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- OXFAMExchange, Winter 2012
- What if development took the kind of time and commitment it takes to raise a child? (It does.)
- Food Crisis in the Horn of Africa Progress Report, July 2011 - July 2012
- East Africa food crisis
- For many of the 13 million people affected by the food crisis that hit East Africa in mid-2011, the hardship is not over. Though good rains came to many areas ...
- In Peru, women confront climate change with traditional gardens
- Can ancient knowledge help solve today’s problems? Indigenous women in the Amazon believe that it can—and to prove it, they’re going back to their roots.
- A new law changes the landscape for Peru's indigenous people
- Oxfam and partners joined forces to support the consultation law, which gives communities greater decision-making power over their natural resources and ...
- 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.
- NFL superstars confront drought with visit to East Africa
- 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. ...
- 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 ...
- With insurance, loans, and confidence, this Ethiopian farmer builds her resilience
- Selas Samson Biru is using her entrepreneurial spirit--and the security she has from her insurance--to build a more secure future for her family.
- Nine hectares of hope: an irrigation project promises better harvests for Ethiopian farmers
- With the help of an Oxfam partner, local farmers have tapped well water to nourish their fields in the Central Rift Valley.
- 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.
- Where there's water, there's hope: Tapping the potential of a river in West Arsi
- For more than 400 farmers along the Gurracho River, water now flows in abundance to their fields through a new irrigation system.
- OXFAMExchange, Fall 2011
- Africa's last famine?
- Counting on the rain to continue—or weather insurance to help cover losses
- For Ethiopian farmer Gidey Mehari, when the opportunity to buy weather insurance for his crops arose, he jumped at the chance.
- Doubling his weather insurance, this Ethiopian farmer is happy for the security it provides
- "Anything can happen," says Alemu Tadesse. And that's why he is investing in weather insurance for some of his crops.
- 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: ...
- 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.
- The Right of Indigenous Peoples to Prior Consultation: The Situation in Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru
- This study illustrates the barriers to exercising the right to prior consultation and consent in each of these four countries, and is intended to encourage ...
- Anquan Boldin and Larry Fitzgerald team up with Oxfam
- NFL superstar wide receivers Anquan Boldin of the Baltimore Ravens and Larry Fitzgerald of the Arizona Cardinals are teaming up once again on a mission to ...
- Guatemala: Heart of our Mother Earth
- Indigenous Maya people in western Guatemala are calling on the government to suspend operations at the Marlin Mine, and investigate violent human rights ...
- Outwitting the fox: Women join forces to tackle poverty
- Oxfam’s Coco McCabe reports from Ethiopia on the efforts of a group of women in the Shashemene district to pool their resources and strengthen their community. ...
- World Food Program and USAID join together with Oxfam America and Swiss Re in public-private partnership
- 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.
- A tiny seed and a big idea
- 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.
- Horn of Africa Risk Transfer for Adaptation (HARITA) quarterly report: January 2011–March 2011
- Rural resilience series
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