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Cotton farmers get organized
Small farmers in Mozambique mobilize for greater control of the cotton production chain.
Small scale coffee farmers make headway in new international coffee charter
After long period of negotiations, a successful conclusion.
Take Action: Global Food Crisis
Already 854 million people on our planet suffer from hunger. Now, as food prices climb high and fast, conditions are becoming worse and threatening the ...
Forecasting a better future
The progress of a village in India that participated in a study on rainfall illustrates the value of research in helping farming communities adapt to climate ...
Weeding out abuses
Recommendations for a law-abiding farm labor system
Rallying for rights
Farmworkers in North Carolina take their case to RJ Reynolds.
Hardest hit: Vietnam
In response to drought, communities grow drought-resistant crops, raise alternative livestock breeds, and use water from a new reservoir.
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.
Protect and serve or train and equip?
US security assistance and protection of civilians
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.
Oxfam reaction to WTO judgment on US cotton subsidies
A Fragile Future
Why scaling down MONUC too soon could spell disaster for the Congo
New deadlines not enough to finalize a 'development' trade round
As villagers flee new fighting in Congo, Oxfam works to bring them clean water
Many are now sheltering with host families and often crowded into single-room houses with poor access to clean water and sanitation.
Waking the Devil
The impact of forced disarmament on civilians in the Kivus
Oxfam calls for an end to violence in the Peruvian Amazon
Aid agency urges US government to help resolve the crisis
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.
Camp conditions in Somalia are among worst this aid worker has ever seen
Shelter, clean water, food, medicine—all of these are needed in camps for displaced people in Somalia.
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