Feature stories

Sahel food crisis: "Now I have peace"
Feature Story | Aug 28, 2012
Rather than distribute food to the hungry in Senegal, Oxfam partners are providing something even more valuable in an emergency: cash.

La Oroya speaks to Washington
Feature Story | Jul 30, 2012
Citizens of polluted city in Peru take their case to US Congress.

Solidarity and sharing: How Chadians cope in a food crisis
Feature Story | Jul 13, 2012
When one family in a community receives food during a distribution, many others often share a portion of it.

Food-for-work program allows families in El Salvador to recover from disaster
Feature Story | Jul 03, 2012
Oxfam, together with five local organizations and the World Food Programme, helped communities recover while they prepare.

Sahel food crisis: Waiting for water--and the garden to grow--in Burkina Faso
Feature Story | Jun 11, 2012
Women in Burkina Faso are growing produce to feed their families and to sell, but getting access to enough water for the enterprise is a daily challenge.

In Peru, women confront climate change with traditional gardens
Feature Story | May 21, 2012
Can ancient knowledge help solve today’s problems? Indigenous women in the Amazon believe that it can—and to prove it, they’re going back to their roots.

Sahel food crisis: Senegalese singer Baaba Maal performs benefit concert
Feature Story | May 17, 2012
Maal visits drought-affected communities to raise awareness in growing Sahel crisis

Sahel 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

Sahel 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.