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- 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 ...
- OXFAMExchange, Winter 2012
- What if development took the kind of time and commitment it takes to raise a child? (It does.)
- Sahel food crisis: Farmers cope with food shortages
- Confronted with a poor 2011 harvest, farmers find creative ways to earn money to buy food.
- A new way of life on the Dawa
- Drought is making it difficult for herding families in southern Ethiopia to earn a living from their livestock. Some people have decided to try a new approach: ...
- 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.
- The new adaptation marketplace
- Climate change and opportunities for green economic growth
- More rice for people, more water for the planet
- System of Rice Intensification (SRI)
- Water is life
- High in the cloud forest of Piura, local communities understand the importance of the area's water and medicinal plants. They warn the proposed Rio Blanco ...
- Hard earth, hard choices
- When drought hits, herders in southern Ethiopia sometimes have no choice but to sell the animals on which they depend.
- More water, more food
- An improved irrigation channel in Ethiopia now delivers a steady supply of water to a small village called Shasha Korke.
- Drawing water to a thirsty village
- In the aftermath of the tsunami, Oxfam helped an impoverished farming community in Sri Lanka find a solution to its most devastating chronic emergency: ...
- 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 ...
- Hardest hit: Vietnam
- In response to drought, communities grow drought-resistant crops, raise alternative livestock breeds, and use water from a new reservoir.
- Lifeblood at risk
- In northern Peru, small-scale farmers can earn more by growing organic products. They say the rush to mine for copper in the mountains above their farms would ...
- New irrigation channel changes lives in Shasha Korke
- An improved system to share water helps Ethiopian farmers switch to growing fruit and vegetables, improving health and increasing incomes.
- 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 ...
- Pasture pressure
- Erratic rains and encroaching bush limits grasslands for herders in southern Ethiopia.
- Coffee growers earn a better price, protect the environment
- Oxfam America invests in eco-friendly coffee processing, and helps farmers grow a world-class crop.
- The Majaz effect
- What is the likely environmental impact of Minera Majaz's proposed copper mine?
- OXFAMExchange Fall 2005
- The Chance to End Poverty
- Letting gravity do the work, Oxfam irrigates pastures in Peru
- Sprinklers help herders grow grass for their alpacas in the Andes.
- Global ambitions
- A steady supply of water expands horizons for farmer in Ethiopia.
- Filters improve water quality in Pisco
- Clean water reduces risk of disease; many communities accessing treated water for first time.
- Oxfam Impact Special Report
- Oxfam in East Africa
- Mozambique floods under control for now, but risk of further devastation still real, alerts Oxfam International
- Crops destroyed for second year in a row - long-term donor support needed
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