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For architect, supporting the poor is best kind of building
Indira Aryarathne of the Institute for Participatory Interaction in Development investigated the role of women in disaster risk reduction programs in Sri Lanka.
Fighting off starvation in Zimbabwe
After a poor harvest and subsequent drought depleted food supplies, Oxfam partners distributed food and seeds to reduce the need for future aid.
Starbucks and Ethiopia finalized a trademark agreement, ending their dispute and bringing both sides together in partnership to help Ethiopian farmers.
Oxfam Optimistic on Progress Between Starbucks and Ethiopia on Trademarking Initiative
Starbucks campaign: Anatomy of a win
How Oxfam and Ethiopian farmers coaxed a groundbreaking agreement out of Starbucks.
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
Starbucks takes step towards recognizing Ethiopian rights to coffee names. Campaigners urge company to follow through.
International agency Oxfam responded to a joint statement from coffee company Starbucks and the Government of Ethiopia in which Starbucks pledged not to oppose ...
OXFAMExchange Fall 2009
Facing Down Hunger: The global food crisis one year later
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.
Oxfam emergency response experts assess quake in Chile
The five-member team, including water engineers, will be ready to help local partners who can respond to the 8.8-magnitude temblor.
Tsunami warning passes as staff move in to Chile
The long road home
As the rainy season approaches, providing emergency shelter materials to those who have lost their houses is one of Oxfam's top priorities.
An estimated one million people in and around Port-au-Prince have lost their homes, forcing many into makeshift temporary camps. Oxfam is providing essentials ...
Reconstructing Haiti
A summary of recommendations for moving forward following the January 12, 2010 earthquake.
Oxfam relief efforts continue in Haiti
“Our entire world has changed”
Yolette Etienne, Oxfam’s country director in Haiti, lost her mother in the earthquake a week ago. She buried her the next day and went to work. Caroline Gluck ...
Haiti at risk
A country already struggling to overcome poverty reels.
Changing the way Americans prepare for the worst
What if we could pinpoint who’d be hardest hit by disasters? Thanks to social vulnerability mapping, we can.
Verapaz: four days after the landslide
With her camera, Oxfam America's Tjarda Muller records the devastation in one community in El Salvador following torrential rains.
Oxfam calls for radical shake-up of aid system to break cycle of hunger in Ethiopia
The water started to rise, and it did not stop
Three major storms struck Haiti in the space of two weeks, leaving devastation in their wake. Oxfam is providing relief supplies and clean water to those in ...
Emergency update: storms in Haiti
Oxfam continues to address water and sanitation problems in areas hit by hurricanes.
After the storms, travel is almost impossible in remote areas of Haiti
Olbert Nicolas, Oxfam's disaster risk reduction project officer describes his expedition from the water-logged Nippes Department to Port-au-Prince.
Overcrowded and desperate camps in Somalia, Kenya and Ethiopia “barely fit for humans”
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.
Cuba: Weathering the Storm
Lessons in risk reduction
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.
Sheltering people after disasters
Tsunami research brief: An assessment of shelter conditions in India that led to the release of government funds for repairs.
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