The Access to Seeds Index was used as basis for a new Index for assessing farm women’s access to resources, as described in this scientific article:
On the basis of these well-known composite indexes of socio- economic wellbeing are Livelihood Index by Anil et al., (2008), Human Development Index by UNDP (1989), Gender-related Development Index, Gender Empowerment Measure, Quality of Life Index by Diener (1995) and Access to Seed Index by Verhagen (2015), an attempt was made to develop Access to Resource Index (ARI) for assessing the status of farm women’s access to resources coupled with meeting the basic resource needs of farm women.
