What’s the return on investment on the New Alliance?
An initiative to increase private sector investment in agriculture, the New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition was born at last year’s G8, hosted by the US. The New Alliance signals an emerging...
View ArticleHow inclusive and sustainable is Feed the Future?
Emmanuel Tumusiime is a researcher on economic justice and agriculture at Oxfam America. USAID released its 2012 progress report on Feed the Future (FTF), the US government’s multi-agency global hunger...
View ArticleWhat if…? Imagining the future of agriculture
Gina Castillo is the Agriculture Program Manager at Oxfam America. How will agriculture meet global food demand sustainably and equitably? This question is potentially controversial; it is often framed...
View ArticleOxfam says course-correction needed on the New Alliance for Food Security
Hamisi Abdalla Rubalati grows maize, cassava and other vegetables on his land in Kisarawe District, Tanzania (2008). Like many other developing nations, Tanzania has seen large-scale foreign investment...
View ArticleDecreasing Risk and Building Trust: Conservation Compliance and Crop Insurance
US farmers and ranchers can have an attitude of independence that borders on sheer contrariness. When farm organizations and leaders representing US agriculture speak there is often an underlying...
View ArticleYou want sustainable impact? Then it’s time to rethink Feed the Future...
Tonny Joseph is the Advocacy and Research Coordinator for Oxfam in Haiti. Development aid is again under greater scrutiny. And there always seems to be one key question at the center: How best can...
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