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- In Peru, women confront climate change with traditional gardens
- Can ancient knowledge help solve today’s problems? Indigenous women in the Amazon believe that it can—and to prove it, they’re going back to their roots.
- In northern Ethiopia, weather insurance offers a buffer against drought
- A growing number of families have signed up for weather insurance to protect their crop investments from insufficient rainfall.
- Q&A: La Oroya's future
- A government decision could mean good news for families in Peru's most polluted town, and for their supporters here in the US. But the struggle to clean up La ...
- A Dangerous Delay: The cost of late response to early warnings in the 2011 drought in the Horn of Africa
- More than 13 million people are still affected by the crisis in the Horn of Africa. There were clear early warning signs many months in advance, yet there was ...
- New vision needed for Somalia
- A Shift in Focus: Putting the interests of Somali people first
- More than six months after the UN declared a famine, Somalia is still in the throes of its worst humanitarian crisis in decades, with 31 per cent of the ...
- With irrigation, herders in southern Ethiopia turn to farming
- A small-scale irrigation project along the banks of the Dawa River is helping some herders grow enough food to feed their families--even as drought ravages ...
- With insurance, loans, and confidence, this Ethiopian farmer builds her resilience
- Selas Samson Biru is using her entrepreneurial spirit--and the security she has from her insurance--to build a more secure future for her family.
- Nine hectares of hope: an irrigation project promises better harvests for Ethiopian farmers
- With the help of an Oxfam partner, local farmers have tapped well water to nourish their fields in the Central Rift Valley.
- 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.
- Where there's water, there's hope: Tapping the potential of a river in West Arsi
- For more than 400 farmers along the Gurracho River, water now flows in abundance to their fields through a new irrigation system.
- 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.
- Fighting hunger in Mogadishu
- In Somalia, Oxfam's partner SAACID is saving the lives of thousands of children.
- 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: ...
- 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.
- Case Study: Bolivian Government Consultation with the Guaraní Indigenous Peoples of Charagua Norte and Isoso
- Proposed hydrocarbons exploration project in San Isidro Block Santa Cruz, Bolivia
- The Right of Indigenous Peoples to Prior Consultation: The Situation in Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru
- This study illustrates the barriers to exercising the right to prior consultation and consent in each of these four countries, and is intended to encourage ...
- 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. ...
- 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.
- Cholera outbreak in Mogadishu: Oxfam airlifts 52 tons of supplies
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
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