Design improvement
You can explore the farmers debate of if rainfall starting around decad 7 is more related to vulnerability than rainfall starting in decad 18.
The below is an interactive tool to evaluate and co-design indexes. It is part of our public domain DESDR open toolkit.
It has all of the tables and figures we have just worked through but it also has controls
Click on the tool below, then drag the sliders for the rainfall early timing to be more focused on the rainfall starting around decad 7 and extending 5-10 decads.
Do you see changes in matching?
Do you have a new timing to verify with farmers?
Click on the tool below to explore these
IF THE BOX BELOW IS BLANK, OPEN AN INCOGNITO BROWSER AND PASTE:
https://columbia-desdr.github.io/Sliders-ethiopia/config
And note that it may take a few minutes to load because it downloads everything in advance in order to keep functioning if connectivity is lost.