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159: Development domains for Ethiopia: capturing the geographical context of smallholder development options

Jordan Chamberlin, John Pender and Bingxin Yu

158: Parables: applied economics literature about the impact of genetically engineered crop varieties in developing economies

Falck-Zepeda, José, Gruère, Guillaume, Melinda Smale and Patricia Zambrano

157: Risk assessment and management of genetically modified organisms under Australia's Gene Technology Act

Falck-Zepeda, José, John Komen, Nicholas Linacre and Donald MacLaren

156: Combining revealed and stated preference methods to assess the private value of agrobiodiversity in Hungarian home gardens

Ekin Birol, Andreas Kontoleon and Melinda Smale

154: Marketing underutilized plant species for the benefit of the poor: a conceptual framework

Alessandra Giuliani, Gruère, Guillaume and Melinda Smale

153: Farmer management of production risk on degraded lands: the role of wheat genetic diversity in Tigray Region, Ethiopia

Jean-Paul Chavas, Salvatore Di Falco and Melinda Smale

152: An exploration of the potential benefits of integrated pest management systems and the use of insect resistant potatoes to control the Guatemalan Tuber Moth (Tecia solanivora Povolny) in Ventaquemada, Colombia

Irma Baquero-Haeberlin, Nancy Barreto-Triana, Espitia-Malagón, Eduardo, José Falck Zepeda, Fierro-Guzmán, Humberto and López, Nancy

151: Local seed systems for millet crops in marginal environments of India: industry and policy perspectives

Latha Nagarajan, Philip Pardey and Melinda Smale

150: Impacts of considering climate variability on investment decisions in Ethiopia

Paul J. Block, Xinshen Diao, Mark Rosegrant and Kenneth Strzepek

149: A gap analysis of confined field trial application forms for genetically modified crops in East Africa: evaluating the potential for harmonization

Joel I. Cohen and Nicholas A. Linacre

148: A hedonic approach to estimating the supply of variety attributes of a subsistence crop

Svetlana Edmeades

147: An analysis of trade related international regulations of genetically modified food and their effects on developing countries

Gruère, Guillaume P.

146: Comparative analysis of the national biosafety regulatory systems in East Africa

Gregory Jaffe

145: Development and evaluation of a regional water poverty index for Benin

Claudia Heidecke

144: On farm conservation of rice biodiversity in Nepal: a simultaneous estimation approach

Devendra Gauchan, Melinda Smale and M. E. Van Dusen

143: Impact of global warming on Chinese wheat productivity

Fang Cheng, Mark Rosegrant, Stanley Wood and Liangzhi You

142: Farmer willingness to pay for seed-related information: rice varieties in Nigeria and Benin

J Horna, Melinda Smale and Matthias von Oppen

141: Water pricing and valuation in Indonesia: case study of the Brantas River Basin

Petra J.G.J. Hellegers and Charles Rodgers

140: Analysis for biotechnology innovations using Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA)

Regina Birner, Falck-Zepeda, José, Joanne Gaskell, Mark Halsey, Nicholas A. Linacre, Hector Quemada and Mark Rosegrant

139: Comparing farm and village-level determinants of millet diversity in marginal environments of India: the context of seed systems

Paul Glewwe, Latha Nagarajan and Melinda Smale

138: Security analysis for agroterrorism: applying the threat, vulnerability, consequence framework to developing countries

Regina Birner, Marc J. Cohen, Falck-Zepeda, José, Joanne Gaskell, John Komen, Bonwoo Koo, Nicholas A. Linacre, Siwa Msangi and Mark Rosegrant

137: Incorporating collateral information using an adaptive management framework for the regulation of transgenic crops

Peter K. Ades, Mark A. Burgman, Nicholas A. Linacre and Allen Stewart-Oaten

136: The emergence of insect resistance in Bt-corn: implication of resistance management information under uncertainty

Nicholas A. Linacre and Colin J. Thompson

135: Local seed systems and village-level determinants of millet crop diversity in marginal environments of India

Latha Nagarajan and Melinda Smale

134: Policy options for increasing crop productivity and reducing soil nutrient depletion and poverty in Uganda

Edward Kato, Crammer Kaizzi, Samuel Mugarura, Ephraim Nkonya and John Pender

133: Ecological risks of novel environmental crop technologies using phytoremediation as an example

J. Scott Angle and Nicholas A. Linacre

132: Incorporating project uncertainty in novel environmental biotechnologies: illustrated using phytoremediation

J. Scott Angle, Nicholas A. Linacre and Steven N. Whiting

131: The case of smallholder dairying in Eastern Africa

Margaret Ngigi

130: Improved fallows in Eastern Zambia: history, farmer practice and impacts

Oluyede Ajayi, Teddy Chirwa, Steven Franzel, Roza Katanga, Elias Kuntashula, Freddie Kwesiga, Paramu Mafongoya, Donald Phiri and Frank Place

129: Improved water supply in the Ghanaian Volta Basin: who uses it and who participates in community decision-making?

Stefanie Engel, Maria Iskandarani and Maria del Pilar Useche

128: Participation of local people in water management: evidence from the Mae Sa Watershed, northern Thailand

Helene Heyd and Andreas Neef

127: Water allocation policies for the Dong Nai River Basin in Vietnam: an integrated perspective

Claudia Ringler and Nguyen Vu Huy

126: Assessing the spatial distribution of crop production using a generalized cross-entropy approach

Stanley Wood and Liangzhi You

125: Variety demand within the framework of an agricultural household model with attributes: the case of bananas in Uganda

Svetlana Edmeades, Dan Phaneuf, Mitch Renkow and Melinda Smale

124: Spatial patterns of crop yields in Latin America and the Caribbean

Stanley Wood, Liangzhi You and Xiaobo Zhang

123: Dairy development in Ethiopia

Mohamed A. M. Ahmed, Simeon Ehui and Assefa Yemesrach

122: Linkages between poverty and land management in rural Uganda: evidence from the Uganda National Household Survey, 1999/00

Edward Kato, Ephraim Nkonya, John Pender and Sarah Ssewanyana

121: Spatial analysis of sustainable livelihood enterprises of Uganda cotton production

Jordan Chamberlin and Liangzhi You

120: Are horticultural exports a replicable success story?: evidence from Kenya and Côte d'Ivoire

Nicholas Minot and Margaret Ngigi

119: International exchange of genetic resources, the role of information and implications for ownership: the case of the U.S. National Plant Germplasm System

Kelly Day Rubenstein and Melinda Smale

118: New challenges in the cassava transformation in Nigeria and Ghana

Felix Nweke

117: Agri-environmental policies in a transitional economy: the value of agricultural biodiversity in Hungarian home gardens

Ekin Birol, Ã gnes Gyovai and Melinda Smale

116: To reach the poor: Results from the ISNAR-IFPRI Next Harvest study on genetically modified crops, public research, and policy implications

Atanas Atanassov, Ahmed Bahieldin, Johan Brink, Burachik, Moisés, Joel I. Cohen, Vibha Dhawan, Reynaldo V. Ebora, Falck-Zepeda, José Benjamin, Luis Herrera-Estrella, John Komen, Fee Chon Low, Emeka Omaliko, Benjamin Odhiambo, Hector Quemada, Yufa Peng, Sampaio, Maria Jose Idah Sithole-Niang, Ana Sittenfeld, Melinda Smale, Idah Sithole-Niang, Sutrisno, Ruud Valyasevi, Yusuf Zafar and Patricia Zambrano

115: Improved fallows in Kenya: history, farmer practice, and impacts

Steve Franzel, Bashir Jama, Qureish Noordin and Frank Place

114: The emergence and spreading of an improved traditional soil and water conservation practice in Burkina Faso

Kaboré, Daniel and Chris Reij

113: Public-private partnerships in agricultural research: an analysis of challenges facing industry and the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research

David Spielman and Klaus von Grebmer

112: An integrated economic and social analysis to assess the impact of vegetable and fishpond technologies on poverty in rural Bangladesh

Suraiya Begum, Kelly Hallman and David Lewis

111: Impacts of agricultural research on poverty: findings of an integrated economic and social analysis

Michelle Adato, Lawrence Haddad, P. B. R. Hazell and Ruth Meinzen-Dick

110: Rice research, technological progress, and impacts on the poor: the Bangladesh case (summary report)

Manik L. Bose, Alamgir Chowdhury, Mahabub Hossain and David Lewis

109: National and international agricultural research and rural poverty: the case of rice research in India and China

Connie Chan-Kang, Shenggen Fan, K. Krishnaiah and Keming Qian