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- The new adaptation marketplace
- Climate change and opportunities for green economic growth
- Oxfam, local advocates protest plan to cut housing money
- Using money earmarked for housing restoration is not the way to pay for a port expansion—not when hurricane victims still have no real homes to move into.
- Impact of climate change on response providers and socially vulnerable communities in the US
- Federal disaster programs, plans, and policies seldom address climate change or social vulnerability. Homeland security policy could be revised to accommodate ...
- A house for Miss Betty
- An innovative housing program in the US Gulf Coast led by Oxfam America partner TRAC is taking housing in flood-prone areas to new heights.
- Coffee cooperatives still rebuilding after Stan
- How Guatamalan coffee cooperatives are recovering from heavy rains. Part I of III
- 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.
- 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.
- Ten Point Plan to Change Course in Afghanistan
- Oxfam America's memo to President Obama
- 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
- Food crisis in Guatemala
- Oxfam and local partners help farmers cope with crop failures, food shortages.
- 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
- An open letter to the President
- Oxfam President Raymond C. Offenheiser appeals to President Obama to focus on key poverty-related issues.
- OXFAMExchange Winter 2009
- These are extraordinary times
- 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.
- After the storm: Oxfam takes stock, rushes in aid
- Gustav hit trailers and vulnerable homes the hardest.
- Some people dread evacuations almost as much as hurricanes
- Leaving home in advance of a storm is costly and exhausting. Facing the prospect of having to do it more than once in short order makes some residents think ...
- Building Common Ground
- How shared attitudes and concerns can create alliances between African-Americans and Latinos in a post-Katrina New Orleans
- 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 ...
- The Lift House: Living on the bayou—or above it
- MIT architecture students design a new housing concept for the Gulf Coast that combines affordability with hurricane-ready sturdiness, and ease of construction.
- New report documents the fading of the American dream
- New index is a single measure of well-being for all Americans based on indicators in three key areas: health, education and income.
- Group lives up to its name: Coastal Women for Change
- Gulf Coast women join together to talk about what was happening in their community, what issues and problems they faced, and how these could be addressed.
- Designed to last, new "Lift House" holds promise for Louisiana
- A new concept takes shape and offers hope for residents of the Gulf that future hurricanes might inflict less, if any, property damage.
- A force of nature
- Three years after losing everything in Hurricane Katrina, one grassroots leader is harnessing the power of community.
- Oxfam Impact September/October 2006
- Rebuilding the Gulf Coast: A Year Later
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