- Join Oxfam's Climate Change Action Team
- Educate your friends, Congress, and the media about the effects climate change has on poor people here and abroad.
- Historic House climate bill passes, provides resources for hardest hit
- Business poised to push governments on climate deal
- Historic house climate bill passes first test, more resources still needed for hardest hit
- Oxfam welcomes climate bill, urges increased support for hardest hit
- Number of people affected by climate disaster up 54 percent by 2015
- Congressional resolution recognizes the plight of women in the face of climate change
- Bill propels action on global warming for world's hardest hit
- Statement on Sen. Boxer climate legislative principles
- Oxfam welcomes appointment of Stern on climate
- President-Elect Obama's commitment to re-engage in global climate talks praised
- G20 must put fight against poverty at the center of global economic reforms
- Global leaders must not squander historic opportunity for reform.
- Bold leadership is needed to turn the tide of poverty
- OXFAMExchange Spring 2009
- The power of resilience
- Climate Change and Security Fact Sheet
- Climate Change and Women Fact Sheet
- OXFAMExchange Fall 2008
- A root revolution in Cambodia
- Oxfam in Southern Africa
- Having fought hard for freedom from colonial and racial oppression, millions of rural poor across southern Africa, particularly women, still struggle to overcome social and economic inequality, natural disasters, and disease. They continue to fight for their rights.
- Working together to end poverty and injustice
- An overview of Oxfam America and our approach to poverty relief and lasting social change.
- Oxfam in the Horn of Africa
- Drought. Conflict. Low crop prices. These are among the realities that poor people across the Horn of Africa face on a daily basis. But with new tools for channeling water, building peace, and influencing markets, people are beginning to wrest control over their lives.
- Oxfam in West Africa
- Across the vast Sahel and down through the lush rainforests of Ghana, there is a growing sense of possibility.
- OXFAMExchange Spring 2007
- A Fragile Balance
- Oxfam in Central America, Mexico, and the Caribbean
- All across this diverse and beautiful territory, new faces of leadership are emerging. Women, rural communities, and small farmers are adding their voices to the political dialogue, calling on their governments: Hear us now.
- Oxfam in South America
- To their government officials and to the corporations who want to exploit their lands and natural resources, the indigenous and rural people of South America have a simple, yet important message: "We are here."
- OXFAMExchange Fall 2003
- Ross Gelbspan on Climate Change, The Fast for a World Harvest Turns 30, Hurricane Mitch Five Years Later
- The Right to Survive
- The humanitarian challenge for the twenty-first century
- Turning Carbon into Gold
- How the international community can finance climate change adaptation without breaking the bank
- Climate, Poverty, and Justice
- What the Poznań UN climate conference needs to deliver for a fair and effective global climate regime
- Climate Wrongs and Human Rights
- Putting people at the heart of climate-change policy
- Credibility Crunch
- Food, poverty, and climate change: an agenda for rich-country leaders
- Adaptation 101
- How climate change hurts poor communities—and how we can help
- Financing Adaptation
- Why the UN's Bali Climate Conference must mandate the search for new funds
- Climate Alarm
- Disasters increase as climate change bites
- Up in Smoke? Asia and the Pacific
- The fifth report from the Working Group on Climate Change and Development.
- The World is Still Waiting
- Broken G8 promises are costing millions of lives
- Adapting to Climate Change
- What's needed in poor countries, and who should pay
- Oxfam America Organizing Guide
- Tips for taking action in your community
- Oxfam America House Party Guide
- Tools for hosting a high-impact event
- Sisters on the Planet Action Guide
- Four inspirational women and the fight against climate change
- Take Action: Fight for Climate Justice
- We've all seen the images on the evening news: the droughts, floods, hunger, and disease. Decades of greenhouse gas emissions have finally caught up with our climate—and it's the poorest among us who are worst affected.
- Oxfam America's Walk for Climate Justice
- Toolkit for organizers
- Climate Change House Party Guide
- Tools for hosting a high-impact event
- Change the climate
- An action guide for creating equitable solutions to the climate crisis
- The singing wells of Dubluq
- How herders in southern Ethiopia find water for their cows in the deadly winter dry season.
- Sharon's story
- Sharon Hanshaw helps women speak out and prepare for future storms in post-Hurricane Katrina Biloxi, MS
- Sahena's story
- Sahena Begum is spearheading community efforts to cope with changing weather in Kunderpara village, Bangladesh.
- Muriel's story
- Muriel Saragoussi uses her voice to ensure that women's needs are taken into account in all environmental policies in Brazil.
- Martina's story
- Martina Longom campaigned for and helped to build a borehole to make collecting water easier in Caicaoan village, Uganda.
- Oxfam America's Climate Change Campaign
- We are asking that the US cut greenhouse gas emissions, and provide financial assistance so that the most vulnerable communities can adapt.
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Ethiopia celebrates Earth Day with films, lectures, and discussions
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Oxfam hosts flagship conference on climate change adaptation
"Ready or Not?" brings together White House staff, climate experts, and community leaders, with a focus on building people’s resilience to the crisis.
In some areas around Acajutla, El Salvador, mangrove forests have been severely reduced—replaced by fill and the simple homes of some of the country's poorest residents.
Along the coast of El Salvador, families take steps to cope with climate change
Oxfam and other aid groups is workign with local activists to bring issues to the attention of the Salvadoran government.
Women of influence get results on Capitol Hill
Oxfam's Sisters on the Planet Ambassadors generate Congressional support for women who face the devastating effects of climate change.
Improving the wells improves community health in flood-prone parts of El Salvador
Capped wells lined with a volcanic-rock filter provide families in Salvadoran communities with clean drinking water.
An open letter to the President
Oxfam President Raymond C. Offenheiser appeals to President Obama to focus on key poverty-related issues.
Ethiopia sets the stage for immediate response to global warming
Leaders from government, NGOs, and the private sector come together to discuss creation of national policy.
The progress of a village in India that participated in a study on rainfall illustrates the value of research in helping farming communities adapt to climate change.
From the US and Senegal, stories of climate survival
An Oxfam America speaking tour brings together two women who are leading the fight against climate change.
Oxfam is exhibiting art from around the world at the UN conference in Poznan, Poland.
Emerging artist paints with a purpose
For Ashley Cecil, each work of art means a chance to make a difference.
Food on the table and savings on hand
An innovative agriculture technique is producing 50-150 percent more rice and increasing the incomes of more than 80,000 people.
Little progress at the G8 in Japan
In the end, the results fell short of what the world's poorest people require.
Volunteer spotlight: Duyen Nguyen
Oxfam's climate change campaign holds a special significance for the Los Angeles Oxfam Action Corps co-leader.
As Climate Change Campaign takes off, organizers and volunteers mobilize
Walk for Climate Justice explains impacts of climate change on poor people.
A day in the life of an activist
Oxfam Action Corps volunteers take to Capitol Hill with a message about climate change and poverty.
Erratic rains and encroaching bush limits grasslands for herders in southern Ethiopia.
Speakers spread the word about climate change and poor communities
From Senate offices to the public library, Oxfam America and allies bring developing country voices to the US.
Facing climate change and its consequences
In Bali and in Washington, DC, world leaders make gradual progress on meeting the needs of poor communities.
In cyclone-ravaged Bangladesh, worst may be yet to come
As Bangladesh begins to recover from Cyclone Sidr, a changing climate means that more disasters lie ahead.
Papua New Guinea: "The islands are shrinking"
The low-lying Carteret Islands are disappearing under a rising Pacific Ocean, and their 2,500 inhabitants face an uncertain future.
In Cambodia, climate extremes threaten an ancient community
Unpredictable floods are destroying the rice crops of the Cham people, forcing families to migrate in a search for survival.
Going organic to cope with a changing climate
To protect their crops from drought and pests, small-scale farmers in The Philippines are pioneering new organic farming techniques.
Deepening droughts hinder efforts to fight HIV/AIDS in South Africa
In rural Hluhluwe, a drier, hotter climate means fewer nutritious crops for people living with HIV/AIDS.
Changing climate leads to increase in malaria in Cambodia
Flooded crops and multiplying mosquitoes create health challenges for Cambodia's rural people.
On the front lines of climate change: Nicaragua's Miskitos people
Central America's Miskitos Indians have been living in harmony with their remote jungle environment for centuries, but now they are falling victim to greater extremes of weather.
Farmers battle effects of changing seasons
In Papua New Guinea, generations of farming knowledge can no longer guarantee subsistence farmers a stable food supply.
Mountain-grown barley helps Peru herders keep their alpacas strong
Herders at high altitudes are now growing fields of barley and oats to help tide their livestock over during harsh winter weather.
In Peru, Oxfam helps mountain hamlets prepare for the next bout of bad weather
Acres of barley, gravity-fed sprinklers, and radio towers are some of the tools Oxfam has helped to provide Peruvian herders working high in the Andes.
Calling Caylloma: mountain radio connects far-flung herders
A newly installed network allows Peruvian herders to call for help fast.
"We emerged from the crisis, and then came Stan"
Just as coffee growers started to emerge from the coffee-price crisis, rains from hurricane Stan hit. Part two of a three-part series.
The Andean challenge: getting there and catching your breath
At 16,000 feet above sea level, the air is thin in the mountain hamlets of Peru. Oxfam America and its partner, Asociación Proyección, are reaching out to herders in the region who have confronted severe hardships in the face of changing weather patterns.
