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- The Rice Value Chain in Haiti
- Policy Proposal
- 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.
- Majeda Begum Shiru, Local Leader
- A formerly quiet woman is leveraging a tiny investment of US foreign aid to enable women to speak loudly and powerfully to improve health and education in ...
- 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.
- 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 ...
- 1.3 million rice farmers now using innovative growing methods in Vietnam
- Oxfam support for System of Rice Intensification helping to change lives of farmers.
- 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 ...
- Tanzania’s female food heroes transform the landscape
- Oxfam leads a contest that puts the stories of women like Martha Waziri in the national spotlight.
- Speaking up for North Carolina's tobacco pickers
- Many still face unhealthy and difficult working conditions; Oxfam and partners helped them make their case to companies in 2012.
- 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.
- Haiti Rice Value Chain Assessment
- Rapid diagnosis and implications for program design
- Our Land Our Lives
- In the past decade an area of land eight times the size of the UK has been sold off globally as land sales rapidly accelerate. This land could feed a billion ...
- GROW: Food. Justice. Planet.
- An overview of Oxfam's global GROW campaign
- OXFAMExchange, Winter 2012
- What if development took the kind of time and commitment it takes to raise a child? (It does.)
- Sahel food crisis: Farmers cope with food shortages
- Confronted with a poor 2011 harvest, farmers find creative ways to earn money to buy food.
- Oxfam responds as hundreds of thousands flee Ivory Coast capital
- Fifty tons of relief supplies delivered to neighboring Liberia.
- In northern Ethiopia, weather insurance offers a buffer against drought
- A growing number of families have signed up for weather insurance to protect their crop investments from insufficient rainfall.
- Swiss Re and Oxfam America launch joint risk management initiative for farmers in Tigray, Ethiopia
- Swiss Re and Oxfam America have announced a joint Commitment to Action at the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) 2008 meeting in New York on 23 - 26 September. ...
- Crises in a New World Order: Challenging the humanitarian project
- The growing number of vulnerable people, the rise in disasters, and the failure to put most fragile states on the path to development, will significantly ...
- With irrigation, herders in southern Ethiopia turn to farming
- A small-scale irrigation project along the banks of the Dawa River is helping some herders grow enough food to feed their families--even as drought ravages ...
- 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 ...
- More than 1 million growers are now embracing innovative approaches to producing more rice
- System of Rice Intensification helps small-scale farmers in Vietnam.
- Ethiopian farmers get a payout, easing effects of drought
- With cash from the weather insurance policies they bought through an innovative program, farmers from Tigray can now plan for the future.
- OXFAMExchange, Fall 2011
- Africa's last famine?
- 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: ...
- Mechanical Advantage
- A new weeding tool for Cambodian rice farmers combined with innovative growing techniques leads to harvests double in size.
- Land grabs push thousands further into poverty
- Large-scale land grabs threaten poor communities' access to food. In such deals, small-scale farmers are forced to leave their land, their homes, and their ...
- Looking to Sacha Inchi for their future
- How indigenous farmers are growing an ancient plant that promises to bring new opportunities—and money—to the central Amazonian jungle.
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