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Nguyen Thi Phuong Dung, Media and Event Officer, Oxfam in Vietnam

Phone: (84-4) 39454448 (408)

Email: dung.nguyenthiphuong@oxfam.org 

Notes to editors:

Oxfam commissioned the Bureau for the Appraisal of Social Impacts for Citizen Information research consultancy to produce a series of 12 in-depth studies of products that are commonly sourced from developing countries by supermarkets around the world: coffee, tea, cocoa, orange juice, bananas, grapes, green beans, tomatoes, avocados, rice, frozen shrimp and canned tuna. Read Oxfam’s report for full findings, Ripe for Change: Ending Human Suffering in Supermarket Supply Chains

Based on a basket of 12 food products commonly sourced from countries around the world, the average share of the end consumer price captured by supermarkets in Germany, the Netherlands, Indonesia, South Africa, Thailand, the UK and the USA, increased from 43.5 percent in 1996/8 to 48.3 percent in 2015, while that of small-scale farmers and workers fell, from 8.8 percent to 6.5 percent, over the same period. On certain products the supermarket share appears closer to 50 percent and the share left for small-scale farmers or workers was less than 5 percent.

Oxfam and partners conducted surveys in 2017 of 459 small-scale farmers and workers in supermarket supply chains across five countries—Italy, Pakistan, Philippines, South Africa, and Thailand-- using the Household Food Insecurity Access Scale (HFIAS) method.

Oxfam’s scorecard assessment tool analyzes global supermarket giants Ahold Delhaize, Albertsons, Aldi North, Aldi South, Costco, Edeka, Jumbo, Kroger, Lidl, Morrisons, Plus, Rewe, Sainsbury's, Tesco, Walmart, Whole Foods. A full breakdown of each company’s score is available here. Additional scorecard analysis on specific companies can be found in the following national reports:

Dutch Supermarket Supply Chains: End the Human Suffering Behind our Food

German Supermarket Supply Chains: End the Human Suffering Behind our Food

UK Supermarket Supply Chains: End the Human Suffering Behind our Food

US Supermarket Supply Chains: End the Human Suffering Behind our Food

Read Oxfam’s Ripe for Change: methodology note