Books reviewed include: Asian Rice Bowls: The Returning Crisis?by Prabhu L. Pingali, Mahabub Hossain, and Roberta V. Gerpacio; Quantitative Development Policy Analysis by Elisabeth Sadoulet and Alain de Janvry; Countrysides at Risk: The Political Geography of Sustainable Agriculture by Robert...

Fear has been widely expressed that the modern rice varieties have created large disparities in regional income distribution, as the productivity gap between favorable and unfavorable rice-production environments widened due to differential technology adoption throughout South and Southeast Asia...

Since high-yielding modern rice varieties (MVs) are adopted only in favorable production environments, significant regional productivity differentials have emerged in Nepal. This study explores the distributional consequences of such differential MV adoption based on an intensive survey of...

Books Reviewed include: Agricultural Landownership in Transitional Economies by Gene Wunderlich; Maize Technology Development And Transfer: A GIS Application For Research Planning In Kenya by Rashid Hassan; Famine In Africa: Causes, Responses, and Prevention by Joachim von Braun, Tesfaye Teklu...

By now new modern rice varieties (MVs) with multiple pest and disease resistance have completely replaced early MVs, such as IRS and IR8, except in a few areas of Asia. This study attempts to identify the changing impacts of 'first-generation' and 'second-generation' MVs on productivity in rice...

It is widely believed that land tenure insecurity under a customary tenure system leads to a socially inefficient resource allocation. This article demonstrates that the practice of granting secure individual ownership to tree planters spurs earlier tree planting, which is inefficient from the...

This paper aims to examine changes in household income sources and its impact on household income distribution in the post-Green Revolution periods in 1985 and 1998 in the rural Philippines. We found that there has been a structural shift of household income away from farm in favor of nonfarm...