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1783: Informal cross-border trade in Africa: How much? Why? And what impact?

Antoine Bouët, Kathryn Pace and Joseph W. Glauber

1782: Food for thought? Experimental evidence on the learning impacts of a large-scale school feeding program in Ghana [Appendices]

Elisabetta Aurino, Aulo Gelli, Clement Adamba, Isaac Osei-Akoto and Harold Alderman

1782: Food for thought? Experimental evidence on the learning impacts of a large-scale school feeding program in Ghana

Elisabetta Aurino, Aulo Gelli, Clement Adamba, Isaac Osei-Akoto and Harold Alderman

1781: Adoption and diffusion of improved technologies and production practices in agriculture: Insights from a donor-led intervention in Nepal

Anjani Kumar, Hiroyuki Takeshima, Naveen Adhikari, Ganesh Thapa, Pramod Kumar Joshi and Madhab Karkee

1780: The diet problem, nutrient supply, and the cost of diversity applied to livestock feeds

Adam M. Komarek, Sherman Robinson and Daniel Mason-D'Croz

1779: Evaluating the impact of policy research: Lessons from the evaluation of rural policy research in developing countries

Roger Slade, Mitch Renkow, Frank Place and Peter B. R. Hazell

1778: Information and communication technologies (ICTs) to provide agricultural advice to smallholder farmers: Experimental evidence from Uganda

Bjorn Van Campenhout, David Spielman and Els Lecoutere

1777: Perspectives on Iran's environmental policy process: Issues and constraints

Amir Hedayati Aghmashhadi, Suresh Chandra Babu, Masoud Daroodi, Samaneh Zahedi and Azadeh Kazemi

1776: Child nutritional status, welfare and health in Nigerian households

Hyacinth O. Edeh, George Mavrotas and Margaret Abiodun Adesugba

1775: Adoption of GM crops in Ghana: Ex ante estimations for insect-resistant cowpea and nitrogen-use efficient rice

Fred M. Dzanku, Patricia Zambrano, Ulrike Wood-Sichra, José B. Falck-Zepeda, Judith A. Chambers, Hillary Hanson, Paul Boadu and Science and Technology Policy Research Institute

1774: Government expenditures in Kenya, 1950–2014: Determinants and agricultural growth effects

Samuel Benin and Sunday P. Odjo

1773: Market integration with ASEAN and beyond: The case of Myanmar

Manmeet Singh Ajmani, Pramod Kumar Joshi, Renjini Vr and Devesh Roy

1772: Gender, household behavior, and rural development

Cheryl Doss and Agnes Quisumbing

1771: An overview of methods used to study the impact of climate change on agriculture in Central America and the Andean Region

Timothy S. Thomas, Ana María Loboguerrero Rodríguez, Daniel Mason-D'Croz and Deissy Martínez Barón

1770: Agriculture–nutrition linkages in Tajikistan: Evidence from household survey data

Hiroyuki Takeshima, Kamiljon Akramov, Allen Park, Jarilkasin Ilyasov, Yanyan Liu and Tanzila Ergasheva

1769: Food system transformation in Mozambique: An assessment of changing diet quality in the context of a rising middle class

Jenny Smart, David Tschirley and Francis C. Smart

1768: Contract farming, productivity and fertilizer usage: Empirical evidence from specialty crop production

Ashok Mishra, Anjani Kumar, Pramod Kumar Joshi, Alwin D'Souza and Gaurav Tripathi

1767: Farm-nonfarm labor mobility in rural Bangladesh: Intersectoral shift or intergenerational occupational choice?

Paul A. Dorosh, Binayak Sen, Joanna van Asselt and Mansur Ahmed

1766: ‘Sticky Rice’: Variety inertia and groundwater crisis in a technologically progressive state of India

Kuhu Joshi, Pramod Kumar Joshi, Md Tajuddin Khan and Avinash Kishore

1765: Transformation of the Thai broiler industry

Phunjasit Chokesomritpol, Viroj Naranong and Adam Kennedy

1764: Mapping nutrient adequacy for targeted policy interventions, with application to Uganda (2013/14)

Wim Marivoet and John M. Ulimwengu

1763: Economic activities of forcibly displaced populations: An analysis of enterprises in Southern Bangladesh

Gracie Rosenbach, Ernesto Tiburcio, Mateusz J. Filipski, Paul A. Dorosh and Binayak Sen

1762: What is the role of men in connecting women to cash crop markets? Evidence from Uganda

Kate Ambler, Kelly Jones and Michael O'Sullivan

1761: The role of agricultural productivity in non-farm activities in Nigeria: Effects on sector orientation and factor intensity

Hiroyuki Takeshima, Mulubrhan Amare and George Mavrotas

1760: Urbanization and women’s body weight: Evidence from Nigeria

Kibrom A. Abay and Mulubrhan Amare

1759: The cost of transporting cereals in West Africa

Stephanie Mercier

1758: Building resilient food systems: An analytical review

Karunya Iyappan and Suresh Chandra Babu

1757: Groundnut export tax in Senegal: Winners and losers

Ismaël Fofana, Ousmane Badiane, Alhassane Camara and Anatole Goundan

1756: Insights on the rapid adoption of Pusa 1121 basmati variety in North India

Kuhu Joshi, Pramod Kumar Joshi, Md Tajuddin Khan and Avinash Kishore

1755: Firm employment, exit, and growth in the food processing sector: Evidence from Ghana

Kwaw S. Andam and Seth Asante

1754: The CAADP inaugural Biennial Review and Africa Agricultural Transformation Scorecard: Results and areas for improvement

Samuel Benin, John Ulimwengu and Wondwosen Tefera

1753: Water, sanitation and child health: Evidence from subnational panel data in 59 countries

Derek Headey and Giordano Palloni

1752: Women’s aspirations for the future, and their financial, social and educational investments

Kalyani Raghunathan, Agnes Quisumbing, Neha Kumar and Kenda Cunningham

1751: Social networks, mobility, and political participation: The potential for women’s self-help groups to improve access and use of public entitlement schemes in India

Neha Kumar, Kalyani Raghunathan, Alejandra Arrieta, Amir Hamza Jilani, Suman Chakrabarti, Purnima Menon and Agnes Quisumbing

1750: Overview of the evolution of agricultural mechanization in Nigeria

Hiroyuki Takeshima and Akeem Lawal

1749: The agricultural R&D investment gap in Latin America and the Caribbean

Alejandro Nin-Pratt and César A. Falconi

1748: Measuring distortions along Tanzanian agricultural value chains

Fahd Majeed, Simla Tokgoz, Summer L. Allen and Bas Paris

1747: Agricultural growth, efficiency and family agriculture in Paraguay

Alejandro Nin-Pratt

1746: Improving food safety on the farm: Experimental evidence from Kenya on agricultural incentives and subsidies as public health investments

Vivian Hoffmann and Kelly Jones

1745: Asymmetric information on non-cognitive skills in the Indian labor market: An experiment using an online job portal

Futoshi Yamauchi, Shinsaku Nomura, Saori Imaizumi, Ana C Areias and Afra R Chowdhury

1744: Can German vocational training combat skill shortages in developing countries? Evidence from dual training system in the Philippines

Futoshi Yamauchi, Taejong Kim, Kye Woo Lee and Marites Tiongco

1743: Tracking climate resiliency actions in national strategies: A policy and investment framework and application to Myanmar

Suresh Chandra Babu, Anbumozhi Venkatachalam, Namita Paul and Jieun Won

1742: Increasing food system resilience for nutrition sensitivity and sustainability: A decentralized analysis for India

K. Nirmal Ravi Kumar and Suresh Chandra Babu

1741: Long-term impacts of an unanticipated risk event: The 2007/08 food price crisis and child growth in Indonesia

Futoshi Yamauchi and Donald F. Larson

1740: La mecanización agrícola en América Latina

Pablo Elverdin, Valeria Pineiro and Luis Robles

1739: IFPRI country programs: Lessons from case study successes

Frank Place and Peter B. R. Hazell

1738: Dynamic computable general equilibrium simulations in support of quantitative foresight modeling to inform the CGIAR research portfolio: Linking the IMPACT and GLOBE models

Dirk Willenbockel, Sherman Robinson, Daniel Mason-D'Croz, Mark W. Rosegrant, Timothy Sulser, Shahnila Dunston and Nicola Cenacchi

1737: Is smuggling welfare-improving? Evidence from avocados in Costa Rica

Jeanne Metivier and Antoine Bouët

1736: Can women’s empowerment increase animal source food consumption in flood prone areas of Bangladesh?

Natalie Theys

1735: Women's self-help groups, decision-making, and improved agricultural practices in India: From extension to practice

Kalyani Raghunathan, Samyuktha Kannan and Agnes Quisumbing