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- New tool helps communities focus on human rights
- A new system will help community members do their own analysis of the effects of foreign investment on human rights.
- OXFAMExchange Fall 2009
- Facing Down Hunger: The global food crisis one year later
- The costs of biofuel
- With enthusiasm for biofuel growing, countries like Mozambique want to cash in. But diverting resources from food crops comes with dangers.
- In Peru, farmers and shopkeepers wonder how they will begin again after destructive rains
- Heavy rainfall in Peru has caused flooding and left widespread damage, including the destruction of homes, crops, and small businesses.
- Rains across Peru destroy crops, small businesses, and thousands of homes
- Oxfam partner works to install toilets and distribute hygiene kits to families living in temporary shelters.
- New research examines whether biotechnology is relevant to poor farmers
- The tipping point in Guatemala
- In Baja Verapaz Oxfam and local partners are helping small farmers cope with a food crisis that could have been prevented.
- In Prestea, Ghana, gold mine expansion threatens water sources
- Communities are requesting a comprehensive evaluation of the impact of a new mining project and for their right to free, prior, and informed consent regarding ...
- Haiti no longer grows much of its own rice
- Once almost self-sufficient, Haiti now imports 80 percent of the rice it consumes. A dramatic cut in import tariffs led to a drop in national rice production.
- Avoiding a food crisis in rural Haiti
- Oxfam’s Yves Gattereau talks about how the January 2010 earthquake poses a threat to the country’s already shaky food supply.
- New potential for conflict in Peru’s Amazon
- Madre de Dios could be next flashpoint in ongoing confrontation between indigenous communities and foreign oil, gas, and mining companies.
- Food crisis in Guatemala
- Oxfam and local partners help farmers cope with crop failures, food shortages.
- Secretary Clinton announces new government-wide initiative to reduce poverty and hunger in developing countries
- Giada de Laurentiis marks World Food Day with trip to Peru
- A Seat at the Table
- Step into the world where food is often scarce and difficult decisions have to be made every day.
- New deadlines not enough to finalize a 'development' trade round
- Empty promises
- What happened to 'development' in the WTO's Doha Round?
- Obama's visit to Africa: Time for a new partnership founded on transparency and shared responsibility
- 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.
- Faltering agricultural investments leaving two-thirds of rural poor behind
- Investing in Poor Farmers Pays
- Rethinking how to invest in agriculture
- Historic House climate bill passes, provides resources for hardest hit
- Oxfam in South America
- To their government officials and to the corporations who want to exploit their lands and natural resources, the indigenous and rural people of South America ...
- 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 ...
- Oxfam urges miner to address community engagement practices
- Our Land, Our Life
- The struggle of Carrie and Mary Dann, two Western Shoshone elders, to address the threat mining development poses to the sacred and environmentally sensitive ...
- OXFAMExchange Fall 2007
- Moving Toward Lasting Solutions in Gambia
- Causing Hunger
- An overview of the food crisis in Africa
- Seeds support AIDS orphans
- For the Nyuwani homestead, an increase in crop production is helping meet food needs for 22 children.
- Pasture pressure
- Erratic rains and encroaching bush limits grasslands for herders in southern Ethiopia.
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