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Background Papers
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| World Development Report 2008: Agriculture for Development |
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| Alderman, Harold. “Managing Risk to Increase Efficiency and Reduce Poverty.” | | Ali, Mubarik . “Horticulture Revolution for the Poor:Nature, Challenges and Opportunities.” | | Anderson, Jock R. “Agricultural Advisory Services.” | | AnrÃquez, Gustavo, and Genny Bonomi. “Long-Term Farming and Rural Demographic Trends.” | | Berdegué, Julio, Alexander Schejtman, Manuel Chiriboga, Felix Modrego, Romain Charnay, and Jorge Ortega. “Towards National and Global Agendas for Agriculture for Development: Latin America and the Caribbean.” | | Bezemer, Dirk, and Peter Hazell. “The Agricultural Exit Problem; An Empirical Assessment.” | | Buys, Piet, Céline Ferré, Peter Lanjouw, and Timothy Thomas. “Rural Poverty and Geography: Towards Some Stylized Facts in the Developing World.” | | Chiriboga, Manuel, Romain Charnay, and Carol Chehab. “Women in Agriculture: Some Results of Household Surveys Data Analysis.” | | Damiani, Octavio. “Rural Development from a Territorial Perspective: Case Studies in Asia and Latin America.” | | Davis, Benjamin, Paul Winters, Gero Carletto, Katia Covarrubias, Esteban Quinones, Alberto Zezza, Kostas Stamoulis, Genny Bonomi, and Stefania DiGiuseppe. “Rural Income Generating Activities: A Cross Country Comparison.” | | Deshingkar, Priya, and John Farrington. “Rural Labour Markets and Migration in South Asia: Evidence from India and Bangladesh.” | | Dorward, Andrew, Jonathan Kydd, and Colin Poulton. “Traditional Domestic Markets and Marketing Systems for Agricultural Products.” | | Escobar, German, Carlos Mladinic, Ramiro Sanhueza and Octavio Diaz. “Rural Territorial Development: The Milk Territory in Southern Chile.” | | Farnworth, Cathy, and Michael Goodman. “Growing Ethical Networks: The Fair Trade Market for Raw and Processed Agricultural Products (in Five Parts), with Associated Studies on Africa and Latin America.” | | Hazell, Peter, Colin Poulton, Steve Wiggins, and Andrew Dorward. “The Future of Small Farms: Synthesis Paper.” | | Henson, Spencer. “New Markets and Their Supporting Institutions: Opportunities and Constraints for Demand Growth.” | | Just, David R. “A Review of Behavioral Risk Research with Special Application to Developing Countries.” | | Karp, Larry. “Income Distribution and the Allocation of Public Agricultural Investment in Developing Countries.” | | Karp, Larry. "Managing Migration from the Traditional to Modern Sector in Developing Countries.” | | Lastarria-Cornhiel, Susana. “Feminization of Agriculture: Trends and Driving Forces.” | | Ligon, Ethan, and Elisabeth Sadoulet. “Estimating the Effects of Aggregate Agricultural Growth on the Distribution of Expenditures.” | | Lopez-Calva, Luis Felipe. “Migration in Rural Mexico: From Tlapanalan to Manhatitlan.” | | MartÃnez Nogueira, Roberto. “New Roles of the Public Sector for an Agriculture for Development Agenda.” | | Modrego, Félix, Romain Charnay, Esteban Jara, Hugo Contrers, and Cristian Rodriguez. “Small Farmers in Developing Countries: Some Results of Household Surveys Data Analysis.” | | Otsuka, Keijiro, and Takashi Yamano. “The Role of Rural Labor Markets in Poverty Reduction: Evidence from Asia and East Africa.” | | Pardey, Philip G., Julian Alston, Jenni James, Paul Glewwe, Eran Binenbaum, Terry Hurley, and Stanley Wood. “Science, Technology and Skills.” | | Pehu, Eija, and Catherine R. Ragasa. “Agricultural Biotechnology.” | | Pomareda, Carlos. “Contract Agriculture: Lessons from Experiences in Costa Rica.” | | Pingali, P., Sumiter Broca, and Mette Wik. “Global Agricultural Performance: Past Trends and Future Prospects.” | | Poulton, Colin. “Bulk Export Commodities: Trends and Challenges.” | | Pretty, Jules. “Agroecological Approaches to Agricultural Development.” | | Quan, Julian, Junior Davis, and Felicity Proctor. “Rural Development from a Territorial Perspective: Lessons and Potential in Sub-Saharan Africa.” | | Ravallion, Martin, Shaohua Chen, and Prem Sangraula. “New Evidence on the Urbanization of Global Poverty.” | | Reardon, Thomas, and Julio Berdegué. “The Retail-Led Transformation of Agrifood Systems and its Implications for Development Policies.” | | Sautier, Denis, Hester Vermeulen, Michel Fok, and Estelle Biénabe. “Case Studies of Agri-Processing and Contract Agriculture in Africa.” | | Schejtman, Alexander, Julio Berdegué, and Félix Modrego. “Income Diversification through Agricultural Development.” | Sebastian, Kate. “GIS/Spatial Analysis Contribution to 2008 WDR: Technical Notes on Data & Methodologies.”- Datasets:  3x3xcty Pop.xls, Area.xls, Area by Country.xls, Market Access.xls, Population.xls, Value of production.xls | | Staatz, John, and Niama Nango Dembele. “Agriculture for Development in Sub-Saharan Africa.” | | Valdés, Alberto, and William Foster. “Making the Labor Market a Way out of Rural Poverty. Rural and Agricultural Labor Markets in Latin America and the Caribbean.” | | Walker, Thomas. “Participatory Varietal Selection, Participatory Plant Breeding, and Varietal Change.” | | Wilkinson, John, and Rudi Rocha. “Agri-Processing and Developing Countries.” | | Zezza, Alberto, Paul Winters, Benjamin Davis, Gero Carletto, Katia Covarrubias, Esteban Quinones, Kostas Stamoulis, Panayotis Karfakis, Luca Tasciotti, Stefania DiGiuseppe, and Genny Bonomi. “Rural Household Access to Assets and Agrarian Institutions: A Cross Country Comparison.” | | Zhang, Linxiu, Scott Rozelle, Chengfang Liu, Susan Olivia, Alan de Brauw, and Qiang Li. “Feminization of Agriculture in China: Debunking the Myth and Measuring the Consequence of Women Participation in Agriculture.” |
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