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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 ...
- Conflicts on the border
- The response to the emergencies in the border areas has been extraordinarily complicated, but Oxfam is working hard with refugees and people displaced within ...
- OXFAMExchange, Winter 2012
- What if development took the kind of time and commitment it takes to raise a child? (It does.)
- 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.
- 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: ...
- 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.
- 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.
- In the grip of drought
- Ethiopians find ways to fight back
- 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.
- More water, more food
- An improved irrigation channel in Ethiopia now delivers a steady supply of water to a small village called Shasha Korke.
- 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 ...
- Take Action: Global Food Crisis
- Already 854 million people on our planet suffer from hunger. Now, as food prices climb high and fast, conditions are becoming worse and threatening the ...
- New irrigation channel changes lives in Shasha Korke
- An improved system to share water helps Ethiopian farmers switch to growing fruit and vegetables, improving health and increasing incomes.
- Camp conditions in Somalia are among worst this aid worker has ever seen
- Shelter, clean water, food, medicine—all of these are needed in camps for displaced people in Somalia.
- The singing wells of Dubluq
- How herders in southern Ethiopia find water for their cows in the deadly winter dry season.
- 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.
- Coffee growers earn a better price, protect the environment
- Oxfam America invests in eco-friendly coffee processing, and helps farmers grow a world-class crop.
- Seasonal flooding in Gambella leaves thousands of Ethiopians needing help
- When two rivers spilled their banks, the consequences were severe.
- Oxfam offers help to Ethiopians scrambling for water
- Oxfam's programs are aimed at solutions to the region's severe water shortages.
- 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.
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