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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.
- Thank you from Oxfam and Ethiopian coffee farmers
- 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.
- Oxfam on the ground in Haiti: Scaling up
- 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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