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1283: Assessment of the capacity, incentives, and performance of agricultural extension agents in western Democratic Republic of the Congo

Badibanga, Thaddée, Catherine Ragasa, Josee Randriamamonjy and John Ulimwengu

1282: The formation of job referral networks: Experimental evidence from urban Ethiopia

Antonia Stefano Caria and Ibrahim Worku Hassen

1281: Agriculture and adaptation in Bangladesh: Current and projected impacts of climate change

Catherine Chiang, Anwarul Haque, Nazria Islam, Khandaker Mainuddin, Saad Quasem, Aminur Rahman, Yun Sun and Timothy Thomas

1280: Demand for weather hedges in India: An empirical exploration of theoretical predictions

Francisco Ceballos, Ruth Hill and Luis Robles

1279: Organizational and institutional issues in climate change adaptation and risk management: Insights from practitioners’ survey in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Kenya, and Mali

Caroline Abate, Alumu Atlaw, Elizabeth Bryan, Mahamadou Namori Keita, Catherine Ragasa and Yan Sun

1278: The impact of alternative input subsidy exit strategies on Malawi’s maize commodity market

Mariam A. T. J. Mapila

1277: An ex ante analysis of the impact and cost-effectiveness of biofortified high-provitamin A and high-iron banana in Uganda

Ekin Birol, John L. Fiedler and Enoch M. Kilkuwe

1276: Local Warming and Violent Conflict in North and South Sudan

Margherita Calderone, Jean-François Maystadt and Liangzhi You

1275: Comprehensive food security and vulnerability analysis: Nigeria

Akeem Ajibola, Oluyemisi Kuku, Astrid Mathiassen, Lucy Myles and Amit Wadhwa

1274: Targeting technology to reduce poverty and conserve resources: Experimental delivery of laser land leveling to farmers in Uttar Pradesh, India

Anil K. Bhargava, Kajal Gulati, Travis Lybbert, Nicholas Magnan and David Spielman

1273: The logic of adaptive sequential experimentation in policy design

Haipeng Xing and Xiaobo Zhang

1272: Dynamics of transformation: Insights from an exploratory review of rice farming in the Kpong irrigation project

Xinshen Diao, Rebecca Lee Funk, Kipo Jimah, Shashi Kolavalli and Hiroyuki Takeshima

1271: Population density, migration, and the returns to human capital and land: Highlights from Indonesia

Yanyan Liu and Futoshi Yamauchi

1270: Reverse-share-tenancy and Marshallian Inefficiency: Landowners’ bargaining power and sharecroppers’ productivity

Hosaena Gebru Hagos and Stein Holden

1269: The child health implications of privatizing Africa’s urban water supply

Katrina Kosec

1268: Group lending with heterogeneous types

Li Gan, Manuel Hernandez and Yanyan Liu

1267: Typology of farm households and irrigation systems: Some evidence from Nigeria

Hyacinth Edeh and Hiroyuki Takeshima

1266: Understanding the role of research in the evolution of fertilizer policies in Malawi

Michael E. Johnson and Regina Birner

1265: The policy landscape of agricultural water management in Pakistan

Noora-Lisa Aberman, Agha Akram, Andrew Bell, Maikel Issermann, Claudia Ringler, Benjamin Wielgosz and Fatima Zaidi

1264: Who talks to whom in African agricultural research information networks? The Malawi case

Klaus Droppelmann, Mariam Mapila, John Mazunda, Paul Thangata and Jason Yauney

1263: Measuring food policy research capacity: Indicators and Typologies

Suresh Babu and Paul Dorosh

1262: Does freer trade really lead to productivity growth?: Evidence from Africa

Lauren Bresnahan, Ian Coxhead, Jeremy Foltz and Tewodaj Mogues

1261: Data needs for gender analysis in agriculture

Cheryl Doss

1260: Spillover effects of targeted subsidies: An assessment of fertilizer and improved seed use in Nigeria

Lenis Liverpool-Tasie and Sheu Salau

1259: The impact of irrigation on nutrition, health, and gender: A review paper with insights for Africa south of the Sahara

Laia Domenech and Claudia Ringler

1258: Assessing the effectiveness of multistakeholder platforms: Agricultural and rural management councils in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Badibanga, Thaddée, Catherine Ragasa and John Ulimwengu

1257: The impact of Oportunidades on human capital and income distribution: A top-down/bottom-up approach

Dario Debowicz and Jennifer Golan

1256: Filling the learning gap in program implementation using participatory monitoring and evaluation: Lessons from farmer field schools in Zanzibar

Sindu Kebede and Elias Zerfu

1255: Agricultural mechanization in Ghana: Is specialization in agricultural mechanization a viable business model?

Patrick Aboagye, Frances Cossar, Xinshen Diao, Nazaire Houssou, Kipo Jimah and Shashi Kolavalli

1254: A partial equilibrium model of the Malawi maize commodity market

Henry Kankwamba, Johann Kirsten, Mariam Mapila and Ferdinand Meyer

1253: Exchange rate policy and devaluation in Malawi

Paul Dorosh, John Mazunda and Karl Pauw

1252: A regional computable general equilibrium model for Honduras: Modeling exogenous shocks and policy alternatives

Samuel Morley and Piñeiro, Valeria

1251: Agricultural trade: What Matters in the Doha Round?

David Laborde Debucquet and Will Martin

1250: Opportunities and challenges for community involvement in public service provision in rural Guatemala

Johanna Speer and Vásquez, William F.

1249: Rising wages in Bangladesh

Kaikaus Ahmad, Akhter Ahmed, Saika Belal, Hak Lim Lee, Solomon Lemma, Valerie Mueller, Shahidur Rashid and Xiaobo Zhang

1248: How are farmers adapting to climate change in Vietnam?: Endogeneity and sample selection in a rice yield model

Clemens Breisinger, Hai Nguyen, Bingxin Yu and Tingju Zhu

1247: Evaluating the local economywide impacts of irrigation projects: Feed the future in Tanzania

Xinshen Diao, Mateusz Filipski, Dale Manning, Angga Pradesha and J. Edward Taylor

1246: Factor endowments, wage growth, and changing food self-sufficiency: Evidence from country-level panel data

Yanyan Liu, Keijiro Otsuka and Futoshi Yamauchi

1245: Impact of food price changes on household welfare in Ghana

Reno Dewina and Nicholas Minot

1244: Parametric decomposition of the malmquist index in an output-oriented distance function: Productivity in Chinese agriculture

Xiyuan Liao, Hongfang Shen and Bingxin Yu

1243: Extreme weather and civil war in Somalia: Does drought fuel conflict through livestock price shocks?

Olivier Ecker, Athur Mabiso and Jean-François Maystadt

1242: Evidence on key policies for African agricultural growth

Ousmane Badiane, Frances Cossar, Xinshen Diao, Paul Dorosh, Olivier Ecker, Hosaena Ghebru Hagos, Derek Headey, Adam Kennedy, Athur Mabiso, Tsitsi Makombe, Mehrab Malek and Emily Schmidt

1241: A global assessment of the economic effects of export taxes

Bouёt, Antoine, Carmen Estrades and David Laborde Debucquet

1240: The Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index

Sabina Alkire, Ruth Meinzen-Dick, Amber Peterman, Agnes Quisumbing, Greg Seymour and Ana Vaz

1239: Food price volatility in Africa: Has it really increased?

Nicholas Minot

1238: The comprehensive Africa agriculture program as a collective institution

Regina Birner, Kathleen Flaherty and Shashi Kolavalli

1237: Mechanization in Ghana: Searching for sustainable service supply models

Patrick Aboagye, Frances Cossar, Xinshen Diao, Nazaire Houssou, Kipo Jimah and Shashi Kolavalli

1236: Differential export taxes along the oilseeds value chain:: A partial equilibrium analysis

Bouët, Antoine, Carmen Estrades and David Laborde Debucquet

1235: The role of rural producer organizations for agricultural service provision in fragile states

Jennifer Golan and Catherine Ragasa

1234: Cash, food, or vouchers?: Evidence from a randomized experiment in northern Ecuador

Melissa Hidrobo, John Hoddinott, Amy Margolies, Vanessa Moreira and Amber Peterman