Oxfam is calling for volunteers to help out at its inspiring GROW Garden and stall at next month’s Floriade festival in Canberra.
The international development agency – one of two Floriade charity partners – will be showcasing its GROW campaign, which aims to raise awareness of how we can all contribute to tackling world hunger.
International aid agency Oxfam Australia has welcomed the Australian Greens’ recognition of global hunger in their election policy on food security, and urges the major parties to do the same.
With a staggering 870 million people — or one in eight — going hungry on the planet each night, it’s easy to be overwhelmed by the scale of global hunger and think it’s a problem too big to solve.
Oxfam Australia is challenging Australians to take up six practical actions to help ensure that everybody has enough food always, as part of the GROW Challenges initiative launched today.
The world’s biggest chocolate maker, Mondelez International, has committed to address the inequality facing women cocoa farmers and workers, following pressure from consumers as part of the international aid agency Oxfam’s Behind the Brands campaign.
People rushing into stores this week to stock up on Cadbury Easter bunnies and eggs for their loved ones should know the chocolate giant has so far ignored consumers around the globe who are calling on it to do better by the women who grow its cocoa.
Pressure is mounting on Cadbury’s parent company Mondelez International after a major consumer campaign targeting the big chocolate companies yesterday led to Nestle and Mars committing to tackle the hunger, poverty and inequality faced by the women who grow their cocoa.
Oxfam Australia is urging shoppers to put pressure on the chocolate giants as a major investigation reveals Mars, Mondelez and Nestle are buying cocoa from countries where women farmers are treated badly.
Australians want answers from food and drink companies such as Nestlé and Coca Cola, with more than three quarters of shoppers claiming they are not given enough information about where products come from, according to a new Oxfam survey.
Young people can help reduce the $8 billion worth of edible food that goes to waste in Australia each year by sharing their skills and ideas through a new online platform, launched today.