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- Floods in Mexico: Punting in a baseball playground
- Feature Story | Nov 08, 2007
- Hundreds of thousands of people living near Mexico's Gulf Coast were displaced when heavy rains pounded the area and rivers overflowed their banks. More »
- For architect, supporting the poor is best kind of building
- Feature Story | Dec 19, 2008
- Indira Aryarathne of the Institute for Participatory Interaction in Development investigated the role of women in disaster risk reduction programs in Sri Lanka. More »
- Foraging and fainting: coping with drought in Ethiopia
- Feature Story | Jul 14, 2008
- With nothing to eat, families wait for help. More »
- From drought to floods: nine months in Ethiopia
- Feature Story | Nov 21, 2006
- One of Oxfam America's humanitarian press officers recounts her time in Ethiopia in 2006. More »
- From the US and Senegal, stories of climate survival
- Feature Story | Nov 06, 2008
- An Oxfam America speaking tour brings together two women who are leading the fight against climate change. More »
- Going organic to cope with a changing climate
- Feature Story | Nov 30, 2007
- To protect their crops from drought and pests, small-scale farmers in The Philippines are pioneering new organic farming techniques. More »
- Group lives up to its name: Coastal Women for Change
- Feature Story | May 31, 2006
- Gulf Coast women join together to talk about what was happening in their community, what issues and problems they faced, and how these could be addressed. More »
- In cyclone-ravaged Bangladesh, worst may be yet to come
- Feature Story | Dec 03, 2007
- As Bangladesh begins to recover from Cyclone Sidr, a changing climate means that more disasters lie ahead. More »
- Sahel food crisis: Dry times in 2011 threaten ability to plant in 2012
- Feature Story | May 15, 2012
- A farmer recounts the struggle to grow food and prepare for the 2012 growing season More »
- Sahel food crisis: Farmers cope with food shortages
- Feature Story | May 15, 2012
- Confronted with a poor 2011 harvest, farmers find creative ways to earn money to buy food. More »
- Microinsurance builds resilience after tsunami
- Feature Story | Dec 01, 2008
- Fishing families in Andhra Pradesh, India are relying on microinsurance to keep them out of debt to money lenders and help them save a little of what they earn. More »
- Outfitted with new limbs, hope returns for 100s wounded in Pakistan quake
- Feature Story | Sep 17, 2007
- A workshop to outfit earthquake survivors in Pakistan with artificial limbs has given many people a new lease on life. More »
- Oxfam is sending $1 million of relief supplies to China
- News Update | May 19, 2008
- With water and sanitation services, Oxfam works to help prevent an outbreak of disease among earthquake survivors in China. More »
- Oxfam launches emergency action plan in China earthquake zone
- News Update | May 13, 2008
- Earthquake survivors need clean water, food, medicine, clothing, and blankets. More »
- Oxfam offers water, food, shelter to cyclone survivors in Bangladesh
- News Update | Nov 28, 2007
- As coastal residents return to the devastation left by Sidr, Oxfam launches a major relief effort to help people recover. More »
- Oxfam responds to the Bangladesh cyclone
- News Update | Nov 19, 2007
- After helping coastal communities evacuate before the storm, Oxfam and our local partners have begun assessing needs and distributing aid. More »
- Oxfam's humanitarian response department expands into public health
- News Update | Jan 18, 2007
- New public health practice is part of a three-pronged effort to sharpen the effectiveness of the agency's emergency response. The other two components are ... More »
- Pasture pressure
- Feature Story | May 01, 2008
- Erratic rains and encroaching bush limits grasslands for herders in southern Ethiopia. More »
- Prone to fierce storms, Bangladesh works to improve its preparedness
- Feature Story | Dec 03, 2007
- A native of Bangladesh, Latif Khan has lived through many cyclones—and has spent much of his professional life working on ways to help prevent the death and ... More »
- Research in action
- Feature Story | Oct 12, 2007
- Since the Indian Ocean tsunami of December 2004, Oxfam has been supporting research institutes in the affected region to study important issues related to ... More »
- Research that could save lives: HIV and the tsunami disaster
- Feature Story | Oct 12, 2006
- In southern India, vulnerability to HIV spiked in the aftermath of the 2004 tsunami. More »
- 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 »
- Slow reconstruction means another cold winter in mountains of Pakistan
- Feature Story | Sep 18, 2007
- Oxfam's partner helps to improve roads and restore livestock for mountain families still struggling to recover from the 2005 earthquake. More »
- Some people dread evacuations almost as much as hurricanes
- Feature Story | Sep 11, 2008
- Leaving home in advance of a storm is costly and exhausting. Facing the prospect of having to do it more than once in short order makes some residents think ... More »
- Still shell-shocked by hurricane Stan, Guatemalan coffee farmers try to recover
- Feature Story | Apr 21, 2006
- Oxfam provides $100,000 grant to help farmers rebuild. More »
- Taking steps toward gender equity
- Feature Story | Mar 27, 2007
- In Tamil Nadu, India, Oxfam study finds approaches that work. More »
- The water started to rise, and it did not stop
- Feature Story | Sep 08, 2008
- Three major storms struck Haiti in the space of two weeks, leaving devastation in their wake. Oxfam is providing relief supplies and clean water to those in ... 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 »
- Slide Show | Jul 03, 2012
- Oxfam America, together with five local organizations and the World Food Programme, helped communities recover from one emergency while they prepare for future ... More »
- Crises in a New World Order: Challenging the humanitarian project
- Research Report | Feb 07, 2012
- The growing number of vulnerable people, the rise in disasters, and the failure to put most fragile states on the path to development, will significantly ... More »
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