Analysis of an Oxfam international campaign on agriculture in India 2004-2005
Jeff Atkinson
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Abstract
From 2002 until 2006, the international development agency Oxfam ran a major global advocacy campaign called 'Make Trade Fair'. This paper looks at
one small aspect of that campaign, which involved lobbying the Indian Government to hold to its position in trade negotiations in the World Trade
Organisation (WTO), in the lead up to a Ministerial Meeting of the WTO in December 2005. The paper looks at what was and was not achieved in that
campaign in India, and identifies the factors that contributed to, or limited, its success. It also looks at the role that Oxfam played as an active participant in
this advocacy in the South.
About the author
The author is Advocacy Coordinator at Oxfam Australia, one of the affiliated organisations that makes up the Oxfam International confederation. As well as
being responsible for the 'Make Trade Fair' campaign in Australia, he was also a member of international Oxfam bodies involved in running the global
campaign, and of the Oxfam team that supervised this campaign in India. In 2007 he was a Practitioner Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies,
University of London.