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1684: The role of information in agricultural technology adoption: Experimental evidence from rice farmers in Uganda

Bjorn Van Campenhout, Wilberforce Walukano, Fiona Nattembo, Lydia Nazziwa-Nviiri and Jaap Blom

1683: The central position of agriculture within the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

Babatunde Omilola and Sophia Robele

1682: Cropland restoration as an essential component to the forest landscape restoration approach - Global effects of widescale adoption

Alessandro De Pinto, Richard D. Robertson, Salome Begeladze, Chetan Kumar, Ho Young Kwon, Timothy S. Thomas, Nicola Cenacchi and Jawoo Koo

1681: Nutrition-sensitive agriculture: What have we learned and where do we go from here?

Marie Ruel, Agnes Quisumbing and Mysbah Balagamwala

1680: West African agriculture for jobs, nutrition, growth, and climate resilience

Keith D. Wiebe, Gert-Jan Stads, Nienke M. Beintema, Karen Brooks, Nicola Cenacchi, Shahnila Dunston, Daniel Mason-D'Croz, Timothy Sulser and Timothy S. Thomas

1679: Drought-tolerant rice, weather index insurance, and comprehensive risk management for smallholders: Evidence from a multiyear field experiment in India

Patrick S. Ward, Simrin Makhija and David Spielman

1678: Growth of modern service providers for the African agricultural sector: An insight from a public irrigation scheme in Ghana

Hiroyuki Takeshima, John Agandin and Shashi Kolavalli

1677: The effects of a CAADP-compliant budget on poverty and inequality in Ghana

Stephen D. Younger and Samuel Benin

1676: Transfers, behavior change communication, and intimate partner violence: Postprogram evidence from rural Bangladesh

Shalini Roy, Melissa Hidrobo, John Hoddinott and Akhter Ahmed

1675: The evolution of tractorization in India’s low-wage economy: Key patterns and implications

Madhusudan Bhattarai, Pramod Kumar Joshi, R. S. Shekhawa and Hiroyuki Takeshima

1674: Household food expenditure, dietary diversity, and child nutrition in Nepal

Ganesh B. Thapa, Anjani Kumar and Pramod Kumar Joshi

1673: Capacity and accountability in the Agricultural Extension System in Malawi: Insights from a survey of service providers in 15 districts

Catherine Ragasa, Diston Mzungu, Eric Kaima, Cynthia Kazembe and Kenan Kalagho

1672: What happens after technology adoption? Gendered aspects of small-scale irrigation technologies in Ethiopia, Ghana, and Tanzania

Sophie Theis, Nicole Lefore, Ruth S. Meinzen-Dick and Elizabeth Bryan

1671: Effects of tractor ownership on agricultural returns-to-scale in household maize production: Evidence from Ghana

Hiroyuki Takeshima, Nazaire Houssou and Xinshen Diao

1670: Food expenditure patterns and dietary diversity in Nepal: Is dietary quality improving?

Anjani Kumar, Ganesh B. Thapa and Pramod Kumar Joshi

1669: US trade wars with emerging countries in the 21st century: Make America and Its partners lose again

Antoine Bouët and David Laborde Debucquet

1668: Heterogeneity in riverine ecosystem service perceptions: Insights for water-decision processes in transboundary rivers

Hassaan Furqan Khan, Yi-Chen E. Yang and Claudia Ringler

1667: Measuring trade integration in Africa

Antoine Bouët, Lionel Cosnard and David Laborde Debucquet

1666: Policy options to accelerate variety change among smallholder farmers in South Asia and Africa South of the Sahara

David Spielman and Melinda Smale

1665: Assessing the health and nutrition risks of smallholder poultry production in Burkina Faso: Insights from formative research

Aulo Gelli, Derek Headey, Francis Ngure, Elodie Becquey, Rasmané Ganaba, Lieven Huybregts, Abdoulaye Pedehombga, Armande Sanou, Abdoulaye Traore, Florence Zongo and Amanda Zongrone

1664: Health insurance, a friend in need? Evidence from financial and health diaries in Kenya

Xin Geng, Vera Ide, Wendy Janssens, Berber Kramer and Marijn van der List

1663: Women’s land rights as a pathway to poverty reduction: A framework and review of available evidence

Ruth Meinzen-Dick, Agnes Quisumbing, Sophie Theis and Cheryl Doss

1662: Overview of the evolution of agricultural mechanization in Nepal: A focus on tractors and combine harvesters

Hiroyuki Takeshima

1661: Cooking contests for healthier recipes: Impacts on nutrition knowledge and behaviors in Bangladesh

Berber Kramer

1660: Mapping Indian agricultural emissions: Lessons for food system transformation and policy support for climate-smart agriculture

Nirmal Kumar Patra and Suresh Chandra Babu

1659: Cash transfers and management advice for agriculture: Evidence from Senegal

Kate Ambler, Alan de Brauw and Susan Godlonton

1658: Gender, climate change, and resilient food systems: Lessons from strategic adaptation by smallholder farmers in Cameroon

Lilian Nkengla-Asi, Suresh Chandra Babu, Holger Kirscht, Scarlett Apfelbacher, Rachid Hanna and Amare Tegbaru

1657: Integrating environmental considerations into the agricultural policy process: Evidence from Nigeria

Suresh Chandra Babu, George Mavrotas and Nilam Prasai

1656: Understanding the measurement of women’s autonomy: Illustrations from Bangladesh and Ghana

Greg Seymour and Amber Peterman

1655: Addressing transboundary cooperation in the Eastern Nile through the Water-Energy-Food Nexus: Insights from an E-survey and key informant interviews

Helen Berga, Claudia Ringler, Elizabeth Bryan, Hagar ElDidi and Sara Elnasikh

1654: Limited attention and information loss in the lab-to-farm knowledge chain: The case of Malawian agricultural extension programs

Chiyu Niu and Catherine Ragasa

1653: Does providing agricultural and nutrition information to both men and women improve household food security? Evidence from Malawi

Catherine Ragasa, Noora-Lisa Aberman and Cristina Alvarez Mingote

1652: Is the WTO dispute settlement procedure fair to developing countries?

Antoine Bouët and Jeanne Metivier

1651: Role of media in shaping the policy process: Comparative lessons from the food price crisis in Bangladesh, China, India, and Viet Nam

Suresh Chandra Babu, Smita Aggarwal and Junjie Chen

1650: Food and nutrition security in transforming Ghana: A descriptive analysis of national trends and regional patterns

Olivier Ecker and Joanna van Asselt

1649: Pathways from agriculture to nutrition in India: Implications for sustainable development goals

Mousumi Das, Ajay Sharma and Suresh Chandra Babu

1648: Agribusiness competitiveness: Applying analytics, typology, and measurements to Africa

Suresh Chandra Babu and Mahika Shishodia

1647: The Abbreviated Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (A-WEAI)

Hazel Jean Malapit, Crossley Pinkstaff, Kathryn Sproule, Chiara Kovarik, Agnes Quisumbing and Ruth Meinzen-Dick

1646: Intertemporal choice and income regularity: Non-fungibility in a lab-in-the-field experiment

Berber Kramer and David Kunst

1645: Climate change and variability: What are the risks for nutrition, diets, and food systems?

Jessica Fanzo, Rebecca McLaren, Claire Davis and Jowel Choufani

1644: Building resilience for food systems in postwar communities case study and lessons from northern Sri Lanka

Hamsha Pathmanathan, Suresh Chandra Babu and Chandrashri Pal

1643: Empowerment, adaptation, and agricultural production: Evidence from Niger

Fleur Wouterse

1642: Insurance structure, risk sharing, and investment decisions: An empirical investigation of the implications of individual and group weather index insurance

Laura Munro

1641: Economic accounts for agriculture and farm income in Senegal

Ismaël Fofana, Mahamadou Tankari and Fousseini Traoré

1640: Food inflation and food price volatility in India: Trends and determinants

C.S.C. Sekhar, Devesh Roy and Yogesh Bhatt

1639: Revitalized agriculture for balanced growth and resilient livelihoods: Toward a rural development strategy for Mon State

Mateusz Filipski, Ulrike Nischan, Joanna van Asselt, Ben Belton, Adam Kennedy, Aung Hein, Paul Dorosh and Duncan Boughton

1638: Rural livelihoods in Mon State: Evidence from a representative household survey

Mateusz Filipski, Joanna van Asselt, Ulrike Nischan, Ben Belton, Kyan Htoo, Myat Thida Win, Aung Hein, L. Seng Kham, Zaw Min Naing, Ellen Payongayong and Duncan Boughton

1637: The great Chinese inequality turnaround

Ravi Kanbur, Yue Wang and Xiaobo Zhang

1636: Can agricultural aspirations influence preferences for new technologies? Cropping systems and preferences for high-efficiency irrigation in Punjab, Pakistan

Andrew R. Bell, Patrick Ward, Muhammad Ashfaq and Stephen Davies

1635: Impact of India’s National Food Security Act on domestic and international rice markets

Deepayan Debnath, Suresh Chandra Babu, Parijat Ghosh and Michael Helmer