The Environmental Impacts of Microfinance: Index-Based Livestock Insurance and East African Rangelands
Location: CEAR-MRIC Behavioral Insurance Workshop 2025, Nairobi, Kenya
Date: Decemer 2025
Shock interactions and compounding impacts on food security: Evidence from Malawi
Date: October 2025
Weather shocks, conflict and effective, scalable interventions
Date: May 2025
Better information, more nutritious diets
Date: May 2025
Data informing the right decision at the right time and place: Mitigating the impacts of shocks on pastoral households
Location: First Annual Global Academy of Agriculture and Food Systems Symposium at the University of Edinburgh
Date: March , 2024
Location: Behavioral Economics Forum: Lessons from Behavioral Economics to Strengthen Development Programming and Policy, Washington DC
Date: Feburary 28, 2024
Long Term Diffusion and Impacts of Index Based Livestock Insurance
Location: SPIA Webinar Series: Supporting the Design of Rigorous Impact Evaluation of CGIAR Innovations
Date: May 18, 2022
Methods for Documenting Reach and Impacts at Scale of Agricultural Research for Development (AR4D)
Location: International Conference of Agricultural Economics
Date: August 25, 2021
Digital solutions for monitoring community health and nutrition status
Location: UNSCN Webinar Series - Nutrition in a Digital World
Date: December 3, 2020
Discussion of livestock insurance: index-based livestock insurance
Location: Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Livestock Systems and Feed the Future Enabling Environment for Food Security Project Joint Webinar Series on Animal Source Food Market Systems
Date: November 19, 2020
Promoting Women’s Resilience in Africa’s Arid Regions in the Age of Covid-19
Location: UC Davis Global Affairs Global Conversations Series
Date: November 17th, 2020
Digital solutions for monitoring community health and nutritionstatus
Location: Building Better and Resilient Agriculture and Food Systems Agriculture - Nutrition Nexus Sub-Themes
Date: October 21, 2020
Improving Dietary and Health Data forDecision-Making in Agriculture and Nutrition Actions in Africa
Location: ILRI Institutional Planning Meeting, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Date: September 18, 2019
Index Based Livestock Insurance (IBLI): ProductDesign & Value
Location: SERVIR NASA, Huntsville, Alabama
Date: July 25, 2019
Early Action Insurance Model for Drought in Pastoral Regions
Location: Africa Risk Capacity, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Date: July 2, 2019
Does the design matter? Comparing satellite-based indices for insuring pastoralists against drought
Location: Quality Index Insurance Certification (QUIIC) Technical Working Group, London
Date: March 8, 2019
Crowdsourcing Information in the Drylands
Location: 2018 CGIAR Big Data in Agriculture Platform Convention
Date: October 4, 2018
Location: HORN Annual Meeting: Current Thinking on Risk Finance, Nairobi, Kenya
Date: September 11,2018
Cash transfers and index insurance: A comparative impact analysis from northern Kenya
Location: AFD-Sorbonne Workshop Series Cash Transfers, Social Protection and Social Cohesion, Paris, France
Date: April 4, 2018
Session 2: Major Micro-insurance Programs: Index-Based Livestock Insurance
Location: Technological Innovations and Agricultural Micro-Insurance, IFPRI, Washington DC
Date: October 13,2016
Location: Catholic Relief Services, Baltimore, MD
Date: September 23, 2016
Don’t Follow the Crowd: Incentives for Directed Spatial Sampling
4th International Conference on Computational Sustainability, Ithaca, NY.
Date: July 2016.
Location: Annual Conference on Global Food Security, Ithaca, NY.
Date: October 14, 2015
Basis Risk and the Welfare Gains from Index Insurance: Evidence from Northern Kenya
Location: Annual AAEA meetings, San Francisco, CA
Date: July 28th, 2015
Index Insurance and Cash Transfers: A Comparative Analysis from Northern Kenya
Location: Workshop on Mobile Pastoralism, Index Insurance, Computational Sustainability and Policy Innovations for the Arid and Semi-arid Lands of East Africa, ILRI, Nairobi, Kenya.
Date: June 9th, 2015
Crowdsourcing Rangeland Conditions
Location: Workshop on Developing Policy Innovations for the Pastoralist Rangelands through Cross-Sector Partnerships, ILRI, Nairobi, Kenya.
Date: June 8th, 2015
Index Insurance and Cash Transfers: A Comparative Analysis from Northern Kenya
Location: Annual CSAE meetings, Oxford, England
Date: March 22nd, 2015
Crowdsourcing Rangeland Conditions: Guiding Citizen Scientists for Improved Data
Location: Cornell University
Date: February 11, 2015.
Location: Annual meeting of the NEUDC, Boston, MA.
Date: November 2, 2014.
Index Insurance and Cash Transfers: A Comparative Analysis from Northern Kenya
Location: Annual meeting of the AAEA, Minneapolis, MN
Date: July 27, 2014
Index Based Livestock Insurance for Pastoralists
Location: Food Systems and Poverty Reduction Symposium, Cornell University
Date: September 17, 2013
Basis Risk and Demand for Index-Based Livestock Insurance: Evidence from Northern Kenya.
Location: I4 Technical Committee Meeting, University of California Davis.
Date: September 13, 2013
Climate Change and Index Based Livestock Insurance in Borana, Ethiopia.
Location: I4 Technical Committee Meeting, University of California Davis.
Date: September 13, 2013