Message-ID: <2.2.32.19990225212410.006b4594@pilot.msu.edu> Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 16:24:10 -0500 From: Jean-Charles Le Vallee <mailto:Levallee@PILOT.MSU.EDU> Subject: Food Security publications available for download To: mailto:INTDEV-L@pete.uri.edu
Please forgive any cross-postings.Greetings. Our Food Security II project in Africa is funded through USAID, and is managed by our Department of Agricultural Economics at Michigan State University. Our web site has been up for many years now and we periodically add new publications. More recently we have just added a number of new items/sections and some training materials, to our FS II web page (all downloadable in pdf). You might want to call this to the attention of your colleagues or include in your newsletter/bulletins. Please forward to others.
Website address http://www.aec.msu.edu/agecon/fs2/
What you will find:
Working papers, conference papers and so on for Mozambique, Ethiopia, Sahel Region, Kenya, Rwanda, cross-country papers; policy syntheses; fact sheets; weekly and monthly market information bulletins for Mozambique; The Agricultural Market Information Virtual Library and more.
For example, this week we have added:
Policy Syntheses #39,40,41 and 42. #39 is a nice cross-country look at key market policy issues in Kenya, Zimbabwe, Zambia and Mozambique. #40 and 41 deal with cash crop/food crop linkage issues in specific African cases of Kenya and Zimbabwe. #42 looks at the ministry of Agriculture/SG2000 experiment with improved cereals technology in Ethiopia. Naturally, you are invited to read the ealier policy syntheses as well.
MSU International Development Working Papers: We have made downloadable via pdf files IDWP's #72,71,70,69,68,67,66,64 and 38 which cover a range of issues. Very soon we will make all our IDWP's downloadable.
Survey Research Training Materials and Sample Session Data Set: We have developed for use in various in-country studies, hands-on training material to help researchers learn in self-tutorials how to use SPSS for Windows for processing and analysing basic cross-sectional and time-series data. We have now made all these materials downloadable, including the sample data to run the sample sessions. Users will have to procure their own copies of SPSS software, but once they have these, the can run our training sessions. We and our in-country partners find these materials very useful to get started using SPSS. They are designed to complement materials available from SPSS, and also to illustrate good practices in organizing survey instruments and data bases, and completing basic data management and analysis use to social scientists.
We hope you and your newsletter users find these materials useful. If you have any questions or would like further information, please do not hesitate to email me. Regards,
======================================================================= Jean-Charles Le Vallee mailto:levallee@pilot.msu.edu Visiting Research Specialist Department of Agricultural Economics, Michigan State University 126 N. Wayne St. #5, Arlington, VA., 22201, USA Tel: (703) 516-9084 Fax: (517) 432-1800
Food Security II Project Web Site, policy syntheses and fact sheets (pdf Adobe Acrobat format also available) http://www.aec.msu.edu/agecon/fs2/
The Agricultural Market Information Virtual Library http://www.aec.msu.edu/agecon/fs2/market/contents.htm