Papers in this issue include: Poverty, development and food: Basic needs revisited. Global perspectives on the problems of poverty and hunger: Approaches to quantifying the world food problem; Adjustment with a human face; Malnutrition and human capital – Problems of theory and practice. Sub-Saharan Africa: Poverty, the food problem and national response. International Responses: The desirable, The possible: Aid policy; Normal professionalism, New paradigms and development; Aid administration. Retrospective and stocktaking. Some reflections on past interests and activities.