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China’s Growing Affluence: How Food Markets are Responding

Plant Genetic Resources: New Rules for International Exchange

Aiming for Targets, Saving on Arrows: Insights From Two USDA Food Assistance Programs

Rural Welfare Reform: Lessons Learned

Markets and Trade

Nontraditional Exporters Increase Role In Wheat Markets

Are U.S. And European Union Agricultural Policies Becoming More Similar?

Diet and Health

Information Sways Consumer Attitudes Towards Biotech Foods

U.S. Hog and Poultry Marketing: Similar Paths, Similar Outcomes?

Resources and Environment

Manure Management: A Growing Challenge in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed

Will Land Degradation Prove Malthus Right After All?

Rural America

Low-Skill Workers Are a Declining Share of All Rural Workers

The Dynamics of Hired Farm Labor

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