Volumes 41 - 46: Recent submissions
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Negotiating New Relationships: How the Ethiopian State is Involving China and Brazil in Agriculture and Rural Development
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, July 2013)This article provides an overview of Brazilian and Chinese agricultural development cooperation activities in Ethiopia. Development cooperation is carefully managed and coordinated in Ethiopia, a highly aid?dependent ... -
How Brazil's Agrarian Dynamics Shape Development Cooperation in Africa
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, July 2013)This article shows how Brazil's history of agrarian dynamics shapes development cooperation. In particular, Brazil's dualistic agrarian structure frames policy discourse, and shapes development cooperation thinking and ... -
Expanding Agri?business: China and Brazil in Ghanaian Agriculture
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, July 2013)This article examines the extent, framing and structure of Chinese and Brazilian investments in Ghana. It outlines the changing political economy of the agrarian sector, in the context of market liberalisation and the rise ... -
Chinese Agriculture Development Cooperation in Africa: Narratives and Politics
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, July 2013)Chinese agriculture engagements are redefining the ‘aid’ landscape, moving from a paradigm of development assistance to one of development cooperation mixed with investment. China's leadership asserts that this approach ... -
Brazil–Africa Agricultural Cooperation Encounters: Drivers, Narratives and Imaginaries of Africa and Development
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, July 2013)Brazilian development cooperation is increasingly in the spotlight. Africa is a major destination and agriculture tops the list of priority fields on intervention, with Embrapa leading cooperation projects. But patterns ... -
South–South Cooperation in Africa: Historical, Geopolitical and Political Economy Dimensions of International Development
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, July 2013)This article examines how neoliberal reforms mediate and influence relationships between emergent powers and African nations centred on agricultural development. It investigates the impact of South–South relations on the ... -
What can Africa Learn from China's Experience in Agricultural Development?
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, July 2013)Recently there has been a growing interest in China's rapid economic growth, particularly concerning the role of agriculture and its impact on poverty reduction. While China and Africa have developed their agricultural ... -
Reviving Zimbabwe's Agriculture: The Role of China and Brazil
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, July 2013)From 2000, after Zimbabwe embarked on a major land reform programme, the country was isolated economically and diplomatically by Western countries. Agricultural financing dried up, and traditional Western donors only ... -
New Development Encounters: China and Brazil in African Agriculture
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, July 2013)There is currently much talk of the role of the ‘rising powers’ in Africa, and whether their engagements represent a ‘new paradigm’ in development cooperation. This article introduces this IDS Bulletin and examines ... -
The Emerging Social Contract: State? Citizen Interaction after the Floods of 2010 and 2011 in Southern Sindh, Pakistan
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, May 2013)This article looks at the post?disaster context of Lower Sindh, a region devastated by super floods in 2010 and 2011, in an attempt to understand what government policies were implemented to assist people whose lives had ... -
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Nutrition Policy in the Post-devolution Context in Pakistan: An Analysis of Provincial Opportunities and Barriers
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, May 2013)In this article we take a comparative look at strategic opportunities and barriers for action on nutrition in Pakistan's four provinces in the post?devolution context. Provinces have faced historically common constraints ... -
Missing Dimensions in Addressing Child Malnutrition in Pakistan: Lessons from the Tawana Experience
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, May 2013)This article uses the Tawana Pakistan Project (TPP) as a case study of how to promote self?sustaining improvements in nutrition status. The programme used a participatory approach to mobilisation around malnutrition, had ... -
Agriculture and Nutrition in Pakistan: Pathways and Disconnects
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, May 2013)Results of the latest nationwide nutrition survey show that the ‘South Asian paradox’ of persistently high rates of undernutrition despite respectable rates of economic growth appears to hold true for Pakistan. Although ... -
Achieving Universal Salt Iodisation (USI) in Pakistan: Challenges, Experiences and the Way Forward
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, May 2013)This article aims to describe the history, progress, success and challenges of the Universal Salt Iodisation (USI) programme in Pakistan, which was launched in 1994. Revitalised in 2005 with financial assistance and ... -
Impoverished Rural Districts of Pakistan: An Independent Evaluation of Impact on Educational and Cognitive Outcomes in Sindh Province, Pakistan
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, May 2013)This article presents findings of cognitive and performance assessment among recipient and non?recipient school girls in the catchment schools of the Tawana Pakistan Project using standardised matrices. This is the first ... -
Impact on Health and Nutrition Outcomes in Sindh Province, Pakistan
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, May 2013)We independently conducted the impact assessment of the Tawana Pakistan Project (a school?based feeding programme to improve the nutritional status of primary school girls in impoverished rural districts of Pakistan). The ... -
Inflation and Food Security in Pakistan: Impact and Coping Strategies
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, May 2013)Food security will remain an important component of any strategy for nutritional improvement in Pakistan. The country experienced acute price spikes and shortages during 2007 and 2008, corresponding with food price inflation ... -
Towards Improved Food and Nutrition Security in Sindh Province, Pakistan
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, May 2013)The 2011 National Nutrition Survey (NNS) in Pakistan showed that Sindh province continues to have some of the worst undernutrition rates in South Asia. For determinants of acute and chronic malnutrition to be better ... -
Evaluation of Nutrition Surveys in Flood-affected Areas of Pakistan: Seeing the Unseen!
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, May 2013)In 2010 Pakistan experienced the worst floods recorded in its history; millions of people were affected and thousands lost their lives. Nutrition assessment surveys led by UNICEF were conducted in flood?affected areas of ...