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- Mechanical Advantage
- A new weeding tool for Cambodian rice farmers combined with innovative growing techniques leads to harvests double in size.
- Interactive map reveals “pressure points” of food price spikes on poor communities around the world
- Food price spikes
- After decades of progress, the number of people without enough to eat has reversed course and is increasing. It could soon top one billion. That's more than ...
- Inventory of Farmworker Issues and Protections in the United States
- A tiny seed and a big idea
- Insurance for Ethiopia's farmers
- In the grip of drought
- Ethiopians find ways to fight back
- For a Safer Tomorrow
- This report, based on Oxfam International's experience in most of the world's conflicts, sets out an ambitious agenda to protect civilians in times of warfare.
- Darfur five years on: five steps forward
- Five years since the crisis in Darfur, Sudan, first erupted, 4.5 million people are caught in its grip and are in need of aid. As the violence continues, that ...
- Darfur video Q & A
- We asked Oxfam supporters to tell us what they wanted to know about the crisis in Darfur—and received an overwhelming response.
- Geneva Convention turns 60
- New respect needed for international law designed to protect civilians.
- Saving Lives 24/7: Flood response in Senegal
- Emergency fund allows fast response to severe flooding in suburbs of Dakar.
- The Right to Survive
- The humanitarian challenge for the twenty-first century
- People-centered resilience
- Working with vulnerable farmers towards climate change adaptation and food security
- More rice for people, more water for the planet
- System of Rice Intensification (SRI)
- The rains have come, but food crisis continues to afflict West Africa, hitting Chad hard
- With harvests still weeks away, Oxfam is increasingly concerned about the situation in western Chad.
- Spiraling Food Prices Tipping Millions in East Africa Towards Catastrophe
- Oxfam appeals for immediate action to avert disaster while there is still time.
- The statistics of gender violence in El Salvador
- More that 15 percent of all Salvadorans don't consider acts of sexual violence a crime, according to a public opinion poll about gender-based violence.
- Ghosts of Christmas past
- Protecting Congolese civilians from the LRA
- Community-based human rights impact assessments: Practical lessons
- Report from an international meeting, Canada 2010
- One step forward in campaign to end violence against women
- El Salvador’s legislative assembly passes new law regarding violence against women.
- More water, more food
- An improved irrigation channel in Ethiopia now delivers a steady supply of water to a small village called Shasha Korke.
- Coping during the hungry season in Gambia
- Nyama Filly Fofana leads the way.
- Groundbreaking method enables small farmers to grow more food with less water
- Food crisis grips Sahel region of West Africa, 10 million affected
- Poor rains last year reduced the size of harvests and dried out pastureland across the region.
- In villages of Niger, hunger weakens people and animals
- Rains are desperately needed for farmers across the Sahel. But in some places, the rain will also make it very difficult to deliver vital aid.
- What Happened at the G20?
- Initial analysis of the London summit
- Actress Charlyne Yi fights hunger with Oxfam
- For the "Paper Heart" star, filming Oxfam America’s new video brought a real-life change in perspective.
- Halving global hunger off-track but still possible
- Take Action: Global Food Crisis
- Already 854 million people on our planet suffer from hunger. Now, as food prices climb high and fast, conditions are becoming worse and threatening the ...
- Fighting off starvation in Zimbabwe
- After a poor harvest and subsequent drought depleted food supplies, Oxfam partners distributed food and seeds to reduce the need for future aid.
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