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Issue 17 (November 2002)

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Evaluation

Aid responses to Afghanistan: lessons from previous evaluations (page 27)

Field Article

A method for estimating mortality rates using previous birth history (page 13)
Treating severe malnutrition in nonemergency situations: Experiences from Malawi and Guinea (page 20)
Self-Targeting in Ambon, Indonesia “To be or not to be community minded” (page 24)
Scurvy outbreak in Afghanistan: an investigation by Action Contre la Faim (ACF) and WHO (page 28)

Postscript

Research

Long term strategies to target vulnerability in Somalia (page 3)
Combining two livelihood assessment approaches in Burundi (page 4)
Micronutrient research in progress (page 5)
Influence of USAID policies on food aid: time for reform? (page 6)
Analysis of the 1996 Konzo outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo (page 7)
Assessing nutritional status using armspan measurement (page 7)
Human rights, politics and ethics (page 8)
Risks of obtaining fuel in displaced populations (page 8)
The need for nutrition research in emergencies (page 9)
Keeping schools open: school feeding in conflict and crisis (page 10)
Dynamics of livelihood diversification in post-famine Ethiopia (page 11)
Needs of host population versus refugees in Tanzania (page 12)

Agency Profile

GOAL (page 26)

Letter

Ethics of use of ready-to-use-therapeutic foods (page 23)
Reducing the price of Plumpy’nut (page 23)

News & Views

People in Aid

People in Aid (issue 17) (page 30)

Cartoon Strip

Pandamonium (issue 17) (page 30)