Field Work

[12] In December 2023, I was leading the design and field work for the RCT evaluating the effect of demonstration plots density combined with digital advisories on knowledge and intent to adopt. In this study, we are promoting a bundle of different technologies from improved maize and legume seeds tolerant to specific diseases, to minimum tillage (sample size 1920). Unfortunately, there was a drought the 2023/2024 season, a severe one. An example of RCTs affected by natural disasters.

[11] In October 2023, I was in the beautiful district of Soroti in Uganda where I was leading the field on an RCT testing the effect of signalling on farmers dissemination and adoption of environmentally friendly pest management practices. This work, led by a PhD student at Wageningen University meant training of farmers in different treatment, distribution of t-shirts for the various signal treatments, and baseline data collection (sample size, 2000)

[10] In August-September 2023, I led the field work for the study on testing the gender of the lead farmer and how they are selected by the community and its effect on the dissemination of the push-pull pest management technology. With the help of the local partner, we trained farmers in 90 randomly selected villages, witnessed the voting of two lead farmers per community (on treatment, the whole group votes for two lead farmers, second treatment each gender votes for a lead farmer), and supervised the baseline data collection (1800 sample size)

[9] I recently (second week of November 2022), with colleagues involved in the AgriPath project, completed a scoping mission in Nepal. We visited several farmers and farmers' groups. The experience was enlightening for me to see differences between African and Nepalese smallholder farmers. 

[8] Working on implementing an RCT on digital advisory services in Uganda and India that will run from 2023 to 2025.

[7] Currently, I am working on conducting baseline surveys in Burkina Faso, Tanzania and Nepal before one of the AgriPath partners begin promoting sustainable land management practices via digital tools. An endline survey will be also be conducted

[6] In December 2021, I conducted a rapid scoping survey in Uganda involving 10 FGDs and 5 key informant interviews to understand the penetration of mobile technologies and the common sustainable land management challenges in Northern and Eastern Uganda. This was part of the AgriPath project I am working on at ICIPE.

[5] In late 2019, I conducted a survey in Northern Zambia to evaluate the link between agriculture and nutrition. This was my first survey I led that involved collection of children’s anthropometric indicators to measure nutrition. A total of 528 households with about 525 children under 5 were interviewed and measured.

[4] In 2019, while under a Ph.D. research fellowship at Africa Rice Center, I implemented an RCT (from protocol design, survey tools, data collection) to evaluate the impact of a rice processing technology in Cot d’Ivoire and Nigeria.

[3] In 2016, while working as a research fellow at the University of Zambia, I trained enumerators, and collected data from two districts in Zambia and more than 200 farmers on the effect of commercialization on gender.

[2] Structure, Conduct, Performance analysis of the vitamin A maize market in Zambia. Between 2013-2016, under contract from Abt Associates, I was contracted as a local consultant under the AgResults project. I helped Abt Associates design the survey tools, contextualise them, and collected data from millers, agrodealers, farmers, traders, and key informant interviews in more than 8 districts of Zambia alone.

[1] In 2012, under contract from the International Centre of Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), I designed survey tools, and successfully collected data on beans value chain players in Zambia under the Pulse Value Chain Initiative. The survey included farmers (more than 400), traders (200), wholesalers, and consumers (more than 200).