Publications

Gender and Environmental History: Moving Beyond the Narratives of the Past in Contemporary Women-Environment Policy Debates

Claims about history figure prominently in contemporary ecofeminist and activist concerns with gender and the environment. This paper addresses such claims and considers the historical narratives and their uses in contemporary gender-environment debates.

Melissa Leach

Gender Relations and Environmental Change

26

This IDS Bulletin moves beyond to emphasize the application of gender analysis to environmental relations: seeing women as differentiated and in relation to men; and paying attention to the links between gender relations with environmental activities, responsibilities and rights.

Melissa Leach

A Future Food Aid Regime: Implications of the Final Act of the GATT Uruguay Round

The conclusion of the GATT Uruguay Round and the setting up of the World Trade Organization provide a major opportunity for establishing a new food aid regime within a liberalising global economy.

Export-Oriented Industrialization Through Primary Processing?

IDS Working Paper 19

This paper asks whether the chances of export-oriented industrialization in countries with low skill/land ratios seem better when the definition of manufactures is broadened to include processed primary products.

Europe’s Next Step: Organizational Innovation, Competition and Employment

The European economy faces a crisis of competitiveness. This book looks at the experiences of 13 leading European companies, demonstrating how organization has been the key to their productivity growth.

Farmers, Forests and Fuel: Towards a New Biomass Energy Strategy for Sri Lanka

This book reviews major initiatives to increase the supply and reduce the consumption of domestic energy, and explores the possibility of an alternative biomass energy strategy which relates more closely to the needs of rural people.

Living With Uncertainty: New Directions in Pastoral Development in Africa

Recent years have seen a major rethinking of some of the hallowed assumptions of range ecology and range management practice. This book examines the management and policy implications of new ecological thinking for pastoral development in dryland areas, and the consequences of living with...

Ian Scoones

Non-Governmental Organizations and Rural Poverty Alleviation

This book brings together the results of 16 evaluations in four countries (Bangladesh, India, Uganda and Zimbabwe), to provide a detailed assessment of the contribution that NGOs make to rural poverty alleviation.

Background Report on Gender Issues in India: Long Report

Background Report on Gender Issues in India: Key Findings and Recommendations: Short Report

How are gender relations evolving in India? Awareness of gender issues in India has increased due to the influence of the women's movement, feminist debates and donor advocacy. However this awareness has yet to be translated into policy and practice that significantly improves gender equality...

Gender, Conflict and Development. Volume 2: Case Studies: Cambodia, Rwanda, Kosovo, Somalia, Algeria, Guatemala and Eritrea

This report is based on a review of published and unpublished literature, as well as information from agencies operational in conflict areas.

The Design of Economic Reforms in the Context of Economic Liberalization: The Experience of Mozambique, Senegal and Uganda

This paper presents the main conclusions from research into the experience of economic policy reforms in African countries that are undertaking political liberalization.