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1361: Assessing the economic benefits of sustainable land management practices in Bhutan

Ephraim Nkonya, Raghavan Srinivasan, Weston Anderson and Edward Kato

1360: Examining the sense and science behind Ghana’s current blanket fertilizer recommendation

Antony Chapoto and Francis Tetteh

1359: Aid effectiveness in Ghana: How’s the L’Aquila food security initiative doing?

Samuel Benin, Tsitsi Makombe and Michael E. Johnson

1358: The other asian enigma: Explaining the rapid reduction of undernutrition in Bangladesh

Derek Headey, John Hoddinott, Disha Ali, Roman Tesfaye and Mekdim Dereje

1357: Can market-based approaches to technology development and dissemination benefit women smallholder farmers? A qualitative assessment of gender dynamics in the ownership, purchase, and use of irrigation pumps in Kenya and Tanzania

Jemimah Njuki, Elizabeth M. Waithanji, Beatrice Sakwa, Juliet B. Kariuki, Elizabeth Mukewa and John Ngige

1356: The impact of shocks on gender-differentiated asset dynamics in Bangladesh

Muntaha Rakib and Julia Matz

1355: Tractor owner-operators in Nigeria: Insights from a small survey in Kaduna and Nasarawa states

Hiroyuki Takeshima, Hyacinth Edeh, Akeem Lawal and Moshud Isiaka

1354: Co-movement of major commodity price returns: A time-series assessment

Francesca de Nicola, Pierangelo De Pace and Manuel Hernandez

1353: Bargaining power and biofortification: The role of gender in adoption of orange sweet potato in Uganda

Daniel Gilligan, Neha Kumar, Scott McNiven, J.V. Meenakshi and Agnes Quisumbing

1352: Quality healthcare and health insurance retention: Evidence from a randomized experiment in the Kolkata slums

Clara Delavallade

1351: Sins of the fathers: The intergenerational legacy of the 1959-1961 Great Chinese Famine on children's cognitive development

Chih Ming Tan, Zhibo Tan and Xiaobo Zhang

1350: Direct seed marketing program in Ethiopia in 2013: An operational evaluation to guide seed-sector reform

Todd Benson, David Spielman and Leulsegged Kasa

1349: Agriculture for development in Iraq? Estimating the impacts of achieving the agricultural targets of the national development plan 2013–2017 on economic growth, incomes, and gender equality

Azhr Al-Haboby, Clemens Breisinger, Dario Debowicz, Abdul Hussein El-Hakim, Jenna Ferguson, Teunis van Rheenen and Roberto Telleria Juárez

1348: An evaluation of the effectiveness of farmland protection policy in China

Man Li

1347: Women’s individual and joint property ownership: Effects on household decisionmaking

Cheryl Doss, Sung Mi Kim, Jemimah Njuki, Emily Hillenbrand and Maureen Miruka

1346: Can smallholder fruit and vegetable production systems improve household food security and nutritional status of women? Evidence from rural Uganda

Nassul Kabunga, Shibani Ghosh and Jeffrey K. Griffiths

1345: Intellectual property rights, technology diffusion, and agricultural development: Cross-country evidence

David Spielman and Xingliang Ma

1344: Market interdependence and volatility transmission among major crops

Cornelis Gardebroek, Manuel Hernandez and Luis Robles

1343: Importance of rice research and development in rice seed policies: Insights from Nigeria

Hiroyuki Takeshima

1342: Can transfer programs be made more nutrition sensitive?

Harold Alderman

1341: The impact of cash and food transfers: Evidence from a randomized intervention in Niger

John Hoddinott, Sandström, Susanna and Joanna Upton

1340: How does climate change alter agricultural strategies to support food security?

Leslie Lipper and Philip K. Thornton

1339: Public sector agricultural research priorities for sustainable food security: Perspectives from plausible scenarios

Gerald Nelson and Dominique van der Mensbrugghe

1338: Migration, local off-farm employment, and agricultural production efficiency: Evidence from China

Peng Chao, Kevin Z. Chen, Songqing Jin, Jeffrey Riedinger, Hui Wang and Jin Yang

1337: Farmers’ preferences for climate-smart agriculture an assessment in the Indo-Gangetic plain

Pramod Aggarwal, Pramod Kumar Joshi, Barun Deb Pal, Garima Taneja and N.K. Tyagi

1336: An empirical examination of the dynamics of varietal turnover in Indian wheat

Subash Ghimire, Vijesh Krishna, David Spielman and Prakashan Chellattan Veettil

1335: Agricultural policy processes and the youth in Malawi

Mariam A. T. J. Mapila

1334: Can cash transfers promote the local economy? A case study for Cambodia

Stephanie Levy and Sherman Robinson

1333: Gender, control, and crop choice in northern Mozambique

Alan de Brauw

1332: Employment risk and job-seeker performance

Susan Godlonton

1331: Food prices and poverty reduction in the long run

Derek Headey

1330: Impact of Ghana’s agricultural mechanization services center program

Samuel Benin

1329: Aid effectiveness: How is the L’Aquila food security initiative doing?

Samuel Benin

1328: Improved dairy cows in Uganda: Pathways to poverty alleviation and improved child nutrition

Nassul Kabunga

1327: A comparative analysis of global cropping systems models and maps

Weston Anderson, Stanley Wood, Ulrike Wood-Sichra, Wenbin Wu and Liangzhi You

1326: Population pressure and livelihood dynamics: Panel evidence from Bangladesh

Solomon Lemma, Shahidur Rashid, Nigussie Tefera and Mohammad Yunus

1325: Changing sources of growth in Indian agriculture: Implications for regional priorities for accelerating agricultural growth

Shaily Agarwal, Pratap Birthal, Pramod Kumar Joshi and Digvijay Negi

1324: Risk and ambiguity preferences and the adoption of new agricultural technologies: Evidence from field experiments in rural India

Vartika Singh and Patrick Ward

1323: Land, assets, and livelihoods: Gendered analysis of evidence from Odisha State in India

Diana Fletschner, Amber Peterman, Florence Santos and Vivien Savath

1322: Exploring local perceptions of climate change impact and adaptation in rural Bangladesh

Snigdha Ali and Peter Davis

1321: Closing the gender asset gap: Learning from value chain development in Africa and Asia

Cristina Manfre, Ruth Meinzen-Dick, Deanna K. Olney, Agnes Quisumbing, Deborah Rubin, Elizabeth Waithanji and Mara van den Bold

1320: The political economy of Zambia’s recovery: Structural change without transformation?

Danielle Resnick and James Thurlow

1319: The impact of Bolsa Família on schooling: Girls’ advantage increases and older children gain

Daniel Gilligan, John Hoddinott, Shalini Roy and Alan de Brauw

1318: Exploring strategic priorities for regional agricultural research and development investments in southern Africa

Samuel Benin, Pius Chilonda, Xinshen Diao, Michael E. Johnson, Adam Kennedy and Liangzhi You

1317: How do intrahousehold dynamics change when assets are transferred to women? Evidence from BRAC’s Challenging the Frontiers of Poverty Reduction—Targeting the Ultra Poor program in Bangladesh

Jinnat Ara, Julia A. Behrman, Narayan Das, Peter Davis, Md. Kamruzzaman, Agnes Quisumbing, Shalini Roy and Rabeya Yasmin

1316: Is there an App for that? The impact of community knowledge workers in Uganda

Bjorn Van Campenhout

1315: Can integrated agriculture-nutrition programs change gender norms on land and asset ownership? Evidence from Burkina Faso

Deanna K. Olney, Ouédraogo, Marcellin, Abdoulaye Pedehombga, Agnes Quisumbing and Mara van den Bold

1314: Moving in the right direction? Maize productivity and fertilizer use and use intensity in Ghana

Antony Chapoto and Catherine Ragasa

1313: Women’s empowerment in agriculture, production diversity, and nutrition: Evidence from Nepal

Kenda Cunningham, Suneetha Kadiyala, Hazel Jean Malapit, Agnes Quisumbing and Parul Tyagi

1312: Don’t tell on me: Experimental evidence of asymmetric information in transnational households

Kate Ambler