At any given time, we are responding to over 30 emergency situations. We provide life-saving essentials in the immediate aftermath of a natural disaster and to people affected by conflict, as well as long-term development support. You can help.
We work in more than 90 countries, with programs in Africa, the Middle East, Latin America, across Asia and in parts of Eastern Europe.
We help people caught up in natural disasters and conflicts across the world with clean water, food, sanitation and protection. At any given time, we are responding to over 30 emergency situations, giving life-saving support to those most in need.
Millions of people are being forced from their homes, risking everything to escape conflict, disaster, poverty or hunger. From those fleeing the war in Syria or climate change-induced droughts, to those stranded in inadequate conditions in Europe, you can help us give life-saving support to refugees in the countries where they need it most.
With no end in sight to the conflict in Syria, hundreds of thousands of people are living in desperate conditions and exposed to continuing violence. Today, half the pre-conflict population of 22 million Syrians have fled their homes and more than 13 million people urgently need your help.
Modernization of Myanmar’s agricultural sector is, rightly, a priority. However, mechanization and large-scale agricultural investment is not the only option.
Oxfam joined civil society organizations from around the world to demand the member governments of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) take decisive action urgently on climate change.
Wild weather and unpredictable seasons are changing what farmers can grow and is making people hungry.
Launched by the G8 two years ago, the New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition (NASAN) aims to improve food security in 10 African countries through attracting private investors into agriculture.
Hunger is not and need never be inevitable. However climate change threatens to put back the fight to eradicate it by decades – and our global food system is woefully unprepared to cope with the challenge.
Farmers and families across the world are fighting back to adapt to the changing climate, to protect their crops and livestock.
Burkina Faso relies on subsistence agriculture to meet the basic needs of a large part of the population.
Senait Gebregziabher, Oxfam’s Country Director for Somalia said:
![Maize farmer Christina, 24, has two daughters, ages 6 and 3. "I have hope that one day we leave poverty behind." Credit: Nana Kofi Acquah/Oxfam, Ghana](https://blogs.oxfam.org/sites/default/files/styles/blogmain-list-embed/public/blogimages/main/108177lpr-christina-field-sun-1240.jpg?itok=r1FKHQNF "Maize farmer Christina, 24, has two daughters, ages 6 and 3. "I have hope that one day we leave poverty behind." Credit: Nana Kofi Acquah/Oxfam, Ghana")
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