Oxfam America

Trade

World trade could be a powerful force for reducing poverty, if poor people could sell their products at a decent price. What is stopping them? The gross injustices of the world trade system. Unfair trade agreements and agricultural subsidies hamper efforts to reduce poverty in poor countries.

What Oxfam is Doing

Helping Organizations Advocate for Fair Trade Rules

Oxfam America and the 11 other Oxfam International affiliates are supporting organizations in poor countries that are demanding pro-poor trade policies from their own governments and the World Trade Organization.

Changing the Rules of Trade

Oxfam produces high-quality research and advocates for responsible policies that will help poor people benefit from international trade. Oxfam's policy recommendations are considered at the highest levels of governments and the WTO.

Building a Global Movement to Make Trade Fair

Oxfam's Make Trade Fair campaign calls on decision makers to make trade part of the solution to poverty. To do this, we are building a global citizen movement to promote change in world trade.

Campaigns

Oxfam America has a number of trade-related campaigns. Learn more about the work we're doing to establish and maintain equitable trade practices, and get involved today!

For Farmers, Families, and Our Future: Reform the 2007 Farm Bill

"[American farmers] were stunned to hear that my village has no doctor or nurse. Or that we don't have a single tractor for the entire community. Or that many of us live on less than a dollar a day. Most of them seemed shocked to find out that certain US agricultural policies developed for farmers here in the US actually hurt us on the other side of the globe."

— Seydou Coulibaly, Cotton Farmer, Mali

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