Oxfam Publications Update - May 2009

Featured Publication

The Right to Survive: The humanitarian challenge in the twenty-first century
Oxfam International Campaign Report
By Ben Heaven Taylor and Tanja Schuemer-Cross

Almost 250 million people around the world are affected by climate-related disasters in a typical year. This report projects that, by 2015, this number could grow by 50 per cent to an average of more than 375 million people - as climate change and environmental mismanagement create a proliferation of droughts, floods, and other disasters. Read more

New policy papers, reports and articles

Climate change

The Right to Survive in a Changing Climate
Oxfam International Policy Paper

Forecasting numbers of people affected annually by natural disasters up to 2015
Oxfam GB Research Paper

Climate Change, Development and Energy Problems in South Africa: Another World is Possible
Oxfam Research Report with Earthlife Africa

A Just and Global Green New Deal
Oxfam GB Paper

4-a-week: Changing food consumption in the UK to benefit people and planet
Oxfam GB Policy Paper

Gender and climate change

No climate justice without gender justice: an overview of the issues
by Geraldine Terry

Engendering the climate-change negotiations: experiences, challenges, and steps forward
by Minu Hemmati and Ulrike Röhr

Engendering adaptation to climate variability in Gujarat, India
by Sara Ahmed and Elizabeth Fajber

Gender, water, and climate change in Sonora, Mexico: implications for policies and programmes on agricultural income-generation
by Stephanie Buechler

Building gendered approaches to adaptation in the Pacific
by Ruth Lane and Rebecca McNaught

Resilience, power, culture, and climate: a case study from semi-arid Tanzania, and new research directions
by Valerie Nelson and Tanya Stathers

Climate change and sustainable technology: re-linking poverty, gender, and governance
by Sam Wong

The bio-fuel frenzy: what options for rural women? A case of rural development schizophrenia
by Nidhi Tandon

Women's rights in climate change: using video as a tool for empowerment in Nepal
by Marion Khamis, Tamara Plush, and Carmen Sepúlveda Zelaya

Conflict

Caught in the Conflict: Civilians and the international security strategy in Afghanistan
Joint Agency Briefing Paper

In her own words: Iraqi women talk about their greatest concerns and challenges
Survey by Oxfam International

Global economic crisis

A Copper-Bottomed Crisis? The Impact of the Global Economic Meltdown on Zambia
Case study by Duncan Green

Latin America and the Global Economic Crisis 
Case study by Duncan Green

What Happened at the G20? Initial Analysis of the London Summit
Briefing Note by Duncan Green

Women Workers Pay the Price for the Global Economic Crisis
Research Report by Bethan Emmett

Private Sector

A Business Case for Fighting Poverty
Oxfam's Briefings for Business

Responsible investment: a force for poverty alleviation - framing the debate
Oxfam's Briefings for Business

From Poverty to Power Blog

Duncan Green, Head of Research at Oxfam GB discusses the big issues of development. Read and comment on the blog at www.oxfamblogs.org/fp2p/

Recent posts include:

IMF 2.0 or same old, same old - has the Fund really changed its tune?

Why equity matters more than growth: The Spirit Level

Developing country governments are dragging their feet over the global crisis.