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2008: Agricultural strategy development in West Africa: The false promise of participation?

Danielle Resnick and Regina Birner

2008: Climate variability and maize yield in South Africa: Results from GME and MELE methods

Wisdom Akpalu, Rashid M. Hassan and Claudia Ringler

2008: Local impacts of a global crisis: Food price transmission and poverty impacts in Ghana

Clemens Breisinger, Godsway Cudjoe and Xinshen Diao

2008: Technology transfer, policies, and the role of the private sector in the global poultry revolution

Clare Narrod, Carl E. Pray and Marites Tiongco

2008: The impact of agricultural extension and roads on poverty and consumption growth in fifteen Ethiopian villages

Stefan Dercon, Daniel Gilligan, John Hoddinott and Tassew Woldehan

2008: The impact of Ethiopia's Productive Safety Net Programme and its linkages

Daniel Gilligan, John Hoddinott and Alemayehu Taffesse

2008: Aid effectiveness and capacity development: Implications for economic growth in developing countries

Suresh Babu and Prabuddha Sanyal

2008: A two-dimensional measure of polarization

Tewodaj Mogues

2008: Higher fuel and food prices: Economic impacts and responses for Mozambique

Channing Arndt, Rui Benfica, Nelson Maximiano, Antonio Nucifora and James Thurlow

2008: Accelerating innovation with prize rewards: History and typology of technology prizes and a new contest design for innovation in African agriculture

Benoit Delbecq and William Masters

2008: Global carbon markets: Are there opportunities for Sub-Saharan Africa?

Wisdom Akpalu, Elizabeth Bryan, Claudia Ringler and Mahmud Yesuf

2008: Anatomy of a crisis: The causes and consequences of surging food prices

Shenggen Fan and Derek Headey

2008: Credit constraints, organizational choice, and returns to capital: Evidence from a rural industrial cluster in China

Jianqing Ruan and Xiaobo Zhang

2008: The future of global sugar markets: Policies, reforms, and impact

Brandão, Antônio Salazar P., Jean-Christophe Bureau, Alexandre Gohin, Guindé, Loïc, Stephen Haley, Guy Millet, David Orden, Ron Sandrey, Nick Vink and Owen Wagner

2008: The impact of climate change and adaptation on food production in low-income countries: Evidence from the Nile Basin, Ethiopia

Temesgen Deressa, Gunnar Köhlin, Claudia Ringler, Mahmud Yesuf and Salvatore Di Falco

2008: The Philippines: Shadow WTO Agricultural Domestic Support Notifications

Caesar B. Cororaton

2008: What determines adult cognitive skills?: Impacts of preschooling, schooling, and post-schooling experiences in Guatemala

Emily L. Behrman, Jere Behrman, John Hoddinott, John Maluccio, Reynaldo Martorell, Ramírez-Zea, Manuel, Erica Soler-Hampejsek and Aryeh D. Stein

2008: Accelerating Africa's food production in response to rising food prices: Impacts and requisite actions

Xinshen Diao, Shenggen Fan, Derek Headey, Michael Johnson, Alejandro Nin Pratt and Bingxin Yu

2008: The effects of alternative free trade agreements on Peru: Evidence from a global computable general equilibrium model

Antoine Bouët, Simon Mevel and Marcelle Thomas

2008: It's a small world after all: Defining smallholder agriculture in Ghana

Jordan Chamberlin

2008: Japan: Shadow WTO Agricultural Domestic Support Notifications

Yoshihisa Godo and Daisuke Takahashi

2008: United States: Shadow WTO Agricultural Domestic Support Notifications

David Blandford and David Orden

2008: Information flow and acquisition of knowledge in water governance in the Upper East Region of Ghana

Felix Asante, Regina Birner, Nancy McCarthy, Eva Schiffer and Douglas Waale

2008: Supply of pigeonpea genetic resources in local markets of Eastern Kenya

Patrick Audi, Richard Jones and Latha Nagarajan

2008: Can US welfare programs cure persistent poverty?

John Ulimwengu

2008: Social learning, selection, and HIV infection: Evidence from Malawi

Mika Ueyama and Futoshi Yamauchi

2008: Evaluating the impact of social networks in rural innovation systems: An overview

Ira Matuschke

2008: Migration and technical efficiency in cereal production: Evidence from Burkina Faso

Fleur Wouterse

2008: Improving farm-to-market linkages through contract farming: A case study of smallholder dairying in India

Pratap Birthal, Awadhesh K. Jha, Clare Narrod and Marites Tiongco

2008: Policy options and their potential effects on Moroccan small farmers and the poor facing increased world food prices: A general equilibrium model analysis

Xinshen Diao, Rachid Doukkali and Bingxin Yu

2008: Norway: Shadow WTO agricultural domestic support notifications

Ivar Gaasland, Robert Garcia and Erling Vårdal

2008: Reaching middle-income status in Ghana by 2015: Public expenditures and agricultural growth

Samuel Benin, Godsway Cudjoe, Tewodaj Mogues and Josee Randriamamonjy

2008: Integrating survey and ethnographic methods to evaluate conditional cash transfer programs

Michelle Adato

2008: European Union: Shadow WTO agricultural domestic support notifications

Tim Josling and Alan Swinbank

2008: Bt Cotton and farmer suicides in India: Reviewing the evidence

Guillaume Gruère, Purvi Mehta-Bhatt and Debdatta Sengupta

2008: Gender, caste, and public goods provision in Indian village governments

Kiran Gajwani and Xiaobo Zhang

2008: Measuring Ethiopian farmers' vulnerability to climate change across regional states

Temesgen Deressa, Rashid M. Hassan and Claudia Ringler

2008: Determinants of agricultural protection from an international perspective: The role of political institutions

Christian H.C.A. Henning

2008: Vulnerability and the impact of climate change in South Africa's Limpopo River Basin

Sharon Shewmake

2008: Biofuels, poverty, and growth: A computable general equilibrium analysis of Mozambique

Channing Arndt, Rui Benfica, Finn Tarp, James Thurlow and Rafael Uaiene

2008: Agricultural exit problems: Causes and consequences

Dirk Bezemer, Peter B. Hazell and Derek Headey

2008: Cotton-textile-apparel sectors of India

Jatinder Bedi and Caesar B. Cororaton

2008: Cotton-Textile-Apparel sectors of Pakistan: Situations and challenges faced

Caesar B. Cororaton, Abdul Salam, Zafar Altaf, David Orden, Reno Dewina, Nicholas Minot and Hina Nazli

2008: Race to the top and race to the bottom: Tax competition in rural China

Yi Yao and Xiaobo Zhang

2008: Analyzing the determinants of farmers’ choice of adaptation methods and perceptions of climate change in the Nile basin of Ethiopia

Temesgen Deressa, R.M. Hassan, T. Alemu, M. Yesuf and Claudia Ringler

2008: Economic transformation in theory and practice: What are the messages for Africa?

Clemens Breisinger and Xinshen Diao

2008: Biosafety at the crossroads: An analysis of South Africa's marketing and trade policies for genetically modified products

Gruère, Guillaume P. and Debdatta Sengupta

2008: Publish or patent? Knowledge dissemination in agricultural biotechnology

An Michiels and Bonwoo Koo

2008: Agricultural growth and investment options for poverty reduction in Malawi

Samuel Benin, James Thurlow, Xinshen Diao, C. McCool and Franklin Simtowe

2008: China: Shadow WTO agricultural domestic support notifications

Fuzhi Cheng

2008: India: Shadow WTO agricultural domestic support notifications

Munisamy Gopinath

2008: Agricultural growth and investment options for poverty reduction in Zambia

Samuel Benin, James Thurlow, Xinshen Diao, Henrietta Kalinda and Thomson Kalinda

2008: Agricultural growth and investment options for poverty reduction in Uganda

Samuel Benin, James Thurlow, Xinshen Diao, Allen Kebba and Nelson Ofwono

2008: Agricultural public spending in Nigeria

Tewodaj Mogues, Michael L. Morris, Lev Freinkman, Abimbola Adubi, Simeon Ehui, Chinedum Nwoko, Olufemi Taiwo, Caroline Nege, Patrick Okonji and Louis Chete

2008: Choosing sensitive agricultural products in trade negotiations

Sebastien Jean, David Laborde Debucquet and Will Martin

2008: An updated look at the recovery of agricultural productivity in Sub-Saharan Africa

Alejandro Nin-Pratt and Bingxin Yu

2008: Migration, poverty, and inequality: Evidence from Burkina Faso

Fleur Wouterse

2008: Insecticide use on vegetables in Ghana: Would GM seed benefit farmers?

J Horna, Melinda Smale, Ramatu M. Al-Hassan, Falck-Zepeda, José B. and Samuel E. Timpo

2008: Agriculture for development in Ghana: New opportunities and challenges

Clemens Breisinger, Xinshen Diao, James Thurlow and Ramatu M. Al-Hassan

2008: Understanding the investment and abandonment behavior of poor households: An empirical investigation

Ruth Hill

2008: Access to irrigation and the escape from poverty: Evidence from Northern Mali

Andrew Dillon

2008: Structural changes in the Philippine pig industry and their environmental implications

Maria Angeles O. Catelo, Clare Narrod and Marites Tiongco

2008: Evaluating alternative policy responses to higher world food prices: The case of increasing rice prices in Madagascar

David Coady, Paul Dorosh and Bart Minten

2008: Contract farming of swine in Southeast Asia as a response to changing market demand for quality and safety of pork

Marites Tiongco, M.A. Catelo and Ma. Lucila Lapar

2008: On-site and off-Site long-term economic impacts of soil fertility management practices: The case of maize-based cropping systems in Kenya

Ephraim Nkonya, Patrick Gicheru, Johannes Woelcke, Barrack Okoba, Daniel W. Kilambya and Louis N. Gachimbi

2008: Development under conditions of inequality and distrust: Social cohesion in Latin America

Marco A. Ferroni, Maria Mercedes Mateo-Berganza Diaz and Mark Payne

2008: Exploring strategic priorities for regional agricultural R&D investments in East and Central Africa

Liangzhi You and Michael Johnson

2008: Reforming the agricultural extension system in India: What do we know about what works where and why?

Katharina Raabe

2008: An experimental inquiry into the effect of yardstick competition on corruption

Angelino Viceisza

2008: Innovación agroalimentaria en Bolivia: Lecciones para la formulación de políticas

Nancy Alexaki, Luis Ampuero, Tito Arispe, Vicente Eguez, Frank Hartwich and Jaime Mendoza

2008: Tracing power and influence in networks: Net-map as a tool for research and strategic network planning

Eva Schiffer and Douglas Waale

2008: Estimating household income to monitor and evaluate public investment programs in Sub-Saharan Africa

Samuel Benin and Josee Randriamamonjy

2008: Does Africa trade less than it should, and if so, why?: The role of market access and domestic factors

Bouët, Antoine, Santosh Mishra and Devesh Roy

2008: Impacts of the Hutan Kamasyarakatan Social Forestry Program in the Sumberjaya watershed, West Lampung District of Sumatra, Indonesia

John Pender, S. Suyanto, John M. Kerr and Edward Kato

2008: Finance and cluster-based industrial development in China

Jianqing Ruan and Xiaobo Zhang

2008: Introducing a genetically modified banana in Uganda: Social benefits, costs, and consumer perceptions

Falck-Zepeda, José B., Enoch M. Kilkuwe and Justus Wesseler

2008: Global macroeconomic developments and poverty

Díaz-Bonilla, Eugenio

2008: Economic partnership agreements between the European Union and African, Caribbean, and Pacific Countries: What is at stake for Senegal

Valdete Berisha-Krasniqi, Bouët, Antoine and Simon Mevel

2008: Marriage behavior response to prime-age adult mortality: Evidence from Malawi

Mika Ueyama and Futoshi Yamauchi

2008: Impacts of inventory credit, input supply shops, and fertilizer microdosing in the drylands of Niger

John Pender, Tahirou Abdoulaye, Jupiter Ndjeunga, Bruno Gerard and Edward Kato

2008: Plant genetic resources for agriculture, plant breeding, and biotechnology: Experiences from Cameroon, Kenya, the Philippines, and Venezuela

Falck-Zepeda, José B., Patricia Zambrano, Joel I. Cohen, Orangel Borges, Guimarães, Elcio P., Desiree Hautea, Joseph Kengue and Josephine Songa

2008: How change agents and social capital influence the adoption of innovations among small farmers: Evidence from social networks in rural Bolivia

Mario Monge, Frank Hartwich and Daniel Halgin

2008: Gender difference in the long-term impact of famine

Ren Mu and Xiaobo Zhang

2008: Rural innovation systems and networks: Findings from a study of Ethiopian smallholders

David Spielman, Kristin Davis, Martha Negash and Gezahegn Ayele

2008: A tale of two countries: Spatial and temporal patterns of rice productivity in China and Brazil

Liangzhi You

2008: Must conditional cash transfer programs be conditioned to be effective?: The impact of conditioning transfers on school enrollment in Mexico

Alan de Brauw and John Hoddinott

2008: From the ground up: Impacts of a pro-poor community-driven development project in Nigeria

Ephraim Nkonya, Dayo Phillip, Tewodaj Mogues, John Pender, Muhammed Kuta Yahaya, Gbenga Adebowale, Tunji Arokoyo and Edward Kato

2008: Child labor and schooling responses to production and health shocks in northern Mali

Andrew Dillon

2008: Decentralization, local government elections and voter turnout in Pakistan

Kamiljon Akramov, Sarfraz Qureshi, Regina Birner and Bilal Hasan Khan

2008: Regional biotechnology regulations: Design options and implications for good governance

Regina Birner and Nicholas A. Linacre

2008: The rise of supermarkets and their development implications: International experience relevant for India

Thomas Reardon and Ashok Gulati

2008: Investing in African agriculture to halve poverty by 2015

Shenggen Fan, Michael Johnson, Anuja Saurkar and Tsitsi Makombe

2008: Accelerating growth and structural transformation: Ghana's options for reaching middle-income country status

Clemens Breisinger, Xinshen Diao, James Thurlow, Bingxin Yu and Shashi Kolavalli

2008: Seed value chains for Sorghum and Millet in Mali: A state-based system in transition

Diakité, Lamissa, Sidibé, Amadou, Melinda Smale and Mikkel Grum

2008: The impact of CAFTA on employment, production, and poverty in Honduras

Samuel Morley, Eduardo Nakasone and Piñeiro, Valeria

2008: Asian-driven resource booms in Africa: Rethinking the impacts on development

Clemens Breisinger and James Thurlow

2008: Trading millet and sorghum genetic resources women vendors in the village fairs of San and Souentza, Mali

Melinda Smale, Diakité, Lamissa, Dembélé, Brahima, Traoré, Issa Seni, Oumar Guindo and Konta, Bouréma

2008: El impacto del tratado de libre comercio de Centroamérica en la industria Centroamericana de maquila textil

Hans G.P. Jansen, Gloria Kessler, Samuel Morley, Piñeiro, Valeria, Sánchez, Marco and Maximo Torero