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1029: How safe is my food?: Assessing the effect of information and credible certification on consumer demand for food safety in developing countries

Ekin Birol, Devesh Roy and Maximo Torero

1028: Rehabilitating agriculture and promoting food security following the 2010 Pakistan floods: Insights from South Asian experience

Paul Dorosh, Sohail Malik and Marika Krausova

1027: Neighbor effects in the provision of public goods in a young democracy: Evidence from China

Claudio Agostini, Phil Brown and Xiaobo Zhang

1026: Opportunities and challenges of community-based rural drinking water supplies: An analysis of water and sanitation committees in Ghana

Yan Sun, Felix A. Asante and Regina Birner

1025: “Made in China”: Crisis begets quality upgrade

Jianqing Ruan and Xiaobo Zhang

1024: Overview of the agricultural input sector in Ghana

Marika Krausova and Afua Banful

1023: Efficacy and adoption of strategies for avian flu control in developing countries: A Delphi study

Ekin Birol, Dorene Asare-Marfo and Yorbol Yakhshilikov

1022: Do differences in the scale of irrigation projects generate different impacts on poverty and production?

Andrew Dillon

1021: Crop price indemnified loans for farmers

Dean Karlan, Ed Kutsoati, Margaret McMillan and Christopher Udry

1020: Institutional and public expenditure review of GhanaÂ’s Ministry of Food and Agriculture

Kwadwo Asenso-okyere, Suresh Babu, Samuel Benin, Regina Birner, Leah Horowitz, Shashi Kolavalli, John Poku and Nii Moi Thompson

1019: Building capacities for evidence and outcome-based food policy planning and implementation

Ousmane Badiane, Sunday P. Odjo and John Ulimwengu

1018: Modeling the global trade and environmental impacts of biofuel policies

Bouët, Antoine, Betina Dimaranan and Hugo Valin

1017: Analyzing nutritional impacts of policies: An empirical study for Malawi

Olivier Ecker and Matin Qaim

1016: Optimal rainfall insurance contracts for maize producers in GhanaÂ’s Northern Region

Francis M. Muamba and John Ulimwengu

1015: Impacts of climate change on agriculture and policy options for adaptation: The case of Vietnam

Bingxin Yu, Tingju Zhu, Clemens Breisinger and Hai Nguyen

1014: Spatial price transmission and market integration in SenegalÂ’s groundnut market

Ousmane Badiane, John Ulimwengu and Fleur Wouterse

1013: Strategies for adapting to climate change in rural Sub-Saharan Africa: A review of data sources, Poverty Reduction Strategy Programs (PRSPs) and National Adaptation Plans for Agriculture (NAPAs) in ASARECA member countries

Jonathan Makau Nzuma, Michael Waithaka, Richard Mbithi Mulwa, Miriam Kyotalimye and Gerald Nelson

1012: Do health investments improve agricultural productivity? Lessons from agricultural household and health research

Paul McNamara, John Ulimwengu and Kenneth Leonard

1011: Investigating the role of poultry in livelihoods and the impact of avian flu on livelihoods outcomes in Africa: Evidence from Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, and Nigeria

Ekin Birol, Dorene Asare-Marfo, Gezahegn Ayele, Akwasi Mensa-Bonsu, Lydia Ndirangu, Benjamin Okpukpara, Devesh Roy and Yorbol Yakhshilikov

1010: Constraints to fertilizer use in Nigeria: Insights from agricultural extension service

Afua Banful, Ephraim Nkonya and Victor Oboh

1009: Do household definitions matter in survey design? Results from a randomized survey experiment in Mali

Lori Beaman and Andrew Dillon

1008: Livestock development planning in Uganda: Identification of areas of opportunity and challenge

Todd Benson and Samuel Mugarura

1007: Migratory responses to agricultural risk in Northern Nigeria

Andrew Dillon, Valerie Mueller and Sheu Salau

1006: Do Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Program (CAADP) Processes Make a Difference to Country Commitments to Develop Agriculture?

Ramatu Al-Hassan, Kwaku Owusu Baah, Kathleen Flaherty and Shashi Kolavalli

1005: The new Nicaraguan water law in context: Institutions and challenges for water management and governance

Paula Novo and Alberto Garrido

1004: Potential of carbon markets for small farmers: A literature review

Alessandro (Alex) De Pinto, Marilia Magalhaes and Claudia Ringler

1003: Understanding gender differences in agricultural productivity in Uganda and Nigeria

Julia Behrman, Ephraim Nkonya, Amber Peterman and Agnes Quisumbing

1002: Old problems in the new solutions? Politically motivated allocation of program benefits and the "new" fertilizer subsidies

Afua Banful

1001: The role of public–private partnerships in promoting smallholder access to livestock markets in developing countries

Clare Narrod and Karl M. Rich

1000: Mapping the policy process in Nigeria

Noora-Lisa Aberman, Michael Johnson, Victor Oboh and Eva Schiffer

999: Sales location and supply response among semisubsistence farmers in Benin

Hiroyuki Takeshima and Alex Winter-Nelson

998: A review of collective action in rural Ghana

Adam Salifu, Gian Nicola Francesconi and Shashi Kolavalli

997: Eight years of Doha trade talks

Antoine Bouët and David Laborde Debucquet

996: Price, inventories, and volatility in the global wheat market

Kyosti Pietola, Xing Liu and Miguel Robles

995: Access, adoption, and diffusion

Neha Kumar and Agnes Quisumbing

994: Economics of export taxation in a context of food crisis: A theoretical and CGE approach contribution

Bouët, Antoine and David Laborde Debucquet

993: What is the irrigation potential for Africa?

Zhe Guo, Gerald Nelson, Claudia Ringler, Richard Robertson, Yan Sun, Stanley Wood, Ulrike Wood-Sichra, Liangzhi You and Tingju Zhu

992: Impact of farmer field schools on agricultural productivity and poverty in East Africa

Kristin Davis, Edward Kato, Daniel Mekonnen, Richard Miiro, Ephraim Nkonya, Jackson Nkuba and Martins Odendo

991: Exploring the long-term impact of development interventions within life-history narratives in rural Bangladesh

Peter Davis

990: The costs and benefits of duty-free, quota-free market access for poor countries

Bouët, Antoine, Elisa Dienesch, Kimberly Elliot and David Laborde Debucquet

989: Mountains, global food prices, and food security in the developing world

Kamiljon Akramov, Shenggen Fan and Bingxin Yu

988: Examining the dynamic relationship between spot and future prices of agricultural commodities

Manuel Hernandez and Maximo Torero

987: Dynamic agricultural supply response under economic transformation

Fengwei Liu, Liangzhi You and Bingxin Yu

986: R&D investment in national and international agricultural research

Shenggen Fan and Alejandro Nin Pratt

985: Food security and economic development in the Middle East and North Africa

Catherine Aragon, Clemens Breisinger, Olivier Ecker, Nicholas Minot, Alejandro Nin Pratt, Claudia Ringler, Bingxin Yu, Tingju Zhu and Teunis van Rheenen

984: Improving resource allocation and incomes in Vietnamese agriculture

Joshua Dewbre

983: Positional spending and status seeking in rural China

Phil Brown, Erwin Bulte and Xiaobo Zhang

982: Assessing food security in Yemen: An innovative integrated, cross-sector, and multilevel approach

Olivier Ecker, Clemens Breisinger, Christen McCool, Xinshen Diao, Jose Funes, Liangzhi You and Bingxin Yu

981: Long-term impact of investments in early schooling: Empirical evidence from rural Ethiopia

Subha Mani, John Hoddinott and John Strauss

980: Infrastructure and cluster development

Gezahegn Ayele, Lisa Moorman, Kassu Wamisho and Xiaobo Zhang