"CORPOICA and IFPRI implemented a research project in Ventaquemada, Colombia.

"This paper investigates the effects of wheat genetic diversity and land degradation on risk and agricultural productivity in less favored production environments of a developing agricultural economy.

The paper extends the household hedonic model, as a non-market valuation tool, by estimating a supply function for variety attributes of a subsistence crop in a developing country.

Extreme interannual variability of precipitation within Ethiopia is not uncommon, inducing droughts or floods and often creating serious repercussions on agricultural and non-agricultural commodities.

"This paper is a description and an analysis of trade liberalization under CAFTA. It shows that in the short run the impact of the agreement is likely to be small... Since the U.S.

The paper develops a framework for the design and analysis of pluralistic agricultural advisory services and reviews research methods from different disciplines that can be used when applying the framework.

Changes in India’s seed regulations during the 1990s favored the growth of privately- as compared to publicly-funded sectors.

Compared to both Canada and the United States, Australia has been slow to approve commercial planting of transgenic crops. Two probable reasons exist for the slow approval rate of transgenic crops in Australia.

"A vast literature has accumulated since crop varieties with transgenic resistance to insects and herbicide tolerance were released to farmers in 1996 and 1997.

" Hungarian home gardens are small-scale farms managed by farm households using traditional management practices and family labor.

The paper discusses the application of the Water Poverty Index (WPI) as a monitoring tool for Benin’s water sector.

"Modern crop production is based on only a few plant species.

This paper reviews current trade–related regulations of genetically modified (GM) food and discusses their effects on developing countries. There is a large heterogeneity in current import approval and marketing policies of GM food worldwide.

This paper analyzes the current and proposed biosafety systems in Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda using a set of components and characteristics common to functional and protective biosafety regulatory systems.

The regulatory approval of genetically modified crops in the field initially requires small, restricted experimental trials known as confined field trials.

Les réglementations relatives à l’approbation de cultures génétiquement modifiées exigent, initialement, des petites expérimentations restreintes appelées essais au champ confinés.

High production and export subsidies in developed countries and high protection in both developed and developing countries have distorted rice trade.

This study examines the sources of crop income growth in Indian agriculture over the 1980s and 1990s.

This paper looks at how Philippine trade reform which consists of tariff reduction and elimination of quantitative restrictions (QR) on rice imports will affect poverty within two world trade scenarios: Doha and free world trade.