In 1997, CARE-Bangladesh undertook a livelihood security assessment of urban slum households in the cities of Tongi, Khulna and Bogra.

The Hogares Comunitarios Program (HCP) was established in Guatemala City in 1991 as a direct response to the increased need for affordable and reliable childcare for women in urban Guatemala.

Over the period mid-October, 1997, through early February, 1998, CARE Tanzania implemented an Urban Livelihood Security Assessment (ULSA) in Dar es Salaam. The goal of the ULSA was to identify needs for urban programming in Dar es Salaam.

This paper sets out the strategy for the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) for the next decade.

El presente trabajo establece la estrategia del Instituto Internacional de Investigación sobre Políticas Alimentarias para la próxima década.

Inadequate policies, institutions, and rural infrastructure lead to agricultural markets that do not function efficiently. As a consequence, the poor pay more for their food and receive less for their produce.

Food and agricultural systems in developing countries connect with the rest of the economy and with the world through a network of markets.

This collection of policy briefs cover research results from a multicountry research program on rural finance policies for food security of the poor, 1994-2000.

""This booklet presents eleven stories to show how the broad and often abstract concepts of hunger, poverty, and environmental damage are tragically real when applied to the lives of individuals.