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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.
Oxfam Optimistic on Progress Between Starbucks and Ethiopia on Trademarking Initiative
Oxfam Urges Starbucks to Honor its Claims of Support for Ethiopian Coffee Farmers
Coffee giant faces daunting task of living up to its socially responsible image
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.
The costs of biofuel
With enthusiasm for biofuel growing, countries like Mozambique want to cash in. But diverting resources from food crops comes with dangers.
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.
New research examines whether biotechnology is relevant to poor farmers
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 ...
The tipping point in Guatemala
In Baja Verapaz Oxfam and local partners are helping small farmers cope with a food crisis that could have been prevented.
Travelling down West Salvation Road
Travel in Darfur requires patience and time. Often, riding on the back of a donkey is the most reliable way to get where you want to go.
Food crisis in Guatemala
Oxfam and local partners help farmers cope with crop failures, food shortages.
A Seat at the Table
Step into the world where food is often scarce and difficult decisions have to be made every day.
Multi-agency report reveals disparity in living conditions for Louisianans
Oxfam reaction to WTO judgment on US cotton subsidies
New deadlines not enough to finalize a 'development' trade round
New report reveals shared experiences of African Americans and Latinos
New irrigation channel changes lives in Shasha Korke
An improved system to share water helps Ethiopian farmers switch to growing fruit and vegetables, improving health and increasing incomes.
Faltering agricultural investments leaving two-thirds of rural poor behind
Investing in Poor Farmers Pays
Rethinking how to invest in agriculture
His childhood lost to war, teenager starts new life in Congo
A former child soldier, this young man now supports himself as a furniture-maker in a small shop in Goma.
Cocoa farmers threatened by gold mine
Farmers in a small town seem more interested in keeping their farms than selling out—but the struggle to protect their land will be a hard one.
Microinsurance builds resilience after tsunami
Fishing families in Andhra Pradesh, India are relying on microinsurance to keep them out of debt to money lenders and help them save a little of what they earn.
The Coir Industry in the Southern Province of Sri Lanka
A tsunami research journal article
Improving livelihoods after disasters
Tsunami research brief: Studies of paddy agriculture and the coconut fiber industry in Sri Lanka point to ways aid providers can help improve incomes.
OXFAMExchange Winter 2009
These are extraordinary times
Just a boy: meeting child soldiers in eastern Congo
Humanitarian press officer Rebecca Wynn reports from eastern Congo, where a wave of violence has forced more than 250,000 people to flee their homes since ...
Zimbabwe: hopes for a better 2009
A new year's celebration hardly masks the troubles countless people face in a country crippled by hyperinflation and a cholera outbreak.
The singing wells of Dubluq
How herders in southern Ethiopia find water for their cows in the deadly winter dry season.
Building Common Ground
How shared attitudes and concerns can create alliances between African-Americans and Latinos in a post-Katrina New Orleans
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