selected publications
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article
- Why Is Production of Animal Source Foods Important for Economic Development in Africa and Asia. Animal Frontiers. 10:22-29. 2020
- Use of the infection and treatment method in the control of East Coast fever in Kenya: does gender matter for adoption and impact?. Gender, Technology and Development. 1-17. 2020
- Net benefits of smallholder dairy cattle farms in Senegal can be significantly increased through the use of better dairy cattle breeds and improved management practices.. Journal of Dairy Science. 103:8197-8217. 2020
- Are technology adoption and collective action important in accessing credit? Evidence from milk producers in Tanzania. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH. 31:388-412. 2019
- Farmers’ preference for bundled input–output markets and implications for adapted dairy hubs in Tanzania—A choice experiment. Agribusiness. 35:358-373. 2019
- Identification of appropriate indicators for assessing sustainability of small-holder milk production systems in Tanzania. Sustainable Production and Consumption. 19:141-160. 2019
- Presence and property: Gendered perspectives on participation in a dairy development program in Kenya and Uganda. Womens Studies International Forum. 74:68-76. 2019
- The women’s empowerment in livestock index. Social Indicators Research. 142:799-825. 2019
- Intensifying Inequality? Gendered Trends in Commercializing and Diversifying Smallholder Farming Systems in East Africa. FRONTIERS IN SUSTAINABLE FOOD SYSTEMS. 3. 2019
- Processor Linkages and Farm Household Productivity: Evidence from Dairy Hubs in East Africa. Agribusiness. 33:586-599. 2017
- Understanding farmers' preferences for artificial insemination services provided through dairy hubs.. Animal. 11:677-686. 2017
- Characterisation of adopters and non-adopters of dairy technologies in Ethiopia and Kenya.. Tropical Animal Health and Production. 49:681-690. 2017
- Value Chain Upgrading and the Inclusion of Smallholders in Markets: Reflections on Contributions of Multi-Stakeholder Processes in Dairy Development in Tanzania. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH. 29:1102-1121. 2017
- Dairy farm households, processor linkages and household income: the case of dairy hub linkages in East Africa. INTERNATIONAL FOOD AND AGRIBUSINESS MANAGEMENT REVIEW. 19:95-108. 2016
- Farmers’ preference for bundled input-output markets and implications for adapted dairy hubs in Tanzania – a choice experiment 2016
- An Exploratory study of Dairying Intensification, Women’s Decision Making, and Time Use and Implications for Child Nutrition in Kenya. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH. 28:722-740. 2016
- Commercializing the smallholder goat sector in India: Recommendations from innovation platform discussions in Bihar, Odisha and Uttar Pradesh 2016
- Dairy value chains in East Africa: Why so few women? 2016
- East African farmers to benefit from using mobile phones to record yields 2016
- Farmers? preference for bundled input-output markets: Implications for adapting dairy market hubs in the Tanzania dairy value chain 2016
- ILRI program outline: Policy, Value Chains and Livelihoods 2016
- Processor linkages, farm productivity and household income in dairy farm households in East Africa 2016
- Scaling up the Infection and Treatment Method vaccine: Constraints to value chain adoption in Tanzania 2016
- The use of the Infection and Treatment Method vaccine in controlling East Coast Fever in Kenya: Does gender matter for adoption and impact? 2016
- Credit, technology adoption and collective action in Tanzania?s smallholder dairy sector 2015
- Livestock and food security: An ILRI perspective 2015
- Setting up sustainable dairy business hubs: A resource book for facilitators 2015
- Exploring future changes in smallholder farming systems by linking socio-economic scenarios with regional and household models. Global Environmental Change-human and Policy Dimensions. 24:165-182. 2014
- Gender research at ILRI over the last decade 2014
- Linking poor livestock keepers to markets 2014
- Livestock and Women’s Livelihoods 2014
- Uptake of artificial insemination and non-indigenous cattle in small to medium scale farms in Senegal 2014
- Use of high density SNP genotypes to determine the breed composition of cross bred dairy cattle in smallholder farms: Assessment of reproductive and health performance 2014
- Dairy hubs in East Africa: Lessons from the East Africa Dairy Development project 2013
- Cost of milk production in East Africa 2012
- Where should we target Infection and Treatment Method (ITM) distribution? A GIS based approach applied to Kenya, Malawi, Tanzania and Uganda 2012
- Dynamic Changes in the Uptake of Dairy Technologies in the Kenya Highlands 2011
- Community-based interventions for the use and conservation of animal genetic resources: the case of indigenous scavenger chicken production in Benin. Tropical Animal Health and Production. 43:961-966. 2011
- Constraints to the use of artificial insemination service and possible solutions 2011
- Emerging Markets in the Post-Liberalisation Period: Evidence from the Raw Milk Market in Rural Kenya. Journal of African Economies. 19:88-110. 2011
- Feeds and feeding practices 2011
- Gender, livestock and livelihood indicators 2011
- Sustainable management of globally significant endemic ruminant livestock in West Africa (PROGEBE): Summary for decision making?The Gambia 2011
- Using hubs to increase smallholder farmers? access to services: Experiences from the East Africa Dairy Development Project 2011
- Use of SNP genotyping to determine pedigree and breed composition of dairy cattle in Kenya. Journal of Animal Breeding and Genetics. 127:348-351. 2010
- Consumer demand for sheep and goat meat in Kenya. Small Ruminant Research. 90:135-138. 2010
- Characterization of the spatial distribution of farming systems in the Kenyan Highlands. Applied Geography. 30:239-253. 2010
- A dairy value chain approach to project implementation: Ideas and key constructs 2010
- Assessment of the dairy cattle feeding systems in East Africa 2010
- Competitiveness of smallholder dairy farmers in East Africa 2010
- Traditional milk market in Assam: Potential for income and employment generation 2010
- Alleviating feed shortages in agro-pastoral systems of Kenya 2009
- Development of livestock production systems in Africa. Challenges and opportunities with a focus on recent achievements 2009
- Valuing goat genetic resources: a pro-poor growth strategy in the Kenyan semi-arid tropics. Tropical Animal Health and Production. 40:583-596. 2008
- Economic valuation of sheep genetic resources: implications for sustainable utilization in the Kenyan semi-arid tropics.. Tropical Animal Health and Production. 40:615-626. 2008
- Risk attitudes, resource rationalization and dairy intensification in Uganda: stochastic dominance with observed and optimal net farm benefits 2008
- Beyond one-size-fits-all: Differentiating market access measures for commodity systems in the kenyan highlands. Journal of Agricultural Economics. 58:536-548. 2007
- Categorisation of dairy production systems: A strategy for targeting meaningful development of the systems in Uganda 2007
- Targeting dairy interventions in Kenya: a guide for development planners, researchers and extension workers 2007
- Dispositifs de partenariats et promotion de nouvelles politiques laitières: l?expérience du Smallholder Dairy Project au Kenya 2006
- Smallholder dairy farmer access to alternative milk market channels in Gujarat 2006
- Livelihood mapping and poverty correlates at a meso-level in Kenya. Food Policy. 30:568-583. 2005
- Crop-livestock system dynamics in the densely populated highlands of Kenya 2005
- Improved livelihoods from grasslands: the case of Napier grass in smallholder dairy farms in Kenya 2005
- The future of crop-livestock systems in the densely populated highlands of Kenya 2005
- Encourager la commercialisation et le commerce intra-régional du bétail en Afrique de l?Ouest 2004
- Fodder legumes technology and farmer to farmer extension: a case of Desmodium and Calliandra in central Kenya 2004
- Les circuits de distribution, les flux et les prix du bétail en Afrique de l?Ouest 2004
- Livestock marketing channels, flows and prices in West Africa 2004
- Lowering cross-border livestock transportation and handling costs in West Africa 2004
- Marketing livestock in West Africa: opportunities and constraints 2004
- Crop-livestock intensification and interactions across three continents: main report 2003
- Location and uptake: integrated household and GIS analysis of technology adoption and land use, with application to smallholder dairy farms in Kenya. Agricultural Economics. 27:295-315. 2002
- Combined household and GIS analysis of farmer strategies: an application to feeding practices on smallholder Kenyan dairy farms 2000
- Determinants of adoption of dairy cattle technology in the Kenyan highlands: a spatial and dynamic approach 2000
- Spatial aspects of producer milk price formation in Kenya: a joint household-GIS approach 2000
- Intensification and competitiveness of smallholder dairy production systems in the greater Nairobi Milk-Shed 1998
- Intensification of dairying in the greater Nairobi milk-shed: spatial and household analysis 1998
- Emerging Markets in the Post-Liberalisation Period: Evidence from the Raw Milk Market in Rural Kenya 1970
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dataset
- SDG - Adult Female Survey 2013
- SDG - Baseline Survey 2013
- SDG - Longitudinal Baseline Survey (C1) 2013
- SDG - Longitudinal Monitoring Survey 2013
- SDG - Transhumance Survey 2013
- SDG - Willingness to Pay Survey 2013
- Kenya Smallholder dairy project - Characterization survey 1998
- Kenya Smallholder dairy project - Nutrient Balance survey 1997
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document
- Business approaches for sustainable access to markets and pigs information for producers and main target buyers 2017
- Connecting livestock keepers in Eastern Africa to markets to enhance resilience 2017
- Dairy development pathways: ILRI?s experience 2017
- Livestock and fish value chain transformation: an interdisciplinary process 2017
- Nh?ng cách ti?p c?n kinh doanh nào có th? giúp ng??i s?n xu?t ti?p c?n th? tr??ng và các thông tin hi?u qu? và b?n v?ng h?n và nh?ng ??i t??ng tiêu th? nào c?n nh?m t?i? 2017
- Hub models to transform dairy value chains in East Africa 2016
- Cattle keepers? preference for dairy business hub options in Tanzania 2015
- Gender capacity assessment and development in four Livestock and Fish value chain countries: Ethiopia, Uganda, Tanzania and Nicaragua 2015
- Gender, livestock and livelihood indicators: An update 2015
- Assessing the uptake and disease impact of Napier grass in Kenya 2014
- Determinants of use of breeding technologies in small to medium scale dairy cattle farms in Senegal 2014
- Milk composition of dairy cattle breeds in Senegal 2014
- Predicting lactation records from test day samples in indigenous and crossbred dairy animals in Senegal 2014
- Refocusing livestock agricultural research for development to address food and nutritional security challenges 2014
- Senegal dairy genetics 2014
- Using choice experiments: Facilitating priority setting in provision of animal health services 2014
- Livestock keepers? perception of indigenous goat breeds and their contribution to livelihoods in Pakistan 2013
- Costs of milk production in EADD hubs in East Africa 2012
- Delivery of advisory and technical services for dairy smallholder production systems: The concept of dairy hubs 2012
- Developing site specific feed plans using the feed assessment tool (FEAST) 2012
- Increasing farmer participation in institutional innovative system: The case of dairy hub marketing in Kenya 2011
- Key economic performance indicator 2011
- Livestock disease challenges and gaps in delivery of animal health services 2011
- The emerging livestock feed markets in East Africa: A solution to feed shortages? 2011
- Livestock and Women's Livelihoods: A Review of the Recent Evidence 2010
- Livestock productivity constraints and opportunities for investment in science and technology 2008
- Improving pastoralists? livelihoods through evaluation of small ruminants? traits: the case of sheep and goat in Marsabit district 2007
- Market power and efficiency in indigenous small ruminant marketing channels in Marsabit, Kenya 2007
- Dynamic changes in dairy technologies uptake in the Kenya Highlands 2006
- Quantifying the economic impacts of a policy shift towards legalizing informal milk trade in Kenya 2006
- A study of smallholder farmers? choice of dairy cattle traits and genotypes in Kirinyaga, Rachuonyo and Nakuru districts of Kenya 2005
- Farming system dynamics as result of demographic change in the densely populated highlands of Kenya 2005
- Artificial or natural insemination: the demand for breeding services by smallholders 2004
- Demand-driven crop-ruminant intensification: trans-regional analysis to understand patterns of change using village-level data from three continents 2004
- La commercialisation du bétail en Afrique de l?Ouest: opportunités et contraintes 2004
- Promoting livestock marketing and intra-regional trade in West Africa 2004
- Adoption of grade cattle technology in Kenya: A combined farm-level and spatial approach 2000
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review
- A scoping review of feed interventions and livelihoods of small-scale livestock keepers.. Nature plants. 1242-+. 2020
- Women’s empowerment, food security and nutrition of pastoral communities in Tanzania. GLOBAL FOOD SECURITY-AGRICULTURE POLICY ECONOMICS AND ENVIRONMENT. 125-134. 2019
- Trade-offs in livestock development at farm level: Different actors with different objectives. GLOBAL FOOD SECURITY-AGRICULTURE POLICY ECONOMICS AND ENVIRONMENT. 103-112. 2018