Guest Editorial

Global food-price shocks and poor people – an overview

Hunger has been on the rise since the mid-1990s, due to a variety of factors, including a lack of policy attention and a sense of complacency generated by long-term real declines in food prices. Food prices rose sharply after 2006, and there is considerable controversy over the reasons why. Analysts have pointed to a number of factors as possible causes, including rising fuel prices, diversion of food crops into biofuels, speculation, increased meat consumption in Asia, climate change, and environmental degradation, among others.

Author: 
Cohen, Marc J.
Author: 
Smale, Melinda
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460

Guest Editorial 13(2&3)

In English only
Author: 
Afshar, Haleh
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0

Guest Editorial 12(3&4)

Development and the Learning Organisation: An Introduction In English only
Author: 
Pettit, Jethro
Author: 
Roper, Laura
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0

Guest Editorial 11(2&3)

In English only
Author: 
Westendorff, David
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0

Violence, fear, and development in Latin America: a critical overview

This introduction presents the core concepts that shape this special issue on the impact of violence and the processes of development in Central and South America. The understanding of development is considered in terms broader than the economic context alone, in order to assess wider social and political aspects. With a similarly expansive scope, forms of violence are addressed that range from direct physical harm and bodily attack to the often more subtle aggression of racialised abuse or the pressures on community-centred production from dominant market forces.
Author: 
Howard, David
Author: 
Hume, Mo
Author: 
Oslender, Ulrich
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2

Guest Editorial

In English and French Only
Author: 
Sayer, John
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2

Operationalising participatory research and gender analysis: new research and assessment approaches

Participatory research approaches are increasingly popular with scientists working for poverty alleviation, sustainable rural development, and social change. This introduction offers an overview of the special issue of Development in Practice journal on the theme of 'operationalising participatory research and gender analysis'. The purpose of the special issue is to add value to the discussion of methodological, practical, philosophical, political, and institutional issues involved in using gender-sensitive participatory methods.

Author: 
Dixon, John
Author: 
Lilja, Nina
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