Fan, Shenggen CGIAR System Board Member, CGIAR

selected publications

• article

  • The Role of Smallholder Farms in a Changing World 2020
  • Some lessons from a life in food policy.  GLOBAL FOOD SECURITY-AGRICULTURE POLICY ECONOMICS AND ENVIRONMENT.  22:33-36. 2019
  • Food policy in 2016-2017: Food security and nutrition in an urbanizing world [in Chinese] 2017
  • Food security and nutrition in an urbanizing world A synthesis of the 2017 Global Food Policy Report.  China Agricultural Economic Review.  9:162-168. 2017
  • Food security and nutrition in an urbanizing world A synthesis of the 2017 Global Food Policy Report.  China Agricultural Economic Review.  9:162-168. 2017
  • Is Agricultural Investment in China Affected by Economic Slowdown 2017
  • Smallholders and urbanization: Strengthening rural-urban linkages to end hunger and malnutrition [in Chinese] 2017
  • Supporting Country-Driven Innovations and Agrifood Value Chains for Poverty and Hunger Reduction 2017
  • Sustainable food security and nutrition: Demystifying conventional beliefs.  GLOBAL FOOD SECURITY-AGRICULTURE POLICY ECONOMICS AND ENVIRONMENT.  11:11-16. 2016
  • Changement climatique et agriculture: Renforcer le rôle des petits agriculteurs 2016
  • Climate change and agriculture: Strengthening the role of smallholders [in Arabic] 2016
  • Climate change and agriculture: Strengthening the role of smallholders [in Chinese] 2016
  • Ending hunger and undernutrition by 2025: the role of horticultural value chains 2016
  • Achieving food and nutrition security under rapid transformation in China and India.  China Agricultural Economic Review.  7:530-540. 2015
  • Social protection for poor, vulnerable and disadvantaged groups.  China Agricultural Economic Review.  7:668-687. 2015
  • Trends and Composition of Public Expenditures: A Global and Regional Perspective.  EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH.  27:353-370. 2015
  • Building a resilient global food system 2015
  • Fortes avancées et revers persistants 2015
  • Special Issue: Public investments in and for agriculture 2015
  • Vaincre la faim et la malnutrition dans les pays à revenu intermédiaire 2015
  • Food Policy in 2013: Ending Hunger and Undernutrition Sustainably by 2025.  EuroChoices.  13:5-11. 2014
  • Moving from vision to reality: ending hunger and under nutrition in Africa by 2025 2014
  • Steadying the ladder: China's agricultural and rural development engagement in Africa.  China Agricultural Economic Review.  6:2-20. 2014
  • Moving from vision to reality, Ending hunger and under nutrition in Africa by 2025.  Ghanaian Journal of Economics.  2014
  • The Economics of China: Successes and Challenges.  National Bureau of Economic Research.  2013
  • What Policy Changes Will Reverse Persistent Malnutrition in Asia.  EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH.  25:28-35. 2013
  • The Impacts of Public Investment in and for Agriculture: Synthesis of the Existing Evidence 2012
  • Challenges of creating cities in China: Lessons from a short-lived county-to-city upgrading policy.  Journal of Comparative Economics.  40:476-491. 2012
  • From Famine to Food Security: A New Agenda and Approach Must be Adopted De la famine à la sécurité alimentaire : il faut adopter un nouvel ordre du jour et une approche nouvelle Von der Hungersnot zur Ernährungssicherung: Eine neue Agenda und ein neuer Ansatz müssen her.  EuroChoices.  11:4-9. 2012
  • Achieving food security while switching to low carbon agriculture.  JOURNAL OF RENEWABLE AND SUSTAINABLE ENERGY.  4. 2012
  • Reshaping agriculture for nutrition and health 2012
  • Road condition in Southwestern mountainous areas and Households' food availability, Based on the analysis of Guizhou household Survey [in Chinese].  Issues in Agricultural Economy.  2012
  • Strategies and priorities for African agriculture, Economywide perspectives from country studies 2012
  • Rice Production Response in Cambodia.  Agricultural Economics.  42:437-450. 2011
  • A second food crisis in three years, Impacts, responses and future actions 2011
  • Cash-strapped Europe should still do more to tackle global poverty 2011
  • China’s Regional Disparities: Experience and Policy.  Review of Development Finance.  1:47-56. 2011
  • Des actions urgentes s'imposent pour éviter les crises alimentaires récurrentes 2011
  • Development assistance and investment in agriculture, Promises and facts 2011
  • Growing biofuel demand and international food prices 2011
  • Urgent actions needed to prevent recurring food crises [In Chinese] 2011
  • Inequality in the Ethnic Direct Transition Rural Areas of China: From Survey Data of Households in Yunnan 2010
  • Comparisons of agricultural productivity growth in China and India.  Journal of Productivity Analysis.  33:209-223. 2010
  • Agricultural growth and investment options for poverty reduction in Rwanda 2010
  • Halving hunger, Meeting the First Millennium Development Goal through "Business as Unusual" [in Chinese] 2010
  • Inaugural ceremony addresses 2010
  • Navigating the perfect storm, Reflections on the food, energy, and financial crises.  Agricultural Economics.  vol. 41. 2010
  • O Papel dos Países Emergentes na Segurança Alimentar Mundial 2010
  • Production, Productivity, and Public Investment in East Asian Agriculture.  Handbook of Agricultural Economics.  4:3401-3434. 2010
  • Reflections on the global food crisis, How did it happen? How has it hurt? And how can we prevent the next one? 2010
  • Community poverty and inequality in western China: A tale of three villages in Guizhou Province☆.  China Economic Review.  20:338-349. 2009
  • Public expenditure tracking in Africa:, Trends and composition 2009
  • Rethinking China's underurbanization, An evaluation of its county-to-city upgrading policy 2009
  • Rice Production Response in Cambodia 2009
  • Setting priorities for public spending for agricultural and rural development in Africa 2009
  • The total factor productivity in China and India: new measures and approaches.  China Agricultural Economic Review.  1:9-22. 2009
  • Does Allocation of Public Spending Matter in Poverty Reduction? Evidence from Thailand*.  Asian Economic Journal.  22:411-430. 2008
  • Anatomy of a crisis: The causes and consequences of surging food prices.  Agricultural Economics.  39:375-391. 2008
  • Investment, subsidies, and pro‐poor growth in rural India.  Agricultural Economics.  39:163-170. 2008
  • Regional road development, rural and urban poverty: Evidence from China.  Transport Policy.  15:305-314. 2008
  • Comment la croissance rapide de la Chine peut-elle profi ter aux pauvres d'Afrique grâce au développement rural et agricole [In French] 2008
  • Hausse des prix alimentaires et actions stratégiques proposées: Que faire, par qui et comment 2008
  • Inequality in western rural China, A household analysis in Guizhou province [in Chinese] 2008
  • Investing in African Agriculture to Halve Poverty by 2015 2008
  • Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper: Uganda's Poverty Eradication Action Plan, Summary and Main objectives..  AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT REVIEW-REVUE AFRICAINE DE DEVELOPPEMENT.  20:466-496. 2008
  • Resource Abundance and Regional Development in China.  Economics of Transition.  16:7-29. 2008
  • Striking a balance, Mitigating rural-urban disparities in China and India 2008
  • The dragon and the elephant, Learning from agricultural and rural reforms in China and India 2008
  • Investment, subsidies, and pro-poor growth in rural India 2007
  • Public investment and poverty reduction, Lessons from China and India 2007
  • Agricultural R&D and urban poverty 2006
  • China: an unfinished reform agenda 2006
  • National and international agricultural research and rural poverty: the case of rice research in India and China.  Agricultural Economics.  33:369-379. 2005
  • Public investment and poverty reduction in Tanzania: evidence from household survey data 2005
  • Agricultural and economic development strategies and the transformation of China and India 2005
  • Is small beautiful? Farm size, productivity, and poverty in Asian agriculture.  Agricultural Economics.  32:135-146. 2005
  • Local governance and public goods provision in rural China.  Journal of Public Economics.  88:2857-2871. 2004
  • Local governance and public goods provision in rural China.  Journal of Public Economics.  88:2857-2871. 2004
  • Local governance and public goods provision in rural China.  Journal of Public Economics.  88:2857-2871. 2004
  • Institutions and Policies for Pro-poor Agricultural Growth.  Development Policy Review.  22:611-622. 2004
  • Institutions and Policies for Pro-poor Agricultural Growth.  Development Policy Review.  22:611-622. 2004
  • Returns to investment in less-favored areas in developing countries: a synthesis of evidence and implications for Africa.  Food Policy.  29:431-444. 2004
  • How Productive Is Infrastructure? A New Approach and Evidence from Rural India.  American Journal of Agricultural Economics.  86:492-501. 2004
  • Public investment and regional inequality in rural China.  Agricultural Economics.  30:89-100. 2004
  • How productive is infrastructure? new approach and evidence from rural India 2004
  • Infrastructure and regional economic development in rural China.  China Economic Review.  15:203-214. 2004
  • Infrastructure and regional economic development in rural China.  China Economic Review.  15:203-214. 2004
  • Institutions and economic policies for pro-poor agricultural growth 2004
  • International symposium on China agricultural policy, A summary [in Chinese] 2004
  • Public expenditure, growth, and poverty reduction in rural Uganda 2004
  • Reforms, investment, and poverty in rural China.  Economic Development and Cultural Change.  vol. 52. 2004
  • Structural Change and Economic Growth in China.  Review of Development Economics.  7:360-377. 2003
  • China's WTO accession: impacts on regional agricultural income-- a multi-region, general equilibrium analysis.  JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE ECONOMICS.  31:332-351. 2003
  • Agricultural Research and Urban Poverty: The Case of China.  World Development.  31:733-741. 2003
  • Agricultural Research and Urban Poverty: The Case of China.  World Development.  31:733-741. 2003
  • Agricultural research and urban poverty in India.  Quarterly Journal of International Agriculture.  2003
  • Is Small Beautiful? Farm Size, Productivity, and Poverty in Asian Agriculture 2003
  • Local governance and public goods provision in rural China.  China Economic Quarterly.  Journal article http://ebrary.ifpri.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/p15738coll5/id/1765. 2003
  • National and international agricultural research and rural poverty, the case of rice research in India and China 2003
  • Emergence of urban poverty and inequality in China: evidence from household survey☆.  China Economic Review.  13:430-443. 2002
  • THE PATH OF TECHNOLOGY DIFFUSION: WHICH NEIGHBORS TO LEARN FROM?.  CONTEMPORARY ECONOMIC POLICY.  20:470-478. 2002
  • A study on the factors affecting farmers' agricultural production investment [in Chinese] 2002
  • Agricultural research and urban poverty in India 2002
  • Emergence of urban poverty and inequality in China: evidence from household surveys 2002
  • Growth and poverty effects of government spending in rural China [in Chinese] 2002
  • Growth, inequality, and poverty in rural China, the role of public investments 2002
  • Growth, inequality, and poverty in rural China: the role of public investments [In Chinese] 2002
  • How China's WTO accession affects rural economy in the less-developed regions, a multi-region, general equilibrium analysis 2002
  • Production and productivity growth in Chinese agriculture: New national and regional measures.  ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND CULTURAL CHANGE.  50:819-838. 2002
  • Structural Change and Economic Growth in China [in Chinese] 2002
  • The importance of public investments and institutions for the functioning of food markets in developing countries 2002
  • Returns to Public Investments in the Less-Favored Areas of India and China.  American Journal of Agricultural Economics.  83:1217-1222. 2001
  • Returns to Public Investments in the Less-Favored Areas of India and China.  American Journal of Agricultural Economics.  83:1217-1222. 2001
  • Estimating Crop-Specific Production Technologies in Chinese Agriculture: A Generalized Maximum Entropy Approach.  American Journal of Agricultural Economics.  83:378-388. 2001
  • How agricultural research affects urban poverty in developing countries, the case of China 2001
  • How does public spending affect growth and poverty in China? 2001
  • How productive is infrastructure?, new approach and evidence from rural India 2001
  • Research Investment and the Economic Returns To Chinese Agricultural Research.  JOURNAL OF PRODUCTIVITY ANALYSIS.  14:163-182. 2000
  • Targeting public investments by agro-ecological zone to achieve growth and poverty alleviation goals in rural India.  Food Policy.  25:411-428. 2000
  • Technological change, technical and allocative efficiency in Chinese agriculture: the case of rice production in Jiangsu.  Journal of International Development.  12:1-12. 2000
  • Government spending, growth and poverty in rural India.  American Journal of Agricultural Economics.  82:1038-1051. 2000
  • Growth and poverty in rural China, the role of public investments 2000
  • Impact of public expenditure on poverty in rural India 2000
  • Public investment and regional inequality in rural China. 2000
  • Should developing countries invest more in less-favoured areas? An empirical analysis of rural India.  Economic and Political Weekly.  35 (17). 2000
  • Are returns to public investment lower in less-favored rural areas?, an empirical analysis of India 1999
  • Critical choices for China's agricultural policy 1999
  • Linkages between government spending, growth, and poverty in rural India 1999
  • Past and future sources of growth for China 1999
  • Growth of agricultural output and productivity growth, A new method of measurement and conclusion 1998
  • Policy Reforms and Technological Change in Egyptian Rice Production: a Frontier Production Function Approach.  Journal of African Economies.  6:391-411. 1997
  • Production and productivity growth in Chinese agriculture: new measurement and evidence.  Food Policy.  22:213-228. 1997
  • Research, productivity, and output growth in Chinese agriculture.  Journal of Development Economics.  53:115-137. 1997
  • Why projections on China’s future food supply and demand differ.  Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics.  41:169-190. 1997
  • Economic returns to investment in Chinese agriculture [in Chinese] 1997
  • Should India invest more in less-favored areas? 1997
  • Why do projections on China's future food supply and demand differ? 1997
  • Role of inputs, institutions, and technical innovations in stimulating growth in Chinese agriculture 1995

• book

  • The Oxford companion to the economics of China 2014
  • Narratives of Chinese economic reforms, How does China cross the river? 2010
  • Public policy and rural poverty in Western China 2010
  • Regional inequality in China, Trends, explanations and policy responses 2009
  • The dragon and the elephant, Agricultural and rural reforms in China and India 2008
  • Poverty reduction strategy in the new millennium, Emerging issues, experiences, and lessons 2007
  • The dragon and the elephant, Agricultural and rural reforms in China and India [In Chinese].  Ed. Google Books: http://books.google.com/books/about/The_dragon_and_the_elephant.html?id=Uw7tAAAAMAAJ Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/The-Dragon-Elephant-Agricultural-International/dp/0801887879.  2007
  • Agricultural R&D and poverty 2006
  • Road development, economic growth, and poverty reduction [In Chinese] 2006
  • Globalization and small farm-holders 2005
  • Dare to dream, Vision of 2050 Agriculture in China 2004
  • Analysis of research priorities in Jiangsu agricultural research, The case of rice, wheat, rapeseed, and cotton [Chinese] 1997
  • Agricultural research in China, Its impact and institutional development 1992

• chapter

  • Food policy in 2014-2015: Strong advances and stubborn setbacks [in Chinese] 2015
  • Comment on "Food price volatility and domestic stabilization policies in developing countries by Christophe Gouel" 2014
  • Food policy in 2013: Nutrition Grabs the spotlight as hunger persists 2014
  • Introduction [In Resilience for food and nutrition security] 2014
  • Lowering food price spikes for a resilient food system 2014
  • The way forward for building resilience 2014
  • Food policy 2012: Walk the talk 2013
  • Role of emerging countries in climate-smart agriculture 2013
  • Agricultural growth and poverty reduction impacts of public investments, Assessment of concepts and techniques 2012
  • Investing in African agriculture to halve poverty by 2015 2012
  • Leveraging Agriculture for Improving Nutrition and Health: The Way Forward 2012
  • Low carbon agriculture 2012
  • Overview [in Reshaping agriculture for nutrition and health] 2012
  • Overview: Major Food Policy Developments in 2011 2012
  • Public expenditure, growth and poverty reduction in rural Uganda 2012
  • Public investment and poverty reduction in Tanzania, Evidence from household survey data 2012
  • Public spending for agriculture in Africa, Definition, measures and trends 2012
  • The Nexus between Agriculture and Nutrition: Do Growth Patterns and Conditional Factors Matter? 2012
  • Economic growth and social protection for the poor and vulnerable 2010
  • Agricultural growth and investment options for poverty reduction in Rwanda 2008
  • Public investment, growth, and rural poverty 2008
  • Public spending in developing countries, Trends, determination and impact 2008
  • Fiscal decentralization, nonfarm development, and spatial inequality in rural China 2007
  • Introduction [Public policy and poverty reduction in the Arab region] 2007
  • Linkages between government spending, growth, and poverty in India and China 2007
  • Linkages between government spending, growth, and poverty in Uganda and Tanzania 2007
  • Major findings and lessons learned 2007
  • Public investment, growth, and poverty reduction, A comparative analysis of India and China 2007
  • Public spending, growth, and poverty reduction in Egypt, A multi-level analysis 2007
  • Synthesis Lessons and challenges 2007
  • Ups and downs in income and fiscal disparities in rural China, Implications for future growth and poverty reduction 2007
  • Village inequality in Western China, Implications for development strategy in lagging regions 2007
  • Production and productivity growth in Chinese agriculture: new national and regional measures 2006
  • The development of Chinese agroenterprises and private agricultural research and development. [In Chinese] 2005
  • Reforming Chinese agricultural R&D policy for growth and poverty reduction 2002
  • Urban poverty and inequality in the era of reforms 2002
  • Balancing regional development priorities to achieve sustainable and equitable agricultural growth 2000
  • Agricultural investment in China: Measurement and policy issues. 1998
  • Public investment in rural China: Historical trends and policy issues 1998
  • Trends in financing Asian and Australian agricultural research 1998

• conference paper

  • Estimation of agricultural total factor productivity in China, A panel cointegration approach 2010
  • Evolution of income and fiscal disparity in rural China 2006

• document

  • Food policy in 2016-2017: Food security and nutrition in an urbanizing world 2017
  • Food security and nutrition in an urbanising world 2017
  • Smallholders and urbanization: Strengthening rural-urban linkages to end hunger and malnutrition 2017
  • Food policy in 2015-2016: Reshaping the global food system for sustainable development 2016
  • Making agriculture resilient to bad weather 2016
  • Food policy in 2014-2015: Strong advances and stubborn setbacks 2015
  • Food policy in 2014-2015: Strong advances and stubborn setbacks [in Russian] 2015
  • Reaching the missing middle: Overcoming hunger and malnutrition in middle income countries [in Russian] 2015
  • Resilience for food and nutrition security 2014
  • Ensuring food and nutrition security in a green economy 2012
  • Reducing the risk of food and nutrition insecurity among vulnerable populations 2012
  • Rwanda 2012
  • The nexus between agriculture and nutrition, Do growth patterns and conditional factors matter? 2011
  • Halving hunger, Meeting the First Millennium Development Goal through "Business as Unusual" 2010
  • Mountains, global food prices, and food security in the developing world 2010
  • Reducir el hambre a la mitad, Consecución del primer Objetivo de Desarrollo mediante un enfoque inusual 2010
  • Rice production responses in Cambodia 2009
  • Accelerating Africa's food production in response to rising food prices: Impacts and requisite actions 2008
  • High food prices: The what, who, and how of proposed policy actions 2008
  • International agricultural research for food security, poverty reduction, and the environment, What to expect from scaling up CGIAR investments and 'Best Bet' programs 2008
  • Invertir en agricultura para superar la crisis alimentaria mundial y reducir la pobreza y el hambre 2008
  • Los altos precios de los alimentos: El ‘qué', ‘quién' y ‘cómo' de las acciones de política propuestas 2008
  • The dragon and the elephant, Learning from agricultural and rural reforms in China and India 2008
  • Towards a pro-poor agricultural growth strategy in Nigeria 2008
  • Agricultural growth and investment options for poverty reduction in Rwanda 2007
  • The dragon and the elephant, Agricultural and rural reforms in China and India 2007
  • A multi-level analysis of public spending, growth and poverty reduction in Egypt 2006
  • Village inequality in Western China, Implications for development strategy in lagging regions 2006
  • Lessons learned from the dragon (China) and the elephant (India), Essays from IFPRI's 2004-2005 Annual Report 2005
  • Public investment and poverty reduction in Tanzania, evidence from household survey data 2005
  • Road development, economic growth, and poverty reduction in China [In Chinese] 2005
  • Rural and urban dynamics and poverty: Evidence from China and India 2005
  • The dragon and the elephant, Agricultural and rural reforms in China and India 2005
  • Road development, economic growth, and poverty reduction in China 2004
  • The importance of public investment for reducing rural poverty in middle-income countries, the case of Thailand 2004
  • National and international agricultural research and rural poverty: the case of rice in India and China 2003
  • Public spending in developing countries, trends, determination, and impact 2003
  • Estimating crop-specific production technologies in Chinese agriculture, a generalized maximum entropy approach 1999
  • Government spending, growth and poverty, an analysis of interlinkages in rural India 1998
  • Hidden harvest, U.S. benefits from international research aid 1996
  • Summary of a productive partnership, the benefits from U.S. participation in the CGIAR 1996

• editorial article

  • Public Investments in and for Agriculture.  EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH.  27:337-352. 2015
  • Agricultural growth, poverty reduction and agro-ecological zones in India: an ecological fallacy?.  Food Policy.  28:433-436. 2003

• report

  • Building a resilient global food system by lowering food price spikes and volatility 2014
  • From subsistence to profit: Transforming smallholder farms 2013
  • Reducing hunger and poverty in Asia: Investment priorities for economic growth and poverty reduction in Asia 2008
  • Tracking agricultural spending for agricultural growth and poverty reduction in Africa 2008
  • Investing in African agriculture to halve poverty by 2015 2007
  • Rethinking agricultural policies for pro-poor growth 2004
  • Promoting sustainable development in less-favored areas [Japanese] 2000
  • Alternativas criticas para a politica agricola da China 1999

• review

  • Food in the Anthropocene: the EAT–Lancet Commission on healthy diets from sustainable food systems.  LANCET. 447-492. 2019
  • Food systems for sustainable development: proposals for a profound four-part transformation.  Agronomy for Sustainable Development. 41-41. 2018
  • Returns to public agricultural and rural investments in China.  China Agricultural Economic Review. 215-223. 2018
  • Feeding More People on an Increasingly Fragile Planet：China’s Food and Nutrition Security in a National and Global Context.  Journal of Integrative Agriculture. 1193-1205. 2014
  • Feeding More People on an Increasingly Fragile Planet：China’s Food and Nutrition Security in a National and Global Context.  Journal of Integrative Agriculture. 1193-1205. 2014

• working paper

  • The economics of China, Successes and challenges 2013
  • The impacts of public investment in and for agriculture, Synthesis of the existing evidence 2012
  • Accelerating Africa's food production in response to rising food prices - impacts and requisite actions 2008
  • Growth and poverty reduction impacts of public investments in agriculture and rural areas, Assessment Techniques, Tools and Guide for Practitioners 2008
  • Regional strategic alternatives for agriculture-led growth and poverty reduction in West Africa 2008

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• Shenggen Fan

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