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- Knowledge is power
- Across Ghana, new leaders are emerging to voice concerns about the environment and basic justice.
- Leadership from the bottom up
- Oxfam’s partner in Ghana, Wacam, is building a network of activists – many of them women – and helping them learn technical as well as leadership skills.
- 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
- Millions face hunger as drought sweeps East Africa
- Oxfam America is responding to the crisis with emergency assistance that includes food and cash-for-work programs that aim to help about 350,000 people.
- OXFAMExchange Spring 2009
- The power of resilience
- What’s in a stove?
- In Darfur, fuel-efficient stoves benefit the environment and much more.
- 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 ...
- Oxfam's oil, gas, and mining program
- Oxfam advocates just government policies and corporate practices in the oil, gas, and mining industries, and supports the right of communities to participate ...
- Oxfam: Last minute package breathes life into UN climate talks
- Climate change talks must deliver following record year of extreme weather
- International celebrities to climate negotiators: “You must do better”
- Investments in climate resilience a win-win for poor, businesses and American jobs
- Drought early warning in Ethiopia
- Women's local knowledge is the key to an early warning system designed to lessen the impact of drought in Ethiopia.
- Hard earth, hard choices
- When drought hits, herders in southern Ethiopia sometimes have no choice but to sell the animals on which they depend.
- Groundbreaking method enables small farmers to grow more food with less water
- Climate change wake-up call
- You know about global warming. You may already be doing your part to protect the environment. But, climate change is a human issue too—it's hitting the ...
- White House climate adaptation report provides critical guidance
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