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- 1.3 million rice farmers now using innovative growing methods in Vietnam
- Oxfam support for System of Rice Intensification helping to change lives of farmers.
- Tanzania’s female food heroes transform the landscape
- Oxfam leads a contest that puts the stories of women like Martha Waziri in the national spotlight.
- Rural women farmers rally for food security in El Salvador
- Healthy food and a sustainable way to produce it were among the goals of women who marched on World Food Day in San Salvador.
- Haiti Rice Value Chain Assessment
- Rapid diagnosis and implications for program design
- Our Land Our Lives
- In the past decade an area of land eight times the size of the UK has been sold off globally as land sales rapidly accelerate. This land could feed a billion ...
- GROW: Food. Justice. Planet.
- An overview of Oxfam's global GROW campaign
- OXFAMExchange, Winter 2012
- What if development took the kind of time and commitment it takes to raise a child? (It does.)
- Sahel food crisis: Farmers cope with food shortages
- Confronted with a poor 2011 harvest, farmers find creative ways to earn money to buy food.
- In northern Ethiopia, weather insurance offers a buffer against drought
- A growing number of families have signed up for weather insurance to protect their crop investments from insufficient rainfall.
- With irrigation, herders in southern Ethiopia turn to farming
- A small-scale irrigation project along the banks of the Dawa River is helping some herders grow enough food to feed their families--even as drought ravages ...
- More than 1 million growers are now embracing innovative approaches to producing more rice
- System of Rice Intensification helps small-scale farmers in Vietnam.
- Ethiopian farmers get a payout, easing effects of drought
- With cash from the weather insurance policies they bought through an innovative program, farmers from Tigray can now plan for the future.
- OXFAMExchange, Fall 2011
- Africa's last famine?
- A new way of life on the Dawa
- Drought is making it difficult for herding families in southern Ethiopia to earn a living from their livestock. Some people have decided to try a new approach: ...
- Mechanical Advantage
- A new weeding tool for Cambodian rice farmers combined with innovative growing techniques leads to harvests double in size.
- Land grabs push thousands further into poverty
- Large-scale land grabs threaten poor communities' access to food. In such deals, small-scale farmers are forced to leave their land, their homes, and their ...
- Interactive map reveals “pressure points” of food price spikes on poor communities around the world
- A tiny seed and a big idea
- Insurance for Ethiopia's farmers
- Selas Samson Biru faces uncertainty with the seasons
- But with weather insurance she doesn't have to worry so much about her teff harvest.
- Gebru Kahsay relies on rain but has the security of insurance
- If harvests fail because of poor rain, some teff farmers in Ethiopia now have a back-up plan.
- Weather insurance offers Ethiopian farmers hope—despite drought
- For the first time, poor farmers can now buy insurance for teff, a staple grain that feeds their families.
- Medhin Reda's best asset is her own hard work
- This farmer is trading her labor for an insurance premium to cover her teff.
- Turning the Tables
- Global trends in public agricultural investments
- More rice for people, more water for the planet
- System of Rice Intensification (SRI)
- Halving Hunger: Still Possible?
- Building a rescue package to set the Millennium Development Goals back on track
- Bold commitment to innovation
- Le Ngoc Thach made a commitment–and a guarantee–to help farmers grow more rice.
- The ones who feed the world
- During a US speaking tour organized by Oxfam, four international farmers find common ground with their Iowa counterparts.
- More water, more food
- An improved irrigation channel in Ethiopia now delivers a steady supply of water to a small village called Shasha Korke.
- 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 ...
- 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.
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