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- 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 ...
- Inventory of Farmworker Issues and Protections in the United States
- 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.
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- With small but steady steps, Haitians work to make better lives for themselves in the countryside
- A key to decentralizing Haiti is to create more opportunities in its rural regions.
- Background
- Since the fall of the Taliban in 2001, some progress has been made in Afghanistan, such as in health and education. Yet overall progress has been slow and ...
- More water, more food
- An improved irrigation channel in Ethiopia now delivers a steady supply of water to a small village called Shasha Korke.
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