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1570: Improving household consumption and expenditure surveys’ food consumption metrics: Developing a strategic approach to the unfinished agenda

John L. Fiedler and Dena M. Mwangi

1569: Microcredit in Viet Nam: Does it matter?

Jonathan Haughton and Shahidur Khandker

1568: Micronutrient policy process in Malawi

Suresh Chandra Babu, Steven Haggblade, Elizabeth Mkandawire, Flora Nankhuni and Sheryl L. Hendriks

1567: Framework to assess performance and impact of pluralistic agricultural extension systems: The best-fit framework revisited

Guy Faure, Kristin Davis, Catherine Ragasa, Steven Franzel and Suresh Chandra Babu

1566: Food markets and nutrition in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (2004–2005)

Wim Marivoet

1565: Learning from China? Manufacturing, investment, and technology transfer in Nigeria

Yunnan Chen, Irene Yuan Sun, Rex Uzonna Ukaejiofo, Tang Xiaoyang and Deborah Bräutigam

1564: Using cognitive interviewing to improve the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index survey instruments: Evidence from Bangladesh and Uganda

Hazel Jean Malapit, Kathryn Sproule and Chiara Kovarik

1563: New modalities for managing drought risk in rainfed agriculture: Evidence from a discrete choice experiment in Odisha, India

Patrick Ward and Simrin Makhija

1562: Using zero tillage to ameliorate yield losses from weather shocks: Evidence from panel data in Haryana, India

Md Tajuddin Khan, Avinash Kishore, Divya Pandey and Pramod Kumar Joshi

1561: Limits to green revolution in rice in Africa: The case of Ghana

Catherine Ragasa and Antony Chapoto

1560: Will China’s demographic transition exacerbate its income inequality? A CGE modeling with top-down microsimulation

Xinxin Wang, Kevin Z. Chen, Sherman Robinson and Zuhui Huang

1559: Comparing apples to apples: A new indicator of research and development investment intensity in agriculture

Alejandro Nin-Pratt

1558: Have Chinese firms become smaller? If so, why?

Qiming Yang, Xiaobo Zhang and Wu Zhu

1557: Export competition issues after Nairobi: The recent World Trade Organization agreements and their implications for developing countries

Eugenio Diaz-Bonilla and Jonathan Hepburn

1556: Adoption of food safety measures among Nepalese milk producers: Do smallholders benefit?

Anjani Kumar, Ganesh Thapa, Pramod Kumar Joshi and Devesh Roy

1555: Making pulses affordable again: Policy options from the farm to retail in India

Pramod Kumar Joshi, Avinash Kishore and Devesh Roy

1554: Implications of slowing growth in emerging market economies for hunger and poverty in rural areas of developing countries

David Laborde Debucquet and Will Martin

1553: Impacts of CAADP on Africa’s agricultural-led development

Samuel Benin

1552: Do beliefs about agricultural inputs counterfeiting correspond with actual rates of counterfeiting? Evidence from Uganda

Maha Ashour, Lucy Billings, Daniel Gilligan, Jessica Hoel and Naureen Karachiwalla

1551: Agricultural inputs policy under macroeconomic uncertainty: Applying the kaleidoscope model to Ghana’s Fertilizer Subsidy Programme (2008–2015)

Danielle Resnick and David Mather

1550: Gender dimensions on farmers’ preferences for direct-seeded rice with drum seeder in India

Md Tajuddin Khan, Avinash Kishore and Pramod K. Joshi

1549: A farm-level perspective of the policy challenges for export diversification in Malawi: Example of the oilseeds and maize sectors

Michael E. Johnson, Brent Edelman and Cynthia Kazembe

1548: The distribution of power and household behavior: Evidence from Niger

Fleur Wouterse

1547: Market integration and price transmission in Tajikistan’s wheat markets: Rising like rockets but falling like feathers?

Jarilkasin Ilyasov, Linde Götz, Kamiljon Akramov, Paul Dorosh and Thomas Glauben

1546: The economic value of seasonal forecasts stochastic economywide analysis for East Africa

Joao Rodrigues, James Thurlow, Willem Landman, Claudia Ringler, Richard Robertson and Tingju Zhu

1545: Perceived land tenure security and rural transformation: Empirical evidence from Ghana

Hosaena Ghebru, Huma Khan and Isabel Lambrecht

1544: Global and regional pulse economies: Current trends and outlook

Pramod Kumar Joshi and P. Parthasarathy Rao

1543: United States agricultural policy: Its evolution and impact

Joseph W. Glauber and Anne Effland

1542: Roads to innovation: Firm-level evidence from China

Xu Wang, Xiaobo Zhang, Zhuan Xie and Yiping Huang

1541: A systematic review of cross-country data initiatives on agricultural public expenditures in developing countries

Richard Anson and Tewodaj Mogues

1540: Does female labor scarcity encourage innovation? Evidence from China’s gender imbalance

Zhibo Tan and Xiaobo Zhang

1539: Linking smallholder farmers to commercial markets: Evidence from nongovernmental organization training in Nicaragua

Ayako Ebata and Manuel Hernandez

1538: Can labor market imperfections explain changes in the inverse farm size-productivity relationship? Longitudinal evidence from rural India

Klaus Deininger, Songqing Jin, Yanyan Liu and Sudhir Singh

1537: Labor adaptation to climate variability in Eastern Africa

Xiaoya Dou, Clark Gray, Valerie Mueller and Glenn Sheriff

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