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Read the story of Alizeta, a farmer and widow in Burkina Faso. Credit: Samuel Turpin/ Oxfam

Surviving Hunger : The Story of Alizeta Sawadogo in Burkina Faso

Alizeta Sawadogo is a farmer and mother of 8 children. She has been farming all her life, growing cereals. But yields have become increasingly low due to the effects of climate change. ...

Read the story of Mariétou, a herder in the village of Luguri in Burkina Faso. Credit: Samuel Turpin/ Oxfam

Surviving Hunger : The Story of Marietou Sawadogo in Burkina Faso

Marietou Sawadogo, a 27-year-old mother of four from Burkina Faso, is used to fearing the lean season, the period between the exhaustion of food stocks and the start of the harvest, which runs from June to August: "Because of climate change, my crops are insufficient to feed my family.

Burkina Faso

Surviving Hunger : The Story of Barry Kadigueta in Burkina Faso

For more than a year, violence by armed groups in northern Burkina Faso has forced more than 1.1 million people to flee to safer areas in the south, risking losing everything. This is the case of Kadigueta Barry, 34, who fled the town of Barsalogho with her husband and four children, leaving...

Team from INGOs in some African countries visits Oxfam in Ghana

Oxfam in Ghana as an Influencing Office: Sharing our experience with the NGO World

Oxfam in Ghana Country Programme has gone through different phases since its operations began in 1986. Over the past three decades, Oxfam has supported vulnerable communities to access education, health care, agricultural resources among others.

The fisheries sector serves as the main occupation for a lot of women and men in the coastal communities of Ghana. Credit: Naana Nkansah Agyekum/Oxfam

In Ghana, women play a key role in fisheries

Writen by: Naana Nkansah Agyekum, Media and Communications Lead, Oxfam in Ghana

The occupation is often seen as a male dominated area. But a closer look at Ghana's fisheries sector...

Drought in Mauritania. Credit: Sylvain Cherkaoui/Oxfam

The Carbon Inequality Era

Fight carbon emissions and inequalities.

Victoria Banks lutte pour la survie de sa famille au Libéria. Crédit : Zwannah Kimber

Liberia

Covid-19 pandemic threatens years of efforts to recover from war in Liberia

Après des années de rétablissement suite à la guerre civile au Libéria, Victoria Banks pouvait enfin vivre de l'agriculture. Jusqu'à ce que la pandémie de COVID-19 frappe.