- ACT FAST with Oxfam
- The trend can seem unstoppable, but one person can make a difference. Pledge to ACT FAST with Oxfam today, and join a movement that's harnessing the power of numbers to beat poverty.
- ACT FAST with Oxfam
- We can beat poverty and hunger—but we’ve got to ACT FAST. When you pledge to ACT FAST with Oxfam, you agree to do three things. Each step builds on the power of numbers: 1, 10, 100. And each person who takes the pledge brings us closer to our goal of beating poverty.
- Tell Congress to co-sponsor the Lugar-Casey Global Food Security Act of 2009
- We need to stand up for the millions of people around the world who face hunger on a daily basis.
- Tell your representative to become a co-sponsor of the Initiating Foreign Assistance Reform Act of 2009 (HR 2139)
- This is our best chance to improve the way we tackle global poverty. But the bill won't pass without broad Congressional support.
- Host an Oxfam America Hunger Banquet® event
- Raise awareness and help fund Oxfam's work by hosting a Hunger Banquet® in your community! Few experiences bring to life the inequalities in our world more powerfully than an Oxfam America Hunger Banquet® event. Organizers and participants alike can experience firsthand how our decisions affect others in the world.
- Join Oxfam's Humanitarian Action Team
- Join a core group dedicated to creating lasting change by influencing US legislation on humanitarian issues such as the crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the earthquake in China, and the global food crisis.
- Giada de Laurentiis marks World Food Day with trip to Peru
- New deadlines not enough to finalize a 'development' trade round
- Faltering agricultural investments leaving two-thirds of rural poor behind
- Oxfam: More than 3 million face death while Berlusconi and the G8 fiddle
- Hope against hunger in Congressional action
- Global food crisis likely to worsen
- Oxfam welcomes President Obama's food security announcement
- OXFAMExchange Fall 2008
- A root revolution in Cambodia
- OXFAMExchange Spring 2008
- Raising a generation without fear
- Oxfam at a glance: Saving lives
- In an emergency, Oxfam’s objective is to save lives.
- OXFAMExchange Fall 2007
- Moving Toward Lasting Solutions in Gambia
- Saving Lives
- Disasters, and the way we respond to them, can be catalysts for social change—a chance to create lasting solutions to poverty and injustice.
- Working together to end poverty and injustice
- An overview of Oxfam America and our approach to poverty relief and lasting social change.
- 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 channeling water, building peace, and influencing markets, people are beginning to wrest control over their lives.
- People-centered resilience
- Working with vulnerable farmers towards climate change adaptation and food security
- Empty promises
- What happened to 'development' in the WTO's Doha Round?
- Investing in Poor Farmers Pays
- Rethinking how to invest in agriculture
- A Billion Hungry People
- Governments and aid agencies must rise to the challenge
- Double-Edged Prices
- Lessons from the food price crisis: 10 actions developing countries should take
- The Time is Now
- Global food prices are up 83 per cent compared with three years ago. Around the world, Oxfam International and many of its partners have seen soaring prices force people to eat less food or less nutritious food and drive poor households to cut back on health care, education, and other necessities. In this report, Oxfam lays out a plan for short and long-term responses to the crisis.
- Oxfam International Humanitarian Policy Notes
- These policy notes describe key issues for humanitarian organizations in the twenty-first century and provide recommendations derived from our experience working in the field as well as in the policy arena.
- Causing Hunger
- An overview of the food crisis in Africa
- In harm's way: Oxfam America's game on rethinking natural disasters
- Oxfam America Organizing Guide
- Tips for taking action in your community
- Oxfam America House Party Guide
- Tools for hosting a high-impact event
- 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 well-being of millions more people.
- ACT FAST with Oxfam
- We can beat hunger and poverty -- but we've got to ACT FAST. Pledge to ACT FAST with Oxfam today and help us add 5,000 new people to the movement by November 30.
- In the grip of drought
- Ethiopians find ways to fight back
- A tiny seed and a big idea
- Insurance for Ethiopia's farmers
- More water, more food
- An improved irrigation channel in Ethiopia now delivers a steady supply of water to a small village called Shasha Korke.
- A Seat at the Table
- Step into the world where food is often scarce and difficult decisions have to be made every day.
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Oxfam and local partners help farmers cope with crop failures, food shortages.
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.
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.
Food on the table and savings on hand
An innovative agriculture technique is producing 50-150 percent more rice and increasing the incomes of more than 80,000 people.
Cambodia's people work more but eat less to cope with rising prices.
As food prices rise, Oxfam programs help decrease worry
Combining two different programs, farmers are learning to share information, save profits, and grow more rice.
Foraging and fainting: coping with drought in Ethiopia
With nothing to eat, families wait for help.
Haiti no longer grows much of its own rice
Once almost self-sufficient, Haiti now imports 80 percent of the rice it consumes. A dramatic cut in import tariffs led to a drop in national rice production.
New irrigation channel changes lives in Shasha Korke
An improved system to share water helps Ethiopian farmers switch to growing fruit and vegetables, improving health and increasing incomes.
