PUBLICATION | 2010 African Postharvest Losses Information System - a network for the estimation of cereal weight losses Soaring food prices during 2007/2008, and the realisation that sporadic food shortages are likely to continue long into the future, has reawakened interest in the benefits of reducing food...
PUBLICATION | 2010 Guidebook 'How to Develop a Sustainable Energy Action Plan (SEAP)' The purpose of the present guidebook is to help the Covenant of Mayors signatories to reach the commitments they have taken by signing the Covenant, and in particular to prepare within the year following their...
PUBLICATION | 2010 Indicators for Lisbon post-2010 - business as usual? This paper looks at the ongoing debate within the European Commission on the EU 2020 strategy and in particular to the potential role of statistics-based knowledge in the strategy , and takes partly inspiration...
PUBLICATION | 2009 Construction of Social Accounting Matrices for the EU-27 with a Disaggregated Agricultural Sector (AgroSAM) This technical report provides an overview on the AgroSAM project carried out at the Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS). The objective was to create a set of Social Accounting Matrices...
PUBLICATION | 2010 The Multidimensional Poverty Assessment Tool (MPAT): Robustness issues and Critical assessment The Multidimensional Poverty Assessment Tool (MPAT) was developed by the UN International Fund for Agricultural Development with a view to assess local-level poverty in rural regions around the globe...
PUBLICATION | 2010 Uncertainty and Sensitivity Analysis of the 2010 Environmental Performance Index An assessment of the robustness of the 2010 Environmental Performance Index (EPI) ranks requires the evaluation of uncertainties underlying the index and the sensitivity of the country rankings to the methodological choices made during...
PUBLICATION | 2009 A 1H NMR-based protocol for the detection of refined olive oil adulterations with refined hazelnut oil A 1H NMR analytical protocol for the detection of refined hazelnut oils in admixtures with refined olive oils is reported according to ISO format. The main purpose of this research activity...
PUBLICATION | 2009 Note: Extraction Protocol for Winter Wheat Whole Grain Proteins Compatible with Two-Dimensional Fluorescence Difference Gel Electrophoresis (2D DIGE) A protocol for winter wheat whole grain protein extraction compatible with the two dimensional fluorescence difference gel elecrophoresis (2D DIGE) technique was set up and applied...
PUBLICATION | 2009 Estimation of inter-annual winter crop area variation and spatial distribution with low resolution NDVI data by using neural networks trained on high resolution images The current work aimed at testing a methodology which can be applied to low spatial resolution satellite data to assess interannual crop area variations on a regional...
PUBLICATION | 2009 A Robust Model to Measure Governance in African Countries Levels of performance of any government do matter in determining the quality of the civil society. The Ibrahim Index of African Governance developed by the Harvard Kennedy School shows how...
