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1536: A dynamic spatial model of agricultural price transmission: Evidence from the Niger millet market

Anatole Goundan and Mahamadou Tankari

1535: Qualitative methods for gender research in agricultural development

Deborah Rubin

1534: Anchoring bias in recall data: Evidence from Central America

Susan Godlonton, Manuel Hernandez and Mike Murphy

1533: Contracting by small farmers in commodities with export potential: Assessing farm profits of lentil growers in Nepal

Anjani Kumar, Devesh Roy, Gaurav Tripathi, Pramod Kumar Joshi and Rajendra Prasad Adhikari

1532: Rent Dispersion in the US Agricultural Insurance Industry

Vincent H. Smith, Joseph W. Glauber and Robert Dismukes

1531: Long-term drivers of food and nutrition security

David Laborde Debucquet, Fahd Majeed, Simla Tokgoz and Maximo Torero

1530: Understanding compliance in programs promoting conservation agriculture: Modeling a case study in Malawi

Patrick Ward, Andrew R. Bell, Klaus Droppelmann and Tim Benton

1529: A model of reporting and controlling outbreaks by public health agencies

Alexander Saak and David Hennessy

1528: Boserupian pressure and agricultural mechanization in modern Ghana

Frances Cossar

1527: Agricultural mechanization and agricultural transformation

Xinshen Diao, Jed Silver and Hiroyuki Takeshima

1526: Delegation of quality control in value chains

Alexander Saak

1525: Structural transformation and intertemporal evolution of real wages, machine use, and farm size–productivity relationships in Vietnam

Yanyan Liu, William Violette and Christopher Barrett

1524: Can contract farming increase farmers’ income and enhance adoption of food safety practices? Evidence from remote areas of Nepal

Anjani Kumar, Devesh Roy, Gaurav Trapathi, Pramod Kumar Joshi and Rajendra Prasad Adhikari

1523: Effectiveness of food subsidies in raising healthy food consumption: Public distribution of pulses in India

Suman Chakrabarti, Avinash Kishore and Devesh Roy

1522: Findings across agricultural public expenditure reviews in African countries

Stephen D. Mink

1521: Risk and sustainable crop intensification: The case of smallholder rice and potato farmers in Uganda

Bjorn Van Campenhout, Emmanuel Bizimungu and Dorothy Birungi

1520: Varietal integrity, damage abatement, and productivity: Evidence from the cultivation of Bt cotton in Pakistan

Xingliang Ma, Melinda Smale, David Spielman, Patricia Zambrano, Hina Nazli and Fatima Zaidi

1519: Institutional arrangements to make public spending responsive to the poor—(where) have they worked? Review of the evidence on four major intervention types

Tewodaj Mogues and Alvina Erman

1518: A poverty-sensitive scorecard to prioritize lending and grant allocation: Evidence from Central America

Manuel Hernandez and Maximo Torero

1517: Can information help reduce imbalanced application of fertilizers in India? Experimental evidence from Bihar

Ram Fishman, Avinash Kishore, Yoav Rothler, Patrick Ward, Shankar Jha and R.K. P. Singh

1516: Pakistan’s fertilizer sector: Structure, policies, performance, and impacts

Mubarik Ali, Faryal Ahmed, Hira Channa and Stephen Davies

1515: Agriculture-nutrition linkages and child health in the presence of conflict in Nepal

Elizabeth Bageant, Yanyan Liu and Xinshen Diao

1514: “As a husband I will love, lead, and provideâ€: Gendered access to land in Ghana

Isabel Lambrecht

1513: Formal versus informal: Efficiency, inclusiveness, and financing of dairy value chains in India

Ramesh Chand, Pramod Kumar Joshi, Raka Saxena, Pallavi Rajkhowa, Md. Tajuddin Khan, Mohd. Arshad Khan, Khyali R. Chaudhary and Pratap Birthal

1512: Measuring women’s disempowerment in agriculture in Pakistan

Nuzhat Ahmad and Huma Khan

1511: The impact of conditional cash transfer programs on indigenous households in Latin America: Evidence from PROGRESA in Mexico

Quiñones, Esteban J. and Shalini Roy

1510: Why some are more equal than others: Country typologies of food security

Díaz-Bonilla, Eugenio and Marcelle Thomas

1509: Empowerment and agricultural production: Evidence from rural households in Niger

Fleur Wouterse

1508: Is access to tractor service a binding constraint for Nepali Terai farmers?

Hiroyuki Takeshima, Rajendra Prasad Adhikari and Anjani Kumar

1507: Determinants of chemical fertilizer use in Nepal: Insights based on price responsiveness and income effects

Hiroyuki Takeshima, Rajendra Prasad Adhikari, Basu Dev Kaphle, Sabnam Shivakoti and Anjani Kumar

1505: Volatile volatility: Conceptual and measurement issues related to price trends and volatility

Díaz-Bonilla, Eugenio

1504: Changes in Ghanaian farming systems: Stagnation or a quiet transformation?

Nazaire Houssou, Michael E. Johnson, Shashi Kolavalli and Collins Asante-Addo

1503: Returns to agricultural public spending in Ghana: Cocoa versus noncocoa subsector

Samuel Benin

1501: Challenges in implementing a small-scale farmers’ capacity-building program: The case of the food production, processing, and marketing project in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Catherine Ragasa, Ephraim Nkonya, John Ulimwengu and Josee Randriamamonjy

1500: Leveling the field for biofuels: Comparing the economic and environmental impacts of biofuel and other export crops in Malawi

Franziska Schuenemann, James Thurlow and Manfred Zeller

1499: Farm transition and indigenous growth: The rise to medium- and large-scale farming in Ghana

Nazaire Houssou, Collins Asante-Addo and Antony Chapoto

1498: The impact of agricultural extension services in the context of a heavily subsidized input system: The case of Malawi

Catherine Ragasa, John Mazunda and Mariam Kadzamira

1497: Ghana’s macroeconomic crisis: Causes, consequences, and policy responses

Stephen D. Younger

1496: Temporary and permanent migrant selection: Theory and evidence of ability-search cost dynamics

Joyce Chen, Katrina Kosec and Valerie Mueller

1495: The effect of insurance enrollment on maternal and child health care utilization: The case of Ghana

Gissele Gajate-Garrido and Clement Ahiadeke

1494: Stories of change in nutrition: A tool pool

Stuart Gillespie and Mara van den Bold

1493: Optimal tariffs with smuggling: A spatial analysis of Nigerian rice policy options

Michael E. Johnson and Paul Dorosh

1492: Smallholders and land tenure in Ghana: Aligning context, empirics, and policy

Isabel Lambrecht and Sarah Asare

1491: Returns to agricultural public spending in Africa south of the Sahara

Samuel Benin

1490: Lost in translation: The fractured conversation about trade and food security

Díaz-Bonilla, Eugenio

1489: Gender roles and food safety in 20 informal livestock and fish value chains

Delia Grace, Kristina Roesel, Erastus Kang'ethe, Bassirou Bonfoh and Sophie Theis

1488: Farm household typologies and mechanization patterns in Nepal Terai: Descriptive analysis of the Nepal living standards survey

Hiroyuki Takeshima, Rajendra Prasad Adhikari, Mahendra Nath Poudel and Anjani Kumar

1487: Public-private partnerships and the reduction of undernutrition in developing countries

John Hoddinott, Stuart Gillespie and Sivan Yosef

1486: How does women’s time in reproductive work and agriculture affect maternal and child nutrition? Evidence from Bangladesh, Cambodia, Ghana, Mozambique, and Nepal

Hitomi Komatsu, Sophie Theis and Hazel Jean Malapit

1485: US maize data reveals adaptation to heat and water stress

Timothy Thomas