Books in the Development in Practice Books series

This book offers suggestions for reform of current child protection policies, based on empirical findings around a range of child protection concerns, including children's work, independent migration, family separation, early marriage and military occupation. This book was published as a special issue of Development in Practice.

Provides evidence from diverse contexts across Africa, South Asia, and Latin America to highlight the challenges in them partnering to provide education of acceptable quality to all children.

Discusses opportunities afforded by effective knowledge pathways linking researchers and farmers, underpinned by participatory research and gender analysis.

How have higher and more volatile global food prices affected the world's poor farmers and consumers? This book explores the answer to this question in developing, transition, and industrialized countries through case studies and examination of a variety of cross-cutting themes. This book was published as a special double issue of Development in Practice.

The book assesses emerging patterns of citizen activism and civil society development across five continents in response to changing national and global political, economic and social pressures. It identifies emerging challenges, new forms of organization and activism, and implications of these patterns for practitioners and policy-makers concer