This book, through its overview chapter and 12 country studies, provides useful information on the evolving biotechnological research in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. The emphasis is on the potential biotechnologies hold for agriculture in developing countries. The reports vary in depth of coverage, but all combine to show the urgent need that exists for public- and private-sector investment to ensure that all countries share in the benefits of modern biotechnologies, while minimizing any unintended effects. The book contains a subject index.

In what sectors and contexts should work on gender and development involve men as beneficiaries? What are the issues confronting men who work in development projects that are committed to promoting gender equality? These questions were addressed by contributors to a seminar hosted by Oxfam GB, with the Center for Cross-Cultural Research on Women at the University of Oxford, in Oxford in June 2000.

Toda organización, sea pública, privada, mixta u ONG, requiere de la interacción con “públicos” de diferente índole para lograr sus objetivos. Esa interacción es en esencia un proceso permanente de comunicación que, como tal, requiere ser gestionado. La forma de estructurar dicha gestión con lógica, coherencia, propósito y efectividad es a través del diseño, la elaboración y la implementación de planes estratégicos de comunicación (PEC). Este libro ofrece una completa contextualización del para qué gestionar la comunicación, así como consideraciones, ejemplos y recomendaciones de orden técnico y gerencial para hacerlo. A través de este, también se accede a un método concreto y estructurado que, descrito paso a paso, de manera práctica y específica, provee herramientas plenamente aplicables y presenta lo que usted debe tener en cuenta para diseñar y elaborar un PEC de forma apropiada.

The Migrant Integration Policy Index (MIPEX) is a unique comparative study on indicators of the legal integration of third-country nationals. Though comparing countries on the basis of various indicator types is common in the private sector and increasingly used in policy areas like development, good governance and equality, the exercise remains relatively new in justice and home affairs. The book lays out the instruments used to construct the MIPEX and then situates the study within current debates on integration indicators and policy evaluation. Each chapter considers what the study’s key findings add to our understanding of the state of integration policy development across Europe and of recent legal and policy trends on anti-discrimination, naturalisation, labour market access, and political participation.

This volume on penitentiary systems in the Americas offers a long-overdue look at the prisons that exist at the forefront of the ongoing struggle against drugs and violence throughout North, Central, and South America and the Caribbean. From Haiti to Bolivia, the authors examine the conditions in these systems, and allow several common themes to emerge, including the alarming prevalence of lengthy pre-trial detention and the often abysmal living conditions in these institutions. Taken together, this comprises the first comparative overview of the use and abuse of prisons in the Americas.