In this paper, David Bathrick describes the almost revolutionary changes that have taken place in the economic arena in recent years. This is a story of paradigm shift, where government-led economic growth through the 1970s gave way to the increasingly market-led growth we see now. The emergence…

Do women work more or less when countries trade more? Do trade expansion and economic liberalisation affect women and men in different ways'? Case studies from Ghana, Uganda, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Jamaica are used in this report to illustrate some of the gender dimensions…

Since the first paper on soil NOx emissions was published in 1978, the understanding of NOx flux from soil has grown enormously. While rapid strides have been made, progress across the suite of disciplines required to understand NOx emission, transport, chemistry, and deposition has been uneven…

How would environmentally sustainable development look if it was gender-sensitive? This report argues that much mainstream literature on environmentally sustainable development has ignored the gender dimensions. Where women have been the target of programmes, they have been seen as natural…

This article outlines how citizenship can be used as a political and theoretical tool by combining 'rights' and 'participation'. Participation in social, economic, cultural and political decision-making provides a more dynamic and active form of rights in which people work…

In a globalising world where the role of the local, the national and the global is shifting, the meanings of citizenship are also changing. This article presents some new theoretical discussions on gender and citizenship. It argues that, rather than something which sees everyone as "the…

The overriding message of the Conference was that the issues addressed in the Platform for Action are global and universal. Changes in values, attitudes, practices and priorities at all levels are necessary to combat deeply entrenched attitudes and practices perpetuate inequality and…

These two important documents include obligations related to women's housing and inheritance rights. Under the Habitat Agenda, States commit themselves also to:

"<em>Provid[e] legal security of tenure and equal access to land to all people, including <strong>women…

There is a great deal of concern today to ensure that economic development, including agricultural development, is sustainable. It is being increasingly emphasized that this sustainability requires care to be taken of the natural environment. This is because the natural environment is both the…

The  <a href="https://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/beijing/pdf/BDPfA%20E.pdf">Beijing Platform for Action</a>, an agenda for women's empowerment, spelled out a set of objectives and…

The deterioration of land resources in the world's arid and semi-arid regions is one of the gravest problems facing our planet and its people. Desertification, broadly defined, is one of the principal barriers to sustainable food security and sustainable livelihoods in our world today. It…