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- OXFAMExchange, Winter 2012
- What if development took the kind of time and commitment it takes to raise a child? (It does.)
- Food Crisis in the Horn of Africa Progress Report, July 2011 - July 2012
- 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 ...
- With insurance, loans, and confidence, this Ethiopian farmer builds her resilience
- Selas Samson Biru is using her entrepreneurial spirit--and the security she has from her insurance--to build a more secure future for her family.
- Nine hectares of hope: an irrigation project promises better harvests for Ethiopian farmers
- With the help of an Oxfam partner, local farmers have tapped well water to nourish their fields in the Central Rift Valley.
- Where there's water, there's hope: Tapping the potential of a river in West Arsi
- For more than 400 farmers along the Gurracho River, water now flows in abundance to their fields through a new irrigation system.
- Counting on the rain to continue—or weather insurance to help cover losses
- For Ethiopian farmer Gidey Mehari, when the opportunity to buy weather insurance for his crops arose, he jumped at the chance.
- 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: ...
- Rain in drought-hit East Africa brings changing humanitarian needs
- Despite the rain, and the relief it brings, emergency conditions will likely last well into 2012.
- 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.
- Hardest hit: Ethiopia
- A women-led early warning system helps herding families in the southern part of the country find ways to cope with drought.
- 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.
- Hardest hit: Survival strategies from the frontlines of climate change
- Learn how four communities around the world are fighting back against climate change, and how you can help.
- Drought early warning in Ethiopia
- Women's local knowledge is the key to an early warning system designed to lessen the impact of drought in Ethiopia.
- Hard earth, hard choices
- When drought hits, herders in southern Ethiopia sometimes have no choice but to sell the animals on which they depend.
- More water, more food
- An improved irrigation channel in Ethiopia now delivers a steady supply of water to a small village called Shasha Korke.
- In Prestea, Ghana, gold mine expansion threatens water sources
- Communities are requesting a comprehensive evaluation of the impact of a new mining project and for their right to free, prior, and informed consent regarding ...
- 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 ...
- The singing wells of Dubluq
- How herders in southern Ethiopia find water for their cows in the deadly winter dry season.
- OXFAMExchange Fall 2008
- A root revolution in Cambodia
- 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 ...
- Pasture pressure
- Erratic rains and encroaching bush limits grasslands for herders in southern Ethiopia.
- Building a better well
- Steady supply of water in rehabilitated well brings joy to a community in southern Ethiopia.
- Oxfam offers help to Ethiopians scrambling for water
- Oxfam's programs are aimed at solutions to the region's severe water shortages.
- Chile: Struggling for the right to decide
- Farmers use the law to defend their water and their rights—but can't block a massive tailings dam.
- Drought in Ethiopia brings hardship
- Herders and the animals they depend on for survival are suffering through a dry spell.
- Conflict surrounds expansion of Peru gold mine
- Local communities turn to legal measures to protect land, water.
- OXFAMExchange Fall 2002
- What's in your coffee? Oxfam's coffee campaign. Plus Afghanistan, Make Trade Fair campaign, and the Hopi people's struggle for clean, safe drinking water.
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