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1734: Improving food system resilience through better governance: Lessons from multistakeholder partnerships in Zimbabwe

Joseph Tinarwo, Suresh Chandra Babu and Karunya Iyappan

1733: Drivers, trends, and consequences of changing household employment patterns in rural Bangladesh

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

1732: The role of food systems and value chains to improve diets in low income settings: Diagnostics to support intervention design in Malawi

Aulo Gelli, Jason Donovan, Amy Margolies, Noora-Lisa Aberman, Marco Santacroce, Ephraim Chirwa, Spencer Henson and Corinna Hawkes

1731: South Africa milestones to achieving the sustainable development goals on poverty and hunger

Ismaël Fofana, Margaret Mabugu and Ramos Mabugu

1730: Agricultural R&D investment, knowledge stocks and productivity growth in Latin America and the Caribbean

Alejandro Nin-Pratt and César A. Falconi

1729: Agricultural mechanization in Ghana: Insights from a recent field study

Xinshen Diao, John Agandin, Peixun Fang, Scott E. Justice, Doreen S. Kufoalor and Hiroyuki Takeshima

1728: Land consolidation, specialization, and household diets: Evidence from Rwanda

Davide Del Prete, Léopold Ghins, Emiliano Magrini and Karl Pauw

1727: Food policies and nutrition transition in Sri Lanka: Historical trends, political regimes, and options for interventions

Jeevika Weerahewa, Chatura Sewwandi Wijetunga, Suresh Chandra Babu and Nihal Atapattu

1726: Is there a role for agricultural committees and stakeholder panels in improving information and accountability in extension service provision: Evidence from Malawi

Catherine Ragasa, Cristina Alvarez Mingote and Paul E. McNamara

1725: Agriculture support services in Malawi: Direct effects, complementarities, and time dynamics

Kate Ambler, Alan de Brauw and Susan Godlonton

1724: Evolution of agricultural mechanization in Vietnam: Insights from a literature review and multiple rounds of a farm household survey

Hiroyuki Takeshima, Yanyan Liu, Nguyen Van Cuong and Ian Masias

1723: Comprehensive typology for food and nutrition security interventions, with application to the rural territories of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)

Wim Marivoet, John Ulimwengu and Fernando Sedano

1722: The countervailing effects of competition on public goods provision: When bargaining inefficiencies lead to bad outcomes

Jessica Gottlieb and Katrina Kosec

1721: The role of the private sector in food system resilience: Lessons from Cambodia

Akriti Rana and Suresh Chandra Babu

1720: Food systems for healthier diets in Ethiopia: Toward a research agenda

Mestawet Gebru, Roseline Remans, Inge D. Brouwer, Kaleab Baye, Mequanint Melesse, Namukolo M. Covic, Fekadu Habtamu, Alem Hadera Abay, Tesfaye Hailu, Kalle Hirvonen, Tarik Kassaye, Gina Kennedy, Carl Lachat, Ferew Lemma, John McDermott, Bart Minten, Tibebu Moges, Fidaku Reta, Eneye Tadesse, Tamene Taye, Ursula Truebswasser and Marrit Vandenberg

1719: The role of plant-breeding R&D in tractor adoptions among smallholders in Asia: Insights from Nepal Terai

Hiroyuki Takeshima and Yanyan Liu

1718: Revisiting rates of return to agricultural R&D investment

Alejandro Nin-Pratt and Eduardo Magalhaes

1717: Using natural areas and empowering women to buffer food security and nutrition from climate shocks: Evidence from Ghana, Zambia, and Bangladesh

Matthew Cooper

1716: Farmers’ crop choice decisions: Trends and determinants in Nigeria and Uganda

Mulubrhan Amare, George Mavrotas and Hyacinth O. Edeh

1715: Farm machinery use and agricultural industries in India: Status, evolution, implications and lessons learned

Madhusudan Bhattarai, Gajendra Singh, Hiroyuki Takeshima and Ravindra S. Shekhawat

1714: The devolution revolution: Implications for agricultural service delivery in Ghana

Danielle Resnick

1713: Assessment of the 2016/17 Food Insecurity Response Programme in Malawi

Suresh Chandra Babu, Andrew R. Comstock, Bob Baulch, Anderson Gondwe, Cynthia Kazembe, Kenan Kalagho, Noora-Lisa Aberman, Peixun Fang, Overtoun Placido Mgemezulu and Todd Benson

1712: Can contract farming in organic basmati rice be a boon to smallholders? Evidence from India

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

1711: Scaling up innovations through adaptive research: An institutional analysis and lessons from farm science centers in India

P. N. Ananth, P. R. Sahoo, Suresh Chandra Babu, N. K. Barik and J. K. Sundaray

1710: Correlated non-classical measurement errors, ‘second best’ policy inference and the inverse size-productivity relationship in agriculture

Kibrom Abay, Gashaw T. Abate, Christopher Barrett and Tanguy Bernard

1709: Women’s empowerment in agriculture and dietary quality across the life course: Evidence from Bangladesh

Esha Sraboni and Agnes Quisumbing

1708: It’s all in the stars: The Chinese zodiac and the effects of parental investments on offspring’s cognitive and noncognitive skill development

Chih Ming Tan, Xiao Wang and Xiaobo Zhang

1707: Agriculture extension in Viet Nam: An assessment and reform options

Pham Hoang Ngan and Suresh Chandra Babu

1706: Agricultural extension in Cambodia: An assessment and options for reform

Sam Oeurn Ke and Suresh Chandra Babu

1705: Mothers’ non-farm entrepreneurship and child secondary education in rural Ghana

Charlotte Janssens, Goedele Van den Broeck, Miet Maertens and Isabel Lambrecht

1704: A latent class analysis of improved agro-technology use behavior in Uganda: Implications for optimal targeting

Emmanuel Bizimungu and Nassul Kabunga

1703: Does cooperative membership improve household welfare? Evidence from a panel data analysis of smallholder dairy farmers in Bihar, India

Anjani Kumar, Sunil Saroj, Hiroyuki Takeshima and Pramod Kumar Joshi

1702: Property rights, intersectionality, and women’s empowerment in Nepal

Rajendra Pradhan, Ruth Meinzen-Dick and Sophie Theis

1701: Revisiting investments and subsidies to accelerate agricultural income and alleviate rural poverty in India

Seema Bathla, Pramod Kumar Joshi and Anjani Kumar

1700: Political activism as a determinant of clientelistic transfers: Evidence from an Indian public works program

Nancy Chau, Yanyan Liu and Vidhya Soundararajan

1699: Aid, Policies and Growth: A Nonlinear Reassessment

Xin Geng and Manuel Hernandez

1698: Productive inefficiency in dairy farming and cooperation between spouses: Evidence from Senegal

Jessica Hoel, Melissa Hidrobo, Tanguy Bernard and Maha Ashour

1697: Exploring the Agriculture-Nutrition Linkage in Northern Ghana

Sara Signorelli, Beliyou Haile and Bekele Hundie Kotu

1696: Adoption of sustainable intensification practices: Evidence from maize-legume farming systems in Tanzania

Beliyou Haile, Cindy M. Cox, Carlo Azzarri and Jawoo Koo

1695: Animal sourced foods and child stunting

Derek Headey, Kalle Hirvonen and John Hoddinott

1694: Remoteness, urbanization and child nutrition in sub-Saharan Africa

Derek Headey, David Stifel, Liangzhi You and Zhe Guo

1693: How well does the Food Consumption Score capture diet quantity, quality and adequacy across regions in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)?

Wim Marivoet, Elodie Becquey and Bjorn Van Campenhout

1692: The roles of agroclimatic similarity and returns on scale in the demand for mechanization: Insights from northern Nigeria

Hiroyuki Takeshima

1691: Are Ghana’s Public-Sector employees overpaid? Understanding the public/private wage gap and its effect on the government deficit

Stephen D. Younger and Eric Osei-Assibey

1690: Agro-processing and horticultural exports from Africa

Emiko Fukase and Will Martin

1689: Compliance with food safety practices among smallholder dairy farmers in Bihar, India: Drivers and impact

Anjani Kumar, Sunil Saroj, Ganesh B. Thapa, Pramod Kumar Joshi and Devesh Roy

1688: Impact pathways of a participatory local governance initiative in Uganda: A qualitative exploration

Bjorn Van Campenhout, Emmanuel Bizimungu, Jenny Smart and Nassul S. Kabunga

1687: Eggs before chickens? Assessing Africa’s livestock revolution with an example from Ghana

Kwaw S. Andam, Channing Arndt and Faaiqa Hartley

1686: The reality of food losses: A new measurement methodology

Luciana Delgado, Monica Schuster and Maximo Torero

1685: Improving the equity and effectiveness of Nepal’s fertilizer subsidy program

Jordan Kyle, Danielle Resnick and Madhab Karkee