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GROW: Food. Justice. Planet.
An overview of Oxfam's global GROW campaign
Sahel food crisis: "Now I have peace"
Rather than distribute food to the hungry in Senegal, Oxfam partners are providing something even more valuable in an emergency: cash.
OXFAMExchange, Winter 2012
What if development took the kind of time and commitment it takes to raise a child? (It does.)
Solidarity and sharing: How Chadians cope in a food crisis
When one family in a community receives food during a distribution, many others often share a portion of it.
Ambassadors
Meet the American women leaders who are coming together as Sisters on the Planet Ambassadors.
Cereal Secrets
The world's largest grain traders and global agriculture
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 ...
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: Senegalese singer Baaba Maal performs benefit concert
Maal visits drought-affected communities to raise awareness in growing Sahel crisis
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
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.
Conflict in Mali disrupts fragile food markets and threatens to escalate food crisis in West Africa
NFL superstars confront drought with visit to East Africa
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 ...
In Kolda, Senegal, farmers are struggling to feed their families
The last harvest of peanuts, a major cash crop in this region, plummeted by 60 percent leaving families with little money to buy the food they need.
Feeding Boston, changing the world
In Cambodia, System of Rice Intensification helps families climb out of poverty
Low-cost agricultural techniques help a farmer achieve a six-fold increase in annual production in one small field, and become a leader in the community.
A Dangerous Delay: The cost of late response to early warnings in the 2011 drought in the Horn of Africa
More than 13 million people are still affected by the crisis in the Horn of Africa. There were clear early warning signs many months in advance, yet there was ...
More than 1 million growers are now embracing innovative approaches to producing more rice
System of Rice Intensification helps small-scale farmers in Vietnam.
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.
A health awakening
In the crowded camps of Darfur, community public health promoters are teaching unforgettable lessons about how to protect the health—and lives—of loved ones.
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?
Struggle in Sahel: 'If there's no pasture, nothing works'
'We've stayed on our ancestors' land and we've put up with everything, but if rain doesn't come, life would turn into a nightmare," says Koubra Hamid.
As food crisis looms, the lean season hits early in northern Senegal
An Oxfam team assesses the conditions around a group of small villages where many of the food reserves are now exhausted.
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