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Download (PDF 1MB) - Chapter 1 – Fifty Years of Progress
David J. Spielman and Rajul Pandya-Lorch
Download (PDF 1.3MB) - Chapter 2 – Fighting a “Shifty Enemy”: The international collaboration to contain wheat rusts
H. J. Dubin and John P. Brennan
Download (PDF 347K) - Chapter 3 – Transforming Agriculture: The Green Revolution in Asia
Peter B. R. Hazell
Download (PDF 438K) - Chapter 4 – Breeding an “Amaizing” Crop: Improved maize in Kenya, Malawi, Zambia, and Zimbabwe
Melinda Smale and T. S. Jayne
Download (PDF 512K) - Chapter 5 – Resisting Viruses and Bugs: Cassava in Sub-Saharan Africa
Felix Nweke
Download (PDF 590K) - Chapter 6 – Seeing the Forest Through the Trees: Community forestry in Nepal
Hemant Ojha, Lauren Persha, and Ashwini Chhatre
Download (PDF 219K) - Chapter 7 – Re-Greening the Sahel: Farmer-led innovation in Burkina Faso and Niger
Chris Reij, Gray Tappan, and Melinda Smale
Download (PDF 240K) - Chapter 8 – Innovating in the Pampas: Zero-tillage soybean cultivation in Argentina
Eduardo Trigo, Eugenio Cap, Valeria Malach, and Federico Villarreal
Download (PDF 529K) - Chapter 9 – Leaving the Plow Behind: Zero-tillage rice-wheat cultivation in the Indo-Gangetic Plains
Olaf Erenstein
Download (PDF 459K) - Chapter 10 – Pumping up Production: Shallow tubewells and rice in Bangladesh
Mahabub Hossain
Download (PDF 475K) - Chapter 11 – Pushing the Yield Frontier: Hybrid rice in China
Jiming Li, Yeyun Xin, and Longping Yuan
Download (PDF 414K) - Chapter 12 – Improving Crops for Arid Lands: Pearl millet and sorghum in India
Carl E. Pray and Latha Nagarajan
Download (PDF 458K) - Chapter 13 – Navigating through Reforms: Cotton reforms in Burkina Faso
Jonathan Kaminski, Derek Headey, and Tanguy Bernard
Download (PDF 575K) - Chapter 14 – Unlocking the Market: Fertilizer and maize in Kenya
Joshua Ariga and T. S. Jayne
Download (PDF 800K) - Chapter 15 – Counting on Beans: Mungbean improvement in Asia
Subramanyam Shanmugasundaram, J. D. H. Keatinge, and Jacqueline d’Arros Hughes
Download (PDF 570K) - Chapter 16 – Conquering the Cattle Plague: The global effort to eradicate rinderpest
Peter Roeder and Karl Rich
Download (PDF 2.9MB) - Chapter 17 – Connecting the Milk Grid: Smallholder dairy in India
Kenda Cunningham
Download (PDF 3.0MB) - Chapter 18 – Farming the Aquatic Chicken: Improved tilapia in the Philippines
Sivan Yosef
Download (PDF 421K) - Chapter 19 – Crossing the River While Feeling the Rocks: Land-tenure reform in China
John W. Bruce and Zongmin Li
Download (PDF 763K) - Chapter 20 – Exiting from Collective Agriculture: Land-tenure reform in Vietnam
Michael Kirk and Nguyen Do Anh Tuan
Download (PDF 457K) - 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
Download (PDF 3.0M) - Annex B – Methodology
David J. Spielman, Rajul Pandya-Lorch, Kenda Cunningham, and Sivan Yosef
Download (PDF 88K) - Annex C – Improving the Proof: Impact Assessment in Agricultural Development
Mywish K. Maredia
Download (PDF 91K) - Annex D – Advisory Committee Members and IFPRI Project Team
Download (PDF 74K) - Annex E – List of Contributors
Download (PDF 91K) - Annex F – Discussion Papers
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Author:
Spielman, David J.
Pandya-Lorch, Rajul
Published date:
2009
Publisher:
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
