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Working Papers

2020

1. Modeling impacts of faster productivity growth to inform the CGIAR initiative on Crops to End Hunger
   SocArXiv, Center for Open Science View citations (10)

2015

2. Supporting Profitability with Climate-Smart Agriculture
   Agricultural Outlook Forum 2015, United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Outlook Forum

2014

3. Public sector agricultural research priorities for sustainable food security: Perspectives from plausible scenarios
   IFPRI discussion papers, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

2013

4. Chinese food security and climate change: Agriculture futures
   Economics Discussion Papers, Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW Kiel) View citations (2)
   See also Journal Article Chinese food security and climate change: Agriculture futures, Economics - The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal (2007-2020), Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW Kiel) (2014) View citations (3) (2014)
5. Climate change and its impact on global agriculture in 2050: Intercomparison across global economic models
   Conference papers, Purdue University, Center for Global Trade Analysis, Global Trade Analysis Project
6. East african agriculture and climate change: A comprehensive analysis
   Issue briefs, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) View citations (26)
   Also in Issue briefs, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) (2013) View citations (46)
7. Russia's food security and climate change: Looking into the future
   Economics Discussion Papers, Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW Kiel) View citations (6)
   See also Journal Article Russia's food security and climate change: Looking into the future, Economics - The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal (2007-2020), Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW Kiel) (2013) View citations (4) (2013)
8. South African food security and climate change: Agriculture futures
   Economics Discussion Papers, Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW Kiel) View citations (8)
   See also Journal Article South African food security and climate change: Agriculture futures, Economics - The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal (2007-2020), Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW Kiel) (2013) View citations (8) (2013)
9. Southern african agriculture and climate change: A comprehensive analysis
   Issue briefs, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) View citations (15)
10. US food security and climate change: Agricultural futures
    Economics Discussion Papers, Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW Kiel) View citations (2)

2011

11. Global and local economic impacts of climate change in Syria and options for adaptation
    IFPRI discussion papers, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) View citations (4)

2010

12. Agriculture, food security and climate change: outlook for knowledge, tools and action. Background paper prepared for The Hague Conference on Agriculture, Food Security and Climate Change, 31 October - 5 November 2010
    IWMI Research Reports, International Water Management Institute
13. Enhancing Food Security in an Era of Global Climate Change: An Executive Session on Grand Challenges of the Sustainability Transition
    Scholarly Articles, Harvard Kennedy School of Government View citations (1)
14. Enhancing Food Security in an Era of Global Climate Change: An Executive Session on Grand Challenges of the Sustainability Transition, San Servolo Island, Venice – June 6-9, 2010
    CID Working Papers, Center for International Development at Harvard University View citations (1)
15. Food security, farming, and climate change to 2050: Scenarios, results, policy options
    Research reports, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) View citations (168)
16. Strategies for adapting to climate change in rural Sub-Saharan Africa: A review of data sources, Poverty Reduction Strategy Programs (PRSPs) and National Adaptation Plans for Agriculture (NAPAs) in ASARECA member countries
    IFPRI discussion papers, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) View citations (7)
17. What is the irrigation potential for Africa?
    IFPRI discussion papers, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) View citations (8)

2009

18. Agriculture and climate change: An agenda for negotiation in Copenhagen
    2020 vision focus, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) View citations (9)
19. Climate change: Impact on agriculture and costs of adaptation
    Food policy reports, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) View citations (165)
20. Greenhouse gas mitigation: Issues for Indian agriculture
    IFPRI discussion papers, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) View citations (9)
21. Overview
    2020 vision briefs, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
    See also Chapter Overview, IFPRI book chapters, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) (2013) (2013)
22. The Role of International Trade in Climate Change Adaptation
    Climate Change, International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD)

2006

23. Assessing the Robustness of Predictions in Spatially Explicit Models of Land Use
    2006 Annual meeting, July 23-26, Long Beach, CA, American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association) View citations (2)
24. Modeling Deforestation and Land Use Change: Sparse Data Environments
    2006 Annual Meeting, August 12-18, 2006, Queensland, Australia, International Association of Agricultural Economists View citations (2)
    See also Journal Article Modelling Deforestation and Land‐Use Change: Sparse Data Environments, Journal of Agricultural Economics, Wiley Blackwell (2007) View citations (8) (2007)

2004

25. A DYNAMIC MODEL OF LAND USE CHANGE WITH SPATIALLY EXPLICIT DATA
    2004 Annual meeting, August 1-4, Denver, CO, American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association) View citations (2)
26. AN ASSESSMENT OF WORKAROUNDS FOR SPATIAL EFFECTS IN THE CASE OF BINARY PROBIT
    2004 Annual meeting, August 1-4, Denver, CO, American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association) View citations (3)

2002

27. CORRECTING FOR SPATIAL EFFECTS IN LIMITED DEPENDENT VARIABLE REGRESSION: ASSESSING THE VALUE OF "AD-HOC" TECHNIQUES
    2002 Annual meeting, July 28-31, Long Beach, CA, American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association) View citations (3)

1997

28. Do roads cause deforestation? Using satellite images in econometric analysis of land use
    MPRA Paper, University Library of Munich, Germany View citations (132)
    See also Journal Article Do Roads Cause Deforestation? Using Satellite Images in Econometric Analysis of Land Use, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (1997) View citations (130) (1997)

1992

29. The Need for Better Software for Economics Principles: Issues in Implementation
    1992 Conference: New Technologies and Innovations in Agricultural Economics Instruction, University of Kentucky, Department of Agricultural Economics View citations (1)

1991

30. East Asian Poultry Markets: Technology Transfer and Demand Dynamics
    Staff Paper Series, University of Alberta, Department of Resource Economics and Environmental Sociology

1990

31. Is There an Alternative to Famine Relief:? An Example from the Sahel
    Illinois Agricultural Economics Staff Paper, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics
    See also Journal Article Is there an alternative to famine relief?: An example from the Sahel, Food Policy, Elsevier (1991) (1991)

1989

32. Explaining the Nepalese Trade Deficit: Foreign Aid or Stagnant Agriculture
    Illinois Agricultural Economics Staff Paper, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics

1988

33. THE PRODUCT CYCLE MODEL OF FOREIGN TRADE AND ASIAN DEMAND FOR POULTRY IMPORTS
    1988 Annual Meeting, August 1-3, Knoxville, Tennessee, American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association) View citations (2)

1984

34. The Impact of Government Policies on Forest Resources Utilization
    Working Papers, Philippine Institute for Development Studies

1983

35. The Impact of Government Policies on Philippine Sugar
    Working Papers, Philippine Institute for Development Studies View citations (1)

Journal Articles

2018

1. Income growth and climate change effects on global nutrition security to mid-century
   Nature Sustainability, 2018, 1, (12), 773-781 View citations (17)

2017

2. Structures of riboswitch RNA reaction states by mix-and-inject XFEL serial crystallography
   Nature, 2017, 541, (7636), 242-246 View citations (5)

2016

3. Simulating cultivar variations in potato yields for contrasting environments
   Agricultural Systems, 2016, 145, (C), 51-63 View citations (3)

2014

4. Agriculture and climate change in global scenarios: why don't the models agree
   Agricultural Economics, 2014, 45, (1), 85-101 View citations (93)
5. Chinese food security and climate change: Agriculture futures
   Economics - The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal (2007-2020), 2014, 8, 1-39 View citations (3)
   See also Working Paper Chinese food security and climate change: Agriculture futures, Economics Discussion Papers (2013) View citations (2) (2013)
6. Land-use change trajectories up to 2050: insights from a global agro-economic model comparison
   Agricultural Economics, 2014, 45, (1), 69-84 View citations (59)
7. Modeling climate change and agriculture: an introduction to the special issue
   Agricultural Economics, 2014, 45, (1), 1-2 View citations (22)
8. The future of food demand: understanding differences in global economic models
   Agricultural Economics, 2014, 45, (1), 51-67 View citations (132)
9. Why do global long-term scenarios for agriculture differ? An overview of the AgMIP Global Economic Model Intercomparison
   Agricultural Economics, 2014, 45, (1), 3-20 View citations (110)

2013

10. ECONOMIC IMPACTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE IN SYRIA
    Climate Change Economics (CCE), 2013, 04, (01), 1-30 View citations (16)
11. Incorporating Process-Based Crop Simulation Models into Global Economic Analyses
    American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2013, 95, (2), 228-235 View citations (6)
12. Russia's food security and climate change: Looking into the future
    Economics - The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal (2007-2020), 2013, 7, 1-66 View citations (4)
    See also Working Paper Russia's food security and climate change: Looking into the future, Economics Discussion Papers (2013) View citations (6) (2013)
13. South African food security and climate change: Agriculture futures
    Economics - The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal (2007-2020), 2013, 7, 1-54 View citations (8)
    See also Working Paper South African food security and climate change: Agriculture futures, Economics Discussion Papers (2013) View citations (8) (2013)
14. Vaclav Smil: Harvesting the Biosphere: What We Have Taken from Nature
    Population and Development Review, 2013, 39, (3), 539-541

2011

15. What is the irrigation potential for Africa? A combined biophysical and socioeconomic approach
    Food Policy, 2011, 36, (6), 770-782 View citations (84)

2009

16. Investigating the predictive capabilities of discrete choice models in the presence of spatial effects
    Papers in Regional Science, 2009, 88, (2), 367-388 View citations (7)
17. Land Use Change with Spatially Explicit Data: A Dynamic Approach
    Environmental & Resource Economics, 2009, 43, (2), 209-229 View citations (26)

2008

18. Green Gold or Green Wash: Environmental Consequences of Biofuels in the Developing World
    Review of Agricultural Economics, 2008, 30, (3), 517-529 View citations (5)
    Also in Review of Agricultural Economics, 2008, 30, (3), 517-529 (2008) View citations (5)

2007

19. Modelling Deforestation and Land‐Use Change: Sparse Data Environments
    Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2007, 58, (3), 502-516 View citations (8)
    See also Working Paper Modeling Deforestation and Land Use Change: Sparse Data Environments, 2006 Annual Meeting, August 12-18, 2006, Queensland, Australia (2006) View citations (2) (2006)

2004

20. Land Use and Road Improvements: A Spatial Perspective
    International Regional Science Review, 2004, 27, (3), 297-325 View citations (17)

2003

21. Simulating a relative environmental effect of glyphosate-resistant soybeans
    Ecological Economics, 2003, 45, (2), 189-202 View citations (8)

2002

22. Deforestation and land use change: sparse data environments
    Agricultural Economics, 2002, 27, (3), 201-216 View citations (22)
23. Introduction to the special issue on spatial analysis for agricultural economists
    Agricultural Economics, 2002, 27, (3), 197-200 View citations (25)

2001

24. Deforestation, Land Use, and Property Rights: Empirical Evidence from Darién, Panama
    Land Economics, 2001, 77, (2), 187-205 View citations (55)
25. Money, prices and causality: monetarist versus structuralist explanations using pooled country evidence
    Applied Economics, 2001, 33, (10), 1271-1281 View citations (7)

1997

26. Do Roads Cause Deforestation? Using Satellite Images in Econometric Analysis of Land Use
    American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 1997, 79, (1), 80-88 View citations (130)
    See also Working Paper Do roads cause deforestation? Using satellite images in econometric analysis of land use, MPRA Paper (1997) View citations (132) (1997)
27. Political feasibility of structural adjustment in africa: an application of SAM mixed multipliers
    World Development, 1997, 25, (12), 2105-2114 View citations (5)

1996

28. The Information Technology Revolution and Higher Education
    Journal of Agribusiness, 1996, 14, (2), 12

1994

29. Foreign aid and American universities: time for a change
    Choices: The Magazine of Food, Farm, and Resource Issues, 1994, 09, (01), 3

1993

30. Agricultural Policy Reform in Eastern Europe: Discussion
    American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 1993, 75, (3), 857-859 View citations (6)

1991

31. IS A BEEF DEFICIENCY PAYMENT PARETO-SUPERIOR IN SOUTH KOREA?
    Western Journal of Agricultural Economics, 1991, 16, (01), 13
32. Is there an alternative to famine relief?: An example from the Sahel
    Food Policy, 1991, 16, (3), 235-244
    See also Working Paper Is There an Alternative to Famine Relief:? An Example from the Sahel, Illinois Agricultural Economics Staff Paper (1990) (1990)
33. Policy Reform for Philippine Sugar: Is Now the Time?
    Philippine Review of Economics, 1991, 28, (1), 1-19
34. The Costs of Indonesian Sugar Policy: A Policy Analysis Matrix Approach
    American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 1991, 73, (3), 703-712 View citations (19)
35. Tsakok, Isabelle Agricultural Price Policy: A Practitioner's Guide to Partial Equilibrium Analysis. Ithaca NY: Cornell University Press, 1990, x + 305 pp., $54.50, $19.95 paper
    American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 1991, 73, (4), 1302-1304

1989

36. Feder, Gershon, Tongroj Onchan, Yongyuth Chalamwong, Chira Hongladarom. Land Policies and Farm Productivity in Thailand. Baltimore MD: Johns Hopkins University Press for the World Bank, 1988, x + 165 pp., $18.50
    American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 1989, 71, (4), 1069-1070
37. Rent Seeking in North-South Agricultural Trade
    European Review of Agricultural Economics, 1989, 16, (1), 53-64 View citations (3)

1988

38. Sugar in the Philippines: Policy responses to a distorted world market
    Food Policy, 1988, 13, (3), 283-292 View citations (3)

1986

39. Labor intensity, employment growth and technical change: An Example from Starch Processing in Indonesia
    Journal of Development Economics, 1986, 24, (1), 111-117

1983

40. Time for Tapioca, 1970 to 1980: European Demand and World Supply of Dried Cassava
    Food Research Institute Studies, 1983, 19, (01), 26

1976

41. Comparative Advantage in Rice Production: A Methodological Introduction
    Food Research Institute Studies, 1976, 15, (2), 12 View citations (11)

Chapters

2013

1. Benin [In West African agriculture and climate change: A comprehensive analysis]
   Chapter 3 in West African agriculture and climate change: A comprehensive analysis, 2013, pp 53-78
2. Burkina Faso [In West African agriculture and climate change: A comprehensive analysis]
   Chapter 4 in West African agriculture and climate change: A comprehensive analysis, 2013, pp 79-110
3. Côte d'Ivoire [In West African agriculture and climate change: A comprehensive analysis]
   Chapter 5 in West African agriculture and climate change: A comprehensive analysis, 2013, pp 111-140
4. Ghana [In West African agriculture and climate change: A comprehensive analysis]
   Chapter 6 in West African agriculture and climate change: A comprehensive analysis, 2013, pp 141-172
5. Guinea [In West African agriculture and climate change: A comprehensive analysis]
   Chapter 7 in West African agriculture and climate change: A comprehensive analysis, 2013, pp 173-202
6. Liberia [In West African agriculture and climate change: A comprehensive analysis]
   Chapter 8 in West African agriculture and climate change: A comprehensive analysis, 2013, pp 203-232
   Also in Chapter 10 in West African agriculture and climate change: A comprehensive analysis, 2013, pp 259-290 (2013)
7. Methodology
   Chapter 2 in Southern African agriculture and climate change: A comprehensive analysis, 2013, pp 25-40
8. Methodology [In West African agriculture and climate change: A comprehensive analysis]
   Chapter 2 in West African agriculture and climate change: A comprehensive analysis, 2013, pp 37-52 View citations (5)
9. Niger
   Chapter 9 in West African agriculture and climate change: A comprehensive analysis, 2013, pp 233-258
10. Overview
    Chapter 1 in Southern African agriculture and climate change: A comprehensive analysis, 2013, pp 1-24
    See also Working Paper Overview, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) (2009) (2009)
11. Overview [In West African agriculture and climate change: A comprehensive analysis]
    Chapter 1 in West African agriculture and climate change: A comprehensive analysis, 2013, pp 1-36
12. Senegal [In West African agriculture and climate change: A comprehensive analysis]
    Chapter 11 in West African agriculture and climate change: A comprehensive analysis, 2013, pp 291-322
13. Sierra Leone [In West African agriculture and climate change: A comprehensive analysis]
    Chapter 12 in West African agriculture and climate change: A comprehensive analysis, 2013, pp 323-352
14. Summary and conclusions [In West African agriculture and climate change: A comprehensive analysis]
    Chapter 14 in West African agriculture and climate change: A comprehensive analysis, 2013, pp 383-392
15. Togo [In West African agriculture and climate change: A comprehensive analysis]
    Chapter 13 in West African agriculture and climate change: A comprehensive analysis, 2013, pp 353-382

2010

16. Are Biofuels the Best Use of Sunlight?
    Springer View citations (1)