SOAS Research Online

Authored Books

Donovan, Jason, Stoian, D. and Poole, Nigel (2008) A Global Review of Rural Community Enterprises: the long and winding road for creating viable businesses. Turrialba, Costa Rica: Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Center (CATIE). (Technical Bulletin No. 29)

Book Chapters

Daley, Ben, Dimitriou, Dimitrios and Thomas, Callum (2008) 'The environmental Sustainability of Aviation and Tourism.' In: Graham, Anne, Papatheodorou, A. and Forsyth, P., (eds.), Aviation and Tourism: Implications for Leisure Travel. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Limited, pp. 239-253.

Dorward, Andrew (2008) 'Ethics in Agricultural Change: Questions and Proposals for Development Process.' In: Thompson, Paul B., (ed.), The Ethics of Intensification. 231: Springer, pp. 205-212.

Gouse, M., Shankar, Bhavani and Thirtle, Colin (2008) 'The Demise of Bt Cotton in KwaZulu Natal.' In: Moseley, W.G. and Gray, Leslie, (eds.), Hanging by a Thread: Cotton, Globalization and Poverty in Africa. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press. (Ohio RIS Global Series)

Smith, Laurence (2008) 'Local and Adaptive Management of Catchments for the Protection of Water Quality: Drawing on International Experience.' In: Crighton, K. and Audsley, R., (eds.), Land Management in a Changing Environment, Proceedings of the SAC and SEPA Biennial Conference, Agriculture and the Environment VII, Edinburgh, 26-27 March 2008. Edinburgh: NERC Open Research Archive and Centre for Ecology and Hydrology.

Tschirley, D., Poulton, Colin and Boughton, Duncan (2008) 'The Many Paths of Cotton Sector Reform in East and Southern Africa: Lessons from a Decade of Experience.' In: Moseley, W.G. and Gray, Leslie, (eds.), Hanging by a Thread: Cotton, Globalization and Poverty in Africa. Uppsala: Nordic Africa Institute / Ohio University Press, pp. 123-158.

Journal Article

Balcombe, K., Fraser, I., Latruffe, L., Rahman, Mizanur and Smith, Laurence (2008) 'An Application of the DEA Double Bootstrap to Examine Sources of Efficiency in Bangladesh Rice Farming.' Applied Economics, 40 (15). pp. 1919-1925.

Bennett, Richard, Shankar, Bhavani and Srinivasan, C. S. (2008) 'Editorial: The economics of agricultural biotechnology – an overview.' International Journal of Biotechnology, 10 (2/3). pp. 109-112.

Crost, Benjamin and Shankar, Bhavani (2008) 'Bt cotton and production risk: panel data evidence.' International Journal of Biotechnology, 10 (2/3). pp. 122-131.

Daley, Ben and Griggs, P. (2008) 'Exploiting Marine Wildlife in Queensland: the Commercial Dugong and Marine Turtle Fisheries, 1847-1969.' Australian Economic History Review, 48 (3). pp. 227-265.

Daley, Ben and Griggs, P. (2008) 'Loved to Death: Coral collecting in the Great Barrier Reef, Australia, 1770-1970.' Environment and History, 14 (1). pp. 89-119.

Daley, Ben, Griggs, P. and Marsh, H (2008) 'Reconstructing Reefs: Qualitative Methods and the Environmental History of the Great Barrier Reef, Australia.' Qualitative Research, 8 (5). pp. 589-620.

Neeliah, Harris and Shankar, Bhavani (2008) 'Is nutritional improvement a cause or a consequence of economic growth? Evidence from Mauritius.' Economics Bulletin, 17 (8). pp. 1-11.

Shankar, Bhavani, Bennett, Richard and Morse, Steven (2008) 'Production risk, pesticide use and GM crop technology in South Africa.' Applied Economics, 40 (9). pp. 2489-2500.

Shankar, Bhavani, Srinivasan, C. S. and Irz, Xavier (2008) 'WHO Dietary Norms: A Quantitative Evaluation of Potential Consumption Impacts in the US, UK and France.' Review of Agricultural Economics, 30 (1). pp. 151-175.

Siciliano, Giuseppina, Märker, Michael, Angeli, Luca, Bottai, Lorenzo, Costantini, Roberto, Ferrari, Raffaella and Innocentic, Lucia (2008) 'Assessment of land degradation susceptibility by scenario analysis: a case study in Southern Tuscany, Italy.' Geomorphology, 93 (1-2). pp. 120-129.

Van Ruijven, B., Urban, Frauke, Benders, R.M.J., Moll, H.C., Van der Sluijs, J, De Vries, B and Van Vuuren, D.P. (2008) 'Modeling Energy and Development: an Evaluation of Models and Concepts.' World Development, 36 (12). pp. 2801-2821.

de Frece, Annabel and Poole, Nigel (2008) 'Constructing livelihoods in rural Mexico: milpa in Mayan culture.' Journal of Peasant Studies, 25 (2). pp. 335-352.

Conference or Workshop Items

Al-Attili, Aghlab and Han, Liangxiu (2008) A Phenomenological Review of the role of the Course Organiser. In: 13th Annual Forum for Course Organisers, 15 May 2008, Moray House School of Education, The University of Edinburgh.

Dorward, Andrew and Chirwa, Ephraim (2008) Improving Access to Input and Output Market. In: Southern Africa Regional Conference on Agriculture: "Agriculture-led Development for Southern Africa: Strategic Investment Priorities for Halving Hunger and Poverty by 2015, December 2008, Gaborone, Botswana. (Unpublished)

Poulton, Colin and Dorward, Andrew (2008) Getting Agriculture Moving: role of the state in increasing staple food crop productivity with special reference to coordination, input subsidies, credit and price stablisation. In: AGRA Policy Workshop, June, Nairobi, Kenya.

Monographs and Working Papers

Burton, Martin, Smith, Laurence and Roux, Julienne (2008) Toolkit for Monitoring and Evaluation of Agricultural Water Management Projects. Washington D.C.: The World Bank.

Devereux, Stephen, Sabates-Wheeler, Rachel, Guenther, Bruce, Dorward, Andrew, Poulton, Colin and Al-Hassan, R. (2008) Linking Social Protection and Support to Small Farmer Development. F. A. O..

Donovan, Jason and Poole, Nigel (2008) Linking Smallholders to Markets for Non-Traditional Agricultural Exports: a Review of Experiences in the Caribbean Basi. Rome: FAO.

Dorward, Andrew, Chirwa, Ephraim, Slater, Rachel, Jayne, Thom, Boughton, Duncan and Valerie, Kelly (2008) Evaluation of the 2006/7 Agricultural Input Subsidy Programme, Malawi. Final Report. Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security.

Dorward, Andrew, Hazell, P. B. R. and Poulton, Colin (2008) Rethinking Agricultural Input Subsidies in Poor Rural Economies. Sussex: Future Agricultures Consortium.

Dorward, Andrew and Poulton, Colin (2008) The Global Fertiliser Crisis and Africa. Sussex: Future Agricultures Consortium.

Dorward, Andrew and Sabates-Wheeler, Rachel (2008) Linking Social Protection and Support to Small Farmer Development: Malawi Case Study [Commissioned by F.A.O.]. Rome: F. A. O..

Kent, Rebecca and Poulton, Colin (2008) Marginal Farmers, A Review of the Literature. Prepared on behalf of Concern Worldwide. (Unpublished)

Poole, Nigel (2008) Understanding poverty in rural Mexico. id21 Research Highlight 27 April.

Scaramozzino, Pasquale, Guarcello, Lorenzo and Rosati, Furio Camillo (2008) Uncertainty, Education, and the School-to-Work Transition: Theory and Evidence from Brazil. Understanding Children’s Work Project Working Paper Series.

Book Reviews

Newsham, Andrew (2008) 'African development and African studies.' African Affairs, 107 (429). pp. 641-650.

Other

Chirwa, Ephraim, Dorward, Andrew and Kydd, Jonathan (2008) 'Smallholder Coffee Commercialisation in Malawi.' Future Agricultures Briefing Paper.

Dorward, Andrew, Chirwa, Ephraim, Boughton, Duncan, Crawford, Eric, Jayne, Thom, Slater, Rachel, Kelly, Valerie and Tsoka, Maxton (2008) 'Towards ‘smart’ subsidies in agriculture? Lessons in recent experience in Malawi.' Natural resources Perspectives (116).

Dorward, Andrew, Hazell, Peter and Poulton, Colin (2008) 'Rethinking Agricultural Input Subsidies in Poor Rural Economies.' Future Agricultures Briefing Paper.