This paper reviews the growing literature on social protection. While not new, the concept
evolved remarkably in recent years. It is approached from a multitude of perspectives, and …

Adolescents are the only age group with growing AIDS-related morbidity and mortality in
Eastern and Southern Africa, making HIV prevention research among this population an …

Reliance on subsistence agriculture means the impact of stresses and shocks (such as
droughts or floods) are felt keenly by rural poor people, who depend directly on food system …

This book arises from the involvement of its authors in the Regional Hunger and
Vulnerability Programme (RHVP) in southern Africa, funded principally by the UK …

An ongoing and highly politicised debate concerns the relative efficacy of cash transfers
versus food aid. This paper aims to shed light on this debate, drawing on new empirical …

Poverty eradication and global warming are the two biggest challenges of our time. Yet they
are also inter-linked. While it has been widely demonstrated that climate change hinders …

The experience of sub-Saharan Africa with social development in the period between 1981
and 2005 has been grim, indeed. Over the period, policy focus has turned from a wider …

3 Land distribution in four fieldwork villages 66 4 Caste distribution in four fieldwork villages
68 5 Land distribution by caste 68 6 Primary bases of accumulation (among surplus …

In the context of climate change, the poorest people are commonly seen as having the least
capacity to adapt. However, to date, there has been a limited examination of the dynamic …

At the turn of the millennium, social protection became a new priority for both states of the
global South and international development policy more generally. As, in the past, social …