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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

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

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

Nicholas Linacre, José Falck-Zepeda, John Komen 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

Guillaume Gruère, Alessandra Giuliani and Melinda Smale

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

Salvatore Di Falco, Jean-Paul Chavas 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

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

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, Kenneth Strzepek, Mark Rosegrant and Xinshen Diao

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

Nicholas A. Linacre and Joel I. Cohen

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

Guillaume Gruère

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, M. E. Van Dusen and Melinda Smale

143: Impact of global warming on Chinese wheat productivity

Liangzhi You, Mark Rosegrant, Fang Cheng and Stanley Wood

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

Charles Rodgers and Petra J.G.J. Hellegers

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

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

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

Latha Nagarajan, Melinda Smale and Paul Glewwe

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

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

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

Nicholas A. Linacre, Mark A. Burgman, Peter K. Ades 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

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

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

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

131: The case of smallholder dairying in Eastern Africa

Margaret Ngigi

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

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

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

Liangzhi You and Stanley Wood

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

Svetlana Edmeades, Melinda Smale, Mitch Renkow and Dan Phaneuf

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

John Pender, Sarah Ssewanyana, Edward Kato and Ephraim Nkonya

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

Liangzhi You and Jordan Chamberlin

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, Melinda Smale and Ágnes Gyovai

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, Moises Burachik, Joel I. Cohen, Vibha Dhawan, Reynaldo V. Ebora, José Falck-Zepeda, 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

Frank Place, Steve Franzel, Qureish Noordin and Bashir Jama

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

Daniel Kaboré 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

Kelly Hallman, David Lewis and Suraiya Begum

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

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

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

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

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

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