This time last year, southern Ethiopia battled drought. This year the rain continues to fall, weeks past the normal season. Coco McCabe reports: A year ago when Oxfam colleagues and I took the long and only road from Ethiopia’s capital—Addis Ababa—toward the country’s southern border with Kenya, the landscape was parched and dusty. The corn […]
25 years ago this month, the Live Aid concerts raised massive amounts of money to combat famine in Ethiopia. But Nick Martlew argues that we need to change how we approach future food crises, and looks at how a new partnership between Oxfam and private sector consultants Accenture is helping Ethiopian farmers: We all know the story: the famine, […]
