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2014: Evolving public expenditure in Chinese agriculture: Definition, pattern, composition, and mechanism

Bingxin Yu, Kevin Z. Chen, Yumei Zhang and Haisen Zhang

2014: Fertility, agricultural labor supply, and production: Instrumental variable evidence from Uganda

Bjorn Van Campenhout

2014: Impact simulation of ECOWAS rice self-sufficiency policy

Fofana, Ismaël, Anatole Goundan and Magne Domgho, Léa Vicky

2014: Political economy of state interventions in the Bangladesh food-grain sector

Nurul Islam

2014: Loan demand and rationing among small-scale farmers in Nigeria

Kwabena Gyimah-Brempong and Aderibigbe Olomola

2014: Revisiting the labor demand curve: The wage effects of immigration and women’s entry into the US labor force, 1960–2010

Alan de Brauw and Joseph R. D Russell

2014: Improving the food policy process: Lessons from capacity strengthening of parliamentarians in Ghana

Jagdeep S. Chhokar, Suresh Chandra Babu and Shashi Kolavalli

2014: Business operations of agrodealers and their participation in the loan market in Nigeria

Aderibigbe Olomola

2014: Irrigation potential in Nigeria: Some perspectives based on factor endowments, tropical nature, and patterns in favorable areas

Hiroyuki Takeshima and Margaret Abiodun Adesugba

2014: Droughts, distress, and policies for drought proofing agriculture in Bihar, India

Avinash Kishore, Pramod Kumar Joshi and Divya Pandey

2014: Aligning public expenditure for agricultural development priorities under rapid transformation: The case of China

Bingxin Yu, Kevin Z. Chen and Haisen Zhang

2014: Public account and coding system in Kenya: The trend and pattern of agricultural expenditure

Bingxin Yu and Haisen Zhang

2014: Analysis of agricultural public expenditures in Nigeria: Examination at the federal, state, and local government levels

Tewodaj Mogues, Tolulope Olofinbiyi, Chinedum Nwoko, Edet Udoh, Reuben Adeolu Alabi, Justice Onu, Sileshi Woldeyohannes and Aderibigbe Olomola

2014: International rice trade and security stocks: Prospects for an expanded Asian international rice reserve

Paul Dorosh and Abigail Childs

2014: The US Agricultural Act of 2014: Overview and analysis

Carl Zulauf and David Orden

2014: The changing landscape of agriculture in Ghana: Drivers of farm mechanization and its impacts on cropland expansion and intensification

Nazaire Houssou and Antony Chapoto

2014: Beyond agriculture versus nonagriculture: Decomposing sectoral growth–poverty linkages in five African countries

Paul Dorosh and James Thurlow

2014: Agriculture, incomes, and gender in Latin America by 2050: An assessment of climate change impacts and household resilience for Brazil, Mexico, and Peru

Lykke Andersen, Clemens Breisinger, Daniel Mason-D'Croz, Luis Carlos Jemio, Claudia Ringler, Richard Robertson, Dorte Verner and Manfred Wiebelt

2014: Does rice farming shape individualism and innovation? A response to Talhelm et al. (2014)

Jianqing Ruan, Zhuan Xie and Xiaobo Zhang

2014: On food security stocks, peace clauses, and permanent solutions after Bali

Díaz-Bonilla, Eugenio

2014: Economics of tractor ownership under rainfed agriculture with applications in Ghana

Nazaire Houssou, Xinshen Diao and Shashi Kolavalli

2014: Land rights knowledge and conservation in rural Ethiopia: Mind the gender gap

Agnes Quisumbing and Neha Kumar

2014: The patterns of patents in China

Zhuan Xie and Xiaobo Zhang

2014: Understanding the rapid reduction of undernutrition in Nepal, 2001-2011

Derek Headey and John Hoddinott

2014: Two-tier asymmetric information as a motive for trade, trade policies, and inefficient trade agreements

Bouët, Antoine, David Laborde Debucquet and David Martimort

2014: The tide that does not raise all boats: An assessment of EU preferential trade policies

Maria Cipollina, David Laborde Debucquet and Luca Salvatici

2014: The impact of India's rural employment guarantee on demand for agricultural technology

Anil K. Bhargava

2014: Towards understanding economic growth in Africa: A reinterpretation of the Lewis Model

Xinshen Diao and Margaret McMillan

2014: The nutritional returns to parental education

Harold Alderman and Derek Headey

2014: Evidence-based research and its effect on policymaking

Nurul Islam

2014: The development push of refugees: Evidence from Tanzania

Jean-François Maystadt and Gilles Duranton

2014: Food safety and developing markets: Research findings and research gaps

Laurian Unnevehr and Loraine Ronchi

2014: Costing alternative transfer modalities

Amy Margolies and John Hoddinott

2014: Do girls pay the price of civil war? Violence and infant mortality in Congo

Olivier Dagnelie, Giacomo De Luca and Jean-François Maystadt

2014: Variable returns to fertilizer use and its relationship to poverty: Experimental and simulation evidence from Malawi

Harou, Aurélie, Yanyan Liu, Christopher Barrett and Liangzhi You

2014: Drought risk reduction in agriculture: A review of adaptive strategies in East Africa and the Indo-Gangetic plain of South Asia

Nicola Cenacchi

2014: The political economy of MGNREGS spending in Andhra Pradesh

Megan Sheahan, Yanyan Liu, Christopher Barrett and Sudha Narayanan

2014: Assessing progress made toward shared agricultural transformation objectives in Mozambique

Todd Benson, Tewodaj Mogues and Sileshi Woldeyohannes

2014: Strategies to control aflatoxin in groundnut value chains

Wojciech J. Florkowski and Shashi Kolavalli

2014: The agrarian reform experiment in Chile: History, impact, and implications

Valdés, Alberto and William Foster

2014: What dimensions of women’s empowerment in agriculture matter for nutrition-related practices and outcomes in Ghana?

Hazel Jean Malapit and Agnes Quisumbing

2014: The economywide effects of teff, wheat, and maize production increases in Ethiopia: Results of economywide modeling

Todd Benson, Ermias Engida and James Thurlow

2014: Identifying agricultural expenditures within the public financial accounts and coding system in Ghana: Is the ten percent government agriculture expenditure overestimated?

Samuel Benin

2014: Environmental migration and labor markets in Nepal

Jean-François Maystadt, Valerie Mueller and Ashwini Sebastian

2014: The role of agriculture in the fast-growing Rwandan economy: Assessing growth alternatives

Xinshen Diao, Godfrey Bahiigwa and Angga Pradesha

2014: Understanding the context for agriculture for nutrition research: Identifying country typologies of child-stunting determinants

Eduardo Maruyama, Laurian Unnevehr and Jiarui Wang

2014: Assessing the economic benefits of sustainable land management practices in Bhutan

Ephraim Nkonya, Raghavan Srinivasan, Weston Anderson and Edward Kato

2014: Examining the sense and science behind Ghana’s current blanket fertilizer recommendation

Antony Chapoto and Francis Tetteh

2014: Aid effectiveness in Ghana: How’s the L’Aquila food security initiative doing?

Samuel Benin, Tsitsi Makombe and Michael E. Johnson

2014: The other asian enigma: Explaining the rapid reduction of undernutrition in Bangladesh

Derek Headey, John Hoddinott, Disha Ali, Roman Tesfaye and Mekdim Dereje

2014: Can market-based approaches to technology development and dissemination benefit women smallholder farmers? A qualitative assessment of gender dynamics in the ownership, purchase, and use of irrigation pumps in Kenya and Tanzania

Jemimah Njuki, Elizabeth M. Waithanji, Beatrice Sakwa, Juliet B. Kariuki, Elizabeth Mukewa and John Ngige

2014: The impact of shocks on gender-differentiated asset dynamics in Bangladesh

Muntaha Rakib and Julia Matz

2014: Tractor owner-operators in Nigeria: Insights from a small survey in Kaduna and Nasarawa states

Hiroyuki Takeshima, Hyacinth Edeh, Akeem Lawal and Moshud Isiaka

2014: Co-movement of major commodity price returns: A time-series assessment

Francesca de Nicola, Pierangelo De Pace and Manuel Hernandez

2014: Bargaining power and biofortification: The role of gender in adoption of orange sweet potato in Uganda

Daniel Gilligan, Neha Kumar, Scott McNiven, J.V. Meenakshi and Agnes Quisumbing

2014: Quality healthcare and health insurance retention: Evidence from a randomized experiment in the Kolkata slums

Clara Delavallade

2014: Sins of the fathers: The intergenerational legacy of the 1959-1961 Great Chinese Famine on children's cognitive development

Chih Ming Tan, Zhibo Tan and Xiaobo Zhang

2014: Direct seed marketing program in Ethiopia in 2013: An operational evaluation to guide seed-sector reform

Todd Benson, David Spielman and Leulsegged Kasa

2014: Agriculture for development in Iraq? Estimating the impacts of achieving the agricultural targets of the national development plan 2013–2017 on economic growth, incomes, and gender equality

Azhr Al-Haboby, Clemens Breisinger, Dario Debowicz, Abdul Hussein El-Hakim, Jenna Ferguson, Teunis van Rheenen and Roberto Telleria Juárez

2014: An evaluation of the effectiveness of farmland protection policy in China

Man Li

2014: Women’s individual and joint property ownership: Effects on household decisionmaking

Cheryl Doss, Sung Mi Kim, Jemimah Njuki, Emily Hillenbrand and Maureen Miruka

2014: Can smallholder fruit and vegetable production systems improve household food security and nutritional status of women? Evidence from rural Uganda

Nassul Kabunga, Shibani Ghosh and Jeffrey K. Griffiths

2014: Intellectual property rights, technology diffusion, and agricultural development: Cross-country evidence

David Spielman and Xingliang Ma

2014: Market interdependence and volatility transmission among major crops

Cornelis Gardebroek, Manuel Hernandez and Luis Robles

2014: Importance of rice research and development in rice seed policies: Insights from Nigeria

Hiroyuki Takeshima

2014: Can transfer programs be made more nutrition sensitive?

Harold Alderman

2014: The impact of cash and food transfers: Evidence from a randomized intervention in Niger

John Hoddinott, Sandström, Susanna and Joanna Upton

2014: How does climate change alter agricultural strategies to support food security?

Leslie Lipper and Philip K. Thornton

2014: Public sector agricultural research priorities for sustainable food security: Perspectives from plausible scenarios

Gerald Nelson and Dominique van der Mensbrugghe

2014: Migration, local off-farm employment, and agricultural production efficiency: Evidence from China

Peng Chao, Kevin Z. Chen, Songqing Jin, Jeffrey Riedinger, Hui Wang and Jin Yang

2014: Farmers’ preferences for climate-smart agriculture an assessment in the Indo-Gangetic plain

Pramod Aggarwal, Pramod Kumar Joshi, Barun Deb Pal, Garima Taneja and N.K. Tyagi

2014: An empirical examination of the dynamics of varietal turnover in Indian wheat

Subash Ghimire, Vijesh Krishna, David Spielman and Prakashan Chellattan Veettil

2014: Agricultural policy processes and the youth in Malawi

Mariam A. T. J. Mapila

2014: Can cash transfers promote the local economy? A case study for Cambodia

Stephanie Levy and Sherman Robinson

2014: Gender, control, and crop choice in northern Mozambique

Alan de Brauw

2014: Employment risk and job-seeker performance

Susan Godlonton

2014: Food prices and poverty reduction in the long run

Derek Headey

2014: Impact of Ghana’s agricultural mechanization services center program

Samuel Benin

2014: Aid effectiveness: How is the L’Aquila food security initiative doing?

Samuel Benin

2014: Improved dairy cows in Uganda: Pathways to poverty alleviation and improved child nutrition

Nassul Kabunga

2014: A comparative analysis of global cropping systems models and maps

Weston Anderson, Stanley Wood, Ulrike Wood-Sichra, Wenbin Wu and Liangzhi You

2014: Population pressure and livelihood dynamics: Panel evidence from Bangladesh

Solomon Lemma, Shahidur Rashid, Nigussie Tefera and Mohammad Yunus

2014: Changing sources of growth in Indian agriculture: Implications for regional priorities for accelerating agricultural growth

Shaily Agarwal, Pratap Birthal, Pramod Kumar Joshi and Digvijay Negi

2014: Risk and ambiguity preferences and the adoption of new agricultural technologies: Evidence from field experiments in rural India

Vartika Singh and Patrick Ward

2014: Land, assets, and livelihoods: Gendered analysis of evidence from Odisha State in India

Diana Fletschner, Amber Peterman, Florence Santos and Vivien Savath

2014: Exploring local perceptions of climate change impact and adaptation in rural Bangladesh

Snigdha Ali and Peter Davis

2014: Closing the gender asset gap: Learning from value chain development in Africa and Asia

Cristina Manfre, Ruth Meinzen-Dick, Deanna K. Olney, Agnes Quisumbing, Deborah Rubin, Elizabeth Waithanji and Mara van den Bold

2014: The political economy of Zambia’s recovery: Structural change without transformation?

Danielle Resnick and James Thurlow

2014: The impact of Bolsa Família on schooling: Girls’ advantage increases and older children gain

Daniel Gilligan, John Hoddinott, Shalini Roy and Alan de Brauw

2014: Exploring strategic priorities for regional agricultural research and development investments in southern Africa

Samuel Benin, Pius Chilonda, Xinshen Diao, Michael E. Johnson, Adam Kennedy and Liangzhi You