Volume 17 No. 1, May 2003

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Special Feature:
Africa beyond famine
New strategies needed to combat hunger, disease and rural poverty

Famine and AIDS: a lethal mixture

Senegal: to fight hunger, modernize farming

Eradicating tsetse flies from Africa

Mounting opposition to Northern farm subsidies
US subsidies: who benefits?


Africa's recurrent cycles of famine can only be broken by long-term strategies to help African farmers increase their productivity, combat the effects of AIDS and other diseases and improve the external conditions for the continent's agricultural exports.
Photo: UNICEF / 93-BOU0640 / Betty Press

Also in this issue

Africa seeks own solutions to conflict

Changing tradition to safeguard women
International action against female genital mutilation

Victory over river blindness
Dr. Ebrahim Samba: 'You can tackle anything'

NEPAD Watch
Obasanjo: New Partnership making progress

From Davos to Brazil, Africa makes its case

WTO Watch: Global agricultural trade talks stall
Development agenda 'just a slogan'?


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Julie I. Thompson

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