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- 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.
- The Rice Value Chain in Haiti
- Policy Proposal
- 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.
- Majeda Begum Shiru, Local Leader
- A formerly quiet woman is leveraging a tiny investment of US foreign aid to enable women to speak loudly and powerfully to improve health and education in ...
- 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 DRC
- Conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo has cost nearly 5.4 million lives. Many have fled to neighboring countries or temporary camps, and government ...
- 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.
- Savings groups: Building a movement
- Experts to convene at Washington, DC, conference to map future of savings groups
- 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 ...
- Tanzania’s female food heroes transform the landscape
- Oxfam leads a contest that puts the stories of women like Martha Waziri in the national spotlight.
- Speaking up for North Carolina's tobacco pickers
- Many still face unhealthy and difficult working conditions; Oxfam and partners helped them make their case to companies in 2012.
- Rural women farmers rally for food security in El Salvador
- Healthy food and a sustainable way to produce it were among the goals of women who marched on World Food Day in San Salvador.
- Meet Oxfam's Sisters on the Planet Ambassadors
- Meet the influential women who are teaming up with Oxfam to help women worldwide fight hunger and poverty.
- Haiti Rice Value Chain Assessment
- Rapid diagnosis and implications for program design
- Our Land Our Lives
- In the past decade an area of land eight times the size of the UK has been sold off globally as land sales rapidly accelerate. This land could feed a billion ...
- GROW: Food. Justice. Planet.
- An overview of Oxfam's global GROW campaign
- OXFAMExchange, Winter 2012
- What if development took the kind of time and commitment it takes to raise a child? (It does.)
- Ambassadors
- Meet the American women leaders who are coming together as Sisters on the Planet Ambassadors.
- 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: 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.
- In need of a better WASH: Water, sanitation, and hygiene policy issues in post-earthquake Haiti
- This research initiative examined Haiti’s water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) sector before and following the January 12, 2010 earthquake, and the work of ...
- In Peru, women confront climate change with traditional gardens
- Can ancient knowledge help solve today’s problems? Indigenous women in the Amazon believe that it can—and to prove it, they’re going back to their roots.
- Women living with uncertainty and high food prices
- The constant rise in the price of staples affects women in El Salvador on a daily basis. With gardens, some women have found a way to ease the burden.
- 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.
- Sisters on the Planet 4:30-minute version
- Fight hunger. Invest in women. Watch Oxfam's video featuring the Sisters on the Planet ambassadors, then sign up as a Sister (or a Brother) at ...
- Sisters on the Planet 30-second PSA
- Fight hunger. Invest in women. Watch Oxfam's video featuring the Sisters on the Planet ambassadors, then sign up as a Sister (or a Brother) at ...
- Feeding Boston, changing the world
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