Smallholder farmers are agricultural investors too, but they’re at risk
Stephanie Burgos is a senior policy advisor at Oxfam America. International negotiations on what constitutes responsible agricultural investment are set to get underway in Rome next month under the...
View ArticleToo many secrets: 100 corporations and the 10,000 ways they hide their money
Robbie Silverman is a Business and Markets Advisor at Oxfam America. Do you want to know a secret? Huge multi-national corporations hope that you don’t, but here it is: Great Britain’s top 100...
View ArticleFrosted Flakes, now with added carbon!
This is a joint post by Irit Tamir and Heather Coleman. The truth behind our favorite breakfast may be hard to swallow. General Mills and Kellogg – the companies behind some of our favorite cereals...
View ArticleAre General Mills and Kellogg silent accomplices to a warming planet?
Oxfam’s latest Behind the Brands action is focused on getting the ‘Big 10’ food and beverage companies to step off the sidelines and do more to combat climate change – both in their own supply chains...
View ArticleHey Reynolds, North Carolina tobacco workers deserve decent workplaces
Oliver Gottfried is a senior advocacy and collaborations advisor at Oxfam America. In a room full of Reynolds Tobacco shareholders, I asked this question of Tom Wajnert, the Chairman of the Board, at...
View ArticleKellogg and General Mills, come clean about your climate lobbying
The Obama administration this week announced its most ambitious effort yet to crack down on dangerous carbon pollution from US power plants. As The Washington Post reported on Monday, “the regulation...
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From Peru to Missouri: “Adaptation Can Only Go So Far”
The drive to Minnesota helped focus my mind. It was May 31, and water was still rushing off of fields inundated with heavy rain. Rich topsoil muddied the runoff and huge gullies had formed where there...
View ArticleNew ways to sweeten the deal for women cocoa farmers
By Frank Mechielsen, policy advisor and private sector lobbyist at Oxfam Novib, and Jon Jacoby, policy and campaigns manager in the private sector department of Oxfam America Will chocolate be an...
View ArticleGeneral Mills sees the big picture on climate change
What do you think of when you think of climate change? Black coal-fired smokestacks and smog-covered skies? Drought and tropical storms? Whatever it is, you’re probably not picturing expansive fields...
View ArticleAnother food company against land grabs: Why Nestlé’s policy matters
Monique van Zijl is the campaign manager for Oxfam’s Behind the Brands campaign. When one of the world’s largest food company commits to protecting land rights of small-scale farmers, it’s a big deal....
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Taking the carbon out of Frosted Flakes
Fifth-generation Missouri farmer Richard Oswald’s petition on change.org garnered over 115,000 signatories in just two and a half months. Why was his call to Kellogg and General Mills to reduce...
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New anti-money laundering law in Somaliland may help shore up remittance...
Scott Paul is a senior humanitarian policy advisor at Oxfam America. Imagine this. A full third of the US cabinet takes time out of their schedules to support the adoption of a single law. It’s hard...
View ArticleInside a secret hearing at a foreign tribunal, El Salvador awaits a verdict
Alex Blair is the press officer for Oxfam America’s Extractive Industries team. Next week in Washington DC, right along Pennsylvania Avenue, decisions about El Salvador’s future will be made behind...
View Article3 ways OceanaGold’s suit against El Salvador calls corporate social...
Uwe Gneiting is the Research and Evaluation Advisor in Oxfam America’s Private Sector Department. ‘In good faith’: The sincere, honest intention or belief, regardless of the outcome of an action The...
View Article4 new ways food companies are tackling climate change—and 3 ideas to help...
When world leaders gather for Ban-ki Moon’s UN Climate Summit in New York this week, leaders of some of the world’s biggest companies will also be at the table. Increasingly, we’re seeing all kinds of...
View ArticleInvestors to companies: Going green is good business
When Oxfam calls on companies to change way they do business, we don’t go it alone. We team up with those who will help us motivate them to pay attention. Consumers, of course, play a big part, but...
View ArticleChild laborers bring case against food companies: “You’re enabling enslavement”
A class action suit brought by a group of trafficked children from Mali to the US 9th Circuit Court may have an impact on how corporations develop their business models in the future. In John Doe et al...
View ArticleAchieving development impact requires the International Finance Corporation...
This post originally appeared on The Huffington Post. Jin Yong Cai, executive vice president of the International Finance Corporation (IFC) — the private sector arm of the World Bank Group — recently...
View ArticleForget Millennials, it’s our grandparents who are the problem.
“We are coming together collectively to inspire a generation to think differently.” - Keith Weed, chief marketing officer and head of sustainability, Unilever It’s an ambitious sentiment. Some of the...
View ArticleWhich food companies are jockeying for the #1 sustainability ranking?
Danielle Smith works in Oxfam’s Private Sector Team in Great Britain. Unilever and Nestlé are now neck and neck in a rigorous assessment of supply chain policies and practices. Launched in February...
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