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- Oxfam welcomes Berman's action to increase development and diplomatic capacity
- Historic house climate bill passes first test, more resources still needed for hardest hit
- Yum! Brands agree to hike pay for Florida tomato pickers
- Florida tomato pickers, among some of the poorest paid workers in the United States, have won another victory in their fight to earn a decent living wage.
- US farmworkers reach historic agreement with McDonald's
- Some tomato pickers in southwestern Florida could see their wages nearly double now that McDonald's has agreed to pay them a penny a pound more for the produce ...
- Oxfam, CIW celebrate Burger King's promise of a wage hike
- A penny a pound more for the tomatoes they pick could mean a near doubling of wages for Florida field laborers.
- Group lives up to its name: Coastal Women for Change
- Gulf Coast women join together to talk about what was happening in their community, what issues and problems they faced, and how these could be addressed.
- Farmers in the US speak out
- Farmers in the US and Central America had similar concerns about DR-CAFTA.
- A popular campaign
- US-based activists played a significant role in forcing Congress to examine the merits of DR-CAFTA.
- Women of influence get results on Capitol Hill
- Oxfam's Sisters on the Planet Ambassadors generate Congressional support for women who face the devastating effects of climate change.
- 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 ...
- Cultivating Poverty
- The impact of US cotton subsidies on Africa
- Forgotten Communities, Unmet Promises
- An unfolding tragedy on the Gulf Coast
- Fairness in the Fields
- A vision for the 2007 Farm Bill
- How Does the USDA Farm Bill Proposal Measure Up?
- US Gulf Coast Recovery Program Fact Sheet
- An overview of Oxfam America's continuing effort to rebuild the Gulf Coast
- Mirror on America
- How the state of Gulf Coast recovery reflects on us all—Oxfam's report on the status of Gulf Coast recovery three years later.
- Training and jobs to empower rural women
- The construction of greenhouses creates employment, which empowers them economically, while training leads to the emergence of new women leaders.
- Ethiopians, North American roasters move forward with trademark initiative
- In second meeting in three months, two sides discuss how to implement Ethiopia's control of its coffee brands.
- 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.
- Cuba: Emerging from the crisis
- After 15 years of economic crisis, Cuba is still facing significant challenges. But there are real signs that Cuba is starting to move forward.
- Oxfam in Cuba
- After 15 years of economic crisis, Cuba is still facing significant challenges. But there are real signs that Cuba is starting to move forward.
- "This is the future"
- After centuries of discrimination and a decade of legal work supported by Oxfam, the indigenous Chiquitano people of eastern Bolivia now have legal title to ...
- Hope for rural Afghans
- Education is the basis for a rural development project that has helped put food on the table for people in the Daikundi and Bamiyan provinces, where ...
- "We are united"
- An indigenous Q'eq'chi community in Guatemala struggles to defend its agricultural land.
- Oxfam welcomes appointment of Stern on climate
- Oxfam to President Obama: New strategy must avert humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan
- "Black Gold" illustrates coffee farmers' plight
- Documentary film tells the story through Oxfam's Ethiopian partner.
- Celebrate Fair Trade in your community
- Check out these resources for bringing Fair Trade products and crafts to your community.
- Tadesse Meskela helps connect consumers and Ethiopian coffee growers
- Market factors cut coffee farmers out of their fair share of profit for a commodity that's worth an estimated $80 billion a year in retail sales.
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