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1311: Can dairy value-chain projects change gender norms in rural Bangladesh? Impacts on assets, gender norms, and time use

Jemimah Njuki, Agnes Quisumbing, Shalini Roy, Kakuly Tanvin and Elizabeth Waithanji

1310: Can government-allocated land contribute to food security? Intrahousehold analysis of West Bengal’s microplot allocation program

Diana Fletschner, Amber Peterman, Florence Santos and Vivien Savath

1309: The national health insurance scheme in Ghana: Implementation challenges and proposed solutions

Gissele Gajate-Garrido and Rebecca Owusua

1308: Gender inequalities in ownership and control of land in Africa: Myths versus reality

Cheryl Doss, Chiara Kovarik, Amber Peterman, Agnes Quisumbing and Mara van den Bold

1307: Farmer preferences for drought tolerance in hybrid versus inbred rice: Evidence from Bihar, India

David Ortega, Vartika Singh, David Spielman and Patrick Ward

1306: Borrowing from the insurer: An empirical analysis of demand and impact of insurance in China

Kevin Z. Chen, Ruth Hill, Yanyan Liu and Chengwei Xiao

1305: Organizational partnerships for food Policy research impact: A review of what works

Jenna Ferguson, Athur Mabiso and Teunis van Rheenen

1304: Fertilizer in Ethiopia: An assessment of policies, value chain, and profitability

Gezahegn Ayele, Nicholas Minot, Shahidur Rashid and Nigussie Tefera

1303: The global landscape of poverty, food insecurity, and malnutrition, and its implications for agricultural development strategies

Derek Headey

1302: Leveling with friends: Social networks and indian farmers’ demand for agricultural custom hire services

Kajal Gulati, Travis Lybbert, Nicholas Magnan and David Spielman

1301: Assessing the potential and policy alternatives for achieving rice competitiveness and growth in Nigeria

Kwabena Gyimah-Brempong, Michael E. Johnson and Hiroyuki Takeshima

1300: Revisiting agricultural input and farm support subsidies in Africa: The case of Ghana’s mechanization, fertilizer, block farms, and marketing programs

Emmanuel Abokyi, Gerald Ahorbo, Samuel Benin, Kipo Jimah, Michael E. Johnson, Gamel Nasser, Victor Owusu, Joe Taabazuing and Albert Tenga

1299: The operational evidence base for delivering direct nutrition interventions in India: A desk review

Suneetha Kadiyala, Purnima Menon, Avula Rasmi and Kavita Singh

1298: Rethinking the measurement of undernutrition in a broader health context: Should we look at possible causes or actual effects

Alexander Stein

1297: Women’s empowerment in agriculture: What role for food security in Bangladesh?

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

1296: Sustainability of EU Food Safety Certification: A survival analysis of firm decisions

Catherine Ragasa, Suzanne Thornsbury and Satish Joshi

1295: Efficiency and productivity differential effects of land certification program in Ethiopia: Quasi-experimental evidence from Tigray

Hosaena Ghebru Hagos and Stein Holden

1294: Women’s empowerment and nutrition: An evidence review

Mara van den Bold, Agnes Quisumbing and Stuart Gillespie

1293: An evaluation of poverty prevalence in China: New evidence from four recent surveys

Yu Xie, Qi Xu, Chunni Zhang and Xiaobo Zhang

1292: Cost-benefit analysis of the african risk capacity facility

Daniel Clarke and Ruth Hill

1291: Agricultural mechanization patterns in Nigeria: Insights from farm household typology and agricultural household model simulation

Xinshen Diao, Alejandro Nin-Pratt and Hiroyuki Takeshima

1290: Land constraints and agricultural intensification in Ethiopia: A village-level analysis of high-potential areas

Mekdim Dereje, Derek Headey, Anna Josephson, Jacob Ricker-Gilbert and Alemayehu Taffesse

1289: Welfare and poverty impacts of India’s national rural employment guarantee scheme: Evidence from Andhra Pradesh

Klaus Deininger and Yanyan Liu

1288: Links between tenure security and food security: Evidence from Ethiopia

Hosaena Ghebru Hagos and Stein Holden

1287: Economywide impact of maize export bans on agricultural growth and household welfare in Tanzania: A Dynamic Computable General Equilibrium Model Analysis

Xinshen Diao, Adam Kennedy, Athur Mabiso and Angga Pradesha

1286: Agricultural commercialization, land expansion, and homegrown land-scale farmers: Insights from Ghana

Adwinmea Bonsu, Antony Chapoto and Athur Mabiso

1285: Cambodian agriculture: Adaptation to climate change impact

Ros Bansok, Chhim Chhum, Catherine Chiang, Thanakvaro De Lopez, Nang Phirun, Tin Ponlok and Timothy Thomas

1284: The impact of food prices shocks in Uganda: First-order versus long-run effects

Nicholas Minot, Karl Pauw and Bjorn Van Campenhout

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