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Peruvian chef Flavio Solórzano cooks the winning dish from the GROW recipe competition. Diego Camacho from Trujillo, Peru won with his creation "Tribute to Pachamama", which celebrates the Andean goddess of agriculture and the work of small-scale women farmers.

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Pastoralist communities are now reliant on food aid, Kenya. Photo: Andy Hall/Oxf

While the international community has stepped up to help those impacted by mega-emergencies, such as the earthquake in Haiti or the floods in Pakistan, unfortunately, “slow-onset” humanitarian crises, such as the worsening drought in the Horn in Africa, have not received the same attention.

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Estere Chiperengay is able to feed her family. Photo: Malcolm G. Fleming/Oxfam

Malcolm Fleming, one of our media officers in Scotland, travelled to Malawi, where he spoke to a poor family which has learned how to manage its food supplies, through a government program.

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Victoria Asalyinga, a rice farmer in Bolgatanga, Upper East Region, Ghana.

Higher food prices have pushed millions of people in developing countries further into hunger and poverty. Here are some recent examples of small farmers in Ghana trying to cope, and what Oxfam is doing to help.

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