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A new report released by Oxfam has blamed the use of biofuels for pushing 30 million people around the world into poverty, while doing very little to fight global warming.

Ben Ramsden continues his epic 'Pants to Poverty' journey through India....

I’ve now left the capital city of India but it has left an in-delhi-ble mark on me! (sorry, bad pun!) It wasn’t the architecture, the explosion of people and noise or the food (will try to avoid obvious pun!) but the people I had the privilege to meet with and the ideas that they shared with me that resonate so deeply with our pants!

An estimated 20,000 deaths are caused each year by the use of agricultureal pesticides in developing countries.  Find out how organic cotton farms like Agrocel are making a difference... 

Top retailer Marks and Spencer and leading charity Oxfam are incentivising recycling. Major IT suppliers have recycling schemes for their old kit, but we haven't seen them offer substantial rebates for doing so. Its about time they did.

Oxfam America works in 26 countries around the world. This catalog contains gift items that symbolically represent our work. The items selected represent project goals from grants disbursed by our seven offices around the world. The purchase of each gift item is a contribution toward Oxfam America's many programs, not a donation to a specific project or goal. Your donation will be used where it is needed the most--to help people living in poverty throughout the world.

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