Panjar Bhanga is a village tucked beside a bridge over the Teesta river, which flows into Bangladesh from neighbouring India. It is a sleepy, peaceful place, where life revolves around the river, and it is easy to forget that every year the flimsy-looking, corrugated…

Oxfam Intermon has worked in Makamba province in Burundi since 2004. Makamba is in the south of the country, and a large number of refugees have come back to the province and…

In July 2012, Oxfam started the Gender and Disaster Risk Reduction Learning Initiative. The project aimed to build the skills and commitment of staff and other practitioners on gender equality and disaster risk reduction through a series of online training session for Oxfam staff and…

Remember that classic line by Forrest Gump, "my mama always said life was like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're gonna get"? That's what I was thinking about as a group of Oxfam staff members met with community representatives and regional experts…

Small-scale women farmers are the backbone of Africa's food system, but, as corporations buy up huge swathes of rural land, they are losing out at every turn. …

In Mali, the Women's Collective Action (WCA) research project focused on …

As an Oxfam policy adviser in West Africa (2001-8), I worked with many different kinds of farmer organization. These included cotton farmers, pastoralists and rice growers, grouped in informal enterprises as well as more formal associations and…

Women are, quite literally, the backbone of agriculture in Tanzania. But all too often they don't own the land they work on and struggle to get fair access to markets and fair prices for their produce. Over the last two years our …

Oxfam's Deputy International Director Sue Turrell reflects on the Secretary of State for Development's Speech on women and girls.…

At Oxfam, much like Hannibal from 1980s cult classic, the A-Team we love it when a plan comes together, which is why we are so pleased that our research into …

Women farmers produce more than half of all food worldwide and currently account for 43 percent of the global agricultural labour force. Colin McQuistan asks if mobilising women smallholders is the key to solving the global food…

Corporate interest in agricultural investment is up, but …

A new book, Challenging Chains to Change: gender equity in agricultural value chain development has been published by the Royal Tropical Institute and is now available to download.  

Very often, efforts to…

Ten experts, ten essays, one topic: Making the food system work for women. Join Oxfam’s global online policy discussion, November 19-30 2012 Oxfam will be hosting an online discussion about how to achieve food justice for women, running for two weeks…

A new report has been published on Women's Empowerment in Agriculture looking into successful strategies for supporting women farmers. 

Women play an integral part in agricultural production, as subsistence farmers, cash crop growers, food processors, livestock owners, among other…

A new discussion paper, Locating Women’s Livelihoods in the Human Rights Framework, explores the linkages between the right to livelihood and the right to food from a woman’s…

Women’s Productive Resources: Realising the Right to Food for All was a one day round-table with Olivier De Schutter, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food. The event was organised by PWESCR in…

For the last 6 years, Oxfam GB has been supporting women who are fattening sheep and goats for the livestock export trade. Harshin District is a very challenging physical and cultural context. However, 180 women have formed and manage six cooperatives, which have traded and made…

Development practitioners frequently ask: When promoting women in markets, should we work with women-only groups or mixed  (women and men) groups?

Latest research findings from the Researching Women's Collective Action project indicate: 

1. Asking…