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Increasing Resilience to Drought in the Horn of Africa

Last week, Andrew Blejwas from Oxfam America wrote about the 2008 crisis in the Horn of Africa and Oxfam’s continuing efforts to help farming communities in Ethiopia prosper in the face of rain shortfalls, crop failure, and dramatic spikes in the cost of basic foods.

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Horn of Africa Disaster Didn't Happen Overnight

Photos and stories from the hunger crisis in The Horn of Africa—a region that includes Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia—have brought to light suffering on an almost unimaginable scale.

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New Tools Boost Productivity for Dairy and Maize Farmers

There’s a well-known saying in business that if you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it. This sentiment is especially applicable to human and animal health and herd management, where diagnostics are the tools used to measure the patients. Unfortunately, if one doesn’t have the appropriate tools, then measuring is impossible. 

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Better Farms, Improved Lives

With support from the foundation, six nonprofit agricultural development organizations are helping hundreds of thousands of poor farmers in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia grow more productive, profitable, and sustainable crops.

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