RRA Notes 8: General issue

The first paper in this edition of RRA Notes describes how nutritional consultants tried using a stress calendar to plot factors affecting nutrition to establish when nutritional status is most likely to be at risk.

The second article describes the use of wealth ranking as part of rapid nutritional assessments in Darfur, Sudan. The third item is a report of an RRA held in Bededo Peasant Association, northern Ethiopia.

The fourth article reports on the results of two ranking exercises related to income-earning opportunities for famers in Ethiopia.

The final article describes a five-day RRA exercise carried out in a village in Gujarat which aimed to classify the economic status of community members.