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1016: Optimal rainfall insurance contracts for maize producers in Ghana's Northern Region: A mathematical programming approach

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 Senegal'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 CAADP processes make a difference to country commitments to develop agriculture? The case of Ghana

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

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

Amber Peterman, Agnes Quisumbing, Julia A. Behrman and Ephraim Nkonya

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: Methodology and case studies

Karl Rich and Clare Narrod

1000: Mapping the policy process in Nigeria: Examining linkages between research and policy

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

999: Sales location and supply response among semisubsistence farmers in Benin: A heteroskedastic double selection model

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: Where do we stand?

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: Understanding the long-term impacts of improved vegetable and fish technologies in Bangladesh

Neha Kumar and Agnes Quisumbing

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

Antoine Bouët and David Laborde Debucquet

993: What is the irrigation potential for Africa? A combined biophysical and socioeconomic approach

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

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

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

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: Who and what matters?

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

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

Kamiljon Akramov, Bingxin Yu and Shenggen Fan

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: A case study of Henan province

Bingxin Yu, Fengwei Liu and Liangzhi You

986: R&D investment in national and international agricultural research: An ex-ante analysis of productivity and poverty impact

Alejandro Nin-Pratt and Shenggen Fan

985: Food security and economic development in the Middle East and North Africa: Current state and future perspectives

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

984: Improving resource allocation and incomes in Vietnamese agriculture: A case study of farming in the Dong Nai River Basin

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: A case study of handloom weavers in Ethiopia

Gezahegn Ayele, Lisa Moorman, Kassu Wamisho and Xiaobo Zhang

979: Country-level impact of global recession and China's stimulus package: A general equilibrium assessment

Xinshen Diao, Yumei Zhang and Kevin Z. Chen

978: Emergence of Sri Lanka in European fish trade: Is there cause for concern in the Lake Victoria region (East Africa)?

Andrew Muhammad and Guyslain Ngeleza

977: China has reached the Lewis turning point

Xiaobo Zhang, Jin Yang and Shenglin Wang

976: The medium-term impact of the primary education stipend in rural Bangladesh

Bob Baulch

975: A review of empirical evidence on gender differences in nonland agricultural inputs, technology, and services in developing countries

Amber Peterman, Julia A. Behrman and Agnes Quisumbing

974: An experiment on the impact of weather shocks and insurance on risky investment

Ruth Hill and Angelino Viceisza

973: Engendering agricultural research

Ruth Meinzen-Dick, Agnes Quisumbing, Julia A. Behrman, Patricia Biermayr-Jenzano, Vicki Wilde, Marco Noordeloos, Catherine Ragasa and Nienke Beintema

972: Sarpanch raj: is the President all powerful? The case of village councils in India

Nethra Palaniswamy

971: Asset versus consumption poverty and poverty dynamics in the presence of multiple equilibria in rural Ethiopia

Lenis Liverpool-Tasie and Alex Winter-Nelson

970: Poverty status and the impact of social networks on smallholder technology adoption in rural Ethiopia

Lenis Liverpool-Tasie and Alex Winter-Nelson

969: Wage subsidies to combat unemployment and poverty: Assessing South Africa's options

Justine Burns, Lawrence Edwards and Karl Pauw

968: Patterns and trends of child and maternal nutrition inequalities in Nigeria

Babatunde Omilola

967: Foreign inflows and growth challenges for African countries: An intertemporal general equilibrium assessment

Xinshen Diao and Clemens Breisinger