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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 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.
Haiti: a grain milling operation offers an economic lifeline for women
To help tackle unemployment and ensure families have access to food, Oxfam is working with a women's group to modernize and expand a service center.
In the grip of drought
Ethiopians find ways to fight back
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
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 ...
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.
Travelling down West Salvation Road
Travel in Darfur requires patience and time. Often, riding on the back of a donkey is the most reliable way to get where you want to go.
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
A Seat at the Table
Step into the world where food is often scarce and difficult decisions have to be made every day.
Multi-agency report reveals disparity in living conditions for Louisianans
A Portrait of Louisiana
Louisiana Human Development Report 2009
New report reveals shared experiences of African Americans and Latinos
His childhood lost to war, teenager starts new life in Congo
A former child soldier, this young man now supports himself as a furniture-maker in a small shop in Goma.
Microinsurance builds resilience after tsunami
Fishing families in Andhra Pradesh, India are relying on microinsurance to keep them out of debt to money lenders and help them save a little of what they earn.
The Coir Industry in the Southern Province of Sri Lanka
A tsunami research journal article
Improving livelihoods after disasters
Tsunami research brief: Studies of paddy agriculture and the coconut fiber industry in Sri Lanka point to ways aid providers can help improve incomes.
An open letter to the President
Oxfam President Raymond C. Offenheiser appeals to President Obama to focus on key poverty-related issues.
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