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- 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.
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- The power of resilience
- Field Report from Southern Sudan
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- 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.
- 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.
- 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 ...
- 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.
- New deadlines not enough to finalize a 'development' trade round
- 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.
- 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 ...
- 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.
- Pasture pressure
- Erratic rains and encroaching bush limits grasslands for herders in southern Ethiopia.
- "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.
- 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.
- Grounds for Change
- Market volatility and declining terms of trade, along with inadequate access to infrastructure, financial resources, and market information, put sustainable ...
- In Liben, herders find local solutions to local problems
- A community reaches out to Oxfam in the spirit of partnership.
- 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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- Troubled Waters: Focus on Oxfam's water and sanitation work
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- Come Together: Building a movement to overcome poverty and change the world
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- The Chance to End Poverty
- 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.
- Home is a shelter of straw and plastic
- Omar Bukhari Ahmed, his two wives, and their nine children live in a makeshift shelter a few miles from their home in North Darfur while they wait for safety ...
- Global ambitions
- A steady supply of water expands horizons for farmer in Ethiopia.
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