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1503: Returns to agricultural public spending in Ghana: Cocoa versus noncocoa subsector

Samuel Benin

1501: Challenges in implementing a small-scale farmers’ capacity-building program: The case of the food production, processing, and marketing project in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Catherine Ragasa, Ephraim Nkonya, John Ulimwengu and Josee Randriamamonjy

1500: Leveling the field for biofuels: Comparing the economic and environmental impacts of biofuel and other export crops in Malawi

Franziska Schuenemann, James Thurlow and Manfred Zeller

1499: Farm transition and indigenous growth: The rise to medium- and large-scale farming in Ghana

Nazaire Houssou, Antony Chapoto and Asante-Addo, Collins

1498: The impact of agricultural extension services in the context of a heavily subsidized input system: The case of Malawi

Catherine Ragasa, John Mazunda and Mariam Kadzamira

1497: Ghana’s macroeconomic crisis: Causes, consequences, and policy responses

Stephen D. Younger

1496: Temporary and permanent migrant selection: Theory and evidence of ability-search cost dynamics

Joyce Chen, Katrina Kosec and Valerie Mueller

1495: The effect of insurance enrollment on maternal and child health care utilization: The case of Ghana

Gissele Gajate-Garrido and Clement Ahiadeke

1494: Stories of change in nutrition: A tool pool

Stuart Gillespie and Mara van den Bold

1493: Optimal tariffs with smuggling: A spatial analysis of Nigerian rice policy options

Michael E. Johnson and Paul A. Dorosh

1492: Smallholders and land tenure in Ghana: Aligning context, empirics, and policy

Isabel Lambrecht and Sarah Asare

1491: Returns to agricultural public spending in Africa south of the Sahara

Samuel Benin

1490: Lost in translation: The fractured conversation about trade and food security

Díaz-Bonilla, Eugenio

1489: Gender roles and food safety in 20 informal livestock and fish value chains

Delia Grace, Kristina Roesel, Erastus Kang'ethe, Bassirou Bonfoh and Sophie Theis

1488: Farm household typologies and mechanization patterns in Nepal Terai: Descriptive analysis of the Nepal living standards survey

Hiroyuki Takeshima, Rajendra Prasad Adhikari, Mahendra Nath Poudel and Anjani Kumar

1487: Public-private partnerships and the reduction of undernutrition in developing countries

John Hoddinott, Stuart Gillespie and Sivan Yosef

1486: How does women’s time in reproductive work and agriculture affect maternal and child nutrition? Evidence from Bangladesh, Cambodia, Ghana, Mozambique, and Nepal

Hitomi Komatsu, Hazel Jean Malapit and Sophie Theis

1485: US maize data reveals adaptation to heat and water stress

Timothy Thomas

1484: Customary tenure and innovative measures of safeguarding land rights in Africa: The community land initiative (iniciativa de terras comunitárias) in Mozambique

Hosaena Ghebru, Raul Pitoro and Sileshi Woldeyohannes

1483: The International Model for Policy Analysis of Agricultural Commodities and Trade (IMPACT): Model description for version 3

Sherman Robinson, Daniel Mason d'Croz, Shahnila Islam, Timothy Sulser, Richard Robertson, Tingju Zhu, Arthur Gueneau, Gauthier Pitois and Mark W. Rosegrant

1482: Enhancing food security in South Sudan: The role of public food stocks and cereal imports

Paul A. Dorosh, Shahidur Rashid, Abigail Childs and Joanna Van Asselt

1481: Gender, headship, and the life cycle: Landownership in four Asian countries

Kathryn Sproule, Caitlin Kieran, Agnes Quisumbing and Cheryl Doss

1480: The food-energy-water security nexus: Definitions, policies, and methods in an application to Malawi and Mozambique

Thea Nielsen, Franziska Schunemann, Emily McNulty, Manfred Zeller, Ephraim Nkonya, Edward Kato, Stefan Meyer, Weston Anderson, Tingju Zhu, Antonio Queface and Lawrence Mapemba

1479: The making of public investments: Champions, coordination, and characteristics of nutrition interventions

Tewodaj Mogues and Lucy Billings

1478: The dynamics of smallholder marketing behavior: Explorations using Ugandan and Mozambican panel data

Bjorn Van Campenhout

1477: Adjusting to external shocks in small open economies: The case of Honduras

Samuel Morley and Valeria Piñeiro

1476: Drivers of growth in agricultural returns to scale: The hiring in of tractor services in the Terai of Nepal

Hiroyuki Takeshima

1475: The contribution of increased equity to the estimated social benefits from a transfer program: An illustration from PROGRESA

Harold Alderman, Jere Behrman and Afia Tasneem

1474: Reconstructing public expenditure data: Use of classification systems to better measure public spending in agriculture — a Mozambique case study

Tewodaj Mogues, Leonardo Caceres, Francisco A. Fernandez and Mariam B. Umarji

1473: Agricultural insurance and the World Trade Organization

Joseph W. Glauber

1472: Grain price and volatility transmission from international to domestic markets in developing countries

Francisco Ceballos, Manuel Hernandez, Nicholas Minot and Luis Robles

1471: Policy changes in times of crisis: Evidence from the Arab Spatial Policy Analyzer

Jacopo Bordignon and Clemens Breisinger

1470: Gender empowerment gaps in agriculture and children’s well-being in Bangladesh

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

1469: Climate change adaptation in agriculture: Ex ante analysis of promising and alternative crop technologies using DSSAT and IMPACT

Sherman Robinson, Daniel Mason d'Croz, Shahnila Islam, Nicola Cenacchi, Bernardo Creamer, Arthur Gueneau, Guy Hareau, Ulrich Kleinwechter, Khondoker Mottaleb, Swamikannu Nedumaran, Richard Robertson, Mark W. Rosegrant, Gbegbelegbe Sika, Timothy Sulser and Keith D. Wiebe

1468: A proximity-based measure of industrial clustering

Jianqing Ruan and Xiaobo Zhang

1467: Aspirations and the role of social protection: Evidence from a natural disaster in rural Pakistan

Katrina Kosec and Cecilia Hyunjung Mo

1466: Addressing human capital development in public agriculture extension in Southern Africa: Assessing Mozambique’s experience

Gêmo, Hélder and Kristin Davis

1465: Microinsurance decisions: Gendered evidence from rural Bangladesh

Daniel Clarke and Neha Kumar

1464: Institutions and market integration: The case of coffee in the Ethiopian commodity exchange

Manuel Hernandez, Shahidur Rashid, Solomon Lemma and Tadesse Kuma

1463: Happiness in the air: How does a dirty sky affect subjective well-being?

Xin Zhang, Xiaobo Zhang and Xi Chen

1462: The impact of the use of new technologies on farmers’ wheat yield in Ethiopia: Evidence from a randomized controlled trial

Gashaw Abate, Alan de Brauw, Nicholas Minot and Tanguy Bernard

1461: Living like there’s no tomorrow: Saving and spending following the Sichuan earthquake

Mateusz Filipski, Ling Jin, Xiaobo Zhang and Kevin Z. Chen

1460: Agricultural value chain development in practice: Private sector-led smallholder development

Shashi Kolavalli, Mensah-Bonsu, Akwasi and Saima Zaman

1459: Cropping intensity gaps: The potential for expanded global harvest areas

Wenbin Wu, Liangzhi You and Kevin Z. Chen

1458: Migration, gender, and farming systems in Asia: Evidence, data, and knowledge gaps

Valerie Mueller, Chiara Kovarik, Kathryn Sproule and Agnes Quisumbing

1456: Agriculture, gendered time use, and nutritional outcomes: A systematic review

Deborah Johnston, Sara Stevano, Hazel Jean Malapit, Elizabeth Hull and Suneetha Kadiyala

1455: Public benefits of private technology adoption: The localized spatial externalities of water conservation in eastern Uttar Pradesh

Anil K. Bhargava, Travis Lybbert and David Spielman

1454: Supply-side dynamics of chickpeas and pigeon peas in India

Kalimuthu Inbasekar, Devesh Roy and Pramod Kumar Joshi

1453: Measuring women’s decisionmaking: Indicator choice and survey design experiments from cash and food transfer evaluations in Ecuador, Uganda, and Yemen

Amber Peterman, Benjamin Schwab, Shalini Roy, Melissa Hidrobo and Daniel Gilligan

1452: The potential of farm-level technologies and practices to contribute to reducing consumer exposure to aflatoxins: A theory of change analysis

Nancy L. Johnson, Christine Atherstone and Delia Grace