This serial issue contains a total of 26 articles grouped under five headings: "Adult Learning: A Key for the Twenty-First Century (Fifth International Conference on Adult Education (Confintea V))"; "Trends in Adult Education Policy" (Belanger); "Adult Education in Modern Times" (Geissler); "From Criticism to Constructiveness" (Torres); "An Uninvited Speaker Is Asked to Leave, But He Doesn't Go..." (Aramendy); "Small Farmers of La Cocha" (Calle); "The Botina de la Cruz Family Farm" (Corrales et al.); "Poison in the Home" (interview with Javier Souza Casadinho); "Productive Terracing in Coelemu" (Loguercio); "The Use of Green Manure by Small-Scale Farmers" (Bunch); "Women's and Men's Informal Sector Enterprises in Nairobi, Kenya" (Karugu, Otiende); "Situation of Women in the Informal Sector. The Example of Rwanda" (Burckhardt); "Informal Training and Socio-cultural Regulators in Small Enterprises in New Delhi" (Singh); "Skills in the Informal Sector in Lima, Peru" (Bakke-Seeck); "Can Community Projects Sustain Local Literacy Efforts?" (Herbert); "Literacy and Language" (Robinson-Pant); "New View of Literacy: My experience in Adult Education Practice in Nepal" (Nwangwu); "Internal Funding for Literacy" (Mbuagbaw); "Executive Summary from Adult Literacy in America" (Kirsch et al.); "International Literacy Watch. Warning against Lip-Service" (Chiba); "Training of Communication Workers in the Area of Popular Radio Broadcasting" (Gutierrez); "'La Senal': An FM Radio Initiative"; "Study Circles on HIV/AIDS for Africa. Swazi Women Gain a Public Voice." (Oliver);"Darien--The Map of Participation" (Gonzalez et al.); "Violence and Impunity - Our Daily Bread" (Palma); "Education for Minority Tribes: Hope for Success" (Das); and "Participatory Training for Promotion of Social Development" (Acharya, Verma). (SK)