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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 provide”: 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

Esteban J. Quiñones and Shalini Roy

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

Eugenio Diaz-Bonilla 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

Eugenio Diaz-Bonilla

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

Eugenio Diaz-Bonilla

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

Delia Grace, Kristina Roesel, Erastus K. 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

1484: Customary tenure and innovative measures of safeguarding land rights in Africa: The community land initiative (iniciativa de terras comunitárias) in Mozambique

Hosaena H. Ghebru, Raul Pitoro and Sileshi Woldeyohannes

1483: The International Model for Policy Analysis of Agricultural Commodities and Trade (IMPACT): Model description for version 3

Sherman Robinson, Mason-D’Croz, Daniel, Shahnila Islam, Timothy Sulser, Richard Robertson, Tingju Zhu, Arthur Gueneau, Gauthier Pitois and Mark W. Rosegrant

1482: Enhancing food security in South Sudan: The role of public food stocks and cereal imports

Paul Dorosh, Shahidur Rashid, Abigail Childs and Joanna van Asselt

1481: Gender, headship, and the life cycle: Landownership in four Asian countries

Kathryn Sproule, Caitlin Kieran, Agnes Quisumbing and Cheryl Doss

1480: The food-energy-water security nexus: Definitions, policies, and methods in an application to Malawi and Mozambique

Thea Nielsen, Franziska Schuenemann, Emily McNulty, Manfred Zeller, Ephraim Nkonya, Edward Kato, Stefan Meyer, Weston Anderson, Tingju Zhu, Antonio Queface and Lawrence Mapemba

1479: The making of public investments: Champions, coordination, and characteristics of nutrition interventions

Tewodaj Mogues and Lucy Billings

1478: The dynamics of smallholder marketing behavior: Explorations using Ugandan and Mozambican panel data

Bjorn Van Campenhout

1477: Adjusting to external shocks in small open economies: The case of Honduras

Samuel Morley and Valeria Pineiro

1476: Drivers of growth in agricultural returns to scale: The hiring in of tractor services in the Terai of Nepal

Hiroyuki Takeshima

1475: The contribution of increased equity to the estimated social benefits from a transfer program: An illustration from PROGRESA

Harold Alderman, Jere Behrman and Afia Tasneem

1473: Agricultural insurance and the World Trade Organization

Joseph W. Glauber

1472: Grain price and volatility transmission from international to domestic markets in developing countries

Francisco Ceballos, Manuel Hernandez, Nicholas Minot and Luis Robles

1471: Policy changes in times of crisis: Evidence from the Arab Spatial Policy Analyzer

Jacopo Bordignon and Clemens Breisinger

1470: Gender empowerment gaps in agriculture and children’s well-being in Bangladesh

Hazel Jean Malapit, Esha Sraboni, Agnes Quisumbing and Akhter Ahmed

1469: Climate change adaptation in agriculture: Ex ante analysis of promising and alternative crop technologies using DSSAT and IMPACT

Sherman Robinson, Daniel Mason-D'Croz, Shahnila Islam, Nicola Cenacchi, Gregorio Creamer, Arthur Gueneau, Guy Hareau, Ulrich Kleinwechter, Khondoker Mottaleb, Nedumaran Swamikannu, Richard Robertson, Mark W. Rosegrant, Sika Gbegbelegbe, Timothy Sulser and Keith D. Wiebe

1468: A proximity-based measure of industrial clustering

Jianqing Ruan and Xiaobo Zhang