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- Small investments, big changes
- Oxfam America's Saving for Change program in Mali is helping more than 24,000 women save money, invest in small businesses, and become more active in their ...
- Fighting malaria is fighting poverty
- Organizing women in Saving for Change groups helps them to reduce the threat of malaria.
- Gradual change in the status of women
- Saving for Change doesn't just help women earn money—it is a means to change their role in the family and the village.
- Numbers don't lie
- Early success of innovative finance program impresses experts in Mali.
- Foraging and fainting: coping with drought in Ethiopia
- With nothing to eat, families wait for help.
- Double-Edged Prices
- Lessons from the food price crisis: 10 actions developing countries should take
- Joanna Manu: community activist in Ghana
- Joanna Manu learns how to defend her rights and stands firm in protecting the environment in her community.
- Land and heritage at risk in Ghana
- A proposal to mine in a forest reserve raises concerns about the environment and the future of a nearby farming community.
- Oxfam welcomes President Obama's food security announcement
- Pollution risk at new gold mine in Ghana exposed
- Journalist in Ghana writes about environmental risks, wins award.
- Oxfam America and ECOWAS to create new mining code
- Oxfam America and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) agreed on April 4, 2008 to collaborate on creating a common mining code for all of ...
- As food prices soar, hunger and unrest prompt global concern
- A convergence of factors, including high energy and fertilizer costs, sent global food prices spiraling upward in the spring of 2008, forcing families to make ...
- As food prices rise, Oxfam programs help decrease worry
- Combining two different programs, farmers are learning to share information, save profits, and grow more rice.
- Working harder, eating less
- Cambodia's people work more but eat less to cope with rising prices.
- A Billion Hungry People
- Governments and aid agencies must rise to the challenge
- OXFAMExchange Winter 2007
- Creating Peace
- OXFAMExchange Winter 2008
- Hard Questions about Ghana's Gold Boom
- OXFAMExchange Winter 2003
- Mary Robinson on human rights, functional literacy in West Africa, and saving the family farm
- OXFAMExchange Spring 2003
- Red Tomato, ethnic discrimination and the Mayan defense, clearing landmines in Afghanistan, and community radio breathes life into democracy in Senegal
- OXFAMExchange Spring 2004
- Engendering an Equitable Society: Focus on Women's Rights
- More valuable than gold
- Andrea Perera explores how, for those living on gold deposits in Ghana, free, prior, and informed consent means the right to define the terms of development ...
- Lure of clean water: some displaced Chadians may not return
- In temporary settlements in eastern Chad, displaced people have found some comfort in the new things around them: clean water and access to a large market.
- Like the baobabs, cereal banks help Gambians weather hard times
- Oxfam America and its local partners are helping Gambians in the North Bank and Western divisions of the country plan for bouts of destructive weather and the ...
- West African countries endorse regional mining sector policy
- Food on the table and savings on hand
- An innovative agriculture technique is producing 50-150 percent more rice and increasing the incomes of more than 80,000 people.
- Holding politicians accountable
- Oxfam America and CONGAD call on candidates to refocus the political debate on the fight against poverty and economic governance.
- Ghana's president promises disclosure of oil contracts
- Mills takes step toward greater transparency, regulation.
- Gambian villagers find hope in easy-to-fix hand pumps
- Through a series of emergency programs, Oxfam America and its local partners are helping Gambians in the North Bank and Western divisions of the country plan ...
- For resettled community, not all are satisfied with new home
- New clinic doesn't quite make up for lost lands, higher expenses for displaced farmers.
- Demolished Ghanaian village wins court decision
- Mining company gets bill for houses, school destroyed in 1997.
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