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- Sahel food crisis: Where are we at the end of 2012?
- Good rainfall and better harvests have provided some relief, but challenges still remain as families work hard to recover.
- Sahel food crisis: "Now I have peace"
- Rather than distribute food to the hungry in Senegal, Oxfam partners are providing something even more valuable in an emergency: cash.
- Solidarity and sharing: How Chadians cope in a food crisis
- When one family in a community receives food during a distribution, many others often share a portion of it.
- Sahel food crisis: Farmers cope with food shortages
- Confronted with a poor 2011 harvest, farmers find creative ways to earn money to buy food.
- Sahel food crisis: Senegalese singer Baaba Maal performs benefit concert
- Maal visits drought-affected communities to raise awareness in growing Sahel crisis
- Sahel food crisis: Dry times in 2011 threaten ability to plant in 2012
- A farmer recounts the struggle to grow food and prepare for the 2012 growing season
- Sahel food crisis: Waiting for water--and the garden to grow--in Burkina Faso
- Women in Burkina Faso are growing produce to feed their families and to sell, but getting access to enough water for the enterprise is a daily challenge.
- Conflict in Mali disrupts fragile food markets and threatens to escalate food crisis in West Africa
- In Kolda, Senegal, farmers are struggling to feed their families
- The last harvest of peanuts, a major cash crop in this region, plummeted by 60 percent leaving families with little money to buy the food they need.
- Food security concerns at World Food Day events in Ghana
- Land grabs for biofuels, and gender inequity take center stage.
- Struggle in Sahel: 'If there's no pasture, nothing works'
- 'We've stayed on our ancestors' land and we've put up with everything, but if rain doesn't come, life would turn into a nightmare," says Koubra Hamid.
- As food crisis looms, the lean season hits early in northern Senegal
- An Oxfam team assesses the conditions around a group of small villages where many of the food reserves are now exhausted.
- Saving Lives 24/7: Flood response in Senegal
- Emergency fund allows fast response to severe flooding in suburbs of Dakar.
- People-centered resilience
- Working with vulnerable farmers towards climate change adaptation and food security
- The rains have come, but food crisis continues to afflict West Africa, hitting Chad hard
- With harvests still weeks away, Oxfam is increasingly concerned about the situation in western Chad.
- Coping during the hungry season in Gambia
- Nyama Filly Fofana leads the way.
- Food crisis grips Sahel region of West Africa, 10 million affected
- Poor rains last year reduced the size of harvests and dried out pastureland across the region.
- Take Action: Global Food Crisis
- Already 854 million people on our planet suffer from hunger. Now, as food prices climb high and fast, conditions are becoming worse and threatening the ...
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- Facing Down Hunger: The global food crisis one year later
- Obama's visit to Africa: Time for a new partnership founded on transparency and shared responsibility
- Oxfam in West Africa
- Across the vast Sahel and down through the lush rainforests of Ghana, there is a growing sense of possibility.
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- Moving Toward Lasting Solutions in Gambia
- 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 ...
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