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African development and African studies (2008)
Journal Article
Newsham, A. (2008). African development and African studies. African Affairs, 107(429), 641-650. https://doi.org/10.1093/afraf/adn061

It is in part because of widespread concerns about the magnitude and posited intractability of problems facing African countries that development has become such a popular strand within African Studies. A sense of disappointment, within some academic... Read More about African development and African studies.

Bt cotton and production risk: panel data evidence (2008)
Journal Article
Crost, B., & Shankar, B. (2008). Bt cotton and production risk: panel data evidence. International Journal of Biotechnology, 10(2/3), 122-131. https://doi.org/10.1504/IJBT.2008.018349

The farm-level success of Bt-cotton in developing countries is well documented. However, the literature has only recently begun to recognise the importance of accounting for the effects of the technology on production risk, in addition to the mean ef... Read More about Bt cotton and production risk: panel data evidence.

WHO Dietary Norms: A Quantitative Evaluation of Potential Consumption Impacts in the US, UK and France (2008)
Journal Article
Shankar, B., Srinivasan, C. S., & Irz, X. (2008). WHO Dietary Norms: A Quantitative Evaluation of Potential Consumption Impacts in the US, UK and France. Review of agricultural economics, 30(1), 151-175. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9353.2007.00397.x

The member countries of the World Health Organization have endorsed its Global Strategy on Diet, Physical Activity, and Health. We assess the potential consumption impacts of these norms in the United States, France, and the United Kingdom using a ma... Read More about WHO Dietary Norms: A Quantitative Evaluation of Potential Consumption Impacts in the US, UK and France.

Rural poverty in Mexico: assets and livelihood strategies among the Mayas of Yucatán (2007)
Journal Article
Poole, N., Gauthier, R., & Mizrahi, A. (2007). Rural poverty in Mexico: assets and livelihood strategies among the Mayas of Yucatán. International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability, 5(4), 315-330. https://doi.org/10.1080/14735903.2007.9684831

Understanding poverty and sustainability needs livelihood studies that acknowledge heterogeneity at the community and household level. This is particularly true for Latin America where inequality and ethnicity are important aspects of poverty and sus... Read More about Rural poverty in Mexico: assets and livelihood strategies among the Mayas of Yucatán.