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- Caught on the wrong side of a gold boom
- Farmers in Ghana talk candidly about the impact of gold mining on their communities and how to hold mining companies and government accountable.
- Dead fish and acid pollution point to cyanide in stream
- Farmers in Ghana affected by chemical spill call on government to investigate and punish polluters.
- 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.
- Nana Kojo Kondua IV, Job Creator
- Village Chief Kojo Kondua IV is leveraging a tiny investment of US foreign aid to train fishermen and to protect jobs and the environment in Abuesi, Ghana.
- Don't cut aid. It's working.
- Cutting aid won't solve our budget problems--but it will close the door on a safer world and a better future.
- Power of Oil Palm
- Land grabbing and impacts associated with the expansion of oil palm crops in Guatemala: The case of the Palmas del Ixcán company.
- By leveraging a tiny U.S. investment, people like Emiliana Aligaesha, Nana Kojo Kondua IV, Manuel Dominguez, and Martha Kwataine are creating a sound future ...
- Sahel food crisis: Where are we at the end of 2012?
- Good rainfall and better harvests have provided some relief, but challenges still remain as families work hard to recover.
- Rural women farmers rally for food security in El Salvador
- Healthy food and a sustainable way to produce it were among the goals of women who marched on World Food Day in San Salvador.
- Food-for-work program allows families in El Salvador to recover from disaster
- Oxfam, together with five local organizations and the World Food Programme, helped communities recover while they prepare.
- Sahel food crisis: "Now I have peace"
- Rather than distribute food to the hungry in Senegal, Oxfam partners are providing something even more valuable in an emergency: cash.
- OXFAMExchange, Winter 2012
- What if development took the kind of time and commitment it takes to raise a child? (It does.)
- Solidarity and sharing: How Chadians cope in a food crisis
- When one family in a community receives food during a distribution, many others often share a portion of it.
- 2011 El Salvador floods
- In October 2011, a torrential, nine-day storm caused massive flooding, but Oxfam's decade-long investment in El Salvador deepened the capacity of partners and ...
- Oxfam America, together with five local organizations and the World Food Programme, helped communities recover from one emergency while they prepare for future ...
- 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: Senegalese singer Baaba Maal performs benefit concert
- Maal visits drought-affected communities to raise awareness in growing Sahel crisis
- Sahel food crisis: Dry times in 2011 threaten ability to plant in 2012
- A farmer recounts the struggle to grow food and prepare for the 2012 growing season
- 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.
- Oxfam responds as hundreds of thousands flee Ivory Coast capital
- Fifty tons of relief supplies delivered to neighboring Liberia.
- Guatemalan government continues to ignore ruling of human rights commission
- Public events put spotlight on non-compliance with precautionary measures recommendation.
- Guatemalan human rights and environmental advocates under threat
- Oxfam calls on government to ensure safety of CALAS officials and investigate origins of death threats.
- Women living with uncertainty and high food prices
- The constant rise in the price of staples affects women in El Salvador on a daily basis. With gardens, some women have found a way to ease the burden.
- Saving lives: Oxfam partners take center stage
- Oxfam invests in the strengths of local communities and partners. When rainfall from a tropical depression triggered a massive emergency in El Salvador, our ...
- Conflict in Mali disrupts fragile food markets and threatens to escalate food crisis in West Africa
- In Kolda, Senegal, farmers are struggling to feed their families
- The last harvest of peanuts, a major cash crop in this region, plummeted by 60 percent leaving families with little money to buy the food they need.
- Food security concerns at World Food Day events in Ghana
- Land grabs for biofuels, and gender inequity take center stage.
- Marlin Mine: Violence and pollution lead to call for suspension
- Concerns about human rights violations and the environment in Guatemala lead indigenous communities to seek a suspension of mine operations in western ...
- At the heart of the El Salvador flood response: partnership
- When a major storm strikes El Salvador, preparedness and local partnerships make all the difference.
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