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- Business partnership promotes resilience and environmental preparedness
- PREP is a partnership formed to address the risks and opportunities climate change poses to businesses and communities.
- 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: 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
- In the grip of drought
- Ethiopians find ways to fight back
- Millions face hunger as drought sweeps East Africa
- Oxfam America is responding to the crisis with emergency assistance that includes food and cash-for-work programs that aim to help about 350,000 people.
- OXFAMExchange Spring 2009
- The power of resilience
- What’s in a stove?
- In Darfur, fuel-efficient stoves benefit the environment and much more.
- The Right to Survive
- The humanitarian challenge for the twenty-first century
- The new adaptation marketplace
- Climate change and opportunities for green economic growth
- A fresh look at the green economy
- Jobs that build resilience to climate change
- A race that together we're winning
- Oxfam's water and sanitation program in Haiti has so far reached more than 300,000 people. Engineer Kenny Rae tells the story of one team's work in the ...
- Fixing up the land, little by little
- Farmer Lucas Izapo says it could take three or four more years to recover his land. Part III of III
- Coffee cooperatives still rebuilding after Stan
- How Guatamalan coffee cooperatives are recovering from heavy rains. Part I of III
- Prone to fierce storms, Bangladesh works to improve its preparedness
- A native of Bangladesh, Latif Khan has lived through many cyclones—and has spent much of his professional life working on ways to help prevent the death and ...
- Signs point to success: reducing disaster risks in El Salvador
- Thorough planning helps everyone reach safety in emergencies, even in the poorest communities.
- The Andean challenge: getting there and catching your breath
- At 16,000 feet above sea level, the air is thin in the mountain hamlets of Peru. Oxfam America and its partner, Asociación Proyección, are reaching out to ...
- Calling Caylloma: mountain radio connects far-flung herders
- A newly installed network allows Peruvian herders to call for help fast.
- Forecasting a better future
- The progress of a village in India that participated in a study on rainfall illustrates the value of research in helping farming communities adapt to climate ...
- Improving the wells improves community health in flood-prone parts of El Salvador
- Capped wells lined with a volcanic-rock filter provide families in Salvadoran communities with clean drinking water.
- In Peru, Oxfam helps mountain hamlets prepare for the next bout of bad weather
- Acres of barley, gravity-fed sprinklers, and radio towers are some of the tools Oxfam has helped to provide Peruvian herders working high in the Andes.
- Oil spill presents array of threats to Gulf Coast
- Oxfam supports community efforts to respond to the spill.
- 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.
- Sharon's story
- Sharon Hanshaw helps women speak out and prepare for future storms in post-Hurricane Katrina Biloxi, MS
- Multi-agency report reveals disparity in living conditions for Louisianans
- A Portrait of Louisiana
- Louisiana Human Development Report 2009
- An open letter to the President
- Oxfam President Raymond C. Offenheiser appeals to President Obama to focus on key poverty-related issues.
- Oxfam in Central America, Mexico, and the Caribbean
- All across this diverse and beautiful territory, new faces of leadership are emerging. Women, rural communities, and small farmers are adding their voices to ...
- An Oxfam partner tackles hurricane disasters—past, present, and future
- Oxfam's local partner TRAC is joining hands with other agencies to ensure that hurricane Gustav recovery efforts are fair, coordinated, and forward-thinking.
- 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 ...
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