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Joris Voorhoeve, a respected authority on peace-building and development, has been appointed Chair of the Board of Directors of Oxfam International.

Our unequal global food system is unsustainable for people and planet. We urgently need to rethink how the world feeds its people.

A new study by the IFEU institute quantifies for the first time the enormous opportunity costs across Europe of dedicating millions of hectares of fertile cropland to the production of biofuels. The results are clear - this land could be used much better in the interest of mitigating climate change, stemming biodiversity loss or increasing global food security. In 2009, the European Union (EU) introduced a biofuels mandate as part of its green fuels law, the ʻRenewable Energy Directiveʼ (RED). The proposition at the time was attractive: farmers would…

Responding to reports that around 20 countries have committed to stop financing overseas fossil fuel projects by the end of 2022, Oxfam's climate policy lead Nafkote Dabi said: "This is an encouraging move that will divert much-needed resources to clean energy and help countries to develop in a low carbon way. Energy is vital to economic and social development, burning fossil fuels is not. This is the only way we can meet the collective goal of limiting global heating to 1.5°C."

In July 2020 Oxfam warned that by the end of this year more people could die from hunger related to the COVID-19 pandemic than from the disease itself. But the response of the  international community to global food insecurity has been dangerously inadequate.

Development finance institutions owned by European governments and the World Bank Group are spending hundreds of millions of dollars on expensive for-profit hospitals in the Global South that block patients from getting care, or bankrupt them, with some even imprisoning patients who cannot afford their bills.

In reaction to the announcement that climate change legislation is delayed by the United States Senate, perhaps indefinitely, David Waskow of Oxfam, made the following statement:

Baffour Amoa, spokesperson for the Control Arms Coalition said:

Oxfam’s food policy adviser Thierry Kesteloot said: “The hike in food prices is deeply worrying.  Millions more people are sliding into poverty as they struggle to afford basic food su

In response to President Obama’s climate plan announcement scheduled for this afternoon Gawain Kripke, research and policy director for Oxfam America said: