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

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

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

Ruth Hill, Luis Robles and Francisco Ceballos

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

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

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

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

1276: Local warming and violent conflict in North and South Sudan

Jean-François Maystadt, Liangzhi You and Margherita Calderone

1275: Comprehensive food security and vulnerability analysis: Nigeria

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

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

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

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

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

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 H. Ghebru 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

Hiroyuki Takeshima and Hyacinth O. Edeh

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, Benjamin Wielgosz, Fatima Zaidi, Claudia Ringler, Agha Akram, Andrew Bell and Maikel Issermann

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

Thaddée Badibanga, 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

Elias Zerfu and Sindu Kebede

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

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

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

Mariam Mapila, Johann Kirsten, Ferdinand Meyer and Henry Kankwamba

1253: Exchange rate policy and devaluation in Malawi

Karl Pauw, Paul Dorosh and John Mazunda

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

Samuel Morley and Valeria Pineiro

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 William F. Vásquez

1249: Rising wages in Bangladesh

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

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

Bingxin Yu, Tingju Zhu, Clemens Breisinger and Hai Nguyen

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

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

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

Keijiro Otsuka, Yanyan Liu and Futoshi Yamauchi

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

Nicholas Minot and Reno Dewina

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

Bingxin Yu, Xiyuan Liao and Hongfang Shen

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

Jean-François Maystadt, Olivier Ecker and Athur Mabiso

1242: Evidence on key policies for African agricultural growth

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

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

David Laborde Debucquet, Carmen Estrades and Antoine Bouët

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

Shashi Kolavalli, Regina Birner and Kathleen Flaherty

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

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

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

Antoine Bouët, Carmen Estrades and David Laborde Debucquet

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

Catherine Ragasa and Jennifer Golan

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

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

1233: Public expenditures, private incentives, and technology adoption: The economics of hybrid rice in South Asia

David Spielman, Deepthi Kolady, Patrick Ward, Harun Ar-Rashid and Kajal Gulati

1232: Malaria and agriculture: A global review of the literature with a focus on the application of integrated pest and vector management in East Africa and Uganda

Benjamin Wielgosz, Margaret Najjingo Mangheni, Daniel Tsegai and Claudia Ringler