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05-08: Commercializing Small Farms: Reducing Transaction Costs

Prabhu Pingali, Yasmeen Khwaja and Madelon Meijer

05-07: Changes and Potential Resilience of Food Systems in the Nuba Mountains Conflict

Sara Pantuliano

05-06: Measuring Technical Efficiency of Wheat Farmers in Egypt

André Croppenstedt

05-05: Food Aid: A Primer

Sarah Lowder and Terri Raney

05-04: Transaction Costs, Institutions and Smallholder Market Integration: Potato Producers in Peru

Irini Maltsoglou and Aysen Tanyeri-Abur

05-03: Familiar Faces, Familiar Places: The role of family networks and previous experience for Albanian migrants

Calogero Carletto, Benjamin Davis and Marco Stampini

05-02: Moving Away from Poverty: A spatial analysis of poverty and migration in Albania

Alberto Zezza, Calogero Carletto and Benjamin Davis

05-01: Monitoring Poverty without Consumption Data: An application using the Albania panel survey

Carlo Azzarri, Calogero Carletto, Benjamin Davis and Alberto Zezza

04-22: Investing in Agriculture for Growth and Food Security in the ACP countries

Jakob Skoet, Kostas Stamoulis and Annelies Deuss

04-21: Estimating Poverty Over Time and Space: Construction of a time-variant poverty index for Costa Rica

Romina Cavatassi, Benjamin Davis and Leslie Lipper

04-20: Will Buying Tropical Forest Carbon Benefit The Poor? Evidence from Costa Rica

Suzi Kerr, Leslie Lipper, Alexander Pfaff, Romina Cavatassi, Benjamin Davis, Joanna Hendy and Arturo Sanchez

04-19: Effects of Poverty on Deforestation: Distinguishing behaviour from location

Suzi Kerr, Alexander Pfaff, Romina Cavatassi, Benjamin Davis, Leslie Lipper, Arturo Sanchez and Jason Timmins

04-18: Understanding Vulnerability to Food Insecurity Lessons from Vulnerable Livelihood Profiling

Christian Løvendal, Marco Knowles and Naoko Horii

04-17: Westernization of Asian Diets and the Transformation of Food Systems: Implications for research and policy

Prabhu Pingali

04-16: Identifying the Factors that Influence Small-Scale Farmers' Transaction Costs in Relation to Seed Acquisition

Lone Badstue

04-15: Poverty, livestock and household typologies in Nepal

Irini Maltsoglou and Kiyoshi Taniguchi

04-14: National Agricultural Biotechnology Research Capacity in Developing Countries

Joel Cohen, John Komen and José Falck Zepeda

04-13: Internal Mobility and International Migration in Albania

Calogero Carletto, Benjamin Davis, Marco Stampini, Stefano Trento and Alberto Zezza

04-12: Being Poor, Feeling Poorer: Combining objective and subjective measures of welfare in Albania

Calogero Carletto and Alberto Zezza

04-11: Food Insecurity and Vulnerability in Viet Nam: Profiles of four vulnerable groups

Food Security and Agricultural Projects Analysis Service (FAO - ESAF)

04-10: Food insecurity and vulnerability in Nepal: Profiles of seven vulnerable groups

Food Security and Agricultural Projects Analysis Service (FAO - ESAF)

04-09: Public Attitudes Towards Agricultural Biotechnology

Thomas Hoban

04-08: The Economic Impacts of Biotechnology-Based Technological Innovations

Greg Traxler

04-07: Private Research and Public Goods: Implications of biotechnology for biodiversity

Terri Raney and Prabhu Pingali

04-06: Interactions Between the Agricultural Sector and the HIV/AIDS Pandemic: Implications for agricultural policy

Thomas Jayne, Marcela Villarreal, Prabhu Pingali and Günter Hemrich

04-05: Globalization of Indian Diets and the Transformation of Food Supply Systems

Prabhu Pingali and Yasmeen Khwaja

04-04: Agricultural Policy Indicators

Timothy Josling and Alberto Valdes

04-03: Resource Abundance, Poverty and Development

Erwin Bulte, Richard Damania and Robert Deacon

04-02: Conflicts, Rural Development and Food Security in West Africa

Margarita Flores

04-01: Valuation Methods for Environmental Benefits in Forestry and Watershed Investment Projects

Romina Cavatassi

03-22: Linkages and Rural Non-Farm Employment Creation: Changing Challenges and Policies in Indonesia

Stein Kristiansen

03-21: Information Asymmetry and Economic Concentration: The case of hens and eggs in eastern Indonesia

Stein Kristiansen

03-20: Do Futures Benefit Farmers Who Adopt Them?

Sergio Lence

03-19: The Economics of Food Safety in Developing Countries

Spencer Henson

03-18: Food Security and Agriculture in the Low Income, Food- Deficit countries: 10 years after the Uruguay Round

Prabhu Pingali and Randy Stringer

03-17: A Conceptual Framework for National Agricultural, Rural Development, and Food Security Strategies and Policies

Kostas Stamoulis and Alberto Zezza

03-16: Can Public Transfers Reduce Mexican Migration? A study based on randomized experimental data

Guy Stecklov, Paul Winters, Marco Stampini and Benjamin Davis

03-15: Diversification in South Asian Agriculture: Trends and constraints

Kinlay Dorjee, Sumiter Broca and Prabhu Pingali

03-14: Determinants of Cereal Diversity in Communities and on Household Farms of the Northern Ethiopian Highlands

Samuel Benin, Berhanu Gebremedhin, Melinda Smale, John Pender and Simeon Ehui

03-13: Land Use Change, Carbon Sequestration and Poverty Alleviation

Leslie Lipper and Romina Cavatassi

03-12: Social Capital and Poverty: Lessons from case studies in Mexico and Central America

Margarita Flores and Fernando Rello

03-11: Armed Conflicts and Food Security

Slobodanka Teodosijevic

03-10: Explaining Success in Reducing Under-Nourishment Numbers in Ghana

Emmanuel Aggrey-Fynn, Godsway Banini, Andre Croppenstedt, Yvonne Owusu-Agyapong and George Oduru

03-09: Agricultural Export Performance in Africa: Elements of comparison with Asia

Floribert Ngaruko

03-08: Biotechnology R&D: Policy options to ensure access and benefits for the poor

Carl Pray and Anwar Naseem

03-07: The Economics of Agricultural Biotechnology

Carl Pray and Anwar Naseem

03-06: Smallholder Agroforestry Projects: Potential for carbon sequestration and poverty alleviation

Oscar Cacho, Graham Marshall and Mary Milne

03-05: Learning by Eating: A case study on the cost of hunger in Sri Lanka

Renuka Ganegodage, Kiyoshi Taniguchi and Xiaojun Wang

03-04: Globalization and Food and Nutrition Security in the Russian Federation, Ukraine and Belarus

David Sedik and Doris Wiesmann

03-03: Discerning Transient from Chronic Poverty in Nicaragua: Measurement with a two period panel data set

Marco Stampini and Benjamin Davis

03-02: Large Farm Debt in Ukraine

David Sedik

03-01: Rural Finance without Markets in Ukraine, 1991-2000

David Sedik

02-15: Food Insecurity, Poverty and Agriculture: A Concept Paper

Sumiter Broca

02-14: Wages of War, Wages of Peace: Food prices and unskilled labour pay in Afghanistan, 1996-2002

Hector Maletta

02-13: Domestic and International Migration from Rural Mexico: Disaggregating the effects of network structure and composition

Benjamin Davis, Guy Stecklov and Paul Winters

02-12: Pathways Towards Prosperity in Rural Nicaragua: Why households drop in and out of poverty, and some policy suggestions on how to keep them out

Benjamin Davis and Marco Stampini

02-11: Does Better Nutrition Cause Economic Growth? The efficiency cost of hunger revisited

Xiaojun Wang and Kiyoshi Taniguchi

02-10: Conditionality and the Impact of Programme Design on Household welfare: Comparing two diverse cash transfer programmes in rural Mexico

Benjamin Davis, Sudhanshu Handa, Marta Ruiz-Arranz, Marco Stampini and Paul Winters

02-09: More Calories or More Diversity? An econometric evaluation of the impact of the PROGRESA and PROCAMPO transfer programmes on food security in rural Mexico

Marta Ruiz-Arranz, Benjamin Davis, Marco Stampini, Paul Winters and Sudhanshu Handa

02-08: Meso-Economic Filters Along the Policy Chain: Understanding the links between policy reforms and rural poverty in Latin America

Alberto Zezza and Luis Llambi

02-07: Is it possible to avoid a lemon? Reflections on choosing a poverty mapping method

Benjamin Davis

02-06: Analysis of Food Consumption Behavior by Japanese Households

Wen S. Chern, Kimiko Ishibashi, Kiyoshi Taniguchi and Yuki Tokoyama

02-05: Assets, Activities and Income Generation in Rural Mexico: Factoring in social and public capital

Paul Winters, Benjamin Davis and Leonardo Corral

02-04: Overview of Smallholder Contract Farming in Developing Countries

Phillip Simmons

02-03: Gender, Networks and Mexico-US Migration

Benjamin Davis and Paul Winters

02-02: Socioeconomic Policies and Food Security

Kostas G. Stamoulis and Alberto Zezza

02-01: A General Equilibrium Analysis of Ownership, Property Rights and Control in a Transition Economy

Pasquale Scandizzo