Humanity has made enormous progress in the past 50 years toward eliminating hunger and malnutrition. Some five billion people--more than 80 percent of the world's population--have enough food to live healthy, productive lives. Agricultural development has contributed significantly to these gains, while also fostering economic growth and poverty reduction in some of the world's poorest countries.

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This book examines how policies, programs, and investments in pro-poor agricultural development have helped to substantially reduce hunger across Africa, Asia, and Latin America. The 20 success stories presented here provide both lessons and inspiration for continued efforts to eradicate hunger and malnutrition among the one billion people still facing this scourge.

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• Table of Contents and front matter
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• Chapter 1 - Fifty Years of Progress
  David J. Spielman and Rajul Pandya-Lorch
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• Chapter 2 - Fighting a “Shifty Enemy”: The international collaboration to contain wheat rusts
  H. J. Dubin and John P. Brennan
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• Chapter 3 - Transforming Agriculture: The Green Revolution in Asia
  Peter B. R. Hazell
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• Chapter 4 - Breeding an “Amaizing” Crop: Improved maize in Kenya, Malawi, Zambia, and Zimbabwe
  Melinda Smale and T. S. Jayne
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• Chapter 5 - Resisting Viruses and Bugs: Cassava in Sub-Saharan Africa
  Felix Nweke
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• Chapter 6 - Seeing the Forest Through the Trees: Community forestry in Nepal
  Hemant Ojha, Lauren Persha, and Ashwini Chhatre
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• Chapter 7 - Re-Greening the Sahel: Farmer-led innovation in Burkina Faso and Niger
  Chris Reij, Gray Tappan, and Melinda Smale
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• Chapter 8 - Innovating in the Pampas: Zero-tillage soybean cultivation in Argentina
  Eduardo Trigo, Eugenio Cap, Valeria Malach, and Federico Villarreal
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• Chapter 9 - Leaving the Plow Behind: Zero-tillage rice-wheat cultivation in the Indo-Gangetic Plains
  Olaf Erenstein
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• Chapter 10 - Pumping up Production: Shallow tubewells and rice in Bangladesh
  Mahabub Hossain
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• Chapter 11 - Pushing the Yield Frontier: Hybrid rice in China
  Jiming Li, Yeyun Xin, and Longping Yuan
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• Chapter 12 - Improving Crops for Arid Lands: Pearl millet and sorghum in India
  Carl E. Pray and Latha Nagarajan
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• Chapter 13 - Navigating through Reforms: Cotton reforms in Burkina Faso
  Jonathan Kaminski, Derek Headey, and Tanguy Bernard
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• Chapter 14 - Unlocking the Market: Fertilizer and maize in Kenya
  Joshua Ariga and T. S. Jayne
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• Chapter 15 - Counting on Beans: Mungbean improvement in Asia
  Subramanyam Shanmugasundaram, J. D. H. Keatinge, and Jacqueline d’Arros Hughes
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• Chapter 16 - Conquering the Cattle Plague: The global effort to eradicate rinderpest
  Peter Roeder and Karl Rich
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• Chapter 17 - Connecting the Milk Grid: Smallholder dairy in India
  Kenda Cunningham
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• Chapter 18 - Farming the Aquatic Chicken: Improved tilapia in the Philippines
  Sivan Yosef
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• Chapter 19 - Crossing the River While Feeling the Rocks: Land-tenure reform in China
  John W. Bruce and Zongmin Li
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• Chapter 20 - Exiting from Collective Agriculture: Land-tenure reform in Vietnam
  Michael Kirk and Nguyen Do Anh Tuan
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• Chapter 21 - Diversifying into Healthy Diets: Homestead food production in Bangladesh
  Lora Iannotti, Kenda Cunningham, and Marie Ruel
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Annexes

• Annex A - Map of Case Studies
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• Annex B - Methodology
  David J. Spielman, Rajul Pandya-Lorch, Kenda Cunningham, and Sivan Yosef
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• Annex C - Improving the Proof: Impact Assessment in Agricultural Development
  Mywish K. Maredia
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• Annex D - Advisory Committee Members and IFPRI Project Team
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• Annex E - List of Contributors
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• Annex F - Discussion Papers
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