Working together to end poverty and injustice

Improving livelihoods

Traditional mat weaving projects have flourished into a new local industry.

Oxfam works closely with partner organisations and communities to improve Samoans’ livelihoods. A key area of work is Women in Business, through our partner WIBDI, which is an income generation and microfinance initiative aimed at strengthening communities. Other projects include:

• Cash-for-work schemes for youth to clear land for organic vegetable and fruit planting and tank installation on Manono Island
• Distribution of seedlings for organic vegetable and fruit production
• Improving market access for cash crops
• Support for organic coconut oil production and soap production
• Training in public health promotion
• Planting fetau trees to protect coastlines and livelihoods
• Training for WIBDI staff to provide trauma support to affected families

Find out more about our work improving livelihoods below:

• Women in Business
• Bringing organic dried bananas to market
• Planting the fetau tree
• Trading coconuts
• Voices from Samoa: Mano and Fagaote

Our campaign: GROW a better future

Oxfam is supporting small-scale farmers in the Pacific and Southeast Asia, demonstrating how productivity can increase with investment and through sustainable techniques such as organic fertilisers.

But for change on an even bigger scale, investment in developing country agriculture needs to grow. We need effective, ambitious government support, and the right investment from companies. For our world to grow together, we need to change the way the world thinks about farming.

• Join GROW – our campaign for a future where everyone on the planet has enough to eat, always

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