Those who study global poverty and ways to reduce it face a perennial set of questions: Do advances in knowledge, research, and technology make a real difference in the lives of poor people? What effect does research have on the poor? Who benefits? The contributors to Agricultural Research,...

This volume examines how collective bargaining and property rights, separately and together, influence the well-being of the rural poor in Africa and Asia and how they can be strengthened to improve livelihoods.

Biographical note: Esther Mwangi is a scientist in the Forests and Governance Program of the Center for International Forestry Research, Bogor, Indonesia. Helen Markelova is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Applied Economics of the University of Minnesota, St. Paul. Ruth Meinzen-Dick is...

This study provides an independent external assessment of the impact of IFPRI’s work in Ethiopia during 1995–2010. From 1995 to 2004, nearly all of IFPRI’s Ethiopia work was undertaken by Washington-based research teams working on specific themes under various “global...