- Improved harvest forecast for Sahel region: Good news but governments and UN should not take the foot off the gas
- Oxfam calls for a rapid scale-up of aid effort to tackle to Sierra Leone’s escalating cholera outbreak
- Oxfam Ambassador Baaba Maal aims to raise funds for Sahel food crisis
- In the Sahel region, resilience can save lives
- Oxfam announces Baaba Maal as its new Global Ambassador
- Millions of people across the Sahel will be left hungry in the coming months unless multi-million dollar funding shortage for crisis response is filled, aid organizations warn
- Conflict in Mali disrupts fragile food markets and threatens to escalate food crisis in West Africa
- West Africa: Millions of people at risk of serious food crisis without early action, says Oxfam
- World Food Program and USAID join together with Oxfam America and Swiss Re in public-private partnership
- Interactive map reveals “pressure points” of food price spikes on poor communities around the world
- 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.
- The role of local institutions in adaptive processes to climate variability
- The cases of southern Ethiopia and southern Mali
- Clean hands, clean water, and better health
- A low-tech plastic container cuts waterborne disease for families struggling to eat in Senegal.
- Job Creator: Nana Kojo Kondua IV
- Village Chief Kondua is leveraging a tiny investment of US foreign aid to train fishermen and protect jobs and the environment in Abuesi, Ghana.
- R4 Rural Resilience Initiative
- Quarterly report | July - September 2012
- Sahel food crisis
- Actions the US can take to break the cycle of hunger
- An eternal stranger comes home
- In southern Mali, organic farming helps women overcome inequality and claim a place of their own.
- Ghana's Oil Readiness Report
- Civil society groups in Ghana have produced a report on the country’s readiness to deal with the challenges and meet the expectations of joining the league of oil producing nations.
- 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?
- Oxfam Impact July 2009
- A quarter million now Saving for Change
- Ghana's Big Test
- Oil's challenge to democratic development
- Mission incomplete
- Why civilians remain at risk in eastern Chad
- Impacts of Reductions in US Cotton Subsidies on West African Cotton Producers
- Pricing Farmers Out of Cotton
- The cost of World Bank reforms in Mali
- Oxfam Impact February 2007
- Small Investments, Big Changes
- Hidden Treasure?
- In search of Mali's gold-mining revenues
- Fairness in the Fields
- A vision for the 2007 Farm Bill
- Tarnished Legacy
- A Social and Environmental Analysis of Mali's Syama Goldmine
- Cultivating Poverty
- The impact of US cotton subsidies on Africa
- 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.
- In harm's way: Oxfam America's game on rethinking natural disasters
- 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.
- What are big oil companies hiding?
- A representative of a prominent human rights and environmental organization in Ghana calls on the American Petroleum Institute to drop its court case to block the payment transparency provisions in the Dodd-Frank Act.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- The Sahel: a food crisis looms
- Low rainfall, poor harvests, and high prices are creating serious problems for herders and farmers in West Africa.
- Climate change wake-up call
- You know about global warming. You may already be doing your part to protect the environment. But, climate change is a human issue too—it's hitting the poorest people hardest.
- Can Ghana Beat the ‘Oil Curse’? Countdown to First Oil
- On April 26, 2010, Oxfam America hosted a panel discussion on the Ghanaian oil industry, scheduled to begin production later this year.
- Follow the Money
- Standing at the pump, watching the numbers tick away, do you ever wonder where the money goes? People on the other end of the pipeline are wondering too.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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: Farmers cope with food shortages
Confronted with a poor 2011 harvest, farmers find creative ways to earn money to buy food.
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.
Struggle in Sahel: 'If there's no pasture, nothing works'
'We've stayed on our ancestors' land and we've put up with everything, but if rain doesn't come, life would turn into a nightmare," says Koubra Hamid.
As food crisis looms, the lean season hits early in northern Senegal
An Oxfam team assesses the conditions around a group of small villages where many of the food reserves are now exhausted.
Food security concerns at World Food Day events in Ghana
Land grabs for biofuels, and gender inequity take center stage.
Food price spikes
After decades of progress, the number of people without enough to eat has reversed course and is increasing. It could soon top one billion. That's more than one in seven people going to bed hungry. Today. In the 21st century.
Saving for Change now exceeds 500,000 members
Mali continues to lead rapid growth of innovative, savings-based microfinance program.
Saving Lives 24/7: Flood response in Senegal
Emergency fund allows fast response to severe flooding in suburbs of Dakar.
Oil in Ghana: Civil society groups launch country’s readiness report card
Civil society groups in Ghana have produced a report on the country’s readiness to deal with the challenges and meet the expectations of joining the league of oil producing nations.
Oxfam responds as hundreds of thousands flee Ivory Coast capital
Fifty tons of relief supplies delivered to neighboring Liberia.
Oxfam and partners hail Ghana for enacting law on petroleum revenue
As Ghana joins the league of oil producing nations, Oxfam America and its local partners congratulate the country for putting in place the legal framework for ensuring judicious use of anticipated financial gains.
Ghana adopts West African mining principles
After almost two years of its enactment by West Africa’s regional body, Ghana joins Senegal in adopting the principles on mining in the region.
ECOWAS sets up committee on mining reforms
Latest step in effort to improve, standardize requirements for oil, gas, and mining in West Africa.
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