Published research and book chapters 

Shikuku, K.M., Ochenje, I., Osiemo, J., Banerjee, R., DuttaGupta, T., and Khalai, D., 2025. Preferences for bundled index-based livestock insurance: Evidence from northern Kenya. Agricultural Economics, https://doi.org/10.1111/agec.70089.

Shikuku, K.M., Lepariyo, W.S., Obonyo, M.B., and Ochenje, I., 2025. Crowdsourcing initiatives and the diffusion of information: Experimental evidence from livestock keepers in Kenya. Food Policy. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodpol.2025.102935.

Jensen, N., Barrett, C., Mude, A., Banerjee, R., Noritomo, Y., Shikuku, K.M., Takahashi, K., Teufel, N., 2025. Index-based Livestock insurance to support pastoralists against droughts. Food Policy, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodpol.2025.102909.

Shikuku, K.M., and Ochenje, I., 2025. Impact of index insurance on downside risk: evidence from northern Kenya. Applied Economic Perspectives & Policy. https://doi.org/10.1002/aepp.13497. 

Alulu, V.H., Shikuku, K.M., Lepariyo, W. et al. 2024. The impact of forage condition on household food security in northern Kenya and southern Ethiopia. Food Security. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12571-024-01473-w.

Jensen, N., Teufel, N., Banerjee, R., Galgallo, D. and Shikuku, K.M. 2024. The role of heterogenous implementation on the uptake and long-term diffusion of agricultural insurance in a pastoral context. Food Policy, 125, 102644, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodpol.2024.102644.  

Shikuku, K.M., Bulte, E., Lagerkvist, C.J., Tran, N., 2023. Endowments, expectations, and the value of food safety certification: experimental evidence from fish markets in Nigeria. Experimental Economics, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10683-023-09809-7.

Okello, J., Shikuku, K.M., Lagerkvist, C.J., Rommel, J., Jogo, W., Ojwang, S., Namanda, S., Elungat, J., 2023. Social incentives as nudges for agricultural knowledge diffusion and willingness to pay for certified seeds: Experimental evidence from Uganda. Food Policy, Volume 120, 102506, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodpol.2023.102506.

Shikuku, K.M., Okello, J.J., Wambugu, S., Sindi, K., Low, J., and McEwan, M. (2019). Nutrition and Food Security Impacts of One-Time Provision of ‘Quality Planting Materials’ of Biofortified Crops: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Orange-fleshed Sweetpotato Farmers in Tanzania. World Development. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2019.104646. 

Shikuku K.M., Pieters, J., Bulte, E., Laderach, P.  2019. Incentives and the Diffusion of Agricultural Knowledge: Experimental Evidence from Northern Uganda.  American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 101(4): 1164–1180. https://doi.org/10.1093/ajae/aaz010.

Shikuku, K.M., Okello, J.J., Sindi, K., Low, J.W., McEwan M., 2017. Effect of Farmers’ Multidimensional Beliefs on Adoption of Biofortified Crops: Evidence from Sweetpotato Farmers in Tanzania. Journal of Development Studies, https://doi.org/10.1080/00220388.2017.1414188.

Shikuku, K.M., Winowiecki, L., Twyman, J., Eitzinger, A., Juan, G., Mwongera, C., and Laderach, P., 2017. Smallholder farmers’ attitudes and determinants of adaptation to climate risks in East Africa. Climate risk management; http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.crm.2017.03.001. 

Shikuku, K.M., 2019. Information Exchange Links, Knowledge Exposure, and Adoption of Agricultural Technologies in Northern Uganda. World Development, 115, 94-106. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2018.11.012.

Shikuku, K.M., Mequanint, B.M., 2020. Networks, Incentives and Technology Adoption: Evidence from a Randomised Experiment in Uganda. European Review of Agricultural Economics. https://doi.org/10.1093/erae/jbaa009.

Tran, N., Shikuku, K.M., Hoffmann, V., Lagerkvist, C.J., Pincus, L., Akintola, S.L., Fakoya, K.A., Olagunju, O.F., Bailey, C., 2022. Are consumers in developing countries willing to pay for aquaculture food safety certification? Evidence from a field experiment in Nigeria. Aquaculture, 550, 737829. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aquaculture.2021.737829.

Ragasa, C., Charo-Karisa, H., Rurangwa, E., Tran, N., Shikuku, K.M., 2022. Sustainable aquaculture development in sub-Saharan Africa. Nature Food, 3, 92-94. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-022-00467-1.

Donovan, J., Rutsaret, P., Spielman, D., Shikuku, K.M., Demont, M., 2021. Seed value chain development in the Global South: Key issues and new directions for public breeding programs. Outlook on Agriculture, 50(4), 366-377.

Wang, P., Tran, N., Enahoro, D., Chan, C.Y., Shikuku, K.M., Rich, K.M., Byrd, K., and Thilsted, S.H., 2021. Spatial and temporal patterns of consumption of animal-source foods in Tanzania. Agribusiness, 38(2), 328-348. https://doi.org/10.1002/agr.21729.

Rossignoli, C.M., Manyise, T., Shikuku, K.M., et al., 2023. Tilapia aquaculture systems in Egypt: Characteristics, sustainability outcomes and entry points for sustainable aquatic food systems. Aquaculture, 577, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aquaculture.2023.739952.

Ntawuruhunga, D., Ngowi, E.E., Mangi, H.O., Salanga, R.J., Shikuku, K.M., 2023. Geospatial characterization of climate-smart agroforestry in two contrasting physiographic zones of Rwanda. Trees, Forests and People, 14, 100446, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tfp.2023.100446.

Ntawuruhunga, D., Ngowi, E.E., Mangi, H.O., Salanga, R.J., Shikuku, K.M., 2023. Climate-smart agroforestry systems and practices: A systematic review of what works, what doesn't work, and why. Forest Policy and Economics, 150, 102937. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.forpol.2023.102937

Naziri, D., Belton, B., Loison, S.A., Reardon, T., Shikuku, K.M., Kaguongo, W., Maina, K., Ogello, E., Obiero, K. 2023. COVID-19 disruptions and pivoting in SMEs in the hidden middle of Kenya’s potato and fish value chains. International Food and Agribusiness Management Review, 1-26. https://doi.org/10.22434/IFAMR2022.0120.

Aung, Y.M., Khor, L.Y., Tran, N., Shikuku, K.M., and Zeller, M., 2021. Technical efficiency of small-scale aquaculture in Myanmar: Does women’s participation in decision-making matter? Aquaculture Reports, 21, 100841. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aqrep.2021.100841.

Tran, N., Shikuku, K.M., Rossignoli, C.M., Barman, B.K., Cheong, K.C., Ali, M.S., Benzie, J.A.H., 2021. Growth, yield and profitability of genetically improved farmed tilapia (GIFT) and non-GIFT strains in Bangladesh. Aquaculture, 536, 736486. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aquaculture.2021.736486. 

Shikuku, K.M., Tran, N., Joffre, O.M., Islam, A.H.M.S. Islam, Barman, B.K., Ali, S., Rossignoli, C.M., 2021. Lock-ins to the dissemination of genetically improved fish seeds. Agricultural Systems, 188, 103042, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agsy.2020.103042. 

Shikuku, K.M., Tran, N., Pincus, L., Hoffmann, V., Lagerkvist, C.J., Akintola, S.L., Fakoya, K.A., Muliro, J., 2020. Experimental and survey-based data on willingness to pay for seafood safety and environmental sustainability certification in Nigeria.  Data in Brief. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2020.105540 .

Lan, L., Sain, G., Czaplicki., S, Guerten, N., Shikuku, K.M, Grosjean, G., et al. 2018. Farm-level and community aggregate economic impacts of adopting climate smart agricultural practices in three mega environments. PLoS ONE 13(11): e0207700. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0207700

Okello, J.J., Sindi, K., Shikuku, K., McEwan, M., and Low, J., 2017. A study of Household food security and adoption of biofortified crop varieties in Tanzania: The case of orange-fleshed sweetpotato. International Development, Dr. Seth Appiah-Opuku (Ed.), InTech. 

Shikuku, K.M., Valdivia, R.O., Birthe, P., Mwongera, C., Winowiecki, L.A., Laderach, P., Herrero, M., and Silvestri, S., 2017. Prioritizing climate-smart livestock technologies in rural Tanzania: A minimum data approach. Agricultural Systems, 151: 204-216. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.agsy.2016.06.004.

McEwan, M.A., Lusheshanija, D., Shikuku, K.M., Sindi, K., 2017. Specialised sweetpotato vine multiplication in Lake zone, Tanzania: what ‘sticks’ and what changes? Open Agriculture; 2:64-69.

Mwongera, C., Shikuku, K.M., Twyman, J., Laderach, P., Ampaire, E., Van Asten, P., Twomlow, S., and Winowiecki, L.A., 2016. Climate smart agriculture rapid appraisal (CSA-RA): A tool for prioritizing context-specific climate smart agriculture technologies. Agricultural Systems, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.agsy.2016.05.009.

Lagerkvist, C.J., Shikuku, K.M., Okello, J.J., Karanja, N., and Ackello-Ogutu, C., 2015. A conceptual approach for measuring farmers' attitudes to integrated soil fertility management in Kenya. NJAS - Wageningen Journal of Life Sciences, 74–75: 17-26.

Okello, J.J., Sindi, K., Shikuku, K.M., Low, J., McEwan, M., Nakazi, F., Namanda, S., Babu, A., and Mafuru, J., 2015. Effect of technology awareness and access on the conservation of clean planting materials of vegetatively produced crops: the case of sweetpotato. Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems, 39(9): 955-977. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21683565.2015.1053586.

Okello, J.J., Shikuku, K.M., Sindi, K., and Low, J., 2015. Farmers’ perceptions of orange-fleshed sweetpotato: Do common beliefs about sweetpotato production and consumption really matter? African Journal of Food, Agriculture, Nutrition, and Development, 15(4): 10153-10170. 

Conferences

Keynote speaker: " Strengthening the Resilience of Food Systems and Livelihoods in Kenya". Tegemeo Institute. 30th Oct 2024, Sarova Panafric Hotel, Nairobi, Kenya.

Keynote speaker and moderator at the Financing Agriculture Sustainably Conference (FINAS 2024), Nairobi, Kenya.

 Discussant at the CGIAR Standing Panel on Impacts Assessment (SPIA) Webinar Series: Supporting the Design of Rigorous Impact Evaluations of CGIAR Innovations | CGIAR Independent Advisory and Evaluation Services. Study title: Experimental Assessment of the Collective Action Impacts of Participatory Rangeland Management in Kenya and Tanzania.

Invited speaker at the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (AAEA) 2023 annual meeting organized symposium on, “Building Resilience: Insights from Cross-Country Research and Practices - CGIAR.”

 Invited speaker at the 7th AgriFin Learning Event themed “Resilient, Inclusive, and Sustainable Food Systems: Enhancing Collaboration to Scale Digital Solutions.”.

 Invited speaker about the role of gender and socially inclusive insurance in resilience building at the 2023 Resilience Evidence Forum in Cape Town, South Africa.

Presentation at the Agriculture, Nutrition, and Health (ANH) Academy Week (June 2021). Parallel session: Aquatic and animal source foods. Title of PowerPoint presentation: Expectations-based Reference Dependence and the Demand for Fish Food Safety Certification: Experimental Evidence from Nigeria.

Presentation at the Agriculture, Nutrition, and Health (ANH) Academy Week (2020). Title of presentation: Demand for fish food safety certification in Nigeria.

Presented at the 30th International Conference of Agricultural Economists in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada (August 2018). Paper title: Information exchange links, knowledge exposure, and adoption of agricultural technologies in northern Uganda. 

Okello, J.J., Shikuku, K.M., Sindi, K., and Low, J. 2014. Farmer perception and attitude towards orange flesh sweetpotato attributes: An analysis of common beliefs about sweetpotato production and consumption. A Contributed Paper Prepared for Presentation at the 14th EAAE Congress, Ljubljana, Slovenia, August 26th -29th, 2014. 

Shikuku, K.M., Laderach, P., Mwongera, C., and Winowiecki, L.A. (2015). A cost function analysis of trade-offs within climate-smart agriculture: does mulching save the cost of crop production among smallholders in Uganda? A Contributed paper presented at the 29th ICAE, Milan, Italy, August 9th -14th, 2015. 

Technical reports 

Shikuku KM; Mwongera C; Winowiecki L; Twyman J; Läderach P. 2016. Understanding farmers’ indicators in climate-smart agriculture prioritization in the Southern Agricultural Growth Corridor of Tanzania (SAGCOT). International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), Cali, Colombia. 43 p. https://cgspace.cgiar.org/handle/10568/72826.

Shikuku, Kelvin M.; Mwongera, Caroline; Winowiecki, Leigh; Twyman, Jennifer; Atibo, Christopher; Läderach, Peter. 2015. Understanding farmers’ indicators in climate-smart agriculture prioritization in Nwoya District, Northern Uganda. Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical (CIAT), Cali, CO. 56 p. (Publicación CIAT No. 412). https://cgspace.cgiar.org/handle/10568/70147.

Wiggins, S., Banerjee, R.R., Patel, N., and Shikuku, K.M. 2023. Farming after fighting: Agricultural recovery after conflict: a review of evidence and practice. SPARC (Supporting Pastoralism and Agriculture in Recurrent and Protracted Crises) Evidence Review. London: ODI. https://cgspace.cgiar.org/handle/10568/131223.

Shikuku, K.M., Ochenje, I., Lepariyo, W. and Banerjee, R. 2023. Facilitating knowledge management for adaptation planning in Africa: Inventory of adaptation planning tools and frameworks. ILRI Research Report 117. Nairobi, Kenya: ILRI. https://cgspace.cgiar.org/handle/10568/131222.

Scientific blogs

Shikuku, K.M. et al., 2015. Simple yet comprehensive: A Climate Smart Agriculture Rapid Appraisal prioritization tool for outscaling CSA practices. A blog. https://ccafs.cgiar.org/blog/simple-yet-comprehensive-climate-smart-agriculture-rapid-appraisal-prioritization tool#.V4VCJfl97IU.