1991: Volume 22
Volume 22 Number 1 January 1991
This issue of the Bulletin arises from a workshop on 'Household Arrangements as a Factor in Adjustment' held at the IDS in January 1990. It was convened as a way of furthering work within the IDS on the gender dimension in the analysis of the social impact of structural adjustment in developing countries (see Humphrey, Joekes and Kabeer, forthcoming). Most of the papers were the basis or are elaborations of presentations made at the workshop, and others are contributions from persons working in the field who were unable to attend.
Volume 22 Number 3 July 1991
Edited by: Melissa Leach and Susanna Davies
There is an obvious connection between poor people's food security and the preservation of the environment in which they live. Yet there is little consensus about the nature of this relationship. Unless their interactions are better understood, there is a danger that policies for environmental protection - in an increasingly environmentally-concerned aid climate - will unknowingly compromise food security. An obvious illustration is the promotion of goats in marginal areas as an insurance against harvest failure; a policy which enhances food security but may have disastrous environmental consequences.
This issue of the Bulletin arises from a new research initiative at IDS, linking the work of the Environment Programme and the Food Security Unit. A number of workshops held at IDS considered whether two such diverse and extensive fields of inquiry could usefully be linked and, if so, what kinds of approaches would be most appropriate.
The Bulletin articles are the result of these workshops. Taken together with a Discussion Paper setting out the issues [Davies, Leach and David 1991] and Development Bibliography reviewing relevant literature [David 1991], they form a starting point for more focused research on particular conflicts and complementarities between the pursuit of food security and environmental goals.
Volume 22 Number 4 October 1991
Edited by: Melissa Leach and Robin Mearns
The late 1980s saw a phenomenal growth of international concern over the global environment. It has begun to influence politics both in industrially advanced countries and in the newly democratising countries of Eastern Europe. Recognising that the roots of this concern are not new, this Bulletin addresses its twin aspects in the context of developing countries and at different scale levels. On the one hand, environmental change poses significant challenges for development policy and practice. On the other, the development process itself presents challenges for sound environmental management.
1992: Volume 23
Volume 23 Number 1 January 1992
Edited by: Naila Kabeer and Alanagh Raikes
While health has always been seen as an integral aspect of development planning, the significance attached to it has varied according to the debates about development in the wider sense. Currently, there is a tension between those who treat health provision as the welfare arm of structural adjustment policy, those who treat it as a form of human resource investment - and hence critical to the process of economic recovery - and those who see it an end in itself, an essential component of human welfare.
Volume 23 Number 2 May 1992
Edited by: Simon Maxwell
The theory and practice of counterpart funds sounds like a dry and technical subject. It is. But new readers should not despair. As the authoritative articles in this issue of the Bulletin amply demonstrate, the topic of counterpart funds repays further study. Counterpart funds themselves play an important, growing and often controversial role in developing countries. More to the point, the topic is replete with linkages to broader issues in development: poverty targeting, aid conditionality, the management of the budgetary process - and many others.
