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- Oxfam offers help to Ethiopians scrambling for water
- Feature Story | Oct 30, 2006
- Oxfam's programs are aimed at solutions to the region's severe water shortages. More »
- Pasture pressure
- Feature Story | May 01, 2008
- Erratic rains and encroaching bush limits grasslands for herders in southern Ethiopia. More »
- Pumps, wells replace hot, dusty trek to haul water
- Feature Story | Mar 29, 2006
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- Rethinking culture: changing practices and proverbs in Oromiya
- Feature Story | May 19, 2006
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- Seasonal flooding in Gambella leaves thousands of Ethiopians needing help
- News Update | Oct 24, 2007
- When two rivers spilled their banks, the consequences were severe. More »
- Starbucks campaign: Anatomy of a win
- Feature Story | Dec 21, 2007
- How Oxfam and Ethiopian farmers coaxed a groundbreaking agreement out of Starbucks. More »
- Tadesse Meskela helps connect consumers and Ethiopian coffee growers
- Feature Story | Dec 21, 2007
- Market factors cut coffee farmers out of their fair share of profit for a commodity that's worth an estimated $80 billion a year in retail sales. More »
- Village wells with hand pumps improve lives of Ethiopian women
- Feature Story | May 27, 2007
- Two-hour treks to fetch water several times a day are now a thing of the past for some women in Ethiopia's Bacho district. More »
- With early warning, small problems in Ethiopia won't grow
- Feature Story | Jan 15, 2008
- Around the southern Ethiopia border town of Moyale, where herders compete to eke a living from often-parched pasture land, a mysterious disease is slowly ... More »
- More water, more food
- Audio Slideshow Link | Oct 30, 2008
- An improved irrigation channel in Ethiopia now delivers a steady supply of water to a small village called Shasha Korke. More »
- Hardest hit: Survival strategies from the frontlines of climate change
- Video Link | May 25, 2010
- Learn how four communities around the world are fighting back against climate change, and how you can help. More »
- Doubling his weather insurance, this Ethiopian farmer is happy for the security it provides
- Feature Story | Feb 02, 2012
- "Anything can happen," says Alemu Tadesse. And that's why he is investing in weather insurance for some of his crops. More »
- Counting on the rain to continue—or weather insurance to help cover losses
- Feature Story | Feb 02, 2012
- For Ethiopian farmer Gidey Mehari, when the opportunity to buy weather insurance for his crops arose, he jumped at the chance. More »
- Medhin Reda's best asset is her own hard work
- Feature Story | Oct 14, 2009
- This farmer is trading her labor for an insurance premium to cover her teff. More »
- Gebru Kahsay relies on rain but has the security of insurance
- Feature Story | Oct 14, 2009
- If harvests fail because of poor rain, some teff farmers in Ethiopia now have a back-up plan. More »
- Weather insurance offers Ethiopian farmers hope—despite drought
- Feature Story | Oct 14, 2009
- For the first time, poor farmers can now buy insurance for teff, a staple grain that feeds their families. More »
- Climate change wake-up call
- Video Link | May 25, 2010
- 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 ... More »
- OXFAMExchange Fall 2009
- Oxfam Exchange | Nov 17, 2009
- Facing Down Hunger: The global food crisis one year later More »
- A tiny seed and a big idea
- Audio Slideshow Link | Aug 28, 2009
- Insurance for Ethiopia's farmers More »
- Overcrowded and desperate camps in Somalia, Kenya and Ethiopia “barely fit for humans”
- Press Release | Sep 03, 2009
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- Oxfam calls for radical shake-up of aid system to break cycle of hunger in Ethiopia
- Press Release | Oct 22, 2009
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- Selas Samson Biru faces uncertainty with the seasons
- Feature Story | Oct 14, 2009
- But with weather insurance she doesn't have to worry so much about her teff harvest. More »
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