Bright Lines, Risk Beliefs, and Risk Avoidance: Evidence from a Randomized Intervention in Bangladesh
Lori Bennear, Alessandro Tarozzi, Alexander Pfaff, H.B. Soumya, Kazi Matin Ahmed, and Alexander van Geen (2010)
Interventions aiming to change health behavior through risk communication are gaining ground in the developing world. This randomized evaluation of a program communicating the health risks of arsenic in Bangladesh suggests that the format of the information conveyed is an important determinant of how individuals respond. Unfortunately, risk communication may be the least effective for high risk individuals.

Climate change, agriculture and poverty
Thomas W. Hertel and Stephanie D. Rosch (2010)
The paper investigates the potential impact of climate change for the poor and assesses the link between climate change and poverty. The authors focus on agriculture as a means by which impacts of climate change are transmitted to the poor and conclude with a discussion on policy implications.

Dev, Mahendra, S (2011)
This paper Focuses on small-scale agriculture and vulnerable population groups form effective climate change adaptive and mitigation strategies in the Asia-pacific region.

Climate Change, Agriculture, Food Security in Tanzania
Channing Arndt, Will Farmer, Ken Strzepek and James Thurlow (2011)
High regional diversity within Tanzania needs to be accounted for in any analysis of the impact of climate change on agriculture, food security and living standards. s

Enhancing Food Security in an Era of Global Climate Change
William C. Clark, Patti Kristjanson, Bruce Campbell, Calestous Juma, Noel M. Holbrook, Gerald Nelson, and Nancy Dickson (2010)
The spectre of climate change casts a shadow over already pressing food sustainability issues. This report documents major themes to emerge in discussions on strategic approaches to food security and climate change at the recent Harvard-organized session in Venice bringing together over 25 experts on the issue.

Building Sustainable Small-Scale Agriculture in Southern Africa
International Finance Corporation (2010)
This report summarizes a recent conference that brought together representatives from agriculture, development organizations, and financial institutions to identify ways to improve productivity in African agriculture.

Impacts of climate change on agriculture and policy options for adaptation: the case of Vietnam
Yu, Bingxin, Tingju Zhu, Clemens Breisinger, and Nguyen Manh Hai (2010)
A dual model of the effects of climate change and policy on rice yield finds the reduction to be severe, rising to 2.7 million tons by 2050, although intensification and investment in rural infrastructure could mitigate the reduction, the effectiveness will depend on targeting marginalized communities and tailoring to regional variations.

Micro-Level Practices to Adapt to Climate Change for African Small-Scale Farmers: A Review of Selected Literature
Till Below, Astrid Artner, Rosemarie Siebert, and Stefan Sieber (2010)
This review article discusses the potential agricultural impact of climate change in Africa and evaluates the literature concerning smallholder adaptation strategies.

Political Economy of Tribal Development: A Case Study of Andhra Pradesh
M. Gopinath Reddy and K. Anil Kumar (2010)
Scrutiny of the various policies of the state during the successive plan periods, including the new act - Forest Right Act, 2006, show that there is a need to address issues like traditional rights and livelihood patterns of the forest-dependent tribals in the state of Andhra Pradesh, India to bring about greater livelihood security of the tribal communities and ensure their inclusion into the mainstream.

Resource abundance: a curse or blessing?
Victor Polterovich, Vladimir Popov and Alexander Tonis (2010)
The paper finds that in resource rich countries, domestic fuel prices are lower and energy intensity of GDP is higher. It also finds that in resource rich countries, real exchange rate is higher, accumulation of human capital is slower and institutions are worse.

Smallholder agriculture in East Africa: trends, constraints and opportunities
Adeleke Salami, Abdul B. Kamara and Zuzana Brixiova (2010)
This paper investigates trends and opportunities in smallholder farming in Kenya, Ethiopia, Uganda, and Tanzania.

Spring cleaning: rural water impacts, valuation and property rights institutions
Kremer, Michael, Jessica Leino, Edward Miguel, and Alix Peterson Zwane May (2010)
A randomized evaluation of spring water improvements in rural Kenya finds that water quality investments reduce fecal contamination by two thirds and child diarrhea and home water contamination by a quarter. Additionally, it is found that common rights to spring water are social welfare maximizing at low income levels, but private property rights are social welfare maximizing at higher income levels, providing one reason why weak property rights may have persisted for so long in Africa.

State-led or market-led green revolution? role of private irrigation investment vis-à-vis local government programs in West Bengal's farm productivity growth
Pranab Bardhan, Dilip Mookherjee, and Neha Kumar (2009)
A study of West Bengal farms finds that both public initiatives and private investment in irrigation were drivers of the region's spectacular growth in agricultural productivity.

Structural change, land use and the state in China: making sense of three divergent processes
Arsel, Murat and Anirban Dasgupta (2010)
The change of land-use patterns is one of the important components of structural transformation of economies. With economic development as in conventionally comprehended, industrialization and escalated urbanization causes the shift of land from under agriculture to other uses.

Sustainable agricultural practices and agricultural productivity in Ethiopia: does agroecology matter?
Kassie, Menale, Precious Zikhali, John Pender and Gunnar Kohlin (2009)
An analysis of plot-level data from Ethiopia reveals that agro-ecological conditions play a crucial role in determining which cultivation technology is most appropriate for adoption be farmers.

The environment and directed technical change
Acemoglu, Daron, Philippe Aghion, Leonardo Bursztyn, and David Hemous (2010)
A theoretical framework of economic growth is derived to study the response of technology to environmental degradation and environmental policy, finding long-run growth to be achievable using clean technology provided that inputs are substitutable, policy involves taxes and subsidies, and action is immediate and decisive.

When is Capital Enough to Get Female Microenterprises Growing? Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Ghana
Marcel Fafchamps, David McKenzie, Simon Quinn, and Christopher Woodruff (2011)
In contrast to the results of three recent randomized controlled trials conducted in Asia, this randomized controlled trial finds that grants benefit male enterprise owners more than female enterprise owners, and wealthier female enterprise owners tend to benefit more than poor female enterprise owners.