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- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- 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
- 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.
- Peru overturns decrees, starts dialogue
- The government of Peru and indigenous citizens to move from conflict to dialogue on land rights and the best way to consult native people as they work to ...
- OXFAMExchange Winter 2009
- These are extraordinary times
- The singing wells of Dubluq
- How herders in southern Ethiopia find water for their cows in the deadly winter dry season.
- OXFAMExchange Fall 2008
- A root revolution in Cambodia
- Oxfam in South America
- To their government officials and to the corporations who want to exploit their lands and natural resources, the indigenous and rural people of South America ...
- Oxfam in the Horn of Africa
- Drought. Conflict. Low crop prices. These are among the realities that poor people across the Horn of Africa face on a daily basis. But with new tools for ...
- Yum! Brands agree to hike pay for Florida tomato pickers
- Florida tomato pickers, among some of the poorest paid workers in the United States, have won another victory in their fight to earn a decent living wage.
- US farmworkers reach historic agreement with McDonald's
- Some tomato pickers in southwestern Florida could see their wages nearly double now that McDonald's has agreed to pay them a penny a pound more for the produce ...
- Oxfam, CIW celebrate Burger King's promise of a wage hike
- A penny a pound more for the tomatoes they pick could mean a near doubling of wages for Florida field laborers.
- Farmers in the US speak out
- Farmers in the US and Central America had similar concerns about DR-CAFTA.
- A popular campaign
- US-based activists played a significant role in forcing Congress to examine the merits of DR-CAFTA.
- Our Land, Our Life
- The struggle of Carrie and Mary Dann, two Western Shoshone elders, to address the threat mining development poses to the sacred and environmentally sensitive ...
- Cultivating Poverty
- The impact of US cotton subsidies on Africa
- Fairness in the Fields
- A vision for the 2007 Farm Bill
- How Does the USDA Farm Bill Proposal Measure Up?
- Training and jobs to empower rural women
- The construction of greenhouses creates employment, which empowers them economically, while training leads to the emergence of new women leaders.
- Ethiopians, North American roasters move forward with trademark initiative
- In second meeting in three months, two sides discuss how to implement Ethiopia's control of its coffee brands.
- Seeds support AIDS orphans
- For the Nyuwani homestead, an increase in crop production is helping meet food needs for 22 children.
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