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• 2012
  • Innovative approaches to gender and food security
    • Editorial
    • Women in agriculture: Closing the gender gap
    • Transforming gender relations in homestead food production in Bangladesh
    • Challenging cultural values that affect food security in India
    • Equal access for women to seeds and food security in Syria
    • Engaging the whole family in food security planning in Zambia
    • Women's groups versus households: Approaches to achieve food security and gender equality
    • Food sovereignty and women’s rights in Latin America
    • Useful weblinks
• 2010
  • Making education inclusive for all
    • Editorial
    • Education needs of pastoralists in South Asia
    • Girls' education in Pakistan
    • Barriers to inclusion in Tanzania
    • Education for children with disabilities in India
    • Educational inclusion in emergencies
    • Language, ethnicity and education in Peru
    • School dropouts in Ghana
    • Understanding inclusive education
    • Useful weblinks
• 2009
  • Getting research into policy and practice
    • Editorial
    • Investing in the future
    • Influencing legislative change
    • Building ownership of research
    • Knowledge intermediaries
    • Scaling up male circumcision
    • Sexuality and rights
    • Acting on the evidence
    • Making headlines
    • Useful weblinks
  • Are NTFPs a way out of poverty?
    • Editorial
    • Walnut fruit forests in rural Kyrgyzstan
    • Sharing science with forest communities in Amazonia
    • Sal seeds, an untapped resource in India
    • Wildlife products and forest livelihoods
    • Governing NTFP market chains
    • Local processing boosts local earnings
    • Rubber market chains in Indonesia
    • NTFP commercialisation
    • Useful weblinks
  • Making health markets work for poor people
    • Editorial
    • Improving provider performance
    • The benefits of health insurance
    • Retail pharmacy chains
    • Life long burden
    • Vision entrepreneurs
    • The impact of ICTs on health care
    • About this issue
    • Useful weblinks
  • Cash transfers - to condition or not to condition?
    • Editorial
    • CCTs – a way out?
    • Cash transfers and work
    • The Basic Income Grant
    • Cash transfers and inter-generational poverty
    • Do women pay the price?
    • Gender relations in Lesotho
    • Cash transfers and food prices
    • Useful weblinks
  • Promoting peace and democracy through security sector reform
    • Democratisation in South-East Asia
    • Useful weblinks
    • Agenda reforms needed in South Asia
    • New challenges in Latin America
    • Political reform in Arab countries
    • Mixed outcomes in southern Africa
    • Editorial
    • Understanding international influence in Africa
    • What is security sector reform?
    • Making progress in Francophone Africa
• 2008
  • Rethinking sexuality and policy
    • Editorial
    • Sexual rights in Muslim societies
    • US trade policy and HIV treatment
    • Sexual pleasure and safer sex
    • Bodily integrity in Argentine law
    • China's policies on sexuality
    • The World Bank's failure to address sexuality
    • Useful weblinks
  • Building sustainable higher education
    • Editorial
    • Private providers in Brazil
    • World-class Chinese universities
    • World Bank
    • Equality in South Arica
    • Reversing the brain drain
    • Universities in Latin America
    • Gender equity
    • India's response to GATS
    • Useful weblinks
  • Elections and the democracy challenge
    • Editorial
    • Conflict resolution
    • Successful elections in Africa
    • Re-evaluating electoral assistance
    • Fighting for change in Guinea
    • Internet voting in Estonia
    • Money and politics
    • Certifying election commissions
    • Glossary of terms
    • Useful weblinks
  • Improving the nutrition status of children and women
    • Editorial
    • Why is undernutrition not a higher priority for donors?
    • Public-private sector partnerships
    • The success of salt iodisation
    • The price of hunger
    • The persistence of child malnutrition in Africa
    • Nutrition for mothers and children
    • Why have donors committed so few direct investments to eliminate child undernutrition?
    • What can be done to accelerate progress against undernutrition?
    • Useful weblinks
  • Financing primary health care
    • Editorial
    • Skilled delivery care in Indonesia
    • The story of primary health care
    • Contracting out health services
    • Effective antimalarials
    • SWAps in Uganda
    • Malawi’s staffing crisis
    • Useful weblinks
  • The growing demand for livestock: will policy and institutional changes benefit poor people?
    • Editorial
    • Women's ownership of livestock
    • NGOs support livestock-centred livelihoods
    • Veterinary medicine
    • How do higher meat and milk prices affect poor people?
    • The global livestock trade
    • Commercial destocking in Ethiopia
    • Is pastoralism a viable livelihood option?
    • Useful weblinks
  • Climate change and cities
    • Editorial
    • Adapting to climate change
    • Urban adaptation in Latin America
    • Floods in Dhaka
    • Adaptation in Indian cities
    • Durban adapts to climate change
    • The international agenda
    • Cities vulnerable to sea level rise
    • Unfairness in the causes and risks of climate change
    • Useful weblinks