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Fighting hunger in Mogadishu
In Somalia, Oxfam's partner SAACID is saving the lives of thousands of children.
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: ...
In the midst of famine, children survive with the help of Oxfam partner SAACID
Community therapeutic care centers across Somalia's capital are admitting more than 3,000 malnourished children every week.
Rain in drought-hit East Africa brings changing humanitarian needs
Despite the rain, and the relief it brings, emergency conditions will likely last well into 2012.
Interactive map reveals “pressure points” of food price spikes on poor communities around the world
Food price spikes
After decades of progress, the number of people without enough to eat has reversed course and is increasing. It could soon top one billion. That's more than ...
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.
Ethiopians find ways to fight back
OXFAMExchange Spring 2009
The power of resilience
People-centered resilience
Working with vulnerable farmers towards climate change adaptation and food security
Women's local knowledge is the key to an early warning system designed to lessen the impact of drought in Ethiopia.
When drought hits, herders in southern Ethiopia sometimes have no choice but to sell the animals on which they depend.
An improved irrigation channel in Ethiopia now delivers a steady supply of water to a small village called Shasha Korke.
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 ...
OXFAMExchange Fall 2009
Facing Down Hunger: The global food crisis one year later
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
Empty promises
What happened to 'development' in the WTO's Doha Round?
Climate impacts could reverse progress in the fight against global poverty
Suffering the Science
Climate change, people, and poverty
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.
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