Land pawning is an interlinked land/credit transaction in which a pawner transfers his cultivation right temporarily to a pawnee for a loan for a specified period of time with an agreement to redeem it upon repayment without interest charges. Based on a series of intensive farm household surveys...

Drawing on the experiences of Asian countries, we attempt to identify the transferability of Asian Green Revolution to sub-Saharan Africa by examining whether there is a common set of factors affecting rice yields in the two regions. We have attempted to propose the strategy to realize a Green...

The present paper analyzed the long-term yield growth and total factor productivity (TFP) growth by applying Tornqvist-Theil index method for two periods, namely, 1970-85 (early Green Revolution) and 1986-2000 (late Green Revolution), for major rice-growing states of India. The yield data shows...

The main objective of this paper is to determine whether there is gender bias in the Philippines in intergenerational transfer of wealth as well as in the intrahousehold allocation of expenditures. The authors found that daughters receive less land but are compensated by more schooling. Larger...