Contents March issue

Editorial

Hans Dembowski:
The most urgent challenge is to get rural development started

Monitor

Democracy and the internet in south-east Asia | Cotton sector reform in Mali | Energy efficient urbanisation |


Focus: Food security

Ewald Quaye Garr:
B-BOVID, an innovative agrobusiness in Ghana

Interview with Melaku Worede:
Why smallholder farmers and traditional landraces matter

Kwadwo Asenso-Okyere:
Boost productivity of African farms

Hans-Heinrich Bass:
Africa needs green renaissance, not revolution

Jedida Oneko:
Last year’s famine in the Horn of Africa

Interview with Joachim von Braun:
Recent developments are promising

Benjamin Luig and Armin Paasch:
The dangers of liberalising commodities markets and futures trading

Boro Baski:
India will soon pass law to guarantee right to food


Tribune

Interview with Gabriela Büssemaker:
The new chief executive’s aspirations for ENGAGEMENT GLOBAL

Saghar Chopan-Daud and Malaiz Chopan-Daud:
Afghanistan’s people must be involved in peace building

Henning Andresen:
Why less aid would sometimes deliver more


Debate

Interview with Zafrullah Chowdhury:“Health is a universal right” | Comments on Pakistan’s Supreme Court, hatecrimes against lesbians in South Africa, the African Union’s new chairman and election troubles in Senegal