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- In the midst of famine, children survive with the help of Oxfam partner SAACID
- Community therapeutic care centers across Somalia's capital are admitting more than 3,000 malnourished children every week.
- 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.
- 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 ...
- Oxfam kicks off major campaign with World Food Day
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- Ready or Not
- Pakistan's resilience to disasters one year on from the floods
- 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.
- World's newest famine declared in Somalia
- 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
- 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
- The new adaptation marketplace
- Climate change and opportunities for green economic growth
- People-centered resilience
- Working with vulnerable farmers towards climate change adaptation and food security
- Turning the Tables
- Global trends in public agricultural investments
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- The ones who feed the world
- During a US speaking tour organized by Oxfam, four international farmers find common ground with their Iowa counterparts.
- Spiraling Food Prices Tipping Millions in East Africa Towards Catastrophe
- Oxfam appeals for immediate action to avert disaster while there is still time.
- Impact of climate change on response providers and socially vulnerable communities in the US
- Federal disaster programs, plans, and policies seldom address climate change or social vulnerability. Homeland security policy could be revised to accommodate ...
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