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Do Community Members Share Development Priorities? Results of a Ranking Exercise in East African Rangelands

McPeak, John G.; Doss, Cheryl R.; Barrett, Christopher B.; … - 2011

-arid rangelands of northern Kenya and southern Ethiopia. We first asked individuals to describe development efforts that have been …

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Empirical Forecasting of Slow-Onset Disasters for Improved Emergency Response : An Application to Kenya's Arid North

Mude, Andrew G.; Barrett, Christopher B.; McPeak, John G.; … - 2011

relatively parsimonious set of regularly measured variables from communities in Kenya’s arid north, that generates remarkably …

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Risk and intertemporal substitution : livestock portfolios and off-take among Kenyan pastoralists

Lybbert, Travis J.; McPeak, John G. - In: Journal of development economics 97 (2012) 2, pp. 415-426

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Confronting the risk of asset loss : what role do livestock transfers in northern Kenya play?

McPeak, John G. - In: Journal of development economics 81 (2006) 2, pp. 415-437

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Empirical forecasting of slow-onset disasters for improved emergency response : an application to Kenya's arid north

Mude, Andrew G.; Barrett, Christopher B.; McPeak, John G.; … - In: Food policy : economics planning and politics of food … 34 (2009) 4, pp. 329-339

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Do community members share development priorities? : results of a ranking exercise in East African rangelands

McPeak, John G.; Doss, Cheryl R.; Barrett, Christopher B.; … - In: The journal of development studies : JDS 45 (2009) 10, pp. 1663-1683

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Index Based Livestock Insurance for Northern Kenya’s Arid and Semi-Arid Lands : The Marsabit Pilot

Mude, Andrew - 2013

In Kenya's arid and semi arid lands (ASALs), drought is the most pervasive hazard, natural or otherwise, encountered by … households on a widespread level. This is especially true for northern Kenya, where more than 3 million pastoralist households … are regularly hit by increasingly severe droughts. In the past 100 years, northern Kenya recorded 28 major droughts, 4 of …

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Insuring Against Drought‐Related Livestock Mortality : Piloting Index Based Livestock Insurance in Northern Kenya

Mude, Andrew G. - 2013

Northern Kenya from the considerable drought‐related livestock mortality risk that they face. Detailing the conditions that … make the pastoral economy in Northern Kenya an ideal candidate for the provision of index‐based insurance products, the … district of Northern Kenya in early 2010 …

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Are Household Production Decisions Cooperative? Evidence on Pastoral Migration and Milk Sales from Northern Kenya

McPeak, John G.; Doss, Cheryl R. - 2010

pastoral setting from Kenya. Our results suggest that household decisions are contested, with husbands using migration …

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Differential Risk Exposure and Stochastic Poverty Traps Among East African Pastoralists

Barrett, Christopher B.; McPeak, John G. - 2014

In the pastoral and agropastoral systems of east Africa's arid and semi-arid lands (ASAL), climatic shocks, price volatility, disease outbreaks, and widespread violence beget frequent, severe disruption of already-fragile livelihoods. The past year's drought dramatically demonstrates that...

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