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- Counting on the rain to continue—or weather insurance to help cover losses
- For Ethiopian farmer Gidey Mehari, when the opportunity to buy weather insurance for his crops arose, he jumped at the chance.
- Doubling his weather insurance, this Ethiopian farmer is happy for the security it provides
- "Anything can happen," says Alemu Tadesse. And that's why he is investing in weather insurance for some of his crops.
- 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: ...
- Rain in drought-hit East Africa brings changing humanitarian needs
- Despite the rain, and the relief it brings, emergency conditions will likely last well into 2012.
- The politics of partnership: How donors manage risk while letting recipients lead their own development
- This paper provides recommendations for the US government as it continues grappling with ways of improving foreign aid, taking lessons from successful donor ...
- Oxfam: US Government needs to be bolder in efforts to fight poverty
- Anquan Boldin and Larry Fitzgerald team up with Oxfam
- NFL superstar wide receivers Anquan Boldin of the Baltimore Ravens and Larry Fitzgerald of the Arizona Cardinals are teaming up once again on a mission to ...
- Outwitting the fox: Women join forces to tackle poverty
- Oxfam’s Coco McCabe reports from Ethiopia on the efforts of a group of women in the Shashemene district to pool their resources and strengthen their community. ...
- World Food Program and USAID join together with Oxfam America and Swiss Re in public-private partnership
- Information: Let countries know what donors are doing
- In trying to improve US foreign aid, Oxfam America believes that we must listen to the people who know aid best: those who receive and deliver aid.
- Calling the shots under country ownership
- How should US foreign aid decisions be made to ensure that poor countries are in the lead?
- 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.
- Horn of Africa Risk Transfer for Adaptation (HARITA) quarterly report: January 2011–March 2011
- Rural resilience series
- Hardest hit: Ethiopia
- A women-led early warning system helps herding families in the southern part of the country find ways to cope with drought.
- 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.
- Smart Development
- Oxfam's briefing paper on making aid work.
- Ownership in practice: The key to smart development
- Countries should provide foreign aid in ways that strengthen the voice of poor people and the responsiveness of the state.
- Predictable, multiyear aid is life-saving in difficult contexts
- An interview with Melissa Phillips, NGO Secretariat Coordinator in Juba, Southern Sudan.
- Field Report from Southern Sudan
- Smart Development in Practice Series
- The Right to Survive
- The humanitarian challenge for the twenty-first century
- Oxfam America President Ray Offenheiser on Bloggingheads.tv
- Mark Leon Goldberg of UN Dispatch and The American Prospect, chats with Ray Offenheiser about how we can bring US foreign assistance and foreign aid practices ...
- Enhancing US aid effectiveness: The state of play and ways forward
- This panel considers three important policy processes, and the historic opportunity they offer to reshape US foreign assistance and global development policy.
- Hardest hit: Survival strategies from the frontlines of climate change
- Learn how four communities around the world are fighting back against climate change, and how you can help.
- 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.
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