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- In Peru, women confront climate change with traditional gardens
- Can ancient knowledge help solve today’s problems? Indigenous women in the Amazon believe that it can—and to prove it, they’re going back to their roots.
- Looking to Sacha Inchi for their future
- How indigenous farmers are growing an ancient plant that promises to bring new opportunities—and money—to the central Amazonian jungle.
- Interactive map reveals “pressure points” of food price spikes on poor communities around the world
- OXFAMExchange Spring 2009
- The power of resilience
- People-centered resilience
- Working with vulnerable farmers towards climate change adaptation and food security
- Water is life
- High in the cloud forest of Piura, local communities understand the importance of the area's water and medicinal plants. They warn the proposed Rio Blanco ...
- Climate change wake-up call
- You know about global warming. You may already be doing your part to protect the environment. But, climate change is a human issue too—it's hitting the ...
- 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.
- New tool helps communities focus on human rights
- A new system will help community members do their own analysis of the effects of foreign investment on human rights.
- In Peru, farmers and shopkeepers wonder how they will begin again after destructive rains
- Heavy rainfall in Peru has caused flooding and left widespread damage, including the destruction of homes, crops, and small businesses.
- Rains across Peru destroy crops, small businesses, and thousands of homes
- Oxfam partner works to install toilets and distribute hygiene kits to families living in temporary shelters.
- Lifeblood at risk
- In northern Peru, small-scale farmers can earn more by growing organic products. They say the rush to mine for copper in the mountains above their farms would ...
- Muriel's story
- Muriel Saragoussi uses her voice to ensure that women's needs are taken into account in all environmental policies in Brazil.
- TCK TCK TCK - It's Time to Act on Climate Change
- With only 100 days to go until world leaders meet in Copenhagen to hammer out a global climate change treaty, Oxfam has launched a new video with Oxfam ...
- Climate change affecting Peru right now
- Farmers report changing weather and negative effects on livelihoods.
- New deadlines not enough to finalize a 'development' trade round
- Climate impacts could reverse progress in the fight against global poverty
- Suffering the Science
- Climate change, people, and poverty
- OXFAMExchange Winter 2009
- These are extraordinary times
- 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 ...
- "This is the future"
- After centuries of discrimination and a decade of legal work supported by Oxfam, the indigenous Chiquitano people of eastern Bolivia now have legal title to ...
- Grounds for Change
- Market volatility and declining terms of trade, along with inadequate access to infrastructure, financial resources, and market information, put sustainable ...
- The Majaz effect
- What is the likely environmental impact of Minera Majaz's proposed copper mine?
- Oxfam America president to Congress: Vote 'No' on US-Peru FTA
- Agreement would be bad for farmers, access to medicines, and sustainable development.
- OXFAMExchange Winter 2003
- Mary Robinson on human rights, functional literacy in West Africa, and saving the family farm
- OXFAMExchange Fall 2003
- Ross Gelbspan on Climate Change, The Fast for a World Harvest Turns 30, Hurricane Mitch Five Years Later
- OXFAMExchange Winter 2005
- Come Together: Building a movement to overcome poverty and change the world
- 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.
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