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Complete listing in chronological order

• Integrating the delivery of health and development interventions: Assessing the impact on child survival in sub-Saharan Africa
  MVP Study Protocol
  The Millennium Villages Project, The Earth Institute, Columbia University
• Effective monitoring of agriculture: a response
  December 20, 2011 | Journal of Environmental Monitoring
  Jeffrey D. Sachs, Roseline Remans, Sean M. Smukler, Leigh Winowiecki, Sandy J. Andelman, Kenneth G. Cassman, David Castle, Ruth DeFries, Glenn Denning, Jessica Fanzo, Louise E. Jackson, Rik Leemans, Johannes Lehmann, Jeffrey C. Milder, Shahid Naeem, Generose Nziguheba, Cheryl A. Palm, Prabhu L. Pingali, John P. Reganold, Daniel D. Richter, Sara J. Scherr, Jason Sircely, Clare Sullivan, Thomas P. Tomich and Pedro A. Sanchez
• Multisector intervention to accelerate reductions in child stunting: an observational study from 9 sub-Saharan African countries
  October 27, 2011 | American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
  Roseline Remans, Paul M Pronyk, Jessica C Fanzo, Jiehua Chen, Cheryl A Palm, Bennett Nemser, Maria Muniz, Alex Radunsky, Alem Hadera Abay, Mouctar Coulibaly, Joseph Mensah-Homiah, Margaret Wagah, Xiaoyi An, Christine Mwaura, Eva Quintana, Marie-Andree Somers, Pedro A Sanchez, Sonia E Sachs, John W McArthur, and Jeffrey D Sachs for the Millennium Villages Study Group
• Perspectives on Monitoring and Evaluation in the African Millennium Villages
  October 23, 2011 | Millennium Villages Blog
  By Paul Pronyk, Jeffrey Sachs & Prabhjot Singh
• Current and future nitrous oxide emissions from African agriculture
  August 24, 2011 | Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability
  By Hickman, Jonathan E., M. Havlikova, C. Kroeze, and C.A. Palm
• The Impact of Reducing Financial Barriers on Utilisation of a Primary Health Care Facility in Rwanda
  July, 2011 | Global Public Health
  Ranu Dillon, Matthew H. Bonds, Max Fraden, Donald Ndahiro, and Josh Ruxin
• HIV Attitudes, Awareness and Testing Among Older Adults in Africa
  July, 2011 | AIDS and Behavior
  Joel Negin, Bennett Nemser, Robert Cumming, Eliud Lelerai, Yanis Ben Amor and Paul Pronyk
• Assessing Nutritional Diversity of Cropping Systems in African Villages
  June, 2011 | PlosONE
  By Roseline Remans, Dan F. B. Flynn., Fabrice DeClerck, Willy Diru, Jessica Fanzo, Kaitlyn Gaynor, Isabel Lambrecht, Joseph Mudiope, Patrick K. Mutuo, Phelire Nkhoma, David Siriri, Clare Sullivan, Cheryl A. Palm
• Community Health Workers in Global Health: Scale and Scalability
  May 19, 2011 | Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine
  By Liu, Anne; Sullivan, Sarah; Khan, Mohammed; Sachs, Sonia; and Singh, Prabhjot
• Risk factors for non-communicable diseases among older adults in rural Africa
  May, 2011 | Tropical Medicine and International Health
  Joel Negin, Robert Cumming, Sarah De Ramirez, Seye Abimbola, Sonia Sachs
• The Role of Chemistry in Addressing Hunger and Food Security
  April 27, 2011 | The Chemical Element: Chemistry’s Contribution to Our Global Future, First Edition
  By Jessica Fanzo, Roseline Remans, and Pedro Sanchez
• Designing, Implementing and Evaluating Complex, Goal-Oriented, Adaptive Interventions in the Millennium Villages
  March 21, 2011
  John W McArthur, Paul M Pronyk, Jeffrey D Sachs
• Use of an Innovative, Affordable, and Open-Source Short Message Service–Based Tool to Monitor Malaria in Remote Areas of Uganda
  March 11, 2011 | The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
  By Caroline Asiimwe*, David Gelvin, Evan Lee, Yanis Ben Amor, Ebony Quinto, Charles Katureebe, Lakshmi Sundaram, David Bell and Matt Berg
• Ecological approaches to human nutrition
  March, 2011 | Food & Nutrition Bulletin
  By Declerck, Fabrice A.J.; Fanzo, Jessica; Palm, Cheryl; Remans, Roseline
• A three-year cohort study to assess the impact of an integrated food- and livelihood-based model on undernutrition in rural western Kenya
  2011 | Combating Micronutrient Deficiencies: Food-based Approaches
  By Jessica Fanzo, Roseline Remans, Paul Pronyk, Joel Negin, James Wariero et al.
• Evaluating structural interventions in public health: Challenges, options and global best-practice
  2011
  Paul Pronyk, Jennifer Schaefer, Marie-Andree Somers and Lori Heise
• Identifying potential synergies and trade-offs for meeting food security and climate change objectives in sub-Saharan Africa
  November, 2010 | PNAS
  By Cheryl Palm, Sean Smukler, Clare Sullivan, Patrick Mutuo, Gerson Nyadzi, Markus Walsh
• Evaluating the Millennium Villages: A response to Clemens and Demombynes
  October 13, 2010 | Millennium Villages Blog
  By Paul Pronyk, John McArthur, Prabhjot Singh & Jeffrey Sachs
• High rates of AIDS-related mortality among older adults in rural Kenya
  October 1, 2010 | Journal of Acquired Immune Defiency Syndromes
  By Joel Negin, James Wariero, Robert G Cumming, Patrick Mutuo, and Paul Pronyk
• The African Green Revolution: Results from the Millennium Villages Project
  October, 2010 | Advances in Agronomy
  By Generose Nziguheba, Cheryl A. Palm, Tadesse Berhe, Glenn Denning, Ahmed Dicko, Omar Diouf, Willy Diru, Rafael Flor, Fred Frimpong, Rebbie Harawa, Bocary Kaya, Elikana Manumbu, John McArthur, Patrick Mutuo, Mbaye Ndiaye, Amadou Niang, Phelire Nkhoma, Gerson Nyadzi, Jeffrey Sachs, Clare Sullivan, Gebrekidan Teklu, Lekan Tobe, and Pedro A. Sanchez
• Testing Institutional Biomass Cookstoves in Rural Kenyan Schools for the Millennium Villages Project
  July, 2010 | Energy for Sustainable Development
  By Edwin Adkins, Jiehua Chen, Jacob Winiecki, Peter Koineib, Vijay Modi
• Field testing and survey evaluation of household biomass cookstoves in rural sub-Saharan Africa
  July, 2010 | Energy for Sustainable Development
  By Adkins E, Tyler E, Wang J, Siriri S, Modi V
• Monitoring the World’s Agriculture
  June, 2010 | Nature
  By Jeff Sachs, Pedro Sanchez, Cheryl Palm, Roseline Remans, Sean Smukler, Leigh Winowiecki, et al
• Tripling crop yields in tropical Africa
  May, 2010 | Nature Geoscience
  By Pedro A. Sanchez
• The Importance of a Multi-Sectoral Approach to Food and Nutrition Security in Africa
  April, 2010 | The Forum: International Affairs and Economics
  By Jessica Fanzo and Paul Pronyk
• A Toolkit For E-Health Partnerships In Low-Income Nations
  February, 2010 | Health Affairs
  By William M. Tierney, Andrew S. Kanter, Hamish S.F. Fraser and Christopher Bailey
• An Evaluation of Progress Toward the Millennium Development Goal One Hunger Target: A country-level, food and nutrition security perspective
  January, 2010 | Report Commissioned by UN World Food Programme
  By Jessica Fanzo and Paul Pronyk
• Erratum to “Off-grid energy services for the poor: Introducing LED lighting in the Millennium Villages Project in Malawi”
  January, 2010 | Energy Policy
  By Edwin Adkins, Sandy Eapen, Flora Kaluwile, Gautam Nair, Vijay Modi
• The Role of Information Systems in Achieving Universal Health Coverage
  2010 | World Health Report
  By Pianghatai Ingun, Dennis Streveler, Karl Brown, Andy Kanter, Ad Rietberg and Cees Hesp
• Addressing Undernutrition and Climate Change in the Millennium Villages: Enhancing Resilience of Rural Communities
  2010 | UN Standing Committee on Nutrition
  By Remans R, Abay AH, Mohammed A, Adkins E, Kitchlu R, Berg M, Modi V, Palm C, and Fanzo J
• Combining vital events registration, verbal autopsy and electronic medical records in rural Ghana for improved health services delivery
  2010 | Studies In Health Technology And Informatics
  by Seth Ohemeng-Dapaah, Paul Pronyk, Eric Akosa, Bennett Nemser, Andrew S Kanter
• Human factors for capacity building : lessons learned from the OpenMRS implementers network
  2010 | International Medical Informatics Association
  By Seebregts, C.J., Mamlin, B.W., Biondich, P.G., Fraser, H.S.F., and Wolfe, B.A.
• Prevalence and correlates of hypertension: a cross-sectional study among rural populations in sub-Saharan Africa
  2010 | Journal of Human Hypertension
  By Stewart de Ramirez S, Enquobahrie , D A, Nyadzi G, Mjungu D, Magombo F, Ramirez M, Sachs SE, and Willett W
• A Study on Connectivity in Millennium Villages in Africa
  2010 | International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development 2010
  By Puri J, Mechael P, Cosmaciuc R, Sloninsky D, Modi V, Berg M, Kim Huynh U, Kaonga N, Ohemeng-Dapaah S, Baraza M, Emmanuel A, Lyimo S
• Enhancing ‘M-Health’ with South-to-South Collaborations
  2010 | Health Affairs
  By Curioso W, Mechael P
• Barriers and Gaps Affecting mHealth in Low and Middle Income Countries
  2010 | Center for Global Health and Economic Development, Earth Institute, Columbia University
  By Mechael P, Batavia H, Kaonga N, Searle S, Kwan A, Fu L, Ossman J
• The End of Hunger?
  December, 2009 | Issues
  By Glenn Denning
• Off-grid energy services for the poor: Introducing LED lighting in the Millennium Villages Project in Malawi
  December, 2009 | Energy Policy
  By Edwin Adkins, Sandy Eapen, Flora Kaluwile, Gautam Nair, Vijay Modi
• Assessment of Progress in Meeting UN Millennium Development Goals
  November, 2009 | Water and Sanitation Related Diseases and the Environment: Challenges, Interventions and Preventive Measures
  By Gretchen Loeffler Peltier, Unni Krishnan Karunakara, and Anson Elisabeth Wright
• Challenges Associated with Reducing Malnutrition and Diarrheal Disease in Children in Developing Countries
  November, 2009 | Epidemiology
  By Peltier, Gretchen Loeffler; Remans, Roseline; Fanzo, Jessica; Palm, Cheryl; Ngigi, Stephen; Walsh, Barbara
• The Impact of Geography on Energy Infrastructure Costs
  October, 2009 | Energy Policy
  By Alex Zvoleff, Ayse Selin Kocaman, Woonghee Tim Huh, Vijay Modic
• Millennium Global Village-Net: Bringing together Millennium Villages throughout sub-Saharan Africa
  September, 2009 | International Journal of Medical Informatics
  By Andrew S. Kanter, Joel Negin, Bernard Olayo, Frederick Bukachi, Edward Johnson, and Sonia Ehrlich Sachs
• Feasibility, acceptability and cost of home-based HIV testing in rural Kenya
  August, 2009 | Tropical Medicine and International Health
  Contributors: Joel Negin, James Wariero, Patrick Mutuo, Stephen Jan and Paul Pronyk
• Biodiversity Conservation and the Millennium Development Goals
  August, 2009 | Science: Policy Forum
  By Jeffrey Sachs
• Nutrient Imbalances in Agricultural Development
  June 19, 2009 | Science: Policy Forum
  Contributors: P. M. Vitousek, R. Naylor, T. Crews, M. B. David, L. E. Drinkwater, E. Holland, P. J. Johnes, J. Katzenberger, L. A. Martinelli, P. A. Matson, G. Nziguheba, D. Ojima, C. A. Palm, G. P. Robertson, P. A. Sanchez, A. R. Townsend, F. S. Zhang
• Integrating a broader notion of food security and gender empowerment into the African Green Revolution
  June 11, 2009 | Springer Science
  By Joel Negin, Roseline Remans, Susan Karuti & Jessica C. Fanzo
• A smarter way to combat hunger
  March, 2009 | Nature
  By Pedro A. Sanchez
• National Electricity Planning in Settings With Low Pre-existing Grid Coverage: Development of a Spatial Model and Case Study of Kenya
  January 21, 2009 | Energy Policy
  By Lily Parshall, Dana Pillai, Shashank Mohan, Aly Sanoh, and Vijay Modi
• The African Green Revolution Moves Forward
  January 5, 2009 | Springer Science
  By Pedro A. Sanchez, Glenn L. Denning & Generose Nziguheba
• Input Subsidies to Improve Smallholder Maize Productivity in Malawi: Toward an African Green Revolution
  January, 2009 | Public Library of Science: Biology
  Contributors: Glenn Denning, Patrick Kabambe, Pedro Sanchez, Alia Malik, Rafael Flor, Rebbie Harawa, Phelire Nkhoma, Colleen Zamba, Clement Banda, Chrispin Magombo, Michael Keating, Justine Wangila, Jeffrey Sachs
• Assessment of nutrient deficiencies in maize in nutrient omission trials and long-term field experiments in the West African Savanna
  2009 | Plant and Soil
  Nziguheba, G.; Tossah, B.K.; Diels, J.; Franke, A.C.; Aihou, K.; Iwuafor, E.N.O.; Nwoke, C.; Merckx, R.
• The Case of mHealth in Developing Countries
  2009 | Mobilizing Markets: Special Edition of MIT Innovations Journal for the GSMA Mobile World Congress 2009
  By Mechael P
• Opportunities and Challenges of Integrating mHealth Applications into Rural Health Initiatives in Africa
  2009 | Handbook of Research on Development in E-Health and Telemedicine: Technological and Social Perspectives
  By Mechael P
• The Millennium Cities Initiative: A Comprehensive Approach to Reducing Urban Poverty and Generating Sustainable Prosperity
  November, 2008 | Global Urban Development
  By Susan Blaustein
• Sustaining and Scaling the Millennium Villages: Moving from rural investments to national development plans to reach the MDGs
  October, 2008 | Overseas Development Institute
  Kent Buse, Eva Ludi and Marcella Vigneri | Synthesis Report
• Reversing the Tide of Tuberculosis in India: Complementing Microscopy with Line Probe Assays
  October, 2008 | Global Public Health
  By Yanis Ben Amor, Max Fraden, & Josh Ruxin
• Underreported Threat of Multidrug Resistant Tuberculosis in Africa
  September, 2008 | CDC: Emerging Infectious Diseases
  By Yanis Ben Amor, Bennett Nemser, Angad Singh, Alyssa Sankin, and Neil Schluger
• Hydrological Impacts of Flood Storage and Management on Irrigation Water Abstraction in Upper Ewaso Ng’iro River Basin, Kenya
  March, 2008 | Springer Science
  By Stephen N. Ngigi, Hubert H. G. Savenije & Francis N. Gichuki
• African Millennium Villages
  October 23, 2007 | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  Contributors: Pedro Sanchez, Cheryl Palm, Jeffrey Sachs, Glenn Denning, Rafael Flor, Rebbie Harawa, Bashir Jama, Tsegazeab Kiflemariam, Bronwen Konecky, Raffaela Kozar, Eliud Lelerai, Alia Malik, Vijay Modi, Patrick Mutuo, Amadou Niang, Herine Okoth, Frank Place, Sonia Ehrlich Sachs, Amir Said, David Siriri, Awash Teklehaimanot, Karen Wang, Justine Wangila, and Colleen Zamba
• Soils: A Contemporary Perspective
  August, 2007 | Annual Review of Environment and Resources
  Palm C, Sanchez P, Ahamed S, Awiti A
• The African Green Revolution and the Millennium Villages Project
  November 2, 2006 | Overseas Development Institute
  Speaker: Pedro Sanchez, Director, Tropical Agriculture and Rural Environment Program Director, Millennium Villages Project, The Earth Institute at Columbia University | An ODI Event

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