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58: Industrialization, urbanization, and land use in China

Richard N. Boisvert, Tim D. Mount and Xiaobo Zhang

57: Could futures markets help growers better manage coffee price risks in Costa Rica?

P. B. R. Hazell

56: Impact of agricultural research on poverty alleviation: conceptual framework with illustrations from the literature

John M. Kerr and Shashi Kolavalli

55: New approaches to crop yield insurance in developing countries

P. B. R. Hazell, Mario Miranda and Jerry Skees

54: The timing of evaluation of genebank accessions and the effects of biotechnology

Bonwoo Koo and Brian Wright

53: Past and future sources of growth for China

Shenggen Fan, Sherman Robinson and Xiaobo Zhang

52: Costing the ex situ conservation of genetic resources: maize and wheat at CIMMYT

Bonwoo Koo, Philip Pardey, Bent Skovmand, Suketoshi Taba, M. Eric Van Dusen and Brian Wright

51: Dynamic implications of patenting for crop genetic resources

Bonwoo Koo and Brian Wright

50: Estimating crop-specific production technologies in Chinese agriculture: a generalized maximum entropy approach

Shenggen Fan and Xiaobo Zhang

49: Organizational development and natural resource management: evidence from central Honduras

John Pender and Sara J. Scherr

48: Rural population growth, agricultural change and natural resource management in developing countries: a review of hypotheses and some evidence from Honduras

John Pender

47: Impact on food security and rural development of reallocating water from agriculture

Claudia Ringler and Mark Rosegrant

46: Determinants of land use change: evidence from a community study in Honduras

Gilles Bergeron and John Pender

45: Pathways of development in the hillsides of Honduras: causes and implications for agricultural production, poverty, and sustainable resource use

Durón, Guadalupe, John Pender and Sara J. Scherr

44: Spatial aspects of the design and targeting of agricultural development strategies

Aiguo Dai, Freddy Nachtergaele, Daniel Nielsen, Kate Sebastian and Stanley Wood

43: Are returns to public investment lower in less-favored rural areas?: an empirical analysis of India

Shenggen Fan and P. B. R. Hazell

42: Cost aspects of African agricultural research

Nienke Beintema, Connie Chan-Kang, Philip Pardey and Johannes Roseboom

41: Strategies for sustainable agricultural development in the East African highlands

Simeon K. Ehui, John Pender and Frank Place

40: The substance of interaction: design and policy implications of NGO- government projects in India

Ruth Alsop and Ved Arya

39: Technological change, technical and allocative efficiency in Chinese agriculture: the case of rice production in Jiangsu

Shenggen Fan

38: Research returns redux: a meta-analysis of the returns to agricultural R&D

Julian Alston, Michele Marra, Philip Pardey and T. J. Wyatt

37: The changing organizational basis of African agricultural research

Nienke Beintema, Philip Pardey and Johannes Roseboom

36: Educating agricultural researchers: a review of the role of African universities

Nienke Beintema, Philip Pardey and Johannes Roseboom

35: Dynamics in the creation and depreciation of knowledge, and the returns to research

Julian Alston, Barbara J. Craig and Philip Pardey

34: Coalitions and the organization of multiple-stakeholder action: a case study of agricultural research and extension in Rajasthan, India

Ruth Alsop

33: Government spending, growth and poverty: an analysis of interlinkages in rural India

Shenggen Fan, P. B. R. Hazell and Sukhadeo Thorat

32: Natural resource management in the hillsides of Honduras: bioeconomic modeling at the micro-watershed level

Bruno Barbier and Gilles Bergeron

31: Does land tenure insecurity discourage tree planting?: evolution of customary land tenure and agroforestry management in Sumatra

Keijiro Otsuka, S. Suyanto and Thomas P. Tomich

30: How fast have China's agricultural production and productivity really been growing?: new measurement and evidence

Shenggen Fan

29: Financing agricultural research and development in rich countries: what's happening and why

Julian Alston, Philip Pardey and Vincent H. Smith

28: Water resources development in Africa: a review and synthesis of issues, potentials, and strategies for the future

Nicostrato D. Perez and Mark Rosegrant

27: Population, land tenure, and natural resource management: the case of customary land area in Malawi

Keijiro Otsuka and Frank Place

26: Population pressure and the microeconomy of land management in hills and mountains of developing countries

Sara J. Scherr and Scott R. Templeton

25: Should India invest more in less-favored areas?

Shenggen Fan and P. B. R. Hazell

24: Population pressure, land tenure, and tree resource management in Uganda

Keijiro Otsuka and Frank Place

23: Agroecological aspects of evaluating agricultural research and development

Philip Pardey and Stanley Wood

22: Why do projections on China's future food supply and demand differ?

Mercedita C. Agcaoili-Sombilla and Shenggen Fan

21: Impact of market and population pressure on production, incomes and natural resources in the dryland savannas of West Africa: bioeconomic modeling at the village level

Bruno Barbier

20: Sustainable development of rainfed agriculture in India

John M. Kerr

19: Crop genetic resource policy: towards a research agenda

Brian Wright

18: Summary of a productive partnership: the benefits from U.S. participation in the CGIAR

Julian Alston, Jason E. Christian, Shenggen Fan and Philip Pardey

17: Determinants of farmers' indigenous soil and water conservation investments in India's semi-arid tropics

John M. Kerr and John Pender

16: Policies and markets for non-timber tree products

Peter A. Dewees and Sara J. Scherr

15: Role of terms of trade in Indian agricultural growth: a national and state level analysis

P. B. R. Hazell, Behjat Hojjati and V. N. Misra

14: Investments in African agricultural research

Nienke Beintema, Philip Pardey and Johannes Roseboom

13: Role of inputs, institutions, and technical innovations in stimulating growth in Chinese agriculture

Shenggen Fan and Philip Pardey

12: Quality-equivalent and cost adjusted measurement of international competitiveness in Japanese rice markets

Mercedita C. Agcaoili-Sombilla, Shoichi Ito and Mark Rosegrant

11: Local organizations for natural resource management: lessons from theoretical and empirical literature

Ruth Meinzen-Dick and Lise Nordvig Rasmussen

10: Impact of the structural adjustment program on agricultural production and resource use in Egypt

P. B. R. Hazell, Nicostrato Perez, Gamal Siam and Ibrahim Soliman

9: Livestock and deforestation in Central America in the 1980s and 1990s: a policy perspective

David Kaimowitz

8: Farm-nonfarm growth linkages in Zambia

P. B. R. Hazell and Behjat Hojjati

7: Total factor productivity and sources of long-term growth in Indian agriculture

Robert E. Evenson and Mark Rosegrant

6: Reforming water allocation policy through markets in tradable water rights: lessons from Chile, Mexico, and California

Renato Gazmuri S. and Mark Rosegrant

5: From "best practice" to "best fit": a framework for designing and analyzing pluralistic agricultural advisory services worldwide

Pooniah Anandajayasekeram, Samuel Benin, Regina Birner, Marc J. Cohen, Kristin Davis, Javier Ekboir, J Horna, Adiel Mbabu, Ephraim Nkonya, John Pender and David Spielman

5: The impact of technical change in agriculture on human fertility: district-level evidence from India

Michael Lipton, Stephen A. Vosti and Julie Witcover

4: Water markets in Pakistan: participation and productivity

Ruth Meinzen-Dick and Martha Sullins

3: Infrastructure and technology constraints to agricultural development in the humid and subhumid tropics of Africa

Dunstan S. C. Spencer

2: Confronting the environmental consequences of the Green Revolution in Asia

Prabhu Pingali and Mark Rosegrant

1: Sustainable agricultural development strategies in fragile lands

P. B. R. Hazell and Sara J. Scherr