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- 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.
- What’s in a stove?
- In Darfur, fuel-efficient stoves benefit the environment and much more.
- 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 ...
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- Just a boy: meeting child soldiers in eastern Congo
- Humanitarian press officer Rebecca Wynn reports from eastern Congo, where a wave of violence has forced more than 250,000 people to flee their homes since ...
- Zimbabwe: hopes for a better 2009
- A new year's celebration hardly masks the troubles countless people face in a country crippled by hyperinflation and a cholera outbreak.
- Building Common Ground
- How shared attitudes and concerns can create alliances between African-Americans and Latinos in a post-Katrina New Orleans
- Oxfam in the Horn of Africa
- Drought. Conflict. Low crop prices. These are among the realities that poor people across the Horn of Africa face on a daily basis. But with new tools for ...
- 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.
- A Portrait of Mississippi
- Mississippi Human Development Report 2009
- Cuba: Emerging from the crisis
- After 15 years of economic crisis, Cuba is still facing significant challenges. But there are real signs that Cuba is starting to move forward.
- Oxfam in Cuba
- After 15 years of economic crisis, Cuba is still facing significant challenges. But there are real signs that Cuba is starting to move forward.
- Hope for rural Afghans
- Education is the basis for a rural development project that has helped put food on the table for people in the Daikundi and Bamiyan provinces, where ...
- In cyclone-ravaged Bangladesh, worst may be yet to come
- As Bangladesh begins to recover from Cyclone Sidr, a changing climate means that more disasters lie ahead.
- Mountain-grown barley helps Peru herders keep their alpacas strong
- Herders at high altitudes are now growing fields of barley and oats to help tide their livestock over during harsh winter weather.
- Letting gravity do the work, Oxfam irrigates pastures in Peru
- Sprinklers help herders grow grass for their alpacas in the Andes.
- Floods in Mexico: Punting in a baseball playground
- Hundreds of thousands of people living near Mexico's Gulf Coast were displaced when heavy rains pounded the area and rivers overflowed their banks.
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