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- Ethiopian farmers get a payout, easing effects of drought
- With cash from the weather insurance policies they bought through an innovative program, farmers from Tigray can now plan for the future.
- OXFAMExchange, Fall 2011
- Africa's last famine?
- A new way of life on the Dawa
- Drought is making it difficult for herding families in southern Ethiopia to earn a living from their livestock. Some people have decided to try a new approach: ...
- 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.
- Mechanical Advantage
- A new weeding tool for Cambodian rice farmers combined with innovative growing techniques leads to harvests double in size.
- Land grabs push thousands further into poverty
- Large-scale land grabs threaten poor communities' access to food. In such deals, small-scale farmers are forced to leave their land, their homes, and their ...
- 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.
- Interactive map reveals “pressure points” of food price spikes on poor communities around the world
- 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
- OXFAMExchange Spring 2009
- 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
- Making Investments in Poor Farmers Pay
- A review of evidence and sample of options for marginal areas
- Turning the Tables
- Global trends in public agricultural investments
- The climate after Copenhagen
- Oxfam America’s assessment of the COP-15 and the road ahead.
- More rice for people, more water for the planet
- System of Rice Intensification (SRI)
- Halving Hunger: Still Possible?
- Building a rescue package to set the Millennium Development Goals back on track
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
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