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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, Liangzhi You, Stanley Wood, Ulrike Wood-Sichra and Wen-Bin Wu

1326: Population Pressure and Livelihood Dynamics: Panel Evidence from Bangladesh

Shahidur Rashid, Nigussie Tefera, Solomon Lemma and Mohammad Yunus

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

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

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

Patrick Ward and Vartika Singh

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

Vivien Savath, Diana Fletschner, Amber Peterman and Florence Santos

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

Peter Davis and Snigdha Ali

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Kate Ambler

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

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

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

Florence Santos, Diana Fletschner, Vivien Savath and Amber Peterman

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

Patrick Ward, David Ortega, David Spielman and Vartika Singh

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

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

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

Athur Mabiso, Teunis van Rheenen and Jenna Ferguson

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

Shahidur Rashid, Nigussie Tefera, Nicholas Minot and Gezahegn Ayele

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

Nicholas Magnan, David Spielman, Travis Lybbert and Kajal Gulati

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

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

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

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

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

Rasmi Avula, Suneetha Kadiyala, Kavita Singh and Purnima Menon

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?

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

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 H. Ghebru 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

Chunni Zhang, Qi Xu, Xiaobo Zhang and Yu Xie

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

Hiroyuki Takeshima, Alejandro Nin-Pratt and Xinshen Diao

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

Derek Headey, Mekdim Dereje, Jacob Ricker-Gilbert, Anna Josephson 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 H. Ghebru 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

Antony Chapoto, Athur Mabiso and Adwinmea Bonsu

1285: Cambodian agriculture: Adaptation to climate change impact

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

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

Bjorn Van Campenhout, Karl Pauw and Nicholas Minot

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

Catherine Ragasa, John Ulimwengu, Josee Randriamamonjy and Thaddée Badibanga

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

Antonia Stefano Caria and Ibrahim Worku Hassen