DISCUSSANT'S COMMENTS FOR AMERICAN AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS ASSOCIATION ANNUAL MEETING, SELECTED PAPERS SESSION SP-10S, "FARM-LEVEL ANALYSES IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES"

Micro and farm level data are used to analyze issues of pesticide use, declining fertilized grass-legume pastures, land resource degradation, and intensification and specialization. Health Costs and Externalities of Pesticide Use in Locust and Grasshopper Control in the Sahel Victorin Houndekon, Universite National de Benin; Hugo De Groote, International Institute of Tropical Agriculture. Investment Effects of Endogenous and Exogenous Depreciation: Improved Pastures in Uruguay Javier Ekboir, Lovell Jarvis, and Carlos Rey, University of California-Davis. Stabilization of Upland Rice Production Under Shortened Fallow in West Africa: Research Priority Setting in a Dynamic Environment and Economic Climate Timothy Dalton, Mathias Becker, and David Johnson. Long-Run Striga Control by Subsistence Farmers in Mali, Jeffrey D. Mullen, Demba Kebe, Daniel B. Taylor, Makan Fofana.