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- Food Crisis in the Horn of Africa Progress Report, July 2011 - July 2012
- East Africa food crisis
- For many of the 13 million people affected by the food crisis that hit East Africa in mid-2011, the hardship is not over. Though good rains came to many areas ...
- 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.
- 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.
- Where does foreign aid stand?
- 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
- NFL superstars confront drought with visit to East Africa
- Swiss Re and Oxfam America launch joint risk management initiative for farmers in Tigray, Ethiopia
- Swiss Re and Oxfam America have announced a joint Commitment to Action at the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) 2008 meeting in New York on 23 - 26 September. ...
- With irrigation, herders in southern Ethiopia turn to farming
- A small-scale irrigation project along the banks of the Dawa River is helping some herders grow enough food to feed their families--even as drought ravages ...
- With insurance, loans, and confidence, this Ethiopian farmer builds her resilience
- Selas Samson Biru is using her entrepreneurial spirit--and the security she has from her insurance--to build a more secure future for her family.
- Nine hectares of hope: an irrigation project promises better harvests for Ethiopian farmers
- With the help of an Oxfam partner, local farmers have tapped well water to nourish their fields in the Central Rift Valley.
- Ethiopian farmers get a payout, easing effects of drought
- With cash from the weather insurance policies they bought through an innovative program, farmers from Tigray can now plan for the future.
- Where there's water, there's hope: Tapping the potential of a river in West Arsi
- For more than 400 farmers along the Gurracho River, water now flows in abundance to their fields through a new irrigation system.
- OXFAMExchange, Fall 2011
- Africa's last famine?
- Counting on the rain to continue—or weather insurance to help cover losses
- For Ethiopian farmer Gidey Mehari, when the opportunity to buy weather insurance for his crops arose, he jumped at the chance.
- Doubling his weather insurance, this Ethiopian farmer is happy for the security it provides
- "Anything can happen," says Alemu Tadesse. And that's why he is investing in weather insurance for some of his crops.
- 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: ...
- Rain in drought-hit East Africa brings changing humanitarian needs
- Despite the rain, and the relief it brings, emergency conditions will likely last well into 2012.
- 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 ...
- Oxfam: US Government needs to be bolder in efforts to fight poverty
- Anquan Boldin and Larry Fitzgerald team up with Oxfam
- NFL superstar wide receivers Anquan Boldin of the Baltimore Ravens and Larry Fitzgerald of the Arizona Cardinals are teaming up once again on a mission to ...
- Outwitting the fox: Women join forces to tackle poverty
- Oxfam’s Coco McCabe reports from Ethiopia on the efforts of a group of women in the Shashemene district to pool their resources and strengthen their community. ...
- World Food Program and USAID join together with Oxfam America and Swiss Re in public-private partnership
- Information: Let countries know what donors are doing
- In trying to improve US foreign aid, Oxfam America believes that we must listen to the people who know aid best: those who receive and deliver aid.
- Calling the shots under country ownership
- How should US foreign aid decisions be made to ensure that poor countries are in the lead?
- 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.
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