Our Vision
Our vision is a just world without poverty. We want a world where people are valued and treated equally, enjoy their rights as full citizens, and can influence decisions affecting their lives.
Our Purpose
Our purpose is to help create lasting solutions to the injustice of poverty. We are part of a global movement for change, empowering people to create a future that is secure, just, and free from poverty.
Achieving our Purpose
We use a combination of rights-based sustainable development programs, public education, campaigns, advocacy, and humanitarian assistance in disasters and conflicts.
We challenge the structural causes of the injustice of poverty, and work with allies and partners locally and globally.
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Displaying 86 - 90 of 128Tipping the Balance. Policies to shape agricultural investments and markets in favour of small-scale farmers
Based on case studies in Guatemala, Nigeria, Tanzania and the Philippines. Contains introduction: shaping agricultural investments and markets for inclusion; getting the basics right: the wider policy environment; policies for inclusive agricultural investment and inclusive market governance; conclusions: policy and advocacy priorities for inclusive agricultural investments and market development.
Tipping the Balance. Policies to shape agricultural investments and markets in favour of small-scale farmers
Based on case studies in Guatemala, Nigeria, Tanzania and the Philippines. Contains introduction: shaping agricultural investments and markets for inclusion; getting the basics right: the wider policy environment; policies for inclusive agricultural investment and inclusive market governance; conclusions: policy and advocacy priorities for inclusive agricultural investments and market development.
Tierra para nosotras
Para las mujeres que integramos la Red Centroamericana de Mujeres Rurales Indígenas y Campesinas (RECMURIC) es una gran satisfacción presentar este Estudio que contiene información muy importante que ha brotado de lo más profundo del ser de las mujeres rurales indígenas y campesinas de Centroamérica, quienes por muchos años hemos vivido en total desigualdad en el ejercicio de nuestros derechos, en especial el derecho a la tierra.
Strengthen community voices for informed choices: Land-use and land-use change in Central Vietnam
As Ministers and representatives of Development Partners meet in Quang Tri province for their bi-annual Consultative Group meeting, “achieving breakthroughs in poverty reduction” will be high on the agenda. Vietnam has indeed made great progress in the past two decades, culminating in it attaining low middleincome-country status in early 2011. Progress and achievements notwithstanding, today, a core of chronic poverty remains with an estimated 5-6 million people still food insecure.
Our Land, Our Lives. Time out on the global land rush
Calls on the World Bank to freeze for 6 months all lending to projects that involve or enable agricultural large-scale land acquisitions. Includes an opportunity cost too high, the pivotal role of the World Bank, vital areas for progress, time to call a halt, recommendations.