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President Joachim von Braun's Address Elmhirst Lecture Strategies for Reducing Poverty Rural Poverty Dynamics: Development Policy Implications, Chris Barrett Six Characters in Search of an Author: How to Rescue Rural Development Before It's Too Late, Simon Maxwell Achieving Success in rural Development: Towards Implementation of an Integrated Approach, Alain de Janvry Efficiency in Food and Farming Systems A Revival of Large Farms in Eastern Europe? How Important are Institutions? Ulrich Koester Catch-up and Convergence in Global Agricultural Productivity, Prasada Rao and T.J. Coelli Is there a Future for Small Farms? Peter Hazell Is Small Beautiful? Farm Size, Productivity and Poverty in Asian Agriculture, Shenggen Fan Food Safety and Security Will Food Safety Jeopardize Food Security? Jean Kinsey Poverty Amidst Plenty: Food Insecurity in the United States, Betsey Kuhn Food Safety, the Media, and the Information Market, Johan Swinnen Biotechnology: Implications for Food Security, Viitorio Santaniello (paper not available) Environmental Stewardship The Poverty of Sustainable Development: Saving Economics from Platitudes, Dan Bromley Agricultural Development and the Environment: Non-Market Interactions and Political Economy, Ramon Lopez Resource Degradation, Low Agricultural Productivity and Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa: Pathways out of the Spiral, Simeon Ehui and John Pender Economic Development and Environmental Management in the Uplands of Southeast Asia, Agnes Rola and Ian Coxhead