Tipping the Balance: Policies to shape agricultural investments and markets in favour of small-scale farmers
Authors: BillVorley, Lorenzo Cotula, Man-Kwun Chan
Date: December 2012Title: Effective Ways of Linking Relief and Rural Development: Oxfam's experience of implementing programmes using EU Food Facility funds
Authors: John Magrath
Date: December 2012Title: The Adaptation Challenge: Key issues for crop production and agricultural livelihoods under climate change in the Russian Federation
Authors: Sergey Bobylev, Sergey Kiselev, Roman Romashkin, Sofia Solovieva, Daria Ukhova, Yulia Yevtushok
Date: November 2012Title: First Line of Defence: Assessing the potential of local food reserves in the Sahel
Authors: Gabriel Pons Cortès, Itziar Gómez Carrasco
Date: October 2012Title: Challenges Facing Farmers: A report into upland farming and farming families in Teesdale
Date: October 2012Title: Private Investment in Agriculture: Why it's essential, and what's needed
Authors: Erinch Sahan, Monique Mikhail
Date: September 2012Title: Extreme Weather, Extreme Prices: The costs of feeding a warming world
Date: September 2012Title: Extreme Weather Events and Crop Price Spikes in a Changing Climate: Illustrative global simulation scenarios
Authors: Dirk Willenbockel
Date: September 2012Title: Cereal Secrets: The world's largest grain traders and global agriculture
Authors: Sophia Murphy, David Burch, Jennifer Clapp
Date: August 2012Title: Putting Women's Rights into the Arms Trade Treaty
Authors: Chitra Nagarajan, Caroline Green
Date: July 2012Title: Food Crisis in the Horn of Africa: Progress Report, July 2011 - July 2012
Authors: Sophie Mack Smith
Date: July 2012Title: The Perfect Storm: Economic stagnation, the rising cost of living, public spending cuts, and the impact on UK poverty
Authors: Moussa Haddad
Date: June 2012Title: Climate Change Risks and Supply Chain Responsibility: How should companies respond when extreme weather affects small-scale producers in their supply chain?
Authors: Jodie Thorpe, Shelly Fennell
Date: June 2012Title: Taxation in Paraguay: Marginalization of small-scale farming
Authors: Déborah Itriago
Date: May 2012Title: Global Urban Market-Based Livelihoods in Oxfam GB: Lessons and experiences from Kenya, Bangladesh, Guatemala, Colombia, Haiti, and Russia
Authors: Sheilah Meikle, Tim Chambers, Alex Frediani, Tom Goodfellow
Date: April 2012Title: What Works for Women: Proven approaches for empowering women smallholders and achieving food security
Date: March 2012Title: Within and Without the State: Strengthening civil society in conflict-affected and fragile settings
Authors: Liz Hughes
Date: February 2012Title: Crises in a New World Order: Challenging the humanitarian project
Authors: Edmund Cairns
Date: February 2012Title: Haiti Progress Report: January – December 2011
Authors: Lucy Davies
Date: January 2012Title: Rethinking Support for Adaptive Capacity to Climate Change
Authors: Simon Levine, Eva Ludi, Lindsey Jones
Date: December 2011Title: Review of Climate Change Adaptation Practices in South Asia
Authors: Charlotte Sterrett
Date: November 2011Title: Investir dans l'agriculture au Burundi: Indispensable pour combattre l'insécurité alimentaire et améliorer les conditions de vie des femmes paysannes
Authors: Paula San Pedro
Date: November 2011Title: Weathering the Crises, Feeding the Future: Philippine food justice report
Authors: Jeanne Frances Illo, Dante Dalabajan
Date: October 2011Title: Preparing for the Future? Understanding the influence of development interventions on adaptive capacity at the local level in Uganda
Authors: Lindsey Jones, Frederik Ayorekire, Margaret Barihaihi, Anthony Kagoro, Doreen Ruta
Date: October 2011Title: Preparing for the Future? Understanding the influence of development interventions on adaptive capacity at local level in Ethiopia
Authors: Eva Ludi, Kindie Tesfaye, Simon Levine
Date: October 2011Title: Community Assets First: The implications of the Sustainable Livelihoods Approach for the Coalition agenda
Authors: Niall Cooper, Lucy Brill, Moussa Haddad, Rachel Newton, Jenni Viitanen
Date: October 2011Title: The 'Right' Results: Making sure the results agenda remains committed to poverty reduction
Authors: Tariq Ahmad
Date: September 2011Title: Progressive Taxation: Towards fair tax policies
Authors: Deborah Itriago
Date: September 2011Title: Governing Climate Funds: What will work for women?
Authors: Elizabeth Arend, Sonia Lowman
Date: September 2011Title: Connected Agriculture: The role of mobile in driving efficiency and sustainability in the food and agriculture value chain
Authors: Matthew Kirk, Julie Steele, Christele Delbe, Laura Crow, Justin Keeble, Caroline Fricke, Richard Myerscough, Gib Bulloch
Date: September 2011Title: Aid Coordination and Alignment: Myth or reality? The case of the ECOWAS regional agriculture policy
Authors: Jean-Denis Crola, Saya Saulière
Date: September 2011Title: Pakistan Floods Progress Report July 2010 / July 2011
Date: July 2011Title: Ethiopia's Sesame Sector: The contribution of different farming models to poverty alleviation, climate resilience and women's empowerment
Authors: Genia Kostka, Jenny Scharrer
Date: July 2011Title: Climate Change and Women Farmers in Burkina Faso: Impact and adaptation policies and practices
Authors: Ana Mª Romero González, Adama Belemvire, Saya Saulière
Date: July 2011Title: The Impact of Russia's 2010 Grain Export Ban
Authors: George Welton
Date: June 2011Title: Protection of Civilians in 2010: Facts, Figures, and the UN Security Council's response
Authors: Nicolas Vercken, Hannah Cooper
Date: June 2011Title: Land Rights and the Indus Flood, 2010–2011: Rapid assessment and policy review
Authors: Azmat Budhani, Haris Gazdar
Date: June 2011Title: Growing a Better Future: Food justice in a resource-constrained world
Authors: Robert Bailey
Date: June 2011Title: Climate change: Beyond coping. Women smallholder farmers in Tajikistan
Date: June 2011Title: Walking the Talk: Cash transfers and gender dynamics
Authors: Carol Brady
Date: May 2011Title: Time's Bitter Flood: Trends in the number of reported natural disasters
Authors: Steve Jennings
Date: May 2011Title: The Struggle for a Pro-Poor Food Policy in Guatemala
Authors: Kate Kilpatrick
Date: May 2011Title: Sleeping Lions: International investment treaties, state-investor disputes and access to food, land and water
Authors: Javier Perez, Myriam Gistelinck, Dima Karbala
Date: May 2011Title: Minding the Money: Governance of climate change adaptation finance in Nepal
Authors: Katie Wiseman, Raju Pandit Chhetri
Date: May 2011Title: Improving Food Security for Vulnerable Communities in Nepal
Authors: Kate Kilpatrick
Date: May 2011Title: Governance for a Resilient Food System
Authors: Alex Evans
Date: May 2011Title: Exploring Food Price Scenarios Towards 2030 With a Global Multi-Region Model
Authors: Dirk Willenbockel
Date: May 2011Title: Combating Rural Poverty and Hunger Through Agroforestry in Bolivia
Authors: Kate Kilpatrick
Date: May 2011Title: Who will feed the World? The production challenge
Authors: Lucia Wegner, Gine Zwart
Date: April 2011Title: Making Growth Inclusive - Some lessons from countries and the literature
Authors: Elizabeth Stuart
Date: April 2011Title: The Effects of Socialization on Gender Discrimination and Violence: A Case Study from Lebanon
Authors: Christine Sylva Hamieh, Jinan Usta
Date: March 2011Title: Achieving a Shared Goal: Free universal health care in Ghana
Date: March 2011Title: Whose Aid Is It Anyway? Politicizing aid in conflicts and crises
Date: February 2011Title: What does civil society at country level expect from the new UN women's agency?
Date: February 2011Title: Coping with Destitution: Survival and livelihood strategies of refused asylum seekers living in the UK
Authors: Heaven Crawley, Joanne Hemmings, Neil Price
Date: February 2011Title: Whose Economy? Winners and losers in the new Scottish economy
Authors: Katherine Trebeck
Date: January 2011Title: Haiti Progress Report 2010
Date: January 2011Title: Exploring BME Maternal Poverty: The financial lives of ethnic minority mothers in Tyne and Wear
Authors: Chris Warburton Brown
Date: January 2011Title: Climate Change Investment through the Pilot Programme for Climate Resilience in Tajikistan
Date: January 2011Title: Vulnerable Communities and Community Ownership in Scotland: A review of literature, policy and practice
Authors: Malcolm Sayers, Eddie Follan
Date: December 2010Title: Women and Men: Hand in Hand Against Violence Strategies and approaches of working with men and boys for ending violence against women
Authors: Ola Ataya
Date: November 2010Title: Nowhere to Turn: The failure to protect civilians in Afghanistan
Authors: Ashley Jackson
Date: November 2010Title: Dashed Hopes: Continuation of the Gaza blockade
Date: November 2010Title: Better Returns in a Better World: Responsible investment: overcoming the barriers and seeing the returns
Authors: Helena Viñes Fiestas, Rory Sullivan, Rachel Crossley
Date: November 2010Title: The Road to Olive Farming: Challenges to developing the economy of olive oil in the West Bank
Authors: Lara El-Jazairi
Date: October 2010Title: A Gender Perspective on 21st Century Welfare Reform
Authors: Janet Veitch
Date: October 2010Title: Common Cause: The case for working with our cultural values
Authors: Tom , Crompton
Date: September 2010Title: Women and Men in Yemen: Statistical Portrait 2007
Authors: Abd Al-Karim Ismael Al-Arhabi
Date: August 2010Title: The Impact of the Global Financial Crisis on the Budgets of Low-Income Countries
Authors: Katerina Kyrili, Matthew Martin
Date: July 2010Title: A Crisis Multiplied: How the global economic crisis, coming on top of other shocks, is worsening poverty in Burkina Faso
Authors: Elizabeth Stuart
Date: July 2010Title: Life and Dignity at Risk: The Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Sector in Liberia
Date: June 2010Title: The rain doesn't come on time anymore: Poverty, vulnerability, and climate variability in Ethiopia
Authors: Senait Regassa, Christina Givey, Gina E. Castillo
Date: April 2010Title: Giving developing countries the best shot: An overview of vaccine access and R&D
Authors: Paul Wilson
Date: April 2010Title: Climate change adaptation: Enabling people living in poverty to adapt
Authors: Catherine Pettengell
Date: April 2010Title: Women's Poverty and Social Exclusion in the European Union at a Time of Recession: An Invisible Crisis?
Date: March 2010Title: The Impacts of the Global Economic Crisis on Migration Patterns in Viet Nam
Date: March 2010Title: Strengthening Popular Participation in the African Union
Date: March 2010Title: The WASH Factor: Oxfam's experiences with humanitarian coordination for water, sanitation, and health
Authors: Aimee Ansari, Bethan Montague-Brown
Date: February 2010Title: The impact of the global financial crisis on women in Southeast Asia
Authors: Yada Praparpun
Date: February 2010Title: The Impact of the Global Economic Crisis on the Pacific Region
Authors: Simon Feeny
Date: February 2010Title: Reaching Tipping Point? Climate change and poverty in Tajikistan
Date: February 2010Title: Gender Perspectives on the Global Economic Crisis
Authors: Richard King, Caroline Sweetman
Date: February 2010Title: Delivering Money: Cash Transfer Mechanisms in Emergencies
Authors: Paul Harvey, Jenny Hoffmann, Brenda Murphy, Katherine Haver
Date: January 2010Title: The Missing Middle in Agricultural Finance: Relieving the capital constraint on smallholder groups and other agricultural SMEs
Authors: Alan Doran, Ntongi McFadyen, Robert C Vogel
Date: December 2009Title: Responding to climate change in Viet Nam: Opportunities for improving gender equality
Date: December 2009Title: Failing Gaza: No rebuilding, no recovery, no more excuses
Date: December 2009Title: A Copper-Bottomed Crisis? The Impact of the Global Economic Meltdown on Zambia
Authors: Duncan Green
Date: December 2009Title: A call for action: Young people's views on climate change - Vietnam
Date: December 2009Title: Aid for Agriculture: Promises and the Reality on the Ground
Authors: Jean-Denis Crola
Date: November 2009Title: The Right to Survive: the humanitarian challenge for the twenty-first century
Date: April 2009Title: The Right to Survive in a Changing Climate
Authors: Robert Bailey
Date: April 2009Title: Applying Sustainable Development to Arms Transfer Decisions: Practical Guide
Date: April 2009Title: Women Workers Pay the Price for the Global Economic Crisis
Date: March 2009Title: Latin America and the Global Economic Crisis
Date: March 2009Title: In her own words: Iraqi women talk about their greatest concerns and challenges
Date: March 2009Title: A Copper-Bottomed Crisis? The Impact of the Global Economic Meltdown on Zambia
Date: March 2009Title: Climate Change, Development and Energy Problems in South Africa: Another World is Possible
Date: February 2009Title: Kosovo’s Fragile Transition - Europe Report N°196
Date: September 2008