HO-503001 ONL Cultivating Change will be an integrated program to accelerate efforts to shift global food systems over the next five years to meet the needs of those most impacted by inequality and compound disasters. To achieve this, we will work at the nexus of the food, land and the climate crisis recognizing the need to address systemic inequalities through a multi-sectoral, integrated approach.

Vision: Rural women and their communities are thriving and empowered agents of change in a fair, green, equal and safe world.
Long-term objective: Rural women and their communities have increased resilience, food, nutrition and income security and, with their allies and movements, have the power to transform the systems of inequality and rights abuses that are causing hunger and climate and ecological breakdown.
We will work towards the following three key outcomes:
1) Rural women and their communities have increased food, nutrition and income security, and with their allies and movements are building just, sustainable and resilient food systems for all;
2)Rural women and their communities have secured land and resource rights and with their allies and movements are actively leading inclusive governance and sustainable management of their natural resources;
3) Rural women and their communities have increased resilience to climate change and with their allies and movements are leading climate action;
While the programme comprises a range of approaches at local, national and international levels, Oxfam will prioritise the shifting and sharing of power in multiple ways. As a key component of the work on these three thematic outcomes, we will work to strengthen the power of people, through the following cross-cutting outcomes:
4) Enhancing women’s voice, agency and economic power: Women's rights, living incomes, and the policies which impact them are promoted and transformed by women's voice, power and agency.
5) Challenging corporate power: Corporate and financial sector actors are challenged on and held accountable for abiding by the 1.5 degree target, and for their harmful policies, exploitation of natural resources and human rights abuses.
6) Strengthening movements and civic space: Movements, networks and activists are better protected, connected and resourced, and mobilising supporters around new narratives to influence for a just and sustainable food system, land and resource rights and climate justice.
Each of the outcomes of Cultivating Change reflects Oxfam’s local-to-global approach, combining our direct programming with communities at the frontlines of the food, land, biodiversity and climate crises with our influencing work with allies and movements at all levels towards changing the systems that are causing these crises.
Cultivating Change is a co-financed program, in which donors pool funding towards a common vision and outcome framework. It starts with a contribution from SIDA (approx. EUR10.4M), and will aim to fundraise for an additional 2/3, for a total of EUR30.9M. The program is led by OxfamNovib and is implemented at the global level and in 8 countries (Bangladesh, Brazil, Laos, Nepal, Peru, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe) by the Oxfam country offices and local partners, networks, alliances and movements.
Under outcome one, interventions will beimplemented initially in Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Nepal, Laos, Peru and Brazil, with a view to scaling out to new countries in thecourse of the five-year programme, conditional on resources mobilized. We will scale Farmer Field Schools (FFSs), and support smallholder farmers to develop, produce and market locally-adapted seed varieties and produce and commercialise nutritious local food plants, introducing a wider range of agroecological principles. This will be done in coordination with a range of local partners and community representation. At global level, we will collaborate with CSO networks and engage with regional and international bodies andactors (agricultural research centres, CGIAR, ITPGRFA and UNFCCC) to inform and improve international andregional policies for smallholder farmers.   Additionally, we will challenge inequalities and corporate power in global food supply chains in Brazil, and we will work with partners, women workers and rural communities from at least three countries to explore forming an influencing allianceon banning the use of damaging pesticides and support civil society influencing initiatives at the national level, including campaigning on corporate capture of the food system in Zambia.

Outcome two, will focus onpromoting the land rights of rural women and their communities initially in Nepal, Uganda and Brazil, together with local partners. At global level, we will work with the International Land Rights Now campaign, the International Land Coalition (ILC) andTransparency International to support country struggles forland or territorial rights. Country work will be linked to the Oxfam global land rights programme, a platform to exchange and learnon national land rights work. 

Under outcome three, we willworkin Peru, Uganda, Bangladesh and Zimbabwe on awareness raising and advocacy for climate plans and climate finance from domestic and international sources to include and reach the most impacted. Rural communities in Peru, Nepal and Uganda, usually linkedtoFFS, will be supported to investigate how climate change will affect them, develop strategies and access resources to achieve locally led adaptation and build their resilience to climate change. We will also support communities to rebuild where climate has already caused loss and damage to livelihoods such as in Bangladesh. Leveraging our track record in lobbying for climate finance, Oxfam will advocate for an ambitious new climate finance goal and the operationalisation of the Loss and Damage Fundat theUNFCCC, as well as for new sources of finance through taxes through Oxfam’s 2024 Make Polluters Pay campaign.