’s (CGIAR) attempts at structural reform. Yet the basic structure of independent centers created in the 1960’ and 70’s remains … in place despite repeated attempts to restructure the basic building blocks of the system. Instead successive layers of …. Some success in modest reform has occurred at the sub-system/center level but only with much difficulty. The paper …

Most economic research on migration impacts in source economies focuses on the households that send migrants and … receive remittances, ignoring linkages that transmit migration’s influences to others in local and regional economies. This … illustrates a methodology to understand not only migration’s effects on migrant-sending households, but also the ways in which …

seldom quantified and analyzed. In this paper we apply poverty and inequality measures to national and community level data … may be reduced, in the short-run, by increases in the price of a non-timber forest product …

-continental and continental migration on activity choice and incomes in rural households. Econometric evidence supports our …

Measure of California Agriculture and Its Importance in the State's Economy, by Daniel Sumner, Jose E. Bervejillo and Nicolai … in California, by Richard Howitt and Dave Sunding; Hired Workers on California Farms, by Philip Martin and Bert Mason …; Environmental Issues in California Agriculture, by Sean B. Cash and David Zilberman; Organic Agricultural Production in California …

While the forces of development and transition have been in part responsible for generating the progress that rural …'s efforts at pushing ambitious Trade and Investment Liberalization (TIL) policies threaten to further accentuate the trends in … hurt rural residents? How will they affect rural incomes? How will they affect rural employment in the agricultural and non …

nationally representative survey of rural households in Mexico. Shadow prices are significantly higher than the market price for … traditional but not improved maize varieties. They are particularly high in the indigenous areas of southern and southeastern …