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- 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.
- 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.
- Doubling his weather insurance, this Ethiopian farmer is happy for the security it provides
- "Anything can happen," says Alemu Tadesse. And that's why he is investing in weather insurance for some of his crops.
- A tiny seed and a big idea
- Insurance for Ethiopia's farmers
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 ...
- Ethiopian coffee farmers show commitment to trademark initiative
- Hundreds turn out and ask Starbucks to respect their rights.
- Ethiopian farmers meet with importers and roasters
- In Addis Ababa, both sides discuss how Ethiopian farmers can gain more control over their coffee names, and get a bigger share of the profits.
- Thank you from Oxfam and Ethiopian coffee farmers
- Starbucks and Ethiopia finalized a trademark agreement, ending their dispute and bringing both sides together in partnership to help Ethiopian farmers.
- Starbucks campaign: Anatomy of a win
- How Oxfam and Ethiopian farmers coaxed a groundbreaking agreement out of Starbucks.
- New deadlines not enough to finalize a 'development' trade round
- Empty promises
- What happened to 'development' in the WTO's Doha Round?
- 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 ...
- Ethiopians, North American roasters move forward with trademark initiative
- In second meeting in three months, two sides discuss how to implement Ethiopia's control of its coffee brands.
- An Ethiopian coffee advocate speaks
- Keynote Address from the United Students for Fair Trade Convergence 2006 in Denver, Colorado
- "Black Gold" illustrates coffee farmers' plight
- Documentary film tells the story through Oxfam's Ethiopian partner.
- Tadesse Meskela helps connect consumers and Ethiopian coffee growers
- Market factors cut coffee farmers out of their fair share of profit for a commodity that's worth an estimated $80 billion a year in retail sales.
- Grounds for Change
- Market volatility and declining terms of trade, along with inadequate access to infrastructure, financial resources, and market information, put sustainable ...
- Seasonal flooding in Gambella leaves thousands of Ethiopians needing help
- When two rivers spilled their banks, the consequences were severe.
- OXFAMExchange Spring 2002
- Oxfam launches the Make Trade Fair campaign
- OXFAMExchange Winter 2005
- Come Together: Building a movement to overcome poverty and change the world
- Coffee farmers' determination inspires action
- Despite challenges, coffee campaign manager finds reasons for hope.
- With early warning, small problems in Ethiopia won't grow
- Around the southern Ethiopia border town of Moyale, where herders compete to eke a living from often-parched pasture land, a mysterious disease is slowly ...
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