Why doesn Oxfam do more to help African farmers?
Well, it is still ominously quiet on the subsidies front – so maybe this is an opportunity to be reminded of some basics. A good place to start is Oxfam’s question and answers about European farming and about the mindbogglingly uneconomic system of cotton subsidies in the United States. Oxfam is sometimes criticised for engaging in politics by calling for the abolition of most (but not all) agriculture subsidies – but, as these articles show, if it could achieve that end it would do more for developing countries than any other single action.
