selected publications
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article
- Heat stress will detrimentally impact future livestock production in East Africa. NATURE FOOD. 2:88-96. 2021
- Sustainable livestock development in low- and middle-income countries: shedding light on evidence-based solutions. Environmental Research Letters. 16. 2021
- Towards environmentally sound intensification pathways for dairy development in the Tanga region of Tanzania. Regional Environmental Change. 20:1-14. 2020
- Water use in global livestock production—opportunities and constraints for increasing water productivity. Water Resources Research. 56. 2020
- Tropical forage technologies can deliver multiple benefits in Sub-Saharan Africa. A meta-analysis. Agronomy for Sustainable Development. 40:1-17. 2020
- Will dairy cattle production in West Africa be challenged by heat stress in the future. Climatic Change. 161:665-685. 2020
- A methodology for mapping current and future heat stress risk in pigs.. Animal. 14:1952-1960. 2020
- Improved feeding and forages at a crossroads: Farming systems approaches for sustainable livestock development in East Africa:. Outlook on Agriculture. 49:13-20. 2020
- Potential for soil organic carbon sequestration in grasslands in East African countries: A review. Grassland Science. 66:135-144. 2020
- Reducing agro-environmental trade-offs through sustainable livestock intensification across smallholder systems in Northern Tanzania. International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability. 18:35-54. 2020
- Perennial ryegrass and novel festulolium forage grasses in the tropical highlands of Central Kenya: Preliminary assessment. Tropical Grasslands - Forrajes Tropicales. 7:234-243. 2019
- A Participatory Approach to Assessing the Climate-Smartness of Agricultural Interventions: The Lushoto Case 2019
- Climate-Smart Agricultural Value Chains: Risks and Perspectives 2019
- Effect of feeding oat and vetch forages on milk production and quality in smallholder dairy farms in Central Kenya. Tropical Animal Health and Production. 50:1051-1057. 2018
- Survey data on cost and benefits of climate smart agricultural technologies in western Kenya.. Data in Brief. 16:261-265. 2018
- Agricultural intensification scenarios, household food availability and greenhouse gas emissions in Rwanda: Ex-ante impacts and trade-offs. Agricultural Systems. 163:16-26. 2018
- Evaluating oat cultivars for dairy forage production in the central Kenyan highlands. African Journal of Range & Forage Science. 34:145-155. 2017
- Targeting, out-scaling and prioritising climate-smart interventions in agricultural systems: Lessons from applying a generic framework to the livestock sector in sub-Saharan Africa.. Agricultural Systems. 151:153-162. 2017
- Cost and benefit analysis for climate-smart soil practices in Western Kenya 2017
- High carbon and biodiversity costs from converting Africa’s wet savannahs to cropland. Nature Climate Change. 5:481-486. 2015
- Integrating livestock feeds and production systems into agricultural multi-market models: The example of IMPACT. Food Policy. 49:365-377. 2014
- Climate change mitigation through livestock system transitions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 111:3709-3714. 2014
- Biomass use, production, feed efficiencies, and greenhouse gas emissions from global livestock systems. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 110:20888-20893. 2013
- Derivation of a household-level vulnerability index for empirically testing measures of adaptive capacity and vulnerability 2013
- Identifying recommendation domains for targeting dual-purpose maize-based interventions in crop-livestock systems in East Africa. Land Use Policy. 30:834-846. 2013
- Policies in support of pastoralism and biodiversity in the heterogeneous drylands of East Africa. Pastoralism. 2:14. 2012
- Pro-poor animal improvement and breeding — What can science do? ☆. Livestock Science. 136:15-28. 2011
- Household livelihood strategies and livestock benefits dependence in Gaza province of Mozambique. African Journal of Agricultural Research. 6:560-572. 2011
- Climate variability and climate change and their impacts on Kenya's agricutural sector 2010
- Climate variability and climate change, Impacts on Kenyan agriculture 2010
- GOBLET: An open-source geographic overlaying database and query module for spatial targeting in agricultural systems. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture. 68:114-128. 2009
- The Role of Spatial Analysis in Livestock Research for Sustainable Development. Giscience & Remote Sensing. 46:128-138. 2009
- Environmental Security and Pastoralism 2009
- Spatial determinants of poverty in rural Kenya. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 104:16769-16774. 2007
- Site selection to test an integrated approach to agricultural research for development: combining expert knowledge and participatory Geographic Information System methods. International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability. 4:39-60. 2006
- Livelihood mapping and poverty correlates at a meso-level in Kenya. Food Policy. 30:568-583. 2005
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dataset
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document
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editorial article
- Smart investments in sustainable food production: revisiting mixed crop-livestock systems.. Science. 327:822-825. 2010
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review
- LivestockPlus - The sustainable intensification of forage-based agricultural systems to improve livelihoods and ecosystem services in the tropics. Tropical Grasslands - Forrajes Tropicales. 59-82. 2015
- Livestock water productivity: feed resourcing, feeding and coupled feed-water resource data bases. Animal Production Science. 1584-1593. 2014
- The impacts of climate change on livestock and livestock systems in developing countries: A review of what we know and what we need to know. Agricultural Systems. 113-127. 2009