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- Hardest hit: Vietnam
- In response to drought, communities grow drought-resistant crops, raise alternative livestock breeds, and use water from a new reservoir.
- Hardest hit: Louisiana
- A house built on pilings – a lift house – can withstand hurricane-force winds and rains.
- Hardest hit: El Salvador
- “Healthy wells,” tightly sealed to keep out contamination after floods, provide clean drinking and cooking water for families.
- Disaster Management Policy and Practice
- A tsunami research journal article
- New tool helps communities focus on human rights
- A new system will help community members do their own analysis of the effects of foreign investment on human rights.
- In Peru, farmers and shopkeepers wonder how they will begin again after destructive rains
- Heavy rainfall in Peru has caused flooding and left widespread damage, including the destruction of homes, crops, and small businesses.
- Rains across Peru destroy crops, small businesses, and thousands of homes
- Oxfam partner works to install toilets and distribute hygiene kits to families living in temporary shelters.
- Lifeblood at risk
- In northern Peru, small-scale farmers can earn more by growing organic products. They say the rush to mine for copper in the mountains above their farms would ...
- British High Court freezes mine company assets
- Monterrico Metals will be required to compensate injured people and their communities if courts in the UK find the company responsible for human rights ...
- Haiti at risk
- A country already struggling to overcome poverty reels.
- New potential for conflict in Peru’s Amazon
- Madre de Dios could be next flashpoint in ongoing confrontation between indigenous communities and foreign oil, gas, and mining companies.
- Helena Christensen witnesses impacts of climate change in Peru
- Giada de Laurentiis marks World Food Day with trip to Peru
- Climate change affecting Peru right now
- Farmers report changing weather and negative effects on livelihoods.
- Oxfam calls for an end to violence in the Peruvian Amazon
- Aid agency urges US government to help resolve the crisis
- Oxfam calls on mining company to respect human rights
- Cuba: Weathering the Storm
- Lessons in risk reduction
- Resource revenues elusive in Peru
- Money from mines and pipelines is hard to track, and not obviously helping the poorest people in the country.
- Lessons in disaster management
- Tsunami research brief: An examination of the Sri Lankan government's disaster management policies, which contributed to planning and reform.
- Deepening community engagement
- Tsunami research brief: A study of disaster preparedness programs in Sri Lanka that points to the importance of listening carefully to communities.
- Oxfam in Central America, Mexico, and the Caribbean
- All across this diverse and beautiful territory, new faces of leadership are emerging. Women, rural communities, and small farmers are adding their voices to ...
- Peru overturns decrees, starts dialogue
- The government of Peru and indigenous citizens to move from conflict to dialogue on land rights and the best way to consult native people as they work to ...
- One researcher's method: ask the people who know best
- In Sri Lanka, Chamindra Weerackody carried out research on community mental health and well-being that has implications for aid providers in future emergencies.
- Such important work
- The Advanced Center for Enabling Disaster Risk Reduction (ACEDRR) explores new ways of helping impoverished communities improve their resilience to future ...
- OXFAMExchange Winter 2009
- These are extraordinary times
- Disaster resilience is useful now
- Because disasters and development are intricately linked, disaster risk reduction projects can improve people's day to day lives.
- Oxfam calls for an investigation of alleged torture of 28 in Peru
- A new report and photographs show participants in peaceful march in 2005 were detained and mistreated by mine company security and police.
- Oxfam in South America
- To their government officials and to the corporations who want to exploit their lands and natural resources, the indigenous and rural people of South America ...
- Oxfam in the Horn of Africa
- Drought. Conflict. Low crop prices. These are among the realities that poor people across the Horn of Africa face on a daily basis. But with new tools for ...
- Oxfam urges miner to address community engagement practices
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