GROW a better future

60 Years of Oxfam in
India—and the launch of a GROW Campaign for a hunger free world

Oxfam is marking its 60^th year in India this year
(2011). Oxfam’s first work in India was in response to the famine in Bihar in 1951.  Sixty years on, unfortunately, hunger and
malnutrition remain major issues in India. About 44% of Indian children under
age five are underweight and 48% are stunted. 
Because of the country’s large population, India is home to 42% of the
world’s underweight children and 31% of its stunted children.  On IFPRIs Global Hunger Index, while China has
a rank of 9 with only moderate levels of hunger, India has a rank of 67 out of
122 developing countries with “alarming” levels of hunger.

Today, the world faces a major disaster – this time
one that threatens us all. Nearly one
billion people face hunger every day, while the unsustainable patterns of
consumption and production from which they are excluded have placed us all on a
collision course with our planet’s ecological limits.

A broken food system and
environmental crises are now reversing decades of progress against hunger.  Spiraling food prices and endless cycles of
regional food crises will create millions more hungry people unless we
transform the way we grow and share food. To tackle this problem—together with
you--Oxfam is launching a new global campaign for a hunger-free world.

Oxfam’s Grow Campaign has
a simple message: another future is
possible, and we can build it together. We have a vision for a brighter
future where everyone on the planet always has enough to eat.

A campaign for the billions of us who eat food and over a billion men and women who grow it, to share solutions for a more hopeful future in which everyone always has enough to eat.