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- 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.
- More water, more food
- An improved irrigation channel in Ethiopia now delivers a steady supply of water to a small village called Shasha Korke.
- 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 ...
- Oxfam's humanitarian response department expands into public health
- New public health practice is part of a three-pronged effort to sharpen the effectiveness of the agency's emergency response. The other two components are ...
- What Happened at the G20?
- Initial analysis of the London summit
- Oxfam reaction to G8 communique
- Oxfam outlines four stepping stones to the G20's 'new world order'
- Ethiopian coffee farmers show commitment to trademark initiative
- Hundreds turn out and ask Starbucks to respect their rights.
- Ethiopian farmers meet with importers and roasters
- In Addis Ababa, both sides discuss how Ethiopian farmers can gain more control over their coffee names, and get a bigger share of the profits.
- Oxfam welcomes Global Health Initiative announcement
- Two promises kept on fight against poverty, one more left to go
- Not just more, better: improving aid to the developing world
- Thank you from Oxfam and Ethiopian coffee farmers
- Starbucks and Ethiopia finalized a trademark agreement, ending their dispute and bringing both sides together in partnership to help Ethiopian farmers.
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