- Tell Congress: Don't cut aid. It's working.
- American poverty-fighting assistance saves lives and helps millions of people lift themselves out of poverty, all for less than 1% of the federal budget. Cutting aid won't close the budget gap -- but it will close the door on a better future for the world's most vulnerable communities. Speak up with us now: Tell Congress to oppose any cuts to lifesaving foreign aid.
- Speak up now: Be a voice for peace in Sudan and South Sudan
- After a year of independence in South Sudan, the world’s newest country is in the midst of deepening humanitarian disaster. We’re standing with the people of Sudan and South Sudan for stability, development and a lasting peace. Join us.
- Tell Congress: Stop playing with our food
- Right now, more than 50 percent of the aid money the government spends on basic food grains is wasted. Speak up now: Tell Congress to fix food aid and use more of our tax dollars to fight hunger and poverty.
- Support effective, efficient aid programs – they save lives.
- Right now, forty percent of the world’s population – more than 2.5 billion people – live in poverty, struggling to survive on less than $2 per day. The persistence of global poverty poses a challenge to the security, prosperity and values of the United States. Cuts to the world's most vulnerable communities have real impacts. Tell Congress we won't stand by while they make cuts that will cost lives.
- Fight hunger: Invest in women farmers!
- The people who grow the world’s food are going hungry. Women grow the majority of food in developing countries, but due to unequal access to resources like land and credit, they can’t feed their families. Today, almost one in every six people worldwide suffer from hunger, a problem expected to worsen as climate change disrupts weather and farming cycles.
- 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.
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- Oxfam Fact Sheet: GROW Campaign
- You might think hunger is about too many people and too little food. That is not the case. Hunger is about power. Its roots lie in inequalities to resources and opportunities.
- Haiti Progress Report 2010: Summary
- Oxfam's relief operation in Haiti following the January 2010 quake has been one of the organization's largest and most complex efforts. This report summarizes our progress.
- Oxfam Fact Sheet: Food Crisis in East Africa
- Across Ethiopia, Kenya, and Somalia, a severe drought and food crisis have ensnared more than 13 million people. Get the facts and find out what you can do to help.
- Earthquake in Haiti Fact Sheet
- In the months following the devastating earthquake in Haiti, Oxfam's urgent mission has been to help the people of Port-au-Prince, and beyond, meet their basic needs—not only to ensure their survival but to uphold their dignity.
- Food crisis in West Africa
- The Sahel region of West and Central Africa is in the grip of a food crisis. Oxfam and our partner organizations are working throughout the region to get help to struggling communities.
- 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.
- The climate finance cliff
- An evaluation of Fast Start Finance and lessons for the future
- Harvesting data
- What can 10 years of official development assistance data tell us about US international agricultural development?
- Summer of high food prices and hot air: CFS meeting crucial in fighting hunger
- The Committee on World Food Security (CFS) meeting in Rome should break the cycle of government inaction and agree to set a path toward an equitable, sustainable and resilient food system.
- 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 people, equivalent to the number of people who go to bed hungry each night. In poor countries, foreign investors have been buying an area of land the size of London every six days.
- Haiti Rice Value Chain Assessment
- Rapid diagnosis and implications for program design
- Extreme Weather, Extreme Prices
- Our failure to slash greenhouse gas emissions presents a future of greater food price volatility, with severe consequences for the precarious lives and livelihoods of people in poverty.
- 2012 Food Price Hikes Background Briefing
- A background briefing on the implications of global food price hikes in 2012.
- Food Crisis in the Horn of Africa Progress Report, July 2011 - July 2012
- Cereal Secrets
- The world's largest grain traders and global agriculture
- The Food Transformation
- Harnessing consumer power to create a fair food future
- Tackling the food deficit in the world's newest country
- A year after South Sudan became the world's newest nation, half of its 9.7 million citizens are struggling to meet their basic food needs. Internal conflict, clashes with Sudan, poor harvests, and complex population movement have all contributed to the current crisis.
- Building a better life, one plant at a time
- Farmers using the System of Rice Intensification in Cambodia grow bigger, stronger plants that can better withstand flooding.
- Sowing seeds
- Opportunities and challenges facing US assistance for food security in Guatemala
- R4 Rural Resilience Initiative
- Quarterly report | January – March 2012
- Sahel food crisis
- Actions the US can take to break the cycle of hunger
- Saving Money and Lives: The Human Side of U.S. Food Aid Reform
- A joint report from Oxfam America and American Jewish World Service shows that more than 17 million people could receive life-saving food aid at no additional cost to US taxpayers if Congress cuts red-tape in the US Farm Bill.
- Horn of Africa Risk Transfer for Adaptation (HARITA) quarterly report: October 2011–December 2011
- Rural resilience series
- Fighting hunger in Mogadishu
- In Somalia, Oxfam's partner SAACID is saving the lives of thousands of children.
- R4 Rural Resilience Initiative: Partnership for resilient livelihoods in a changing climate
- Oxfam America and the World Food Programme launch a partnership for resilient livelihoods in a changing climate.
- Land and Power
- The growing scandal surrounding the new wave of investments in land
- Horn of Africa Risk Transfer for Adaptation (HARITA) quarterly report: April 2011–June 2011
- Rural resilience series
- Growing a Better Future Summary
- We have entered an age of crisis: of food price spikes and oil price hikes; of scrambles for land and water; of growing climate disasters.
- In war-torn Darfur, a stove with a mission
- For the women of Darfur who live in camps for displaced people, simply feeding a family can present extraordinary risks.
- Growing a Better Future
- Food justice in a resource-constrained world.
- Sowing seeds of self-reliance in Ethiopia
- With an initial investment from Oxfam, community-owned grain banks allow Ethiopians to feed the World Food Programme.
- Planting Now
- Agricultural challenges and opportunities for Haiti's reconstruction
- Halving Hunger: Still Possible?
- Building a rescue package to set the Millennium Development Goals back on track
- More rice for people, more water for the planet
- System of Rice Intensification (SRI)
- Achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs): The Road Forward for the U.S.
- This paper outlines key recommendations on each of the eight MDGs that we strongly believe the U.S. Government should include in its promised plan.
- Can aid for food security show the way for broader aid reform?
- AidNow series
- Risk and Risk Transfer in Agriculture
- Facilitating food security and poor farmer participation
- Turning the Tables
- Global trends in public agricultural investments
- People-centered resilience
- Working with vulnerable farmers towards climate change adaptation and food security
- Band aids and beyond
- Oxfam calls for a shake-up in the way the world deals with food crises in Ethiopia and beyond.
- Empty promises
- What happened to 'development' in the WTO's Doha Round?
- Investing in Poor Farmers Pays
- Rethinking how to invest in agriculture
- What Happened at the G20?
- Initial analysis of the London summit
- 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
- Mirror on America
- How the state of Gulf Coast recovery reflects on us all—Oxfam's report on the status of Gulf Coast recovery three years later.
- Credibility Crunch
- Food, poverty, and climate change: an agenda for rich-country leaders
- Oxfam Impact June 2007
- Feeding a nation
- The World is Still Waiting
- Broken G8 promises are costing millions of lives
- Causing Hunger
- An overview of the food crisis in Africa
- Oxfam Impact Special Report
- Oxfam in East Africa
- Oxfam Impact February 2006
- Cambodian rice farmers go organic
- Cuba: Going Against the Grain
- World Food Day Dinner Discussion Guide
- Questions and answers to guide your conversations
- Food crisis in West Africa
- The Sahel region of West and Central Africa is in the grip of a food crisis. Oxfam and our partner organizations are working throughout the region to get help to struggling communities.
- Oxfam Fact Sheet: GROW Campaign
- You might think hunger is about too many people and too little food. That is not the case. Hunger is about power. Its roots lie in inequalities to resources and opportunities.
- Oxfam Fact Sheet: Food Crisis in East Africa
- Across Ethiopia, Kenya, and Somalia, a severe drought and food crisis have ensnared more than 13 million people. Get the facts and find out what you can do to help.
- The New Forests Company and its Uganda plantations
- ‘I lost my land. It’s like I’m not a human being.’
- GROW: Food. Justice. Planet.
- An overview of Oxfam's global GROW campaign
- Enough for Everyone
- Oxfam America's five-point plan to respond to the emerging food crisis and reduce food insecurity around the world.
- Haiti Progress Report 2010: Summary
- Oxfam's relief operation in Haiti following the January 2010 quake has been one of the organization's largest and most complex efforts. This report summarizes our progress.
- Earthquake in Haiti Fact Sheet
- In the months following the devastating earthquake in Haiti, Oxfam's urgent mission has been to help the people of Port-au-Prince, and beyond, meet their basic needs—not only to ensure their survival but to uphold their dignity.
- 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.
- Talks at Google with Kristin Davis & Raymond Offenheiser
- Raymond Offenheiser, Oxfam Ambassador Kristin Davis, Female Food Hero Susan Godwin and Chef Aarti Sequeira participate in a "Talks at Google" focused on ending hunger.
- Hunger in the Sahel
- Farmers, herders, and displaced people in West Africa are struggling to survive a food crisis.
- Senegal: Food crisis response
- Bad weather and a poor harvest have left farmers in eastern Senegal short on food and seeds. Oxfam America is working with local groups to help growers plant, and survive the lean season while their crops grow.
- A new well for Nawoyatir
- Helen Ewoton used to walk an hour and a half each way to fetch water for her family. Now, her village in Kenya has its own newly drilled well--thanks to Oxfam.
- Survival strategies in the Sahel
- In the Sahel region of West Africa, where more than 18 million people are facing a food crisis, people in Burkina Faso are digging for flecks of gold to sell. What they earn is enough to buy only a small amount of food.
- Sahel food crisis puts 18 million people at risk
- You have the power to change the future. Now is the time to act, and ensure that families in the Sahel region of West Africa get the help they need to weather this crisis.
- Oxfam Action Corps volunteers fight hunger
- Join Oxfam volunteers around the US as we take action to end global hunger and poverty.
- West Africa food crisis 2012:15 million at risk
- As a funding for the crisis lags, millions of people will be left hungry in the coming months unless the gap is filled.
- Food Games
- When kids play with their food it's cute. When Washington does, it costs lives. Tell Washington to stop playing with food aid: www.oxfamamerica.org/foodaid
- Baaba Maal speaks out on the Sahel
- The Senegalese singer, Baaba Maal, calls on the world to respond to a looming food crisis in the Sahel region of Africa.
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