Books and Research Monographs
Ahmed, R. IFPRI ResearchReport No. 83 International Food Policy and Research Institute
IFPRI ResearchReport No. 65 International Food Policy and Research Institute
IFPRI ResearchReport No. 67 International Food Policy and Research Institute
Articles in Refereed Journals
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Mahabub HOSSAIN, Manik L. BOSE, and Bazlul A. A. MUSTAFI
The Developing Economiespp.149-166 Institute of Developing Economies
Technological progress has helped Bangladesh to achieve self-sufficiency in rice production in 2001 from a heavy import-dependence, despite doubling of population and a reduction in arable land since its independence in 1971. As the adoption of modern varieties (MV) of rice is reaching a plateau, particularly for the irrigated ecosystem, an important issue is whether the research system will be able to sustain the growth of production. The present paper addresses the following questions: (i) to what extent farmers have been replacing the old MV with the new MV, and (ii) what has been the impact of the variety replacement on productivity and profitability. How crucial is the continuous research and release of improved rice varieties toward improving farm production and income for farmers comes out as a clear message to policymakers from the current paper.
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Nigar Nargis and Mahabub Hossain
Agricultural Economics 2006, vol. 35, issue 3pp.425-435
Bangladesh has made considerable progress in alleviating poverty in the recent past. Using data from a nationally representative longitudinal survey of rural households in Bangladesh conducted in three waves in 1988, 2000, and 2004, this article relates the dynamics of rural poverty reduction to the structural shift in income generation mechanism from farm to nonfarm activities, changing household factor endowments, and the adoption of improved agricultural technologies over time.-super-1 The findings show that the occupational shift from the farm to the nonfarm sector, such as trade, business, and services, as well as the expansion of cultivated areas through tenancy, enhance income growth. Geographic mobility, overseas migration in particular, makes a significant contribution to income growth as well. The reduction in poverty appears to be vitally dependent on the enhancement of the endowment of human and physical capital that augments the poor households' capability to better exploit income-generating
opportunities and place the households on a sustainable route out of poverty. Copyright 2006 International Association of Agricultural Economists.
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Aldas JANAIAH, Mahabub HOSSAIN, and Keijiro OTSUKA
The Developing Economies XLIV-2pp.190-207
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 an increasing long-term growth trend throughout the Green Revolution period in irrigated states where modern variety (MV) adoption was nearly complete. However, yield advances started to slow down for intensive irrigated rice systems in the 1990s, whereas rainfed ecosystems have increased during the late Green Revolution period. The domestic spillovers of MV from irrigated to rainfed states is likely to be one of the contributing factors to increased TFP growth in ranifed areas after the 1980s. This implies that the MV of rice developed for irrigated ecosystems have also benefited substantially the rainfed-dominant eastern Indian states in the long run where partial irrigation facilities such as shallow tube wells
were created after the mid-1980s.
Rice Todayp.27 International Rice Research Institute
Rice Today International Rice Research Institute
In Proceedings of Symposium on Nutrition Security in South Asiapp.167-178
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Jonna P. Estudillo, Yasuyuki Sawada
Asian Economic Journal, 2005, vol. 19, issue 4,pp.383-406
The present paper examines socioeconomic changes and decline in rural poverty using a panel dataset collected in the Philippine villages in 1985, 1993 and 1997. The most important finding is the transition of the rural economy away from a regime of low nonfarm income to a regime of high nonfarm income accompanied by a marked decline in poverty. The relative contribution of access to land on rural poverty reduction declined, whereas the relative contribution of human capital, more importantly represented by college schooling, increased over time.
Janaiah A Economic and Political Weekly 39(50)
Janaiah A. Economic and Political Weekly 38 (5)pp.2492-2502
Janaiah A, Husain M, Naher F. Bangladesh Development Studies 27(40:1)pp.1-40
Singh, V.P. Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystemspp.155-169 Kluwer Academic Publishers
Diaz C., Paris T. Philippine Sociological Review Vol. 47
Estudillo, JP, Fujimura P. The Journal of Development Studies, Volume 35, No. 5,pp.162-184
Diaz, C., Merca, S., Mew, T. Philipp.J.CropSci. 23pp.111-119 Crop Science Society of the Philippines
Diaz, C. Journal of Philippine Development No. 44, Vol. XXIV Philippine Institute of Development Studies
H.Z. Rahman The Pakistan Development Reviewpp.811-836
Asian Journal of Agricultural Economics 2(1)pp.39-52
Philippine Review of Economics and Business Vol. 33(1)pp.88-118
Sen B. Asian Development Review 10(1)pp.1-34
Bangladesh Development Studies 18(4)
Asaduzzaman M. Bangladesh Development Studies 11 (1&2)pp.191-226
Book Chapters and Other Publications
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Hossain M, Lewis D, Bose ML, Chowdhury A.
Adato M, Meinzen - Dick RS, editors
Agricultural research, livelihoods, and poverty: studies on economic and social impact in six countriespp.56-102
The Johns Hopkins University Press: Baltimore, MD USA
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Gollin D, Cabanilla V, Cabrera E, Johnson N, Khush GS, McLaren G.
Evenson R, Gollin D. editors
Crop Variety Improvement and its Effect on Productivity: The Impact of International Agricultural Researchpp.71-108
Bose ML, Chowdhury A, Meinzen-Dick R. Agrarian Studies: Essays on Agrarian Relations in Less-Developed Countries Tulika Books: New Delhi, India
MD.S. Alam V. Balasubramanian, J.K. Ladha and G.L. Dennings Resource Management in Rice Systems: Nutrientspp.297-311 Kluwer Academic Publishers
Dowling, NG, Greenfield SM, Fischer KS. (eds) Sustainability of rice in the global food systempp.19-43 University of Davis, California: Pacific Basin Study Center
Evenson RR., Herdt RW. Rice Research in Asia: Progress and Prioritiespp.17-33 CAB International, UK
Bruce Stone Fertilizer Pricing Policy in Bangladesh IFPRI
Rizwanul Islam Rural Industrialization and Employment in Asia International Labor Organization
Jones S. Joshi Rural Poverty and Agrarian Reformpp.306-349 Allied Publisher Ltd., India
Abdulla A.A. and Khan A.R. State Market and Development: Essays in Honor of Rehman Sobhan Bangladesh and Oxford University Press, India
Quasem M.A., Jabbar M.A. and Mokaddem M. David, C. and K. Otsuka (eds) Modern Rice Technology and Income Distribution in Asiapp.221-279 Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc.
M. Mokaddem Akash Working Papers on Food Subsidies, No. 7
In Report of the Task Forces on Bangladesh Development Strategies for the 1990s. Policies for Development Vol.1pp.22-96 The University Press Limited
Other Unpublished Papers and Project Reports
Naher, F. Proceedings of Symposium on Nutrition Security in South Asiapp.229-239 Nutrition Foundation of India
Ut Tran Thi, Bose ML International Conference on Environment and Livelihoods in Tropical Coastal Zones: Managing Agriculture-Fishery-Aquaculture Conflicts
Casiwan CB, Ut Tran Thi International Symposium Sustaining Food Security and Managing Natural Resources in Southeast Asia: Challenges for the 21st Century
Narciso J. 20th Session of the International Rice Commission, Bangkok, Thailand
Bose ML, Chowdhury A. Workshop on Floodprone Rice Systems BRRI Bangladesh and IRRI Philippines.
Third Conference of the Asian Society of Agricultural Economists, Jaipur India
Garcia, Y.T., Garcia A.G. Tuong TP, Kann SP, Wade L., Pandey S., Bourman BAM Characterizing and understanding rainfed environments. Proceedings of the International Workshop on Characterizing and Understanding Rainfed Environments
Planetary Garden 99 Proceedings First International Symposium on sustainable ecosystem management
Vietnam-IRRI Collaborative Work Plan Meeting, Hanoi, Vietnam
Second International Symposium on Systems Approaches for Agricultural Development, IRRI Philippines
Others
Mataia, A., Cataquiz G., Francisco R., Sebastian I., Bernardino M., Garcia L.
Sombilla, M. Bindraban PS et al (eds) Food security at different scales: demographic, biophysical and socioeconomic considerations DLO Research Institute for Agrobiology and Soil Fertility
Mataia, A.; Garcia L.
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