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Building on PIM COVID-19 research, PIM modeling tools are used to inform ranking of policy investments and identification of priority value chains in Nigeria by CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets

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To be a chick mother : variation in maternal care and its effect on chick behavioural development by Christenson, Linnéa

Subjects: “…social ranking…”

Stepwise approach for formulating Kenya's country-level target goals for elimination of taenia solium taeniosis/cysticercosis (one of the top ranked foodborne parasitic hazards globally) by CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health

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Farmer participatory evaluation of legume cover crop and biomass transfer technologies for soil fertility improvement using farmer criteria, preference ranking and logit regression analysis by Nyende, P, Delve, Robert J.

“…Farmers also adapted the technologies to allow for local opportunities and constraints. A preference ranking and logit regression analysis of probabilities of acceptance of the species conducted in 19 farmer groups showed that Mucuna had high, Tithonia and Crotalaria intermediate, and Canavalia, Lablab and Tephrosia low probabilities of being accepted or adopted. …”
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Tools for understanding the agricultural production systems and their socio-economic context in target regions for the introduction of new banana cultivars: Community wealth ranking focus group discussion by Crichton, R., Ajambo, S., Bergh, Inge van den

“…The community wealth ranking FGD tool is used to discuss the different types of households who live in this community. …”
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Protected area types, strategies and impacts in Brazil’s Amazon: public protected area strategies do not yield a consistent ranking of protected area types by impact by Pfaff, Alexander, Robalino, Juan, Sandoval, Catalina, Herrera, Diego

“…PA strategies generate a range of impacts for PA types—always far higher within the arc—but not a consistent ranking of PA types by impact.…”
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Identifying positive deviant farms using pareto-optimality ranking technique to assess productivity and livelihood benefits in smallholder dairy farming under contrasting stressful environments in Tanzania by Shija, D.S., Okeyo Mwai, Ally, Migwi, P, K., Komwihangilo, Daniel M., Bebe, B.O.

“…These results show that the Pareto-optimality ranking technique applied in a large population objectively identified a few positive deviant farms that attained higher productivity and livelihood benefits in both low- and high-stress environments. …”
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Algorithm for ranking technological options for grain legumes and dry cereals based on impacts on poverty and malnutrition and economic benefits in over 40 countries using TOPSIS and ShinyApps by CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets

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Preference for breeding goal traits among Swedish and Norwegian dairy farmers by Skjerve, Torgunn Aslaug

“…Rankings were analysed using cluster analysis and Friedman test. …”
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Identifying breeding objectives of smallholders/pastoralists and optimizing community-based breeding programs for adapted sheep breeds in Ethiopia by Mirkena, T.

“…Information on genetics of adaptation in farm animals was reviewed. Two live animals ranking experiments approaches, own-flock and groupanimal ranking, were used to identify sheep breeding objectives. …”
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Contribution des femmes a ladoption des varietes de mais tolerantes a la secheresse au Nord Benin by Baco, M.N., Affoukouk, T., Moumouni, I., Yallou, C., Abdoulaye, Tahirou

“…With regard to the choice of the selection criteria, women didn’t only choose the same criteria as men, but they also identified a specific criterion to them which is the organoleptic quality. Regarding to the ranking of varieties seeds, women were more consistent (one variety has the highest score in the ranking of varieties and it is also the same that has the highest frequency in the varietal preference); which was not the case for men. …”
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Nyckeltal i lönsam grisproduktion by Carlson, Emil, Eriksson, Emil

“…Det nyckeltal som fick näst högst ranking var Antal avvanda/ kull. Det nyckeltal inom slaktsvinsproduktionen som fick högst ranking var Tillväxt, g/dag och MJ per kg tillväxt och anses av expertisen ha störst relevans för en lönsam samt konkurrenskraftig grisproduktion och ha störst betydelse vid kreditbedömning. …”
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Genetic enhancement of sorghum and millet residues fed to ruminants: farmers' perceptions of fodder quality in livelihood systems by Underwood, M.P., Hall, A.J., Zerbini, E.

“…The techniques used were: wealth ranking; focus group discussions; variety matrix ranking; fodder calendar; and household case studies on feeding systems. …”
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Phenotypic and Genetic Characterization and Design of Community-Based Breeding Programs for Two Indigenous Goat Populations of Ethiopia by Sheriff, Oumer

“…In the own-flock ranking experiment, a total of 147 households ranked their first, second and third best and the most inferior does in their own flock. …”
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Biofortification: A plausible antidote to hidden hunger by Kumar, Niraj, Kumar, Anjani

“…A dip in India’s ranking in the Global Hunger Index (GHI) has rightly created a stir in the country. …”
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The participatory selection of priority climate-resilient value chains for dryland mixed farming systems in Senegal by Dizyee, Kanar, Houessionon, Prosper, Ouédraogo, Issa, Jaquet, Stéphanie, Kumar, Shalander, Chan, Derek, Faye, Aliou, Diouf, Binta, Ndjido, Kane, Zougmoré, Robert B., Whitbread, Anthony M.

“…This report presents the results of a three-step process was followed for this analysis: (1) holding a participatory workshop with stakeholders ranking priorities, value chains, and to build a quantifiable ranking system to compare the value chains, (2) process and analyze workshop information, and (3) identify the value chains for further work and reporting. …”
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Design of community based breeding programs for two indigenous goat breeds of Ethiopia by Abegaz, Solomon

“…Production and reproduction traits such as body size, twinning and milk yield were identified as important breeding objective traits in own flock ranking experiment while in group ranking experiment the observable characters like body size, body conformation and coat color were identified as breeding goal traits. …”
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Palatability of multipurpose tree species: Effect of species and length of study on intake and relative palatability by sheep by Kaitho, R.J., Umunna, N.N., Nsahlai, I.V., Taminga, S., Bruchem, J. van, Hanson, Jean, Wouw, M. van de

“…The potential forage value and appropriate length of study on intake and relative palatability ranking of 40 multipurpose tree species (MPTs) were determined using 24 sheep blocked on live weight and age. …”
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Can agricultural citizen science improve seed systems? The contributions of crowdsourcing participatory variety selection through on-farm triadic comparisons of technologies by Bessette, Guy

“…They submit their feedback in simple format, ranking the ‘best / middle / worst’ of each package for different traits. …”
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Poverty mapping with aggregate census data: what is the loss in precision? by Baulch, Bob, Minot, Nicholas

“…Even census data aggregated to the provincial level perform reasonably well in ranking the 61 provinces by the incidence of poverty: the average absolute error in ranking is 0.92.…”
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