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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
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.
A new law changes the landscape for Peru's indigenous people
Oxfam and partners joined forces to support the consultation law, which gives communities greater decision-making power over their natural resources and ...
Q&A: La Oroya's future
A government decision could mean good news for families in Peru's most polluted town, and for their supporters here in the US. But the struggle to clean up La ...
Oxfam calls for major shake-up of food aid
The Right of Indigenous Peoples to Prior Consultation: The Situation in Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru
This study illustrates the barriers to exercising the right to prior consultation and consent in each of these four countries, and is intended to encourage ...
Key companies launch partnership on climate resilience
Climate change on canvas
Oxfam is exhibiting art from around the world at the UN conference in Poznan, Poland.
Looking to Sacha Inchi for their future
How indigenous farmers are growing an ancient plant that promises to bring new opportunities—and money—to the central Amazonian jungle.
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.
Oxfam America awarded Rockefeller Foundation grant for climate change resilience in poor countries
In the grip of drought
Ethiopians find ways to fight back
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The power of resilience
The Right to Survive
The humanitarian challenge for the twenty-first century
Exposed: Social vulnerability and climate change in the US Southeast
The new adaptation marketplace
Climate change and opportunities for green economic growth
Adaptation 101
How climate change hurts poor communities—and how we can help
People-centered resilience
Working with vulnerable farmers towards climate change adaptation and food security
The climate after Copenhagen
Oxfam America’s assessment of the COP-15 and the road ahead.
A fresh look at the green economy
Jobs that build resilience to climate change
Now More Than Ever: Climate talks work for those who need them most
The world’s governments are gathering in Cancun, Mexico, for the next round of global climate negotiations amid much apathy and disenchantment with the ...
Copper in the Clouds
In Peru, local governments, community leaders, and farmers say the proposed Rio Blanco Copper Mine would be devastating to local communities. Where drinking ...
Standing up for justice
In 2005, thousands of unarmed Peruvians peacefully protested against the Rio Blanco Copper Mine. Cleofé Neyra describes how she and 27 others were tortured and ...
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 ...
A new generation
Meet Eneyda, a young Machiguenga woman navigating the confusing waters connecting her remote indigenous community, and the environmental threats and economic ...
Big changes in the Amazon
The Camisea Gas Project is bringing significant changes to the Urubamba region. Despite contributing millions to Peru's government, local leaders say the ...
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