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- 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.
- International Labour Organization urges suspension of mining operations in Guatemala
- UN bodies push the government on rights violations in mining cases.
- 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.
- Troop surge in Afghanistan must not endanger civilians, warn aid agencies
- Caught in the Conflict
- Civilians and the international security strategy in Afghanistan
- Rankin in Congo: 'Their humanity was what I wanted people to notice'
- In 2009, celebrity photographer Rankin returned to Congo where he captured the love stories and portraits of people struggling through years of conflict in the ...
- 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.
- The struggle continues in Ghana
- Members of a farmers’ group continue their long struggle to claim their rights in court, but one farmer loses everything in a surprise legal move.
- Protect and serve or train and equip?
- US security assistance and protection of civilians
- President Karzai’s new government must deliver on schools, midwives and police say aid agencies
- 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
- New deadlines not enough to finalize a 'development' trade round
- Crisis in Honduras: Oxfam expresses concerns
- Following the arrest and expulsion of Honduran President Manuel Zelaya on June 29, Oxfam is closely following events in the country.
- Obama's visit to Africa: Time for a new partnership founded on transparency and shared responsibility
- 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.
- Oxfam calls on mining company to respect human rights
- Faltering agricultural investments leaving two-thirds of rural poor behind
- Investing in Poor Farmers Pays
- Rethinking how to invest in agriculture
- Update on protection of civilians in eastern Congo's peace process
- 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.
- An open letter to the President
- Oxfam President Raymond C. Offenheiser appeals to President Obama to focus on key poverty-related issues.
- OXFAMExchange Winter 2009
- These are extraordinary times
- Escalation of the crisis in Congo: November 2008
- A fresh wave of conflict in eastern Congo has forced a new round of displacement and violence.
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