Contents

## **Preface XI**

**Section 1 Food Security 1**


#### **Section 2 Health Issues 37**


## **Section 4 Human Development/Institutional Strengthening 133**

#### Chapter 7 **A Study of the Relationship between Foreign Aid and Human Development in Africa 135** Gabriel Staicu and Razvan Barbulescu

#### Chapter 8 **Developing Competencies for Rural Development Project Management through Local Action Groups: The Punta Indio (Argentina) Experience 153** Ricardo Stratta Fernández, Ignacio de los Ríos Carmenado and

Miriam López González
