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FEAST (Feed Assessment Tool)
Feed for livestock is often cited as the main constraint to improved productivity in smallholder systems. Overcoming this constraint often seems an elusive goal and technical... -
Gender and Value Chain
We have developed and used a quasi-experimental design and index to measure women's intra-household bargaining position. We hope this tool can capture women's perceived... -
EXTRAPOLATE (EX-ante Tool for RAnking POLicy AlTErnatives)
EXTRAPOLATE (EX-ante Tool for RAnking POLicy AlTErnatives) arose out of the need for a decision support tool to assess the impact of different policy measures. By disaggregating... -
Livestock and Fish Site Selection Guidelines
The Livestock and Fish site selection guideline provide a framework to select the site within the selection value chains in a consistent way across all countries we work in. The... -
TOA-MD (TradeOff Analysis for Multi-Dimensional Impact Assessment)
The Tradeoff Analysis Model for Multi-dimensional Impact Assessment (TOA-MD) is a parsimonious, generic model for analysis of technology adoption (e.g. adaptation strategies),... -
CLEANED-R
The CLEANED (Comprehensive Livestock Environmental Assessment for Improved Nutrition, a Secured Environment and Sustainable Development along Livestock and Fish Value Chains) R... -
Rapid Integrated Assessment of Food Safety and Nutrition Research Opportuniti...
Rapid integrated assessment (RIA) of food safety, zoonoses and nutrition in informal animal source food (ASF) value chain -
Tool for Monitoring and Evaluation of Innovation Platforms
The conceptual framework for monitoring and evaluation of innovation platforms is based on elements from new institutional economics and marketing relationship management to... -
Dietary Diversity and Quality Scores
The dietary diversity questionnaire consists of 2 parts: 1) the part in which the respondent is asked about all the foods (and ingredients) (s)he consumed the previous day and... -
Humidtropics Situational Analysis Checklist
There are 3 primary objectives for the Humidtropics situational analysis (SA): 1. To characterize broadly all important system aspects that are relevant to the CRP within the... -
RAAIS (Rapid Appraisal of Agricultural Innovation Systems)
Agri-food systems are complex webs of people, organisations, technologies and rules. In such complexity, it is essential to identify entry points for innovation that are... -
COMPASS (Co-innovation and Modeling Platform for Agro-eco System Simulation)
"The COMPASS (Co-innovation and Modeling Platform for Agro-eco System Simulation) framework that integrates modeling tools at field, farm and landscape scales has been developed... -
IMPACT Lite
ImpactLite is a household survey tool, implemented in OpenDataKit which captures critical data from farming households in regard to generating farm household typologies,... -
NUANCES-FARMSIM (Nutrient Use in Animal and Cropping systems – Efficiencies a...
NUANCES–FARMSIM (Nutrient Use in Animal and Cropping systems – Efficiencies and Scales FARM SIMulator Tittonell et al., 2008a; van Wijk et al., 2009) is a farming systems model... -
Women's Empowerment in Agriculture Index
The Women Empowerment Index in Agriculture (WEAI) is used to measure women's empowerment, agency and inclusion in agriculture in five domains: - decisions about agricultural... -
International Model for Policy Analysis and Agricultural Commodity Trade
The IMPACT (International Model for Policy Analysis and Agricultural Commodity Trade) model is designed to examine alternative futures for global food supply, demand, trade,... -
PIPA (Participatory Impact Pathways Analysis)
Participatory Impact Pathways Analysis (PIPA) is a practical planning, and monitoring and evaluation approach developed for use with complex projects in the water and food... -
DAPA’s Linking Farmers to Markets Research Group (formerly CIAT's Tool for Ag...
How can market linkages be achieved through comprehensive processes that promote rural agribusiness development? Finding answers to this question is part of our work as a... -
Innovation Platforms
What is an innovation platform (IP)? How is it relevant to agricultural problems? What does it bring to the table that other approaches do not? How does one go about setting up,... -
Agricultural Biodiversity 4-Cell Focus Group Methodology
Using a 4-Cell participatory tool - we can identify and rank species regarding their availability and use i) on-farm ii) in the wild iii) in the markets and iv) in the diet. The...