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Oxfam Horizons February 2003

This edition - my last as editor, our cover story is the coffee crisis sending literally millions of poor families into greater poverty worldwide. Hamed Sahehussman is the 55 year old coffee farmer from Jimma, Ethiopia, featured on our cover. "It is unfair that they buy our coffee at a small price," he says, "but in Australia you pay up to $3 for one cup. We're in a critical situation." The coffee crisis is exacerbating an already dire situation in Ethiopia, where 14.3 million people now face starvation.

Sarah Lowe, Editor

Editorial From the Executive Director Newsround No War in Iraq Eyeing Nike from Davos Mayan Women Speak Out Rebuilding After Cyclone Zoe Nestle claims Millions from Ethiopia Walkers Unite And A Move In WA Indonesia Country Profile Oxfam Horizons Reader Survey Half A Century Of Change What's That In Your Coffee? Huge profits for the big coffee companies, poverty and misery for coffee farmers Famine Looms Again Times are the hardest in living memory for Ethiopia's nomadic Afar people. Hard Times Made A Little Easier More than 14 million people in Southern Africa now face famine. Oxfam Community Aid Abroad and the Oxfam family are working to bring relief. Get Together The third Aboriginal/Maori youth cultural exchange Toxic waste victory Sign of a flourishing democracy in Mozambique Voices Amidst The Waters Momentous change in the Mekong River basin. Making Change At Last East Asia Program Coordinator Brendan Allen recently visited our projects in remote Vietnam, and was heartened by what he saw. A Line Of Contention The Timor Sea Treaty Get the Trailwalker Bug In 2002, Oxfam Trailwalker became a million-dollar fundraiser for Oxfam Community Aid Abroad. Our Community From the Board Supporter Profile: Anne Batt Donor Profile: Ross Allen Volunteer Profile: Fiona Rickertt Our World in Crisis - A New Short Course New Public Advocacy and Action Course World Music Review Blues,Bebop, Bossa and Beyond Oxfam Challenge Community Leadership Program in India

Cover: Ethiopian coffee farmer Hamed Sahehussman. Photo: Martin Wurt/OxfamAUS

Editor: Sarah Lowe, Design: Paoli Smith, Picture Editor: Esther Singer, Proofing: Esther Singer Oxfam Horizons Is Published Quarterly By Oxfam Australia, 132 Leicester Street, Carlton VIC 3053 Australia. ABN 18 055 208 636/Cc29173 ACN 055 208 636/Cc29173 ISSN 1446-0521 The Publisher Does Not Necessarily Endorse Views Expressed By Contributors To Oxfam Horizons. Available Free To Donors And Supporters.