When you put your loose coppers in an Oxfam tin, it is tempting to think that they will be going towards a bag of grain for a drought-torn African village.
When you put your loose coppers in an Oxfam tin, it is tempting to think that they will be going towards a bag of grain for a drought-torn African village. Maybe they will, but there is also a chance they will be spent on the likes of ‘Growing a Better Future: food justice in a resource-constrained world’, a pamphlet published this week. Not alone among charities, Oxfam is diversifying into the think-tank business. There is nothing intrinsically wrong with this, though it will have to be prepared to have its work subjected to critical analysis rather than meekly accepted as an enlightened contribution towards the creation of a better world.
Oxfam’s claim is that we are in the midst of the world’s first ‘global food crisis’.
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