Kenya Papers and Presentations

This presentation was held on March 10, 2014 discussing the constraints between introducing new technology and technology adoption in Nepal and Kenya.

This paper describes how a game was designed, how it was used in the field, and presents findings on how individuals played the game to introduce index based livestock insurance (IBLI).

This presentation took place in University of California Davis, United States describing how large seed companies can ignore the needs of smallholder farmers.

This presentation took place in University of California Davis, United States describing 100 percent adoption and adoption intensity of hybrid seeds in Kenya could be overly optimistic. 

This presentation took place in University of California Davis, United States describing contract farming in Kenya.

This presentation was presented by Irvin Widders from USAID describing the new technologies and knowledge Innovation Labs empower.

This paper considers poverty dynamics in a typical setting by calibrating the model to the northern Kenyan rangelands, where evidence of a poverty trap exists and pastoralists have the opportunity to insure livestock against drought losses.

This project proposes a theoretical dynamic demand analysis of the index based livestock insurance (IBLI) pilot in Marsabit district.

We explore how dynamic field experiments can help (i) intended beneficiaries learn and understand these complicated benefit streams and (ii) researchers better understand how the poor respond to risk when faced with nonlinear welfare dynamics.