Nutrition-sensitive, food-based approaches towards hunger and malnutrition are effective, sustainable and long-term solutions. This book discusses the policy, strategic, methodological, technical and programmatic issues associated with such approaches. It presents best practices for the design, targeting, implementation and evaluation of specific interventions, and improved methodologies for evaluating their efficacy and cost-effectiveness. This book also provides practical lessons for advancing nutrition-sensitive, food-based approaches at policy and program level.

Kidnap, curses, and cross-dressing: all in a day's work for sassy crimesolver extraordinaire Bella Wallis Bella Wallis's clandestine career as crime novelist Henry Ellis Margam is proving as successful as ever, but affairs of the heart are proving far trickier. Her long and half-acknowledged engagement to Westland is beginning to strain as his own shadowy government job continually takes him abroad--and then there's the matter of his sister's incarceration in a French nunnery, about which he refuses to say a word. Bella determines that their future life together can only be resolved by...

Meet Bella Wallis--a charismatic Victorian widow with a sideline in sensationalist novels, and a fierce determination to seek revenge in print for what can never be achieved in real life Bella Wallis is a respectable society woman with a secret identity: in an office buried deep within the seedy backstreets of London, she writes sensationalist novels under the pen name Henry Ellis Margam, exposing the scoundrels that litter high society. So when a crested cigar case is found near the body of a murdered prostitute, Bella and her friends are determined to trace the murderer and write a...

A charming and unconventional love story from Costa prize-winning memoirist Brian Thompson.
In 1973, Brian Thompson kissed the impossibly glamorous Elizabeth North for the first time, in a busy supermarket car park along the Leeds ring road. This is the story of the unexpectedly joyous consequences -- ones to baffle many, not least themselves -- until her death, aged 78.
Both were writers, though very different in ambition and achievement. They came from opposite ends of the social register she an Admiral's daughter, he the descendant of unruly Cockney eccentrics. She was by nature a...