2025
Jensen, Nathaniel, Watson Lepariyo, Vincent Alulu, and Simbarashe Sibanda. 2025. Impacts of consumption tracking and tailored feedback on meeting nutritional recommendations: a longitudinal regression discontinuity study. Nutrition Journal, 24:85.
Lentz, Erin, Nathan Jensen, Watson Lepariyo, Sudha Narayanan, and Elizabeth Bageant. 2025. Adapting the Women’s empowerment in nutrition index: Lessons from Kenya. World Development, 188: 106887.
Liu, Benjamin, Stace Maples, Jessie Kong, Francesco Fava, Nathaniel Jensen, Philemon Chelanga, Sergio Charles, James Hassell, Lance Robinson, Luke Glowacki, Michele Barry and Hannah Wild. (2025). Leveraging deep learning models to increase the representation of nomadic pastoralists in health campaigns and demographic surveillance. PLOS Global Public Health, 5(4), e0004018.
2024
Bageant, Elizabeth, Erin Lentz, Sudha Narayanan, Nathaniel Jensen, Watson Lepariyo. 2024. How do women’s empowerment metrics measure up? A comparative analysis. Food Policy, 129.
Kahiu, Njoki, Julius Anchang, Vincent Alulu, Francesco Fava, Nathaniel Jensen, and Niall Hanan. 2024. Leveraging browse and grazing forage estimates to optimize index-based livestock insurance. Scientific Reports, 14 (1), 14834.
Jensen, Nathaniel, Nils Teufel, Rupsha Banerjee, Diba Galgallo, and Kelvin Shikuku. 2024. The role of heterogenous implementation on the uptake and long-term diffusion of agricultural insurance in a pastoral context. Food Policy, 125, 102644.
Soto, Gerardo, Steven Wilcox, Patrick Clark, Francesco Fava, Nathaniel Jensen, Njoki Kahiu, Chuan Liao, Benjamin Porter, Ying Sun, and Christopher Barrett. 2024. Mapping Rangeland Health Indicators in East Africa from 2000 to 2022. Earth System Science Data Discussions, 16(11).
2023
Flax, Valerie, Emily Ouma, Isabelle Baltenweck, Esther Omosa, Amy Girard, Nathaniel Jensen and Paula Dominguez-Salas. 2023. Pathways from livestock to improved human nutrition: lessons learned in East Africa. Food Security, 1-20.
Jensen, Nathaniel, Watson Lepariyo, Vincent Alulu, Simbarashe Sibanda, and Beatrice N. Kiage. 2023. Assessing Mbiotisho: A smartphone application used to collect high‐frequency health and nutrition data from difficult‐to‐reach populations. Maternal & Child Nutrition (2023): e13496.
Birhanu, Mulugeta and Nathaniel Jensen. (2023). Dynamics of improved agricultural technologies adoption: The chicken and maize paradox in Ethiopia. Sustainable Futures, 5, 100112.
Mauerman, Max, Carson Ross, Elisabeth Nebie, Weston Anderson, Nathaniel Jensen, and Philemon Chelanga. 2023. The long-term impact of multi-season droughts on livestock holdings and pastoralist decision-making in Marsabit, Kenya. Journal of Arid Environments, 211.
2022
Chelanga, Philemon, Nathaniel Jensen and Kavoi Mutuku Muendo (2022). Pastoral livestock market integration amidst improvements in physical and communication infrastructure: Evidence from northern Kenya. African Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 17(4), 330-344.
Kirui, Leonard, Nathaniel Jensen, Gideon Obare, Isaac Kariuki, Philemon Chelanga, and Munenobu Ikegami. 2022. Pastoral livelihood pathways transitions in northern Kenya: The process and impact of drought. Pastoralism, 12, (1), 1-12.
Chelanga, Philemon, Francesco Fava, Vincent Alulu, Rupsha Banerjee, Oscar Naibei, Masresha Taye, Matt Berg, Diba Galgallo, Wako Gobu, Watson Lepariyo, Kavoi Muendo and Nathaniel Jensen. 2022. KAZNET: An open-source, micro-tasking platform for remote locations. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 6.
2021
Graham, Michael, Philemon Chelanga', Nathaniel Jensen, Sonja Leitner, Francesco Fava, Lutz Merbold. 2021. A framework for assessing the effects of shock events on livestock and environment in sub-Saharan Africa: The COVID-19 pandemic in Northern Kenya. Agricultural Systems, 192. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agsy.2021.103203.
2020
Hassell, James M., Dawn Zimmerman, Eric M. Fèvre, Jakob Zinsstag, Salome Bukachi, Michele Barry, Mathew Muturi, Bernard Bett, Nathaniel Jensen, Seid Ali, Stace Maples, Jonathan Rushton, Rea Tschopp, Yahya O. Madaine, Rahma A. Abtidon and Hannah Wild. 2020. Africa’s Nomadic Pastoralists and Their Animals Are an Invisible Frontier in Pandemic Surveillance. The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, (forthcoming), DOI https://doi.org/10.4269/ajtmh.20-1004. Open access.
Jensen, Nathaniel, Vincent Alulu, Watson Lepariyo, Tshilidzi Madzivhandila, Bertha Mkandawire-Munthali, Simbarashe Sibanda. 2020. Improving nutrition and health data to and from remote regions. United Nations System Standing Committee on Nutrition (UNSCN)--Nutrition, 45, 96-102. Open access.
Jensen, Nathaniel, Elizabeth Lyons, Eddy Chebelyon, Ronan Le Bras, and Carla Gomes. 2020. Conspicuous monitoring and remote work. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 176, 489-511. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2020.05.010.
Takahashi, Kazushi, Yuma Noritomo, Munenobu Ikegami, and Nathaniel Jensen. 2020. Understanding Pastoralists’ Dynamic Insurance Uptake Decisions: Evidence from Four-year Panel Data in Ethiopia. Food Policy, 95, 489-511. [Preprint]
Abay, Kibrom, and Nathaniel Jensen. 2020. Access to markets, weather risk, and livestock production decisions: Evidence from Ethiopia. Agricultural Economics, 2020;1-17. https://doi.org/10.1111/agec.12573. [Postprint]
2019
Jensen, Nathaniel, Quentin Stoeffler, Francesco Fava, Anton Vrieling, Clement Atzberger, Michele Meroni, Andrew Mude, and Michael Carter. 2019. Does the design matter? Comparing satellite-based indices for insuring pastoralists against drought. Ecological Economics, 162, 59-73. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2019.04.014. [Preprint]
Knippenberg, Erwin, Nathaniel Jensen and Mark Constas. 2019. Analysis of Resilience Dynamics: Modelling Transition Probabilities in the Context of Shocks. World Development, 121, 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2019.04.010.
2018
Amare, Mulubrhan, Nathaniel Jensen, Bekele Shiferaw and Jennifer Denno Cissé, J. D. 2018. Rainfall shocks and agricultural productivity: Implications for rural household consumption. Agricultural Systems, 166, 79-89, DOI: 10.1016/j.agsy.2018.07.014.
Fisher, Eleanor, Jon Hellin, Helen Greatrex, and Nathaniel Jensen. 2018. Index insurance and climate risk management: addressing social equity. Development Policy Review, DOI: 10.1111/dpr.12387.
Johnson, Leigh, Brenda Wandera, Nathan Jensen and Rupsha Banerjee. 2018. Competing Expectations in an Index-Based Livestock Insurance Project. The Journal of Development Studies, 55(6), 1221-1239.
Jensen, Nathaniel, Andrew Mude and Christopher Barrett. 2018. How Basis Risk and Spatiotemporal Adverse Selection Influence Demand for Index Insurance: Evidence from Northern Kenya. Food Policy, 74, 172-198.
2017
Jensen, Nathaniel, Christopher Barrett, and Andrew Mude. 2017. Cash Transfers and Index Insurance: A Comparative Analysis from Northern Kenya. Journal of Development Economics, 129, 14-28.
Jensen, Nathaniel, Munenobu Ikegami and Andrew Mude. 2017. Integrating Social Protection Strategies for Improved Impact: A Comparative Evaluation of Cash Transfers and Index Insurance in Kenya. The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance - Issues and Practice, 42(4), 675-707.
Jensen, Nathaniel and Christopher Barrett. 2017. Agricultural Index Insurance for Development. Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, 39(2), 199-219.
2016
Jensen, Nathaniel, Christopher Barrett, and Andrew Mude. 2016. Index Insurance Quality and Basis Risk: Evidence from Northern Kenya. American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 98(5): 1450–1469.
Bliss, Jessica, Nathaniel Jensen, Brian Thiede, Jeremy Shoham, Carmel Dolan, Victioria Sibson and Bridget Fenn. 2016. The Risk of Acute Malnutrition among Children Aged 6-36 Months in Households Targeted by an Emergency Cash Transfer Program. Food and Nutrition Bulletin, 37(3) 387-400.
Janzen, Sarah, Nathaniel Jensen, and Andrew Mude. 2016. Targeted Social Protection in a Pastoralist Economy: Case Study from Kenya. OIE Scientific and Technical Review, 35(2).
Jensen, Nathaniel, Francesco Fava, Andrew Mude, Christopher Barrett, Brenda Wandera-Gache, Anton Vrieling, Masresha Taye, Kazushi Takahashi, Felix Lung, Munenobu Ikegami, Polly Ericksen, Philemon Chelanga, Sommerat Chantarat, Michael Carter, Hassan Bashir and Rupsha Banerjee. 2024. Escaping Poverty Traps and Unlocking Prosperity in the Face of Climate Risk: Lessons from Index-Based Livestock Insurance. Cambridge University Press.
Jensen, Nathaniel, Vincent Alulu, Watson Lepariyo and Simbarashe Sibanda, S. 2022. Piloting tools for caregiver-collected health and nutrition information. ILRI Project Brief. Nairobi, Kenya: ILRI.
Taye, Masresha and Nathaniel Jensen. 2019. Using mLearning to improve training retention: Lessons from Ethiopia. ILRI Research Brief 92. Nairobi, Kenya: ILRI.
Taye, Masresha, Vincent Alulu, Wako Gobu, and Nathaniel Jensen. 2019. Livestock insurance payouts and coping strategies of pastoralists during drought. ILRI Research Brief 90. Nairobi, Kenya: ILRI.
Naibei, Oscar, Nathan Jensen, Rupsha Banerjee, and Andrew Mude, A. 2017. Crowdsourcing for rangeland conditions—Process innovation and beyond. ILRI Research Brief 84. Nairobi, Kenya: ILRI.
Jensen, Nathan, Christopher Barrett and Andrew Mude. 2015. The favourable impacts of Index-Based Livestock Insurance: Evaluation results from Ethiopia and Kenya. I4 Brief. 2015-02.
Jensen, Nathan, Barrett, Chris, Mude., A. 2015. Index-based Insurance: Lottery ticket or insurance? ILRI Research Brief No. 53. June 2015.
Jensen, Nathaniel, Christopher Barrett and Andrew Mude. 2015. The favourable impacts of Index-Based Livestock Insurance: Evaluation results from Ethiopia and Kenya. ILRI Research Brief 52. May 2015.
Jensen, Nathaniel and Corinne Valdivia. 2013. “Explorando la Relación Entre las Estrategias de Vida y la Resiliencia Social y Ecológica en el Altiplano de Bolivia.” (English) In Jiménez, Elizabeth Zamora (editor). 2013. Cambio climático y adaptación en el Altiplano. Plural editors, La Paz, Bolivia.
Jensen, Nathaniel, Nils Teufel, Rupsha Banerjee, Diba Galgallo and Kelvin and Mashisia Shikuku. 2023. Heterogenous implementation and the long-term diffusion of index-based livestock insurance. ILRI Policy Brief 41. Nairobi, Kenya: ILRI
Banerjee, Rupsha; Fava, Francesco; Kahiu, Njoki; Jensen, Nathan; Nombre, Apollinaire; Plevin, John Luke; Dicko, Tenin Fatimata. 2023. Strengthening Financial Resilience to Drought : A Feasibility Study for an Index-based Drought Risk Financing Solution for Pastoralists in Burkina Faso. Washington, D.C.: World Bank Group.
Fava, Francesco; Banerjee, Rupsha; Kahiu, Njoki; Syll, Mame Mor Anta; Lung, Felix; Jensen, Nathan; Lemma, Yihenew Zewdie; Dicko, Tenin Fatimata; Plevin, John Luke. 2023. Strengthening Financial Resilience to Drought : A Feasibility Study for an Index-based Drought Risk Financing Solution for Pastoralists in Senegal. Washington, D.C.: World Bank Group.
Banerjee, Rupsha; Fava, Francesco; Kahiu, Njoki; Lung, Felix; Jensen, Nathan; Dicko, Tenin Fatimata; Plevin, John Luke. 2023. Strengthening Financial Resilience to Drought: A Feasibility Study for an Index-based Drought Risk Financing Solution for Pastoralists in Niger. Washington, D.C.: World Bank Group.
Fava, Francesco; Banerjee, Rupsha; Kahiu, Njoki; Maiga, Assoumane; Lung, Felix; Jensen, Nathan; Dicko, Tenin Fatimata; Plevin, John Luke. 2023. Strengthening Financial Resilience to Drought: A Feasibility Study for an Index-based Drought Risk Financing Solution for Pastoralists in Mali. Washington, D.C.: World Bank Group.
Jensen, Nathaniel, Vincent Alulu, Watson Lepariyo and Simbarashe Sibanda, S. 2022. Piloting tools for caregiver-collected health and nutrition information. ILRI Project Brief. Nairobi, Kenya: ILRI.
Carter, Michael, Geyi Zheng and Nathaniel Jensen. 2022. Clearing Pathways to Prosperity with a Livelihood Building Program in Kenya. MRR Innovation Lab Evidence Insight.
Carter, Michael, Marcos Sugastti, Francesco Fava and Nathaniel Jensen. 2021. Evaluating the Case for National Disaster Risk Insurance. MRR Innovation Lab Evidence Insight.
Fava, Fava, Nathaniel Jensen, James Sina, Andrew Mude and Barry Maher. 2021. Building financial resilience in pastoral communities in Africa: Lessons learned from implementing the Kenya Livestock Insurance Program (KLIP). Washington, D.C: World Bank.
Alulu, Vincent, Kibrom Abay and Nathaniel Jensen. 2020. KAZNET pilot data report. Nairobi, Kenya: International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI).
Alulu, Vincent, Oscar Naibei, Philemon Chelanga, Watons Lepariyo and Nathaniel Jensen. 2020. Can asset transfer and asset protection policies alter poverty dynamics in northern Kenya? Baseline survey data report. ILRI Research Report 57. Nairobi, Kenya: ILRI.
Mills, Christopher, Nathaniel Jensen, Christopher Barrett, and Andrew Mude. 2015. Characterization for index based livestock insurance.
Jensen, Nathaniel, Megan Sheahan, Christopher B. Barrett, and Andrew Mude. 2014. Hunger SafetyNet Program (HSNP) and Index Based Livestock Insurance (IBLI) baseline comparison.
McCullough Ellen, Michael Mulford, and Nathan Jensen. 2012. Local and Regional Procurement. Congressional Research Service.
Hurst, Matthew, Nathaniel Jensen, Sarah Pedersen, Asha Sharma, Jennifer Zambriski. 2012. Changing Climate Adaptation Strategies of Boran Pastoralists in Southern Ethiopia. Climate Change and Agriculture and Food Security, Working Paper No. 15.
Jensen, Nathaniel. Exploring the Relationships between Livelihood Dimensions and Socio-Ecological Resilience in the Bolivian Altiplano.