Archive for 'Oxfam'
Event: Commodity trading & food prices with Chris Leslie MP
The Co-operative Party and the Labour Campaign for International Development are co-hosting this event on the transparency of commodity trading, food speculation and the price of food. In a world where a billion people do not have enough to eat, we need to sort out the broken global food system. Spikes in the price of food [...]
Stand up for small-scale farmers
Tonight, one in seven of us around the world will go to bed hungry. It’s a huge injustice that must be addressed. Rio+20, the UN Conference on Sustainable Development, could be a major opportunity for us to put things right. For small scale farmers with the right tools, training and investment, the sky’s the limit. [...]
