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• Policies to reduce hunger and malnutrition
• Decentralization and local governance
• Governance of trade and markets
• Natural resource governance

• Combating Malnutrition: Time to Act
  Stuart Gillespie, Milla McLachlan, and Roger Shrimpton (eds.). Washington, D.C.: The World Bank. UNICEF. 2003.
• Fifth Report on the World Nutrition Situation: Nutrition for Improved Development Outcomes, Reports on the World Nutrition Situation
  Lawrence Haddad and Jay Ross. Geneva: UN System Standing Committee on Nutrition. 2004.
• The Nutrition Policy Process: A Proposal for a Global and Regional Research Program (GRP)
  Lawrence Haddad and David Pelletier (with Michelle Adato, James Garrett, Stuart Gillespie, and BonniMcClafferty). Consultation document for discussion and comment. IFPRI. 2003.
• Breaking the links between conflict and hunger in Africa
  Ellen Messer and Marc J. Cohen. 2020 Africa Conference Brief 10. IFPRI. 2004.
  (PDF 279K)

• Targeting poverty through community-based public works programmes: Experience from South Africa
  Michelle Adato and Lawrence Haddad. Journal of Development Studies 38 (February): 1 36. 2002.
• On the Efficient Boundaries of the State - The Contribution of Transaction Costs Economics to the Analysis of Decentralisation and Devolution in Natural Resource Management.
  Regina Birner and Heidi Wittmer. In Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy 22(5): 667 - 685. 2004.
• Using Social Capital to Create Political Capital - How Do Local Communities Gain Political Influence? A Theoretical Approach and Empirical Evidence from Thailand
  Regina Birner and Heidi Wittmer. In The Commons in the New Millennium, Challenges and Adaptation, Nives Dolšak and Elinor Ostrom (eds). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. pp. 291-334. 2003.
• Community empowerment and scaling up in urban areas: The evolution of PUSH/PROSPECT in Zambia
  James Garrett. FCND Discussion Paper 177. IFPRI. 2004.
  (PDF 402K)
• Scaling up community-driven development: A synthesis of experience
  Stuart Gillespie. FCND Discussion Paper 181. IFPRI. 2004.
  (PDF 480K)
• Fifty Years of Regional Inequality in China: A Journey Through Central Planning, Reform and Openness
  Ravi Kanbur and Xiaobo Zhang, Review of Development Economics 9(1). 2005.
• Local Governance and Public Goods Provision in Rural China
  Xiaobo Zhang, Shenggen Fan, Linxiu Zhang, and Jikun Huang.Journal of Public Economics, 88(12): 2857-2871. 2004.

• Market Institutions, Transaction Costs, and Social Capital in the Ethiopian Grain Market
  Eleni Z. Gabre-Madhin. IFPRI Research Report No. 124. 2001.
  (PDF 1.3M)
• Subsidy Syndrome in Indian Agriculture
  Ashok Gulati and Sudha Narayanan. New Delhi: Oxford University Press. 2003.
• Food Regulation and Trade: Toward a Safe and Open Global System
  Timothy Josling, Donna Roberts and David Orden. Washington, DC: Institute for International Economics. March 2004.
• The impact of global cotton markets on rural poverty in Benin
  Nicholas Minot and Lisa Daniels. MTID Discussion Paper No. 48. IFPRI. 2002.
  (PDF 347K)
• Transactions Costs And Agricultural Productivity: Implications Of Isolation For Rural Poverty In Madagascar
  David Stifel, Bart Minten, and Paul Dorosh. MSSD Discussion Paper No. 56. IFPRI. February 2003.
  (PDF 879K)
• Blunt to Sharpened Razor: Incremental Reform and Distortions in the Product and Capital Markets in China
  Zhang, Xiaobo and Long-Yam Tan. DSGD Discussion Paper No. 13. IFPRI. 2004.
  (PDF 359K)

• The Power Mapping Tool A Method for the Empirical Research of Power Relations
  Eva Schiffer. IFPRI Discussion Paper No. 703. May 2007.
  (PDF 251K)
• Institutional Reforms in Indian Irrigation
  Ashok Gulati, Ruth Meinzen-Dick and K.V. Raju. New Delhi: Sage Publications. 2005.
• Agri-Environmental Policies in a Transitional Economy: The Value of Agricultural Biodiversity in Hungarian Home Gardens
  Ekin Birol, Melinda Smale, and Ágnes Gyovai. EPTD Discussion Paper No. 117. April 2004.
  (PDF 423K)
• Woodlot Devolution In Northern Ethiopia: Opportunities For Empowerment, Smallholder Income Diversification, And Sustainable Land Management
  Pamela Jagger, John Pender, and Berhanu Gebremedhin. EPTD Discussion Paper No. 107. September 2003.
  (PDF 262K)
• Property Rights, Risk, & Livestock Development in Africa, Innovation in Natural Resource Management - The Role of Property Rights and Collective Action in Developing Countries
  Ruth Meinzen-Dick, Anna Knox, Frank Place, and Brent Swallow (eds.). Washington, DC: John Hopkins University Press. October 2002.
• Collective Action, Property Rights and Devolution of Natural Resource Management -- Exchange of Knowledge and Implications for Policy
  Ruth Meinzen-Dick, Anna Knox, and Monica Di Gregorio (eds.). Feldafing, Germany: Zentralstelle für Ernährung und Landwirtschaft. 2001.