Transforming Rural Africa.

• Position: Conference

An NBER conference on Transforming Rural Africa took place February 28-March 1 in Cambridge. Christopher B. Barrett of Cornell University, Abebe Shimeles and Hanan Morsy, both of the African Development Bank, and Research Associates Michael Carter of the University of California, Davis, Tavneet Suri of MIT, and Christopher R. Udry of Northwestern University, organized the meeting, which was sponsored by the African Development Bank. These researchers' papers were presented and discussed:

* Fo Kodjo Dzinyefa Aflagah, International Food Policy Research Institute; Tanguy Bernard, International Food Policy Research Institute and Bordeaux IV; and Angelino Viceisza, Spelman College, "Cheap Talk and Coordination in the Lab and in the Field: Collective Commercialization in Senegal"

* Kibrom A. Abay, International Livestock Research Institute; Leah Bevis, Ohio State University; and Christopher B. Barrett, Cornell University, "Measurement Error Mechanisms Matter: Agricultural Intensification with Farmer Misperceptions and Misreporting"

* Tilman Graff, Busara Center for Behavioral Economics, "Spatial Inefficiencies in Africa's Trade Network"

* Toyin Samuel Olowogbon and Raphael O. Babatunde, University of Ilorin, Nigeria, and Edward Asiedu, University of Ghana/University of Passau, "How Can Inclusive Agricultural Health Policy Intervention Promote Shared Agricultural Productivity in Nigeria? Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial"

* Denise Horner and Meike Wollni, University of Goettingen; Adrien Bouguen, University of California, Berkeley; and Markus Frolich, University of Mannheim, "The Effects of Decentralized and Video-based Extension on the Adoption of Integrated Soil Fertility Management--Experimental Evidence from Ethiopia"

* Aminou Arouna, AfricaRice; Jeffrey D. Michler, University of Arizona; and Jourdain Lokossou, International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, "Contract...