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A new leader of concerned farmers in rural Ghana
Emilia Amoateng helps defend the rights of fellow villagers, presses a legal case for compensation for their lost farms.
Sahel food crisis: Farmers cope with food shortages
Confronted with a poor 2011 harvest, farmers find creative ways to earn money to buy food.
Sahel food crisis: Waiting for water--and the garden to grow--in Burkina Faso
Women in Burkina Faso are growing produce to feed their families and to sell, but getting access to enough water for the enterprise is a daily challenge.
Interactive map reveals “pressure points” of food price spikes on poor communities around the world
Working with women
Empowered women can change the world. At Oxfam America, that truth informs all our work, from our response to humanitarian emergencies to our campaigns for ...
Saving for Change now exceeds 500,000 members
Mali continues to lead rapid growth of innovative, savings-based microfinance program.
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 ...
Instead of tea: Respect
A savings group in Senegal breeds entrepreneurs and independence on just a few cents a week.
Oxfam Impact July 2009
A quarter million now Saving for Change
Women in Mali lead Saving for Change
An innovative savings and loan program is helping people work their own way out of extreme poverty. Women in Mali are leading the way as the program expands to ...
New deadlines not enough to finalize a 'development' trade round
Cocoa farmers threatened by gold mine
Farmers in a small town seem more interested in keeping their farms than selling out—but the struggle to protect their land will be a hard one.
From the US and Senegal, stories of climate survival
An Oxfam America speaking tour brings together two women who are leading the fight against climate change.
OXFAMExchange Fall 2007
Moving Toward Lasting Solutions in Gambia
Cultivating Poverty
The impact of US cotton subsidies on Africa
Fairness in the Fields
A vision for the 2007 Farm Bill
Small investments, big changes
Oxfam America's Saving for Change program in Mali is helping more than 24,000 women save money, invest in small businesses, and become more active in their ...
Fighting malaria is fighting poverty
Organizing women in Saving for Change groups helps them to reduce the threat of malaria.
Numbers don't lie
Early success of innovative finance program impresses experts in Mali.
Joanna Manu: community activist in Ghana
Joanna Manu learns how to defend her rights and stands firm in protecting the environment in her community.
OXFAMExchange Winter 2003
Mary Robinson on human rights, functional literacy in West Africa, and saving the family farm
OXFAMExchange Spring 2003
Red Tomato, ethnic discrimination and the Mayan defense, clearing landmines in Afghanistan, and community radio breathes life into democracy in Senegal
OXFAMExchange Spring 2004
Engendering an Equitable Society: Focus on Women's Rights
OXFAMExchange Fall 2005
The Chance to End Poverty
A lesson in rights
A crowded urban school benefits from strong ideals of peace, citizenship, and human rights.
Oxfam Impact February 2007
Small Investments, Big Changes
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