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  Books/journal articles
Beyond Relief: Food Security in Protracted Crisis
by Luca Alinovi, Günter Hemrich, and Luca Russo
Linking Improved Food Security and Livelihoods to Agriculture Development and Pro-Poor Growth in Liberia
Mariam Sow and James Tefft
in the Comprehensive Assessment of the Agriculture Sector in Liberia (Caas-Lib - Vol 2.3) 2007
Investing Back Home: Return Migration and Business Ownership in Albania
Talip Kilic, Gero Carletto, Benjamin Davis, Alberto Zezza
September 2007
The Vanishing Farms? The Impact of International Migration on Albanian Family Farming
Juna Miluka, Gero Carletto, Benjamin Davis, Alberto Zezza
September 2007
Will buying tropical forest carbon benefit the poor?
Evidence from Costa Rica

A. Pfaff, S. Kerr, L.Lipper, R.Cavatassi, B.Davis,
J.Hendy and G.Sanchez-Azofeifa
Land Use Policy vol. 24 (2007), pp.600–610
Planning for the future - an assessment of food security early warning systems in sub-Saharan Africa
Nick Maunder, Mark McGuire and James Tefft

Resource Quality and Changing Diets in Asia: Implications for Research and Policy
P. Pingali and R. Stringer

International Conference on Soil, Water and Environmental Quality - Issues and Strategies,
Indian Society of Soil Science,
28 January - 1 February 2006

Being poor, feeling poorer: Combining objective and subjective measures of welfare in Albania
G. Carletto and A. Zezza

The Journal of Development Studies,
Vol. 42, No. 5, July 2006

Monitoring Poverty Without Consumption Data
An Application Using the Albania Panel Survey
C. Azzarri, G. Carletto, B. Davis, and A. Zezza

Do Conditional Cash Transfers Influence Migration?
A Study Using Experimental Data From the Mexican PROGRESA Program, Demography (42) 4, November (2005).
G Stecklov, P Winters, M Stampini, and B Davis

Seeds, Needs and Diversity: Assessing the links between seed systems, farmer welfare and genetic diversity in Ethiopia in Smale, Lipper and Kandoori eds, Valuing crop Diversity: On -farm genetic resources and economic change, Cabi, Wallingford UK.
L. Lipper, R. Cavatassi and P. Winters (2005)

Land Use Change, Poverty and Carbon Sequestration,
L. Lipper and R. Cavatassi, (2004)
Environmental Management , vol. 33 s. 1

"Social" and "Private" Determinants of Opposition to Landfill Siting in Italy,
Cavatassi and G. Atkinson (2003)
Journal of Environmental Policy Assessment and Management, JEAPM: vol. 5 n. 3.R.

Moving away from Poverty: A Spatial Analysis of Poverty and Migration in Albania
Alberto Zezza, Gero Carletto, and Benjamin Davis
Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans, Vol. 7,
No. 2, August 2005

The State of Global Food Insecurity and the Benefits of Hunger Reduction
Hartwig de Haen and Benjamin Davis
Fome Zero Políticas Públicas e Cidadania
Cadernos do Ceam, Vol. 4, No. 14
(Brasília: Universidade de Brasília, 2004)

Hogares, pobreza y políticas en épocas de crisis. México, 1992-1996
B. Davis, S. Handa, and H. Soto
Cepal Review 82, April, 2004

Anti-Hunger Programme, 2003
Globalisation-driven dietary change: implications for India's food supply system
Prabhu Pingali and Yasmeen Khwaja
Nutrition intake and economic growth: Studies on the cost of hunger, 2003
Kiyoshi Taniguchi and Xiaojun Wang
Choosing a method for poverty mapping, 2003
Benjamin Davis

Sustaining food security in the developing world:
the top five policy challenges
Prabhu Pingali

Quarterly Journal of International Agriculture, 2003

Agrarian reform in Mexico: The Procampo experience (pdf, 179KB)
Benjamin Davis

Forum Internazionale dell'Agricoltura e dell'Alimentazione, 25 November 2003

Meso-economic Filters along the Policy Chain: Understanding the Links between Policy Reforms and Rural Poverty in Latin America
A. Zezza, and L. Llambí

World Development, 30/11, pp. 1865-1884, November 2002

Domestic and international migration from rural Mexico: Disaggregating the effects of network structure and composition
B Davis, G Stecklov, and P Winters
Population Studies, (56)3, November 2002

Assets, activities and income generation in rural Mexico: factoring in social and public capital
P. Winters, B. Davis, and L. Corral
Agricultural Economics (27)2, August 2002

A experiencia de intervencoes de transferencia de renda no Mexico rural: evidencias dos programas PROGRESA e PROCAMPO
Benjamin Davis
M Takagi, J Graziano da Silva and W Belik, eds. Combate a fome e a Pobreza Rural
(Campinas: Instituto Cidadania, 2002)

Promoting farm/non-farm linkages for rural development: Case studies from Africa and Latin America, 2002
Benjamin Davis, Thomas Reardon, Kostas Stamoulis and Paul Winters

Individual farms in Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States, 2002
David Sedik (Ed.)

Gender, Networks and Mexico-U.S. Migration
B Davis and P Winters
Journal of Development Studies 38(2), December, 2001

Targeting the Poor in Mexico: An Evaluation of the Selection of Households into PROGRESA
E Skoufias, B Davis, and S de la Vega
World Development 29(10), October, 2001

Cash Transfer with Income Multiplier: PROCAMPO in Mexico
E Sadoulet, A de Janvry, and B Davis
World Development 29(3), March, 2001

Income Generation Strategies among Nicaraguan Agricultural Producers
B Davis, G Carletto, and N Piccioni
A Zoomer, ed., Land and sustainable livelihood in Latin America, (Amsterdam: Royal Tropical Institute, 2001)

The Adjustment Strategies of Mexican Ejidatarios in the Face of Neoliberal Reform
B Davis
CEPAL Review 72, December, 2000

Perspectives on Agriculture in Transition: Analytical Issues, Modelling Approaches and Case Study Results
W. Poganietz, A. Zezza, K. Frohberg and K. Stamoulis (eds.)
Wissenschaftsverlag Vauk, Kiel, 2000

Handbook for defining and setting up a food security information and early warning system (FSIEWS), 2000

Potential extension of the Customs Union between Turkey and the EU: A report on the impact of including agricultural products in the Customs Union on the Turkish agricultural sector

Agricultural Values of Plant Genetic Resources, 1998
FAO/CABI/CISEG

Guidelines for the integration of sustainable agriculture and rural development into agricultural policies, 1997
J. Brian Hardaker
Food security strategies: The Asian experience, 1997
Peter Timmer
Agricultural and rural development policy in Latin America. New directions and new challenges, 1997
Alain de Janvry, Nigel Key and Elisabeth Sadoulet
Searching for common ground - European Union enlargement and agricultural policy, 1997
Kate Hathaway and Dale Hathaway (Eds.)

The Role of Agriculture in the Transition Process towards a Market Economy, UN 1997
UN Economic Commission for Europe/FAO

Integration of Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Development Issues in Agricultural Policy, 1996
Winrock International Institute for Agricultural Development
Halting Degradation of Natural Resources - Is there a Role for Rural Communities? FAO/OUP 1996
Jean-Marie Baland and Jean-Philippe Platteau