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1554: Implications of slowing growth in emerging market economies for hunger and poverty in rural areas of developing countries

David Laborde Debucquet and Will Martin

1553: Impacts of CAADP on Africa’s agricultural-led development

Samuel Benin

1552: Do beliefs about agricultural inputs counterfeiting correspond with actual rates of counterfeiting? Evidence from Uganda

Maha Ashour, Lucy Billings, Daniel Gilligan, Jessica Hoel and Naureen Karachiwalla

1551: Agricultural inputs policy under macroeconomic uncertainty: Applying the kaleidoscope model to Ghana’s Fertilizer Subsidy Programme (2008–2015)

Danielle Resnick and David Mather

1550: Gender dimensions on farmers’ preferences for direct-seeded rice with drum seeder in India

Md Tajuddin Khan, Avinash Kishore and Pramod Kumar Joshi

1549: A farm-level perspective of the policy challenges for export diversification in Malawi: Example of the oilseeds and maize sectors

Michael E. Johnson, Brent Edelman and Cynthia Kazembe

1548: The distribution of power and household behavior: Evidence from Niger

Fleur Stephanie Wouterse

1547: Market integration and price transmission in Tajikistan’s wheat markets: Rising like rockets but falling like feathers?

Jarilkasin Ilyasov, Götz, Linde, Kamiljon Akramov, Paul A. Dorosh and Thomas Glauben

1546: The economic value of seasonal forecasts stochastic economywide analysis for East Africa

Joao Rodrigues, James Thurlow, Willem Landman, Claudia Ringler, Richard Robertson and Tingju Zhu

1545: Perceived land tenure security and rural transformation: Empirical evidence from Ghana

Hosaena Ghebru, Huma Khan and Isabel Lambrecht

1544: Global and regional pulse economies: Current trends and outlook

Pramod Kumar Joshi and P. Parthasarathy Rao

1543: United States agricultural policy: Its evolution and impact

Joseph W. Glauber and Anne Effland

1542: Roads to innovation: Firm-level evidence from China

Xu Wang, Xiaobo Zhang, Zhuan Xie and Yiping Huang

1541: A systematic review of cross-country data initiatives on agricultural public expenditures in developing countries

Richard Anson and Tewodaj Mogues

1540: Does female labor scarcity encourage innovation?: Evidence from China’s gender imbalance

Zhibo Tan and Xiaobo Zhang

1539: Linking smallholder farmers to commercial markets: Evidence from nongovernmental organization training in Nicaragua

Ayako Ebata and Manuel Hernandez

1538: Can labor market imperfections explain changes in the inverse farm size-productivity relationship?: Longitudinal evidence from rural India

Klaus Deininger, Songqing Jin, Yanyan Liu and Sudhir Singh

1537: Labor adaptation to climate variability in Eastern Africa

Xiaoya Dou, Clark Gray, Valerie Mueller and Glenn Sheriff

1536: A dynamic spatial model of agricultural price transmission: Evidence from the Niger millet market

Anatole Goundan and Mahamadou Tankari

1535: Qualitative methods for gender research in agricultural development

Deborah Rubin

1534: Anchoring bias in recall data: Evidence from Central America

Susan Godlonton, Manuel Hernandez and Mike Murphy

1533: Contracting by small farmers in commodities with export potential: Assessing farm profits of lentil growers in Nepal

Anjani Kumar, Devesh Roy, Gaurav Tripathi, Pramod Kumar Joshi and Rajendra Prasad Adhikari

1532: Rent Dispersion in the US Agricultural Insurance Industry

Vincent H. Smith, Joseph Glauber and Robert Dismukes

1531: Long-term drivers of food and nutrition security

David Laborde Debucquet, Fahd Majeed, Simla Tokgoz and Maximo Torero

1530: Understanding compliance in programs promoting conservation agriculture: Modeling a case study in Malawi

Patrick Ward, Andrew R. Bell, Klaus Droppelmann and Tim Benton

1529: A model of reporting and controlling outbreaks by public health agencies

Alexander Saak and David Hennessy

1528: Boserupian pressure and agricultural mechanization in modern Ghana

Frances Cossar

1527: Agricultural mechanization and agricultural transformation

Xinshen Diao, Jed Silver and Hiroyuki Takeshima

1526: Delegation of quality control in value chains

Alexander Saak

1525: Structural transformation and intertemporal evolution of real wages, machine use, and farm size–productivity relationships in Vietnam

Yanyan Liu, William Violette and Christopher Barrett

1524: Can contract farming increase farmers’ income and enhance adoption of food safety practices?: Evidence from remote areas of Nepal

Anjani Kumar, Devesh Roy, Gaurav Trapathi, Pramod Kumar Joshi and Rajendra Prasad Adhikari

1523: Effectiveness of food subsidies in raising healthy food consumption: Public distribution of pulses in India

Suman Chakrabarti, Avinash Kishore and Devesh Roy

1522: Findings across agricultural public expenditure reviews in African countries

Stephen D. Mink

1521: Risk and sustainable crop intensification: The case of smallholder rice and potato farmers in Uganda

Bjorn Van Campenhout, Emmanuel Bizimungu and Dorothy Birungi

1520: Varietal integrity, damage abatement, and productivity: Evidence from the cultivation of Bt cotton in Pakistan

Xingliang Ma, Melinda Smale, David Spielman, Patricia Zambrano, Hina Nazli and Fatima Zaidi

1519: Institutional arrangements to make public spending responsive to the poor—(where) have they worked?: Review of the evidence on four major intervention types

Tewodaj Mogues and Alvina Erman

1518: A poverty-sensitive scorecard to prioritize lending and grant allocation: Evidence from Central America

Manuel Hernandez and Maximo Torero

1517: Can information help reduce imbalanced application of fertilizers in India? Experimental evidence from Bihar

Ram Fishman, Avinash Kishore, Yoav Rothler, Patrick Ward, Shankar Jha and R. K. P. Singh

1516: Pakistan’s fertilizer sector: Structure, policies, performance, and impacts

Mubarik Ali, Faryal Ahmed, Hira Channa and Stephen Davies

1515: Agriculture-nutrition linkages and child health in the presence of conflict in Nepal

Elizabeth Bageant, Yanyan Liu and Xinshen Diao

1514: “As a husband I will love, lead, and provide:†Gendered access to land in Ghana

Isabel Lambrecht

1513: Formal versus informal: Efficiency, inclusiveness, and financing of dairy value chains in India

Pratap S. Birthal, Ramesh Chand, Pramod Kumar Joshi, Raka Saxena, Pallavi Rajkhowa, Md. Tajuddin Khan, Mohd Arshad Khan and Khyali R. Chaudhary

1512: Measuring women’s disempowerment in agriculture in Pakistan

Nuzhat Ahmad and Huma Khan

1511: The impact of conditional cash transfer programs on indigenous households in Latin America: Evidence from PROGRESA in Mexico

Esteban J. Quiñones and Shalini Roy

1510: Why some are more equal than others: Country typologies of food security

Díaz-Bonilla, Eugenio and Marcelle Thomas

1509: Empowerment and agricultural production: Evidence from rural households in Niger

Fleur Stephanie Wouterse

1508: Is access to tractor service a binding constraint for Nepali Terai farmers?

Hiroyuki Takeshima, Rajendra Prasad Adhikari and Anjani Kumar

1507: Determinants of chemical fertilizer use in Nepal: Insights based on price responsiveness and income effects

Hiroyuki Takeshima, Rajendra Prasad Adhikari, Basu Dev Kaphle, Sabnam Shivakoti and Anjani Kumar

1505: Volatile volatility: Conceptual and measurement issues related to price trends and volatility

Díaz-Bonilla, Eugenio

1504: Changes in Ghanaian farming systems: Stagnation or a quiet transformation?

Nazaire Houssou, Michael E. Johnson, Shashi Kolavalli and Asante-Addo, Collins