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Caught on the wrong side of a gold boom
Farmers in Ghana talk candidly about the impact of gold mining on their communities and how to hold mining companies and government accountable.
Dead fish and acid pollution point to cyanide in stream
Farmers in Ghana affected by chemical spill call on government to investigate and punish polluters.
A new leader of concerned farmers in rural Ghana
Emilia Amoateng helps defend the rights of fellow villagers, presses a legal case for compensation for their lost farms.
Emiliana Aligaesha, Venture Capitalist
Tanzanian farmer Emiliana Aligaesha is leveraging a tiny investment of US foreign aid to ensure the success of an early-stage, high-potential start-up.
Nana Kojo Kondua IV, Job Creator
Village Chief Kojo Kondua IV is leveraging a tiny investment of US foreign aid to train fishermen and to protect jobs and the environment in Abuesi, Ghana.
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.
Don't cut aid. It's working.
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 ...
Manuel Dominguez, Fiscal Hawk
Sahel food crisis: Where are we at the end of 2012?
Good rainfall and better harvests have provided some relief, but challenges still remain as families work hard to recover.
Martha Kwataine, Beltway Outsider
Nana Kojo Kondua IV, Job Creator
Busan in a nutshell
What next for the Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation?
GROW: Food. Justice. Planet.
An overview of Oxfam's global GROW campaign
Sahel food crisis: "Now I have peace"
Rather than distribute food to the hungry in Senegal, Oxfam partners are providing something even more valuable in an emergency: cash.
OXFAMExchange, Winter 2012
What if development took the kind of time and commitment it takes to raise a child? (It does.)
Solidarity and sharing: How Chadians cope in a food crisis
When one family in a community receives food during a distribution, many others often share a portion of it.
Sahel food crisis: Farmers cope with food shortages
Confronted with a poor 2011 harvest, farmers find creative ways to earn money to buy food.
Sahel food crisis: Senegalese singer Baaba Maal performs benefit concert
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
A farmer recounts the struggle to grow food and prepare for the 2012 growing season
Sahel food crisis: Waiting for water--and the garden to grow--in Burkina Faso
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.
Oxfam responds as hundreds of thousands flee Ivory Coast capital
Fifty tons of relief supplies delivered to neighboring Liberia.
Reforms put foreign aid to work fighting corruption and waste
USAID is changing the way it implements US foreign aid programs to put local actors in the driver's seat.
Press Briefing on Status of Foreign Aid Funding in Budget Debate, September 21, 2011.
New report shows 17 million lives at stake in farm bill negotiations
Conflict in Mali disrupts fragile food markets and threatens to escalate food crisis in West Africa
In Kolda, Senegal, farmers are struggling to feed their families
The last harvest of peanuts, a major cash crop in this region, plummeted by 60 percent leaving families with little money to buy the food they need.
Food security concerns at World Food Day events in Ghana
Land grabs for biofuels, and gender inequity take center stage.
Struggle in Sahel: 'If there's no pasture, nothing works'
'We've stayed on our ancestors' land and we've put up with everything, but if rain doesn't come, life would turn into a nightmare," says Koubra Hamid.
As food crisis looms, the lean season hits early in northern Senegal
An Oxfam team assesses the conditions around a group of small villages where many of the food reserves are now exhausted.
The politics of partnership: How donors manage risk while letting recipients lead their own development
This paper provides recommendations for the US government as it continues grappling with ways of improving foreign aid, taking lessons from successful donor ...
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