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- 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
- Sahel food crisis: Waiting for water--and the garden to grow--in Burkina Faso
- Women in Burkina Faso are growing produce to feed their families and to sell, but getting access to enough water for the enterprise is a daily challenge.
- In Kolda, Senegal, farmers are struggling to feed their families
- The last harvest of peanuts, a major cash crop in this region, plummeted by 60 percent leaving families with little money to buy the food they need.
- Struggle in Sahel: 'If there's no pasture, nothing works'
- 'We've stayed on our ancestors' land and we've put up with everything, but if rain doesn't come, life would turn into a nightmare," says Koubra Hamid.
- As food crisis looms, the lean season hits early in northern Senegal
- An Oxfam team assesses the conditions around a group of small villages where many of the food reserves are now exhausted.
- 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.
- Saving Lives 24/7: Flood response in Senegal
- Emergency fund allows fast response to severe flooding in suburbs of Dakar.
- The new adaptation marketplace
- Climate change and opportunities for green economic growth
- People-centered resilience
- Working with vulnerable farmers towards climate change adaptation and food security
- A set of simple water pumps improves life in a Gambian village
- 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.
- Food crisis grips Sahel region of West Africa, 10 million affected
- Poor rains last year reduced the size of harvests and dried out pastureland across the region.
- 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.
- Along the coast of El Salvador, families take steps to cope with climate change
- Oxfam and other aid groups is working with local activists to bring issues to the attention of the Salvadoran government.
- Hardest hit: Louisiana
- A house built on pilings – a lift house – can withstand hurricane-force winds and rains.
- Hardest hit: El Salvador
- “Healthy wells,” tightly sealed to keep out contamination after floods, provide clean drinking and cooking water for families.
- 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 ...
- Oxfam in West Africa
- Across the vast Sahel and down through the lush rainforests of Ghana, there is a growing sense of possibility.
- The singing wells of Dubluq
- How herders in southern Ethiopia find water for their cows in the deadly winter dry season.
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- 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 ...
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- Moving Toward Lasting Solutions in Gambia
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- A Fragile Balance
- Pasture pressure
- Erratic rains and encroaching bush limits grasslands for herders in southern Ethiopia.
- Lure of clean water: some displaced Chadians may not return
- In temporary settlements in eastern Chad, displaced people have found some comfort in the new things around them: clean water and access to a large market.
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