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Guideline to define breeding objective functions, construct selection indexes and deal with uncertain sires in sheep and goat breeding programmes por Mueller, Joaquin Pablo, Getachew, Tesfaye, Rischkowsky, Barbara, Haile, Aynalem

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Using satellites to make Flood Index Insurance scalable and helping farmers survive floods in India and Bangladesh por CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security

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Healthy Eating Index for Viet Nam, a tool to evaluate the extent to which populations are following dietary recommendations por CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health

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Measuring empowerment across the value chain: The evolution of the project-level Women’s Empowerment Index for Market Inclusion (pro-WEAI+MI) por Malapit, Hazel J., Heckert, Jessica, Adegbola, Patrice Ygué, Crinot, Geraud Fabrice, Eissler, Sarah, Faas, Simone, Gantoli, Geoffroy, Kalagho, Kenan, Martinez, Elena M., Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S., Mswero, Grace, Myers, Emily, Mzungu, Diston, Pereira, Audrey, Pinkstaff, Crossley, Quisumbing, Agnes R., Ragasa, Catherine, Rubin, Deborah, Seymour, Greg, Tauseef, Salauddin, GAAP2 Market Inclusion Study Team

“…We describe how we adapted the project-level Women’s Empowerment in Agricultural Index (pro-WEAI), a mixed-methods tool for studying empowerment in development projects, to include aspects of agency relevant for multiple types of value chain actors. …”
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Analysis of irrigation systems using comparative performance indicators: a case study of two large scale irrigation systems in the upper Awash Basin por Beshir, A., Awulachew, Seleshi Bekele

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Income inequality within smallholder irrigation schemes in Sub-Saharan Africa por Manero, Ana

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WE4.2: Can Agricultural Development Projects Reach, Benefit, and Empower Women? Results from South Asia and Africa using the Project-Level Women's Empowerment in Agriculture Index (pro-WEAI) por Quisumbing, Agnes R.

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The Agrobiodiversity Index: Methodology Report v.1.0. por Bioversity International

“…The Agrobiodiversity Index is an innovative tool that measures the current state of agrobiodiversity in markets and consumption, in agricultural production, and in genetic resource management, and the extent to which commitments and actions at country, company and project level support sustainable use and conservation of agrobiodiversity. …”
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Suelos hortícolas y metodología AgroEcoIndex periurbano (AEIp): validación de indicadores de impacto ambiental = Horticultural soils and peri-urban AgroEcoIndex methodology (AEIp):... por Matoff, Evangelina, Frank, Federico Carlos, Mitidieri, Mariel Silvina

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Unpacking barriers to socially inclusive weather index insurance: towards a framework for inclusion por Aheeyar, Mohamed M. M., de Silva, Sanjiv, Senaratna Sellamuttu, Sonali, Arulingam, Indika

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Development of a flood index insurance product for Zambia por Batra, N., Amarnath, Giriraj

“…The development of the flood index-based insurance product involves analyzing data to determine triggers for flash floods and riverine floods. …”
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2014 Global hunger index: The challenge of hidden hunger por von Grebmer, Klaus, Saltzman, Amy, Birol, Ekin, Wiesmann, Doris, Prasai, Nilam, Yin, Sandra, Yohannes, Yisehac, Menon, Purnima, Thompson, Jennifer, Sonntag, Andrea

“…Synopsis of 2014 Global hunger index: The challenge of hidden hunger. IFPRI Issue Brief 83. …”
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Weather index crop insurance as a climate-smart approach for the vulnerable groups: the case of Adiha, northern Ethiopia por Teame, Ataklti Techane, Hagos, Fitsum

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Virus indexing and certification in clonal crops: the case of banana por Kumar, P. Lava

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Guided by the Agrobiodiversity Index, nearly half of 350 keystone food and agricultural companies provide evidence that they are contributing towards improving soil health and increasing agrobiodiversity por CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems

“…The Agrobiodiversity Index was used to guide the Soil and Agrobiodiversity component of the Food and Agriculture Benchmark of the World Benchmarking Alliance (WBA) and to encourage food and agriculture companies to provide evidence that they are contributing towards improving soil health and agrobiodiversity. …”
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Cognitive interviewing to improve women's empowerment questions in surveys: Application to the health and nutrition and intrahousehold relationships modules for the project‐level Women's Empowerment in Agriculture Index por Hannan, Anika, Heckert, Jessica, James-Hawkins, Laurie, Yount, Kathryn M.

“…The project‐level Women's Empowerment in Agriculture Index (pro‐WEAI) is being developed to address the need for an instrument that is sensitive to changes in empowerment over the duration of an intervention. …”
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New modalities for managing drought risk in rainfed agriculture: Evidence from a discrete choice experiment in Odisha, India por Ward, Patrick S., Makhija, Simrin

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Drought-tolerant rice, weather index insurance, and comprehensive risk management for smallholders: Evidence from a multiyear field experiment in India por Ward, Patrick S., Makhija, Simrin, Spielman, David J.

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Concentration of current-use pesticides in frogs from the Pampa region and correlation of a mixture toxicity index with biological effects por Brodeur, Julie Céline, Damonte, María Jimena, Rojas, Dante Emanuel, Cristos, Diego Sebastian, Vargas, Claudia, Poliserpi, Maria Belen, Andriulo, Adrian Enrique

“…Males also presented near significant negative correlations between PTI and both body condition and the scaled fat index. These results indicate that frogs inhabiting agricultural regions are exposed to a complex and diffuse contamination by pesticide mixtures which is likely responsible for a number of biological effects that may be relevant at the population level.…”
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Does assessing irrigation performance make a difference? Results from a comparative study of three irrigation systems por Merrey, Douglas J., Valera, A., Dassenaike, L.

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