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Contents
Cecilia Tacoli
David Satterthwaite
Jonathan Baker
Mahmoud Bah, Salmana Ciss, Bitrina Diyamett, Gouro Diallo, Fred Lerise, David Okali, Enoch Okpara, Janice Olawoye and Cecilia Tacoli
Jonathan Rigg
Mary Tiffen
Mike Douglass
David Satterthwaite and Cecilia Tacoli
Richard Kirkby, Ian Bradbury and Guanbao Shen
Haydea Izazola, Carolina Martnez and Catherine Marquette
Priya Deshingkar
Fred Krger
H. Losada, H. Martnez, J. Vieyra, R. Pealing, J. Rivera, R. Zavala and J. Corts
Philip F. Kelly
William E. Rees
Gordon McGranahan
Mahmoud Bah holds a Masters in philosophy and sociology from the Ecole Normale Suprieure of Bamako, Mali. He has evaluated projects financed by the African Development Foundation, was a cabinet chief at the Ministry of Public Affairs and Employment, a technical consultant at the Ministry of the Environment and the Ministry of Youth and Sports, and a national expert on cooperatives and rural credit for the United Nations Development Project (UNDP)/Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) project Replication and Dissemination of Selected Crops from 19881992 in Mali. He can be contacted c/o Groupe de Recherche Action pour le Dveloppement (GRAD), BP 5075, Bamako, Mali; tel: 223 2218873; email: grad.mali@malinet.ml.
Jonathan Baker is professor of development studies at Agder University College, Norway. He was born in London and has a PhD from the London School of Economics. Between 1989 and 1996 he was senior research fellow and leader of the Urban Development in Rural Context in Africa research programme at the Nordic Africa Institute, Uppsala, Sweden. His major research interests are concerned with the role of small towns for rural development and the importance of ruralurban linkages in socio-economic transformation. He has extensive research and fieldwork experience from Africa, especially Tanzania and Ethiopia. He can be contacted at Agder University College, Service Box 422, 4604 Kristiansand, Norway; email: jonathan.baker@hia.no.
Ian Bradbury (see Richard Kirkby) email: i.k.bradbury@liverpool.ac.uk.
Salmana Ciss holds a PhD in Sociology from the Universit Paris VII and is a researcher at the Rural Economics Institute in Mali (IER). He is also national coordinator of Sustainable Agriculture and Natural Resource Management Collaborative Research Support Programme (SANREM CRSP) activities in collaboration with University Tech Blackburgh in the US. He has published variously on natural resource management, and was team leader for Systems of Rural Production in the Fifth Region (19871993), and coordinator for the Consolidation of Rural Associations/Mopti project (19931996). He can be contacted c/o GRAD, BP 5075, Bamako, Mali; tel: 223 2218873; e-mail: grad.mali@malinet.ml.
Jos Corts has a first degree in veterinary medicine at the Universidad Nacional Autnoma de Mxico (UNAM), an MSc in animal reproduction at Universidad Autnoma de Mxico (UAM) and a doctorate in animal production at UNAM. He has research experience in urban agriculture.
Priya Deshingkar is a research fellow at the Overseas Development Institute. She is a social scientist and has worked on rural livelihoods and poverty reduction for the last 20 years. Her recent work has examined the policy implications of circular labour migration in Asia and Africa. She has co-authored a book on Policy Windows and Livelihoods Futures with John Farrington and colleagues (2006, Oxford University Press). Email: pdeshingkar@odi.org.uk.
Gouro Diallo holds a Masters in Philosophy from the Ecole Normale Suprieure of Bamako, Mali. He specializes in the management of development projects and in participatory methods. He is a consultant in social sciences and coordinator for the GRAD/IIED RuralUrban programme in Mali. He can be contacted c/o GRAD, BP 5075, Bamako, Mali, tel: 223 218873; e-mail: grad.mali@malinet.ml.
Bitrina Diyamett is senior scientific officer at the Tanzania Commission for Science and Technology (COSTECH), responsible for a programme on the Interface Between Science and Society, and also a national coordinator for African Technology Policy Studies Network (ATPS), Tanzania Chapter. She is currently on study leave to complete a PhD at the University of Dar es Salaam. She can be contacted at: PO Box 4302, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania; tel: 255 22 700752; mobile: 255 741 247094; email: bitrind@yahoo.com.
Mike Douglass is professor of urban and regional planning and the director of the Globalization Research Center at the University of Hawaii. He received his doctorate in Urban Planning from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA). He has lived and worked for many years in Asian countries where he engages in research and planning with international development institutions as well as national and local governments on spatial dimensions of local and national development and globalization. He has taught at UCLA, Stanford University, the Institute of Social Studies in The Hague and the University of East Anglia. Current research includes the urban transition and mega-urban regions in Asia; civil society and civic space; poverty and the environment; and the globalization of migration and householding. He can be contacted at: Globalization Research Center, University of Hawaii, 1859 East West Road, TP 1 Room 115, Honolulu, HI 96822; tel (808) 956 4609; fax (808) 956 9431; email: global@hawaii.edu; website: www.hawaii.edu/global.
Shen Guanbao (See Richard Kirkby)
Haydea Izazola obtained a degree in economics from UNAM, and a Masters degree in demography and a PhD in social sciences from El Colegio de Mxico. She is a member of the Leadership for Environment and Development (LEAD) Programme-Mexico and, since 1991, has coordinated the Mexican Society of Demography (SOMEDE) Working Group on Population and Environment. She is a lecturer in population and environment for different Masters programmes in Mexico, and is a researcher at El Colegio Mexiquense where she conducts research on the migration responses of middle-class women to environmental deterioration in Mexico City. She can be contacted at: El Colegio Mexiquense Apartado Postal 48-D, Toluca, Mexico, C.P. 50110; fax: (72) 180358; email: hizazola@correo.xoc.uam.mx.
