1990 - 1999: Recent submissions
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An NGO Perspective on Food Security and the Environment: Acord in the Sahel and Horn of Africa
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/07/1991)Summary The paper presents three case studies of NGO programmes in Africa and suggests that there is a need to resolve some of the immediate needs of the poor in order to create space for them to be able to address ... -
Environmental and Food Security Objectives in Rural Project Design
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/07/1991)Summary Because of their immediate needs to ensure short?term food security, many smallholders are being forced to adopt natural resource management practices which are unsustainable. With the greening of aid, much rural ... -
Globalism Versus Villagism: Food Security and Environmental National and International Levels
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/07/1991)Summary Links between food security and the environment occur at national and international levels, as well as locally. But perceptions of the relationship at global and village levels diverge widely. Considering a number ... -
Editorial: Environmental Change, Development Challenges
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In Search of Professionalism, Bureaucracy and Sustainable Livelihoods for the 21st Century
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/10/1991)Summary In the 21st century, vastly more people will need to gain sustainable livelihoods in difficult environments. For this, changes are needed on the part of outsiders — professionals, officials and others — who have ... -
A Note on Poverty and Sustainability
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/10/1991)Summary Advances in the past three decades m economics and natural sciences require a reappraisal of sustainability issues. In economics, there has been major progress in analysing and measuring poverty — and the impact ... -
Pastoralists, Patch Ecology and Perestroika: Understanding Potentials for Change in Mongolia
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/10/1991)Summary Emergent new thinking on pastoral livelihood systems emphasises the strategic importance of high quality resource patches within the landscape, both for pastoral production and for sustainability. In Mongolia, as ... -
Local Customary Institutions as the Basis for Natural Resource Management Among Boran Pastoralists in Northern Kenya
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/10/1991)Summary Policies for natural resource management and conservation often depend on new types of institution for their implementation, although the record of such innovation is poor. Research among the pastoral Boran of ... -
Engendered Environments: Understanding Natural Resource Management in the West African Forest Zone
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/10/1991)Summary This article shows that a focus on the gender relations of resource use and control is crucial to understanding local resource management practices and innovations. Both conventional gender?blind approaches and ... -
Structural Adjustment and National Environmental Strategies: What Interactions? Notes from Namibia
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/10/1991)Summary Structural adjustment and environment protection/enhancement are both important and inevitably interact. While SA strategic and instrumental analysis can produce a check?list of points relevant to environment ... -
End Piece: Challenges for Social Science Research
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Environmental Issues in Mining and Petroleum Contracts
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/10/1991)Summary Mineral exploration and production activity invariably cause substantial disturbance to the environment and brings with it the risk of major pollution hazards. In mineral based projects policy issues fall into ... -
: Programme of IDS Environment Programme and Rural Group Autumn Seminar Series 1990: ‘Key Issues in Environment and Development’
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Editorial: Gender and Health: An Introduction
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Rapid Rural Appraisal, Gender and Health – Alternative ways of listening to needs
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/01/1992)Summary The article describes the use of Rapid Rural Appraisal (RRA) in training development workers to think differently about the issues of gender and health. It is argued that unless a change in perspective takes place ... -
Women's Time and the Use of Health Services
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/01/1992)Summary The premise of this paper is that services and information can only contribute to improving health to the extent that people are aware of them, are able to make use of them, and choose to do so. Many service?related ... -
Gender and the Production of Health Care Services: Issues for Women's Roles in Health Development
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/01/1992)Summary Female health workers often make up to 75 per cent or more of the health sector workforce in developing countries, and yet they remain underpaid and relatively powerless. This article looks at the role of women ... -
Sexuality — The Missing Link in Women' Health
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/01/1992)Summary This article outlines some of the ways in which women are particularly vulnerable to risk in relation to their sexuality, and suggests how primary health care programme could begin to address the impact of sexuality ... -
Indicators for Women's Health in Developing Countries: What They Reveal and Conceal
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/01/1992)Summary The health of women has recently resurfaced in the health policy debate and has tended to become viewed as important primarily because of its contribution to infant health. Maternal deaths are characterised by a ... -
Who Determines Need? A Case Study of a Women' Organisation in North India
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/01/1992)Summary This paper addresses the issues of women's empowerment and political participation in relation to development programmes. Drawing upon comparative work within western capitalist societies, I suggest that needs ...