What Oxfam is Doing
Working With Local Farming Communities
Even as Oxfam works with local farming communities to help them achieve a more stable and sustainable existence, we campaign for changes in global trade policies that have institutionalized rural poverty. On the ground, Oxfam helps small farmers:
- Access new markets, such as fair trade and organic, that pay higher prices for their goods;
- Understand and respond to marketplace demands, so they can compete in mainstream markets;
- Develop sustainable methods, such as the rice intensification system in East Asia, that require fewer inputs and produce healthier yields;
- Diversify their farms so they can eat healthier, and protect themselves should one crop fail or lose value on the world market;
- Organize into cooperatives and other associations that strengthen their abilities to compete, to represent their own interests, and to risk testing new markets and methods.
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