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West Africa food crisis: Dry times in 2011 threaten ability to plant in 2012
Feature Story | May 15, 2012
A farmer recounts the struggle to grow food and prepare for the 2012 growing season

West Africa food crisis: Farmers cope with food shortages
Feature Story | May 15, 2012
Confronted with a poor 2011 harvest, farmers find creative ways to earn money to buy food.

Q&A: La Oroya's future
Feature Story | Apr 20, 2012
A government decision could mean good news for families in Peru's most polluted town, and for their supporters here in the US. But the struggle to clean up La Oroya is far from over.

In Kolda, Senegal, farmers are struggling to feed their families
Feature Story | Mar 07, 2012
The last harvest of peanuts, a major cash crop in this region, plummeted by 60 percent leaving families with little money to buy the food they need.

In Cambodia, System of Rice Intensification helps families climb out of poverty
Feature Story | Mar 02, 2012
Low-cost agricultural techniques help a farmer achieve a six-fold increase in annual production in one small field, and become a leader in the community.

Struggle in Sahel: 'If there's no pasture, nothing works'
Feature Story | Feb 10, 2012
'We've stayed on our ancestors' land and we've put up with everything, but if rain doesn't come, life would turn into a nightmare," says Koubra Hamid.

As food crisis looms, the lean season hits early in northern Senegal
Feature Story | Feb 02, 2012
An Oxfam team assesses the conditions around a group of small villages where many of the food reserves are now exhausted.

Counting on the rain to continue—or weather insurance to help cover losses
Feature Story | Feb 02, 2012
For Ethiopian farmer Gidey Mehari, when the opportunity to buy weather insurance for his crops arose, he jumped at the chance.

Doubling his weather insurance, this Ethiopian farmer is happy for the security it provides
Feature Story | Feb 02, 2012
"Anything can happen," says Alemu Tadesse. And that's why he is investing in weather insurance for some of his crops.

Haiti: a grain milling operation offers an economic lifeline for women
Feature Story | Jan 06, 2012
To help tackle unemployment and ensure families have access to food, Oxfam is working with a women's group to modernize and expand a service center.

La Oroya, Peru: Poisoned town
Feature Story | Nov 30, 2011
American-owned Doe Run polluted this small mountain community for more than a decade. Now citizens are joining with Oxfam to hold the company accountable.

Haiti: Reducing the risk of flooding in Artibonite
Feature Story | Nov 21, 2011
A local mayor enlists support from Oxfam to address major flooding in his community in rural Haiti.

Ethiopian farmers get a payout, easing effects of drought
Feature Story | Nov 17, 2011
With cash from the weather insurance policies they bought through an innovative program, farmers from Tigray can now plan for the future.

Rain in drought-hit East Africa brings changing humanitarian needs
Feature Story | Nov 14, 2011
Despite the rain, and the relief it brings, emergency conditions will likely last well into 2012.

In the midst of famine, children survive with the help of Oxfam partner SAACID
Feature Story | Nov 07, 2011
Community therapeutic care centers across Somalia's capital are admitting more than 3,000 malnourished children every week.

Giving their lives to stop a gold mine in El Salvador
Feature Story | Nov 03, 2011
Award-winning environmental leader Francisco Pineda on the fight to protect his country's land and water--and the high price of victory.

Nine hectares of hope: an irrigation project promises better harvests for Ethiopian farmers
Feature Story | Nov 02, 2011
With the help of an Oxfam partner, local farmers have tapped well water to nourish their fields in the Central Rift Valley.

Oxfam takes the fight against cholera to rural Haiti
Feature Story | Oct 31, 2011
In remote communities where the risk of death by cholera is heightened by rugged terrain, Oxfam is making water safer.

Business partnership promotes resilience and environmental preparedness
Feature Story | Oct 28, 2011
PREP is a one-year pilot partnership formed to address the risks and opportunities climate change poses to businesses and communities.

Where there's water, there's hope: Tapping the potential of a river in West Arsi
Feature Story | Oct 24, 2011
For more than 400 farmers along the Gurracho River, water now flows in abundance to their fields through a new irrigation system.