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The new adaptation marketplace: Climate change and opportunities for green economic growth
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.
Climate change wake-up call: You know about global warming. You may already be doing your part to protect the environment. But, climate change is a human issue too—it's hitting the poorest ...
A tiny seed and a big idea: Insurance for Ethiopia's farmers
Collaboration in Crises: Summary report: Lessons from the Oxfam International tsunami research program
Deepening community engagement: Tsunami research brief: A study of disaster preparedness programs in Sri Lanka that points to the importance of listening carefully to communities.
Disaster Management Policy and Practice: A tsunami research journal article
OXFAMExchange Fall 2007: Moving Toward Lasting Solutions in Gambia
Lessons in disaster management: Tsunami research brief: An examination of the Sri Lankan government's disaster management policies, which contributed to planning and reform.
OXFAMExchange Winter 2009: These are extraordinary times
The Right to Survive: The humanitarian challenge for the twenty-first century
Cuba: Weathering the Storm: Lessons in risk reduction
Affordable housing needs to be part of disaster planning, says Oxfam America: As new hurricane season arrives, urgent needs remain unaddressed
Aid teams ready to respond as Cyclone Favio threatens more flooding in Mozambique: International agency Oxfam has aid teams in flood-affected Mozambique on high alert as very intense category 4 Cyclone Favio approaches over the Indian Ocean, ...
Oxfam America Launches $50 Million Fundraising Campaign
Oxfam: Peru Quake Reconstruction Effort Must Focus on Reducing Devastating Impact of Future Natural Disasters: As Government develops its rebuilding plan, Oxfam sees potential for decreasing vulnerability to death and destruction when disaster strikes
Number of people affected by climate disaster up 54 percent by 2015
Improving the wells improves community health in flood-prone parts of El Salvador
After the China quake: Rebuilding schools, reducing risks: By providing temporary, earthquake-resistant schools, Oxfam will help restore education and a sense of normalcy to the lives of children in the quake-stricken ...
Calling Caylloma: mountain radio connects far-flung herders: A newly installed network allows Peruvian herders to call for help fast.
Coffee cooperatives still rebuilding after Stan: How Guatamalan coffee cooperatives are recovering from heavy rains. Part I of III
Disaster resilience is useful now: Because disasters and development are intricately linked, disaster risk reduction projects can improve people's day to day lives.
Early rains reveal vulnerability of many communities in El Salvador: The rainy season has only just begun and El Salvador is already mourning its first landslide victims.
For architect, supporting the poor is best kind of building: Indira Aryarathne of the Institute for Participatory Interaction in Development investigated the role of women in disaster risk reduction programs in Sri Lanka.
Forecasting a better future: 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 ...
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.
In Jiabi, Chinese government and local people build dike together: Oxfam partner invites villagers and county officials to share ideas about development and the environment.
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.
New ways to cope with flooding along Sri Lankan river: In the aftermath of the tsunami, some of Oxfam's research initiatives focused on issues of particular concern to women.
One researcher's method: ask the people who know best: In Sri Lanka, Chamindra Weerackody carried out research on community mental health and well-being that has implications for aid providers in future emergencies.

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