The Indian organization Gorakhpur Environmental Action Group (GEAG) has documented practices around agricultural adaptation in flood prone areas.read more
Juanita Cut-ing remembers the day when two armed solders came to her home, accompanied by mining company representatives and tried to force her to sell her land.read more
As the rebuilding effort continues after the August 15 (2007) earthquake in Peru, parents and their children are now struggling to restart the school year in Pisco.read more
Judith Alexandre, a single mother, lives with her two children in Haiti, the poorest country in the western hemisphere, and like a lot of other families there they have only one choiread more
Maria Mogale is the first to stand up and speak to visitors who approach her and a small group of patients eating a lunch of sorghum and chicken feet in the shade of a tall tree.read more
When asked about solutions to a drought that is gripping parts of Ethiopia and spreading hunger among millions of people, government officials tick off lists of broad ideas.read more
Justine Masika had long been interested in the well-being of poor rural women in the eastern provinces of the Democratic Republic of Congo when, in 1996, they began to come to her wiread more
He rests his hands among the wood shavings scattered across a board on his workbench, as though touching the curls and chips reminds him of who he is now—a furniture-maker in aread more
Although the national poverty rate fell from 58.1 per cent in 1993 to an estimated 16 per cent in 2006, poverty remains in Vietnam, especially among the ethnic minority population whread more
Melinda Young – Senior Program Coordinator for DarfurMelinda worked on Oxfam’s Darfur response from the beginning of 2004 until the middle of 2005, and returned again at the stread more