Contents -- Contributors -- 1 Sustainable Poverty Reduction in Less-favoured Areas: Problems, Options and Strategies -- Part I: Development Strategies for Poor People in Less-favoured Areas -- 2 Designing and Evaluating Alternatives for More Sustainable Natural Resource Management in Less-favoured Areas -- 3 Dimensions of Vulnerability of Livelihoods in Less-favoured Areas: Interplay Between the Individual and the Collective -- 4 Market Imperfections -- Part II: Resource Management Options -- 5 Soil Nutrient Dynamics in Integrated Crop-Livestock Systems in the Northern Ethiopian Highlands -- 6 Rural Development and Sustainable Land Use in the Hillsides of Honduras -- 7 Resource Use Efficiency on Own and Sharecropped Plots in Northern Ethiopia: Determinants and Implications for Sustainability -- Part III: Livelihoods and Food Security -- 8 Food Security Through the Livelihoods Lens: an Integrative Approach -- 9 Changing Gender Roles in Household Food Security and Rural Livelihoods in Bangladesh -- 10 Does Social Capital Matter in Vegetable Markets? The Social Capital of Indigenous Agricultural Communities in the Philippines: Socio-cultural Implications and Consequences for Local Vegetable Trade -- Part IV: Markets and Institutional Development -- 11 Making Markets Work for the Poor: the Challenge in the Age of Globalization -- 12 Market Access, Agricultural Productivity and Allocative Efficiency in the Banana Sector of Uganda -- 13 Land and Labour Market Participation Decisions under Imperfect Markets: a Case Study in North-east Jiangxi Province, China -- 14 Land and Labour Allocation Decisions in the Shift from Subsistence to Commercial Agriculture -- 15 Effects of Deregulation of the Rice Market on Farm Prices in China: a Marketing Channel Model.

16 Consequences of the Abolition of the Multi-fibre Arrangement Import Quotas on the Apparel Industry of Bangladesh: a Computable General Equilibrium Analysis -- Part V: Strategies and Policy Priorities -- 17 Poverty Targeting with Heterogeneous Endowments: a Micro-simulation Analysis of a Less-favoured Ethiopian Village -- 18 Less-favoured Areas: Looking beyond Agriculture towards Ecosystem Services -- 19 Livelihood Strategies, Policies and Sustainable Poverty Reduction in LFAs: a Dynamic Perspective -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.