selected publications
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article
- Emerging research practice for impact in the CGIAR: The case of Index-Based Livestock Insurance (IBLI):. Outlook on Agriculture. 48:255-267. 2019
- Does the design matter? Comparing satellite-based indices for insuring pastoralists against drought. Ecological Economics. 162:59-73. 2019
- How basis risk and spatiotemporal adverse selection influence demand for index insurance: Evidence from northern Kenya. Food Policy. 74:172-198. 2018
- Cash transfers and index insurance: A comparative impact analysis from northern Kenya. Journal of Development Economics. 129:14-28. 2017
- Income and asset poverty among pastoralists in northern Kenya. Journal of Development Studies. 53:971-986. 2017
- Integrating Social Protection Strategies for Improved Impact: A Comparative Evaluation of Cash Transfers and Index Insurance in Kenya. Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance-issues and Practice. 42:675-707. 2017
- Welfare Impacts of Index Insurance in the Presence of a Poverty Trap. World Development. 94:119-138. 2017
- Determining insurable units for index-based livestock insurance in northern Kenya and southern Ethiopia 2017
- Improving the Agency Model in distribution of Index Based Livestock Insurance (IBLI) ? A study of Takaful Insurance of Africa 2017
- The role of mobile technologies in promoting sustainable delivery of livestock insurance in the East African Drylands: Toward sustainable Index-Based Livestock Insurance (IBLI) for pastoralists 2017
- Assessing the Impact of U.S. Food Assistance Delivery Policies on Child Mortality in Northern Kenya.. PLOS ONE. 11. 2016
- Does peer monitoring influence choices between cash and food? Findings from a field experiment. Food Policy. 65:21-31. 2016
- Targeted social protection in a pastoralist economy: case study from Kenya.. Revue Scientifique Et Technique De L Office International Des Epizooties. 35:587-596. 2016
- Linking rural livelihood resilience and food security: an international challenge. Food Security. 8:469-476. 2016
- Early assessment of seasonal forage availability for mitigating the impact of drought on East African pastoralists. Remote Sensing of Environment. 174:44-55. 2016
- A Spatial Econometric Approach to Designing and Rating Scalable Index Insurance in the Presence of Missing Data. Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance-issues and Practice. 41:259-279. 2016
- INDEX INSURANCE QUALITY AND BASIS RISK: EVIDENCE FROM NORTHERN KENYA. American Journal of Agricultural Economics. 98:1450-1469. 2016
- Determining optimal seasonal integration times of NDVI series for index-based livestock insurance in East Africa 2015
- Learning large-scale dynamic discrete choice models of spatio-temporal preferences with application to migratory pastoralism in East Africa 2015
- Introducing some ILRI and CGIAR activities in Ethiopia 2015
- The favourable impacts of Index-Based Livestock Insurance: Evaluation results from Ethiopia and Kenya 2015
- Index Insurance and Cash Transfers: A Comparative Analysis from Northern Kenya 2014
- How Basis Risk and Spatiotemporal Adverse Selection Influence Demand for Index Insurance: Evidence from Northern Kenya 2014
- Historical extension of operational NDVI products for livestock insurance in Kenya. 2017 9th International Workshop on the Analysis of Multitemporal Remote Sensing Images (MultiTemp). 28:238-251. 2014
- Identfying potenial methods of up-scaling index based livestock insurance (IBLI): Lessons in extension and outreach 2014
- Pastoralism: From vulnerability to resilience 2014
- Sustainable livestock insurance for pastoralists 2014
- An integrated agro-ecosystem and livelihood systems approach for the poor and vulnerable in dry areas. Food Security. 5:751-767. 2013
- Delivering Index-Based Livestock Insurance through ICT 2013
- Designing Index-Based Livestock Insurance for Managing Asset Risk in Northern Kenya. Journal of Risk and Insurance. 80:205-237. 2013
- Responding to Food Insecurity: Employing the Market Information and Food Insecurity Response Analysis Framework in Rural Northern Kenya. Journal of Development Studies. 48:1731-1749. 2012
- Options for enhancing resilience in pastoral systems 2012
- Dealing with Climate-Related Risks: Some Pioneering Ideas for Enhanced Pastoral Risk Management in Africa. Experimental Agriculture. 47:375-393. 2011
- Insuring against drought-related livestock mortality: Piloting index-based livestock insurance in northern Kenya 2011
- Protecting pastoralists against mortality losses due to severe forage scarcity 2011
- Willingness to Pay for Index Based Livestock Insurance among Vulnerable Pastoralists: Results from a Field Experiment in Northern Kenya 2011
- Explaining index-based livestock insurance to pastoralists. Agricultural Finance Review. 70:333-352. 2010
- Insuring Against Drought‐Related Livestock Mortality: Piloting Index Based Livestock Insurance in Northern Kenya 2010
- Dynamic Field Experiments in Development Economics: Risk Valuation in Morocco, Kenya, and Peru. Agricultural and Resource Economics Review. 39:176-192. 2010
- Index based livestock insurance for northern Kenya?s arid and semi-arid lands: the Marsabit Pilot. Project summary 2010
- Issues to consider in the design of index insurance products: Index-Based Livestock Insurance 2010
- Empirical Forecasting of Slow-Onset Disasters for Improved Emergency Response: An Application to Kenya's Arid North. Food Policy. 34:329-339. 2009
- Designing index based livestock insurance for managing asset risk in northern Kenya 2009
- Index Based Livestock Insurance for Northern Kenya’s Arid and Semi-Arid Lands: The Marsabit Pilot 2009
- Insuring the never before insured: explaining index insurance through financial education games 2008
- Investment opportunities for livestock in the north eastern province of Kenya:, A synthesis of existing knowledge 2008
- Vulnerability, climate change, and livestock: challenges and opportunities for the poor 2008
- Using Weather Index Insurance to Improve Drought Response for Famine Prevention. American Journal of Agricultural Economics. 89:1262-1268. 2007
- Decentralization and the social economics of development: an overview of concepts and evidence from Kenya 2007
- Poverty traps and climate risk: limitations and opportunities of index-based risk financing 2007
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document
- Creating resilience through Index Based Livestock Insurance (IBLI): Insights from Ethiopia 2018
- Index Based Livetock Insurance (IBLI): Inducing impacts through technology 2018
- Crowdsourcing for rangeland conditions?Process innovation and beyond 2017
- Index-Based Livestock Insurance (IBLI) lessons in extension and outreach: A case of Wajir County 2015
- Index-based insurance: Lottery ticket or insurance? 2015
- Integrating index-based livestock insurance with community savings and loan groups in northern Kenya 2015
- The Impact of Land Use Change on the 3-D Structure of Shrubland and Savanna Dryland Ecosystems 2015
- The Impact of Land Use on the 3D Structure of Vegetation and Soils in a Cold Desert Ecosystem in Jordan 2015
- Using satellite data to insure camels, cows, sheep and goats: IBLI and the development of the world?s first insurance for African pastoralists 2015
- Index-Based Livestock Insurance in northern Kenya: An analysis of the patterns and determinants of purchase 2012
- Responding to food insecurity: Advancing the case for cash in rural northern Kenya 2010
- Dynamic field experiments in development economics: Risk valuation in Morocco, Kenya and Peru 2009
- Insuring against drought-related livestock mortality: Piloting index based livestock insurance in northern Kenya 2009
- The performance of index based livestock insurance: ex ante assessment in the presence of a poverty trap 2009
- Willingness to pay for index based livestock insurance: results from a field experiment in northern Kenya 2009
- Spatial analysis of risk and vulnerability in the COMESA region 2008
- Kenya adaptation to climate change in the arid lands: anticipating, adapting to and coping with climate risks in Kenya - operational recommendations for KACCAL 2007
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editorial article
- Bundling innovations to transform agri-food systems. NATURE SUSTAINABILITY. 3:974-976. 2020