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 96 - 100 of 128Land and Power. The growing scandal surrounding the new wave of investment in land
Includes land acquisition: trends and drivers; experiences on the ground – South Sudan, Uganda, Indonesia, Honduras, Guatemala; what is failing at the national level?; what is failing at the international level?; growing justice – recommendations. Asserts that 227 million hectares have been sold or leased in developing countries since 2001, mostly over the past two years.
Land and Power - The growing scandal surrounding the new wave of investments in land
The new wave of land deals is not the new investment in
agriculture that millions had been waiting for. The poorest people
are being hardest hit as competition for land intensifies. Oxfam’s
research has revealed that residents regularly lose out to local
elites and domestic or foreign investors because they lack the
power to claim their rights effectively and to defend and advance
their interests. Companies and governments must take urgent
steps to improve land rights outcomes for people living in poverty.
Tierra y Poder.El creciente escandalo en torno a una nueva oleada de inversiones en tierras
La nueva oleada de acuerdos sobre tierras no es la inversión en agricultura que millones de personas esperaban. Las personas más pobres son quienes más sufren cuando se intensifica la competencia por la tierra. Las investigaciones de Oxfam demuestran que la población local suele salir perdiendo frente a las élites locales y a los inversores nacionales o extranjeros, ya que carece de poder para hacer valer sus derechos y defender sus intereses eficazmente.
The New Forests Company and its Uganda plantations
London-based New Forests Company (NFC) would seem to be the design blueprint of how a young modern company should conduct a major land investment in Africa in a responsible way. Oxfam’s investigations reveal that serious allegations by people who were evicted from land to make way for NFC’s operations remain unresolved. How will the company respond?
Report on the Regional Land Grabbing Workshop, Lukenya Getaway, Nairobi, Kenya, 10-11 June 2010
Includes incidences of land grabbing in the region, land grabbing from the supply and demand sides, community resistance to land grabbing, what should be done on land grabbing, way forward.