Contents -- ABOUT THIS BOOK -- INTRODUCTION -- WELCOMING ADDRESS -- KEYNOTE ADDRESS Current Thinking on the Scope and Approach of WDR 2008 -- OPENING ADDRESS -- INTRODUCTORY REMARKS -- Part I: Agricultural Policy, Subsidies, and Trade -- Agriculture and Development: The Perspective of a Think Tank on the WDR 2008 Outline -- Part II: Markets and Institutions -- Market Access for Small Farmers: The New Standards Challenge -- Globalization, Privatization, and Vertical Coordination in Food Value Chains -- Part III: Agriculture, Natural Resources Management, and the Environment -- Designing Improved NRM Interventions in Agriculture for Poverty Reduction and Environmental Sustainability in Developing Countries -- Aspects of Land Degradation in Lagging Regions: Extent, Driving Forces, Responses, and Further Research with Special Reference to Ethiopia -- Agriculture and the Rio Conventions -- Part IV: Agriculture-Rural Nonfarm Linkages and Rural Poverty -- Agricultural Growth, Employment, and Wage Rates in Developing Countries -- Are Farm-Nonfarm Linkages Still Strong Enough to Tackle Rural Poverty? -- Agriculture: Rural Nonfarm Linkages and Poverty -- Part V: Decentralization, Local Governance, and Rural Development -- Decentralization, Local Governance, and Rural Development -- Decentralization, Agriculture, and Poverty Reduction: Harsh Realities? -- Decentralization and Development: Emerging Issues from Uganda's Experience -- Decentralized Rural Governance in a Post-Socialist Economy: A Case of Community-Based Agricultural Marketing in Poland -- Part VI: Emerging Policy Issues -- Opportunities for European Bioethanol in a Global Environment (2006) -- Nonlinear Effects of Weather on U.S. Crop Yields, Implications for Climate Change, and Why These Effects Matter for Developing Countries.

Emerging Policy Issues within the Realm of Science Policy for Africa -- CLOSING REMARKS -- Appendix 1: Program -- Appendix 2: Participants.