Agricultural Research, Livelihoods, and Poverty: Studies of Economic and Social Impacts in Six Countries

Contents: Foreword. Preface. Acknowledgments. 1. Introduction: evolving concerns in the study of impact/Michelle Adato and Ruth Meinzen-Dick. 2. Integrating social and economic analyses to study impacts on livelihoods and poverty: Conceptual frameworks and research methods/Michelle Adato, Ruth Meinzen-Dick, Peter Hazell and Lawrence Haddad. 3. Rice research, technological progress, and poverty: the Bangladesh case/Mahabub Hossain, David Lewis, Manik L. Bose and Alamgir Chowdhury. 4. Assessing the impact of vegetable and fishpond technologies on poverty in Rural Bangladesh/Kelly Hallman, David Lewis and Suraiya Begum. 5. Impacts of agroforestry-based soil fertility replenishment practices on the poor in Western Kenya/Frank Place, Michelle Adato, Paul Hebinck and Mary Omosa. 6. Assessing the impact of high-yield varieties of maize in resettlement areas of Zimbabwe/Michael F.C. Bourdillon, Paul Bebinck and John Hoddinott with Bill Kinsey, John Marondo, Netsayi Mudege and Trudy Owens. 7. Improved Maize Germplasm, creolization, and poverty: the case of Tuxpeno-derived material in Mexico/Mauricio R. Bellon, Michelle Adato, Javier Becerril and Dubravka Mindek. 8. National and international agricultural research and rural poverty: the case of rice research in India and China/Shenggen Fan, Connie Chan-Kang, Keming Qian and K. Krishnaiah. 9. Agricultural research and urban poverty in China and India/Shenggen Fan. 10. Impacts of agricultural research on poverty: synthesis of findings and implications for future directions/Ruth Meinzen-Dick and Michelle Adato. Index.