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Extracting minerals, extracting wealth: how Zambia is losing $3 billion a year from corporate tax dodging
Zambia has abundant natural resources - including minerals and agriculture yet gains little tax revenue from the extraction of its resources, leading to lost oppportunities to invest in public services such as education and health.
Polluted promises: how Shell failed to clean up Ogoniland
Shell is responsible for a toxic legacy in the Niger Delta. People are dying and have no clean water because Shell destroyed their environment by drilling for oil.
The Hunger Games
This report reveals how DFID has been using hundreds of millions of pounds of taxpayers’ money with the express purpose of extending the power of agribusiness over the production of food, especially in sub-Saharan Africa.
Food Sovereignty report
The report contrasts the UK government’s preferred approach of ‘food security’, based on free markets supplemented by aid, with the positive alternative of food sovereignty, which returns control over the food system to farmers.
Join the food sovereignty revolution
The global food system is in crisis. Decisions about what is produced, what is consumed and who has access to food are defined by multinational corporations that control the entire food chain.
Up Front: Food Sovereignty
In 2009, for the first time in human history, over a billion people were officially classified as living in hunger.
Food Sovereignty positioning paper
Food Sovereignty:Taking back control of our food system A War on Want position paper Image
A Bitter Cup
Although the tea industry is booming and UK supermarkets are cashing in, workers in India and Keny are harassed, poorly paid and denied trade union rights on tea plantations and in tea packing factories.
Up Front: Food Justice
For over a billion people across the developing world, farming is a way of life, providing food, income and a sense of community rooted in generations of tradition. Yet in recent years this way of life is being threatened by unfair trade rules and the rise o...