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- Don't cut aid. It's working.
- Cutting aid won't solve our budget problems--but it will close the door on a safer world and a better future.
- Conflict in Darfur
- Oxfam is providing critical water, sanitation facilities, and hygiene supplies to hundreds of thousands of people in Darfur; we are also distributing ...
- 1.3 million rice farmers now using innovative growing methods in Vietnam
- Oxfam support for System of Rice Intensification helping to change lives of farmers.
- By leveraging a tiny U.S. investment, people like Emiliana Aligaesha, Nana Kojo Kondua IV, Manuel Dominguez, and Martha Kwataine are creating a sound future ...
- OXFAMExchange, Winter 2012
- What if development took the kind of time and commitment it takes to raise a child? (It does.)
- In northern Ethiopia, weather insurance offers a buffer against drought
- A growing number of families have signed up for weather insurance to protect their crop investments from insufficient rainfall.
- More than 1 million growers are now embracing innovative approaches to producing more rice
- System of Rice Intensification helps small-scale farmers in Vietnam.
- Land grabs push thousands further into poverty
- Large-scale land grabs threaten poor communities' access to food. In such deals, small-scale farmers are forced to leave their land, their homes, and their ...
- Looking to Sacha Inchi for their future
- How indigenous farmers are growing an ancient plant that promises to bring new opportunities—and money—to the central Amazonian jungle.
- A tiny seed and a big idea
- Insurance for Ethiopia's farmers
- Selas Samson Biru faces uncertainty with the seasons
- But with weather insurance she doesn't have to worry so much about her teff harvest.
- Gebru Kahsay relies on rain but has the security of insurance
- If harvests fail because of poor rain, some teff farmers in Ethiopia now have a back-up plan.
- Weather insurance offers Ethiopian farmers hope—despite drought
- For the first time, poor farmers can now buy insurance for teff, a staple grain that feeds their families.
- Medhin Reda's best asset is her own hard work
- This farmer is trading her labor for an insurance premium to cover her teff.
- Bold commitment to innovation
- Le Ngoc Thach made a commitment–and a guarantee–to help farmers grow more rice.
- Take Action: Global Food Crisis
- Already 854 million people on our planet suffer from hunger. Now, as food prices climb high and fast, conditions are becoming worse and threatening the ...
- A Seat at the Table
- Step into the world where food is often scarce and difficult decisions have to be made every day.
- Oxfam reaction to WTO judgment on US cotton subsidies
- The singing wells of Dubluq
- How herders in southern Ethiopia find water for their cows in the deadly winter dry season.
- 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 ...
- Training and jobs to empower rural women
- The construction of greenhouses creates employment, which empowers them economically, while training leads to the emergence of new women leaders.
- Cuba: Emerging from the crisis
- After 15 years of economic crisis, Cuba is still facing significant challenges. But there are real signs that Cuba is starting to move forward.
- Oxfam in Cuba
- After 15 years of economic crisis, Cuba is still facing significant challenges. But there are real signs that Cuba is starting to move forward.
- Hope for rural Afghans
- Education is the basis for a rural development project that has helped put food on the table for people in the Daikundi and Bamiyan provinces, where ...
- In Liben, herders find local solutions to local problems
- A community reaches out to Oxfam in the spirit of partnership.
- 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.
- Letting gravity do the work, Oxfam irrigates pastures in Peru
- Sprinklers help herders grow grass for their alpacas in the Andes.
- In Texistepeque, El Salvador, farmers question wisdom of relying on mining
- Concerns about water and land lead to a debate about the role of mining in long-term economic development.
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- I went to Haiti too… May 20, 2013
- Loss of a leader in Ghana May 17, 2013
- Simple and Effective: System of Rice Intensification in Vietnam May 16, 2013
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