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108: Conservation farming in Zambia

Steven Haggblade and Gelson Tembo

107: Woodlot devolution in Northern Ethiopia: opportunities for empowerment, smallholder income diversification and sustainable land management

Berhanu Gebremedhin, Pamela Jagger and John Pender

106: Demand for rainfall-index based insurance: a case study from Morocco

Nancy McCarthy

105: Determinants of cereal diversity in communities and on household farms of the Northern Ethiopian Highlands

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

104: Determinantes de estrategias comunitarias de subsistencia y el uso de prácticas conservacionistas de producción agrícola en las zonas de ladera en Honduras

Amy Damon, Hans Jansen, John Pender and Rodríguez, Angel

103: Animal health and the role of communities: an example of trypanasomosis control options in Uganda

Paul Coleman, Nancy McCarthy and John McDermott

102: Productivity and land enhancing technologies in Northern Ethiopia: health, public investments, and sequential adoption

Jeffrey Alwang, Gregory Amacher and Lire Ersado

101: Impacts of programs and organizations on the adoption of sustainable land management technologies in Uganda

Pamela Jagger and John Pender

100: The economics of generating and maintaining plant variety rights in China

Bonwoo Koo, Philip Pardey, Keming Qian and Yi Zhang

99: Public spending in developing countries: trends, determination, and impact

Shenggen Fan and Neetha Rao

98: Alternative growth scenarios for Ugandan coffee to 2020

Liangzhi You and Simon Bolwig

97: Maize in Eastern and Southern Africa: 'seeds' of success in retrospect

Melinda Smale and Thomas Jayne

96: India’s plant variety and farmers’ rights legislation: potential impact on stakeholder access to genetic resources

Anitha Ramanna

95: Assessing and attributing the benefits from varietal improvement research: evidence from Embrapa, Brazil

Philip Pardey, Julian Alston, Connie Chan-Kang, Eduardo Magalhaes and Stephen A. Vosti

94: Agricultural research and urban poverty in India

Shenggen Fan

93: Local governance and public goods provision in rural China

Xiaobo Zhang, Shenggen Fan, Linxiu Zhang and Jikun Huang

92: Strategies for stimulating poverty-alleviating growth in the rural nonfarm economy in developing countries

Steven Haggblade, Peter B. R. Hazell and Thomas Reardon

91: Why TVES have contributed to interregional imbalances in China

Junichi Ito

90: The role of rainfed agriculture in the future of global food production

Mark Rosegrant, Ximing Cai, Sarah A. Cline and Naoko Nakagawa

89: Assessing the impact of agricultural research on poverty using the sustainable livelihoods framework

Michelle Adato and Ruth Meinzen-Dick

88: Economics of patenting a research tool: participation and productivity

Bonwoo Koo and Brian Wright

87: The payoffs to agricultural biotechnology: an assessment of the evidence

Michele Marra, Philip Pardey and Julian Alston

86: Sustainability analysis for irrigation water management: concepts, methodology, and application to the Aral Sea region

Ximing Cai, Daene C. McKinney and Mark Rosegrant

85: Development pathways and land management in Uganda: causes and implications

John Pender, Pamela Jagger, Ephraim Nkonya and Dick Sserunkuuma

84: How productive is infrastructure? new approach and evidence from rural India

Xiaobo Zhang and Shenggen Fan

83: How agricultural research affects urban poverty in developing countries: the case of China

Shenggen Fan, Fang Cheng and Xiaobo Zhang

82: The demand for crop genetic resources: international use of the US National Plant Germplasm System

Melinda Smale, T. Hodgkin, Armineh Zohrabian and Kelly Day-Rubenstein

81: Land lease markets and agricultural efficiency: theory and evidence from Ethiopia

John Pender and Marcel Fafchamps

80: The economics of intellectual property rights under imperfect enforcement: developing countries, biotechnology, and the TRIPs agreement

Konstantinos Giannakas

79: Accessing other people's technology: do non-profit agencies need it? how to obtain it?

Carol Nottenburg, Philip Pardey and Brian Wright

78: Managing droughts in the low-rainfall areas of the Middle East and North Africa

Peter B. R. Hazell, Peter Oram and Nabil Chaherli

77: Strategies for sustainable agricultural development in the Ethiopian Highlands

John Pender, Berhanu Gebremedhin, Samuel Benin and Simeon Ehui

76: Market imperfections and land productivity in the Ethiopian Highlands

Stein Holden, Bekele Shiferaw and John Pender

75: The effect of environmental variability on livestock and land-use management: the Borana Plateau, Southern Ethiopia

Nancy McCarthy, Abdul Kamara and Michael Kirk

74: Does Guanxi matter to nonfarm employment?

Xiaobo Zhang and Guo Li

73: Monitoring systems for managing natural resources: economics, indicators and environmental externalities in a Costa Rican watershed

Peter B. R. Hazell, Ujjayant Chakravorty, John Dixon and Rafael Celis

72: Does efficient water management matter? physical and economic efficiency of water use in the river basin

Ximing Cai, Claudia Ringler and Mark Rosegrant

71: Public investment and regional inequality in rural China

Shenggen Fan and Xiaobo Zhang

70: South-North trade, intellectual property jurisdictions, and freedom to operate in agricultural research on staple crops

Eran Binenbaum, Carol Nottenburg, Philip Pardey, Brian Wright and Patricia Zambrano

69: Consumption effects of genetic modification: what if consumers are right?

Murray Fulton and Konstantinos Giannakas

68: An evaluation of dryland watershed development projects in India

P.J. George, John Kerr, Ganesh Pangare and Vasudha Lokur Pangare

67: Small-scale farms in the western Brazilian Amazon: can they benefit from carbon trade?

Chantal Line Carpentier, Steve Vosti and Julie Witcover

66: Growth and poverty in rural China: the role of public investments

Shenggen Fan, Linxiu Zhang and Xiaobo Zhang

65: The role of trees for sustainable management of less-favored lands: the case of eucalyptus in Ethiopia

Pamela Jagger and John Pender

64: Irrigation and water resources in Latin America and the Caribbean: challenges and strategies

Michael S. Paisner, Claudia Ringler and Mark Rosegrant

63: Integrated economic-hydrologic water modeling at the basin scale: the Maipo river basin

Ximing Cai, Guillermo Donoso, Andrew Keller, Daene C. McKinney, Claudia Ringler and Mark Rosegrant

62: The effects of the U.S. Plant Variety Protection Act on wheat genetic improvement

Julian Alston and Raymond J. Venner

61: What affects organization and collective action for managing resources?: evidence from canal irrigation systems in India

Ashok Gulati, Ruth Meinzen-Dick and K. V. Raju

60: Community natural resource management: the case of woodlots in northern Ethiopia

Berhanu Gebremedhin, John Pender and Girmay Tesfaye

59: Water rights and multiple water uses: framework and application to Kirindi Oya irrigation system, Sri Lanka

Margaretha Bakker and Ruth Meinzen-Dick