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- Conflict in Darfur
- Oxfam is providing critical water, sanitation facilities, and hygiene supplies to hundreds of thousands of people in Darfur; we are also distributing ...
- A tiny seed and a big idea
- Insurance for Ethiopia's farmers
- Selas Samson Biru faces uncertainty with the seasons
- But with weather insurance she doesn't have to worry so much about her teff harvest.
- 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.
- In the grip of drought
- Ethiopians find ways to fight back
- OXFAMExchange Spring 2009
- The power of resilience
- Field Report from Southern Sudan
- Smart Development in Practice Series
- People-centered resilience
- Working with vulnerable farmers towards climate change adaptation and food security
- 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.
- 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 ...
- OXFAMExchange Fall 2009
- Facing Down Hunger: The global food crisis one year later
- 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.
- 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 ...
- 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
- 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 ...
- Ethiopia sets the stage for immediate response to global warming
- Leaders from government, NGOs, and the private sector come together to discuss creation of national policy.
- Pasture pressure
- Erratic rains and encroaching bush limits grasslands for herders in southern Ethiopia.
- A day in the life of an 18-year-old at Kalma camp
- A young woman named Halwa talks about how she passes the long days at Kalma camp—the temporary home for tens of thousands of displaced people in Darfur.
- A Darfur camp of mud bricks feels permanent
- A surge in building homes from mud bricks has eased a housing shortage, but accelerated a water shortage in western Sudan.
- Ethiopia celebrates Earth Day with films, lectures, and discussions
- Oxfam America helped to organize a three-day event that raised local awareness about the consequences of climate change in Ethiopia.
- OXFAMExchange Fall 2004
- Troubled Waters: Focus on Oxfam's water and sanitation work
- OXFAMExchange Winter 2005
- Come Together: Building a movement to overcome poverty and change the world
- Oxfam funds fuel-efficient stoves that help women
- A $132,000 program helps thousands of displaced women stay safer in Darfur by providing 4,200 households with fuel-efficient stoves.
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