GROW

Oxfam's campaign for a future where everyone on the planet has enough to eat, always.

Soon there'll be nine billion of us on the planet. But almost a billion of us go to bed hungry. Not because there isn't enough. But because of the deep injustice in the way the system works. Because large multinational investors are pushing people off the very land that provides for them. And because too many of the ways we grow today are using up the natural resources we all rely on.

Together we need to find better ways to grow, share and live, to help build a future where everyone on the planet always has enough to eat. 

Join our active campaigners now

Take action on landgrabs

The World Bank has the power to be a force for good. We're asking them to freeze their investments in land for six months while it sets better standards for others to follow.

• Add your voice to our petition

Let’s grow a better way

Food and oil prices. Flat-lining yields. Climate change. Unfair trade. Failing markets. Gender inequality. Land grabs. All of these issues contribute to a global food system that is failing all of us and destroying the natural resources we rely on.

We can grow more food more fairly and more sustainably. We can press governments to take urgent action to reform bad policies, to preserve scarce resources and share them fairly. We can help small-scale farmers to grow more and grow better.

The following video journeys through the broken food system and then looks at the transformation that is already underway to bring about change. It brings it back to you, the individual at the root level, and invites you to be part of the movement to grow a better future.

Check out this cool infographic produced by Oxfam and GOOD. It perfectly captures what is wrong with our food system:

Read the report: Growing a Better Future

Download Oxfam's report: Growing a Better Future. Food justice in a resource-constrained world.

• Full report (39 double pages, PDF, 4 MB)
• Summary of report (6 pages, PDF, 0.6 MB)

Also available: Oxfam's introduction to the GROW campaign.

• Download campaign introduction (13 pages, PDF, 0.8 MB)

GROW a food conversation

Do you have a regular meeting in your community which includes a meal; perhaps it is a Rotary meeting, or a club, or a coffee group. Would you like to turn this into a GROW dinner?

A GROW dinner is an opportunity to hear more about the global food system and why it is failing all of us and destroying the natural resources we rely on. It is also a chance to meet other Oxfam supporters and share ideas on food justice.

Oxfam has great presentations and talented speakers ready to help. Together, we can share the GROW message and find out how your community or organisation can shape and assist the GROW campaign.

If you are interesting in sharing a GROW dinner please email us at campaigns@oxfam.org.nz

Gifts for greenies

By buying a gift from Oxfam Unwrapped you can help support our livelihoods work in Samoa, Tonga, Vanuatu, Papua New Guinea and across the Pacific. Take a look at Oxfam Unwrapped's gifts with a difference and help lift people out of poverty, for good.

• Your guide to GROW: find out how the current food system is failing us all
• Find out how you can make good things GROW