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Poverty mapping with aggregate census data: what is the loss in precision? by Minot, Nicholas, Baulch, Bob

“…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. -- Authors' Abstract…”
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Participatory approaches to investigate breeding objectives of livestock keepers by Duguma, G., Mirkena, T., Haile, Aynalem, Iñiguez, L., Okeyo Mwai, Ally, Tibbo, Markos, Rischkowsky, Barbara A., Sölkner, Johann, Wurzinger, Maria

“…The reviewed tools were: participatory rural appraisal (PRA), choice experiments, ranking of animals from own flock/herd and ranking of others animals. …”
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Breed and trait preferences of Sheko cattle owners in south western Ethiopia by Taye, T.D., Ayalew, W., Hegde, B.P.

“…Our study was, therefore, intended to elicit the knowledge of Sheko cattle owners on breed and trait preferences using phenotypic ranking.…”
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A semi-qualitative approach to the operationalization of the Food–Environment–Energy–Water (FE2W) Nexus concept for infrastructure planning: A case study of the Niger Basin by Seidou, Ousmane, Ringler, Claudia, Kalcic, Spela, Ferrini, Luca, Ramani, Traoré Abdou, Guero, Abdou

“…To help the basin authority and its investors prioritize portfolio activities that support multiple securities of interest, we developed a mixed-methods approach that engaged basin countries in qualitatively ranking projects to meet energy, environmental and food security goals, complemented by quantitative modelling for the more complex ranking of water and environmental sustainability goals, necessitated by complex upstream–downstream linkages.…”
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Ethiopia: Cost effective options for inclusive and sustainable development by Aragie, Emerta A., Thurlow, James, Taffesse, Alemayehu Seyoum, Pauw, Karl, Jones, Eleanor

“…They are also highly ranked in terms of expanding agrifood GDP and employment. …”
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Uganda: Cost effective options for inclusive and sustainable development by Aragie, Emerta A., Thurlow, James, Ahmed, Hashim, Jones, Eleanor

“…Most R&D related interventions rank lowest in terms of cost-effectiveness at achieving economic and social outcomes. …”
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Rwanda: Cost effective options for inclusive and sustainable development by Aragie, Emerta A., Niyonsingiza, Josue, Thurlow, James, Warner, James, Xu, Valencia Wenqian

“…However, crop ex tension services rank least in cost-effectiveness for economic and social outcomes. …”
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Zambia: Cost effective options for inclusive and sustainable development by Aragie, Emerta A., Thurlow, James, Xu, Valencia Wenqian, Jones, Eleanor

“…They are also highly ranked in terms of expanding agrifood GDP and employment. …”
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Kenya: Cost effective options for inclusive and sustainable development by Aragie, Emerta A., Pauw, Karl, Thurlow, James, Jones, Eleanor

“…They are also highly ranked in terms of expanding agrifood GDP and employment. …”
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Seeing the forest as more than its trees: local stakeholders’ perceptions of natural forest benefits in Gorontalo, Indonesia by Kartikasari, S.N., Rixecker, S., Espiner, S.R., Colfer, C.J.P.

“…The results presented here is based on the analysis of findings from the ranking exercise. Local stakeholders valued the natural forest most highly for its ecological services.…”
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Assessing performance of white endosperm testers with varying resistance reactions to Striga (Striga hermonthica) for evaluating resistant maize (Zea mays) inbred lines by Afolabi, S., Menkir, A., Oyekunle, M., Abdullahi, U., Gedil, Melaku A, Meseka, S., Mengesha Abera, W.

“…The resistant and tolerant testers exhibited desirable GCA effects, broader testcross performance, greater genetic variances and consistent ranking of testcrosses under both growing conditions than the susceptible tester. …”
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Malawi: Cost effective options for inclusive and sustainable development by Aragie, Emerta A., Kankwamba, Henry, Pauw, Karl, Thurlow, James, Jones, Eleanor

“…They are also highly ranked in terms of expanding agrifood GDP and employment. …”
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Mozambique: Cost effective options for inclusive and sustainable development by Aragie, Emerta A., Benfica, Rui, Thurlow, James, Xu, Valencia Wenqian, Jones, Eleanor

“…They are also highly ranked in accelerating agrifood GDP and employment. …”
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Development of a methodology for selecting criteria and indicators of sustainable forest management: a case study on participatory assessment by Mendoza, G.A., Prabhu, Ravi

“…Results from the study show that the multi-criteria methods are effective tools that can be used as structured decision aids to evaluate, prioritise, and select sets of C&I for a particular forest management unit. Ranking and rating approaches can be used as a screening tool to develop an initial list of C&I. …”
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Comparing modeling approaches for assessing priorities in international agricultural research by Petsakos, Athanasios, Hareau, Guy, Kleinwechter, U., Wiebe, Keith D., Sulser, Timothy B.

“…Our results suggest that the ranking of technologies is driven by the data used for their specification and is not affected by the foresight scenario examined. …”
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Local tree knowledge can fast-track agroforestry recommendations for coffee smallholders along a climate gradient in Mount Elgon, Uganda by Gram, Gil, Vaast, Philippe, Wolf, Just van der, Jassogne, Laurence T.P.

“…Local knowledge is found to be gender blind as no differences were observed in the rankings of species and ES by men and women. Ranking species by ES and ranking ES by preference is a useful method to help scientists and extension agents to use local knowledge for the development of recommendations on companion trees in AFS for smallholder farmers.…”
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Tanzania: Cost effective options for inclusive and sustainable development by Aragie, Emerta A., Thurlow, James, Xu, Valencia Wenqian, Jones, Eleanor

“…The study further reveals shifts in the cost-effectiveness ranking of investment options over time and when extreme production shocks occur.…”
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Turning local knowledge on agroforestry into an online decision-support tool for tree selection in smallholders' farms by Wolf, J. van der, Jassogne, Laurence T.P., Gram, G., Vaast, Philippe

“…The data collected are first analysed using the BradleyTerry2 package in R, yielding the ranking scores that are used in the decision-support tool. …”
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Assessing disease risk: Some perspectives from East Africa by Fèvre, Eric M.

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Citizens' preferences for development outcomes and governance implications by Falk, Thomas, Vorlaufer, Tobias, Brown, Lawrence, Domptail, Stephanie, Dallimer, Martin

“…We collected data from three purposely selected communities representing dominant social‐ecological systems in the transboundary Cubango‐Okavango River basin in southern Africa. We used contingent ranking survey experiments, which are a novel methodological advance in policy related research. …”
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