John G Mcpeak
Biographic Data
| ID | 110368 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John G Mcpeak |
| GIVEN NAMES | John G |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcpeak |
| SIGNATURE | MCPEAK J G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Syracuse University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3278-1334 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 168 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Impact of climate change adaptation on welfare and child nutrition of farm households in rural Ethiopia: A panel data analysis
The protective role of index insurance in the experience of violent conflict: Evidence from Ethiopia
Droughts are among the leading causes of livestock mortality and conflict among pastoralist populations in East Africa. To foster climate resiliency in these populations, Index Based Livestock Insurance (IBLI) products have become popular. These products, which allow herders to hedge climate risk, often utilize remote-sensed data to trigger indemnity payouts, thus ameliorating moral hazard issues associated with standard insurance products. We st…
Does Community-Based Adaptation Enhance Social Capital? Evidence from Senegal and Mali
Climate change and extreme climate shocks pose a significant threat to resource-dependent rural communities. Successfully supporting households to anticipate and adapt to climate variability and shocks, as well as build long term climate resilience, is essential to facing these changes. Given the importance of social capital in facilitating collective action and adaptation, the development community has focused on bottom-up, participatory adaptat…
Diversify More or Less? Household Income Generation Strategies and Food Security in Rural Nigeria
We provide new findings on rural livelihood diversification in Nigeria, using panel data from the Living Standards Measurement Study – Integrated Surveys on Agriculture (LSMS-ISA). To a large extent, the patterns and the implications of livelihood diversification have been analysed using cross sectional data and a narrow definition of food security in previous studies. In some cases, analysis has been conducted in the absence of shock experiences…
Land Use and Tenure Insecurity in the Drylands of Southern Ethiopia
This paper examines changing patterns of land rights and use in Borana and Guji zones, southern Ethiopia. It seeks to understand how heterogeneous groups of pastoralists and agropastoralists gain access to land under varied institutional configurations. We find different means of exclusion are pursued, including private enclosures that rely on customary institutions, government administration, and/or hybrid combinations to enforce claims. We also…
Resilience from the ground up: How Are Local Resilience Perceptions and Global Frameworks Aligned
Numerous resilience measurement frameworks for climate programmes have emerged over the past decade to operationalise the concept and aggregate results within and between programmes. Proxies of resilience, including subjective measures using perception data, have been proposed to measure resilience, but there is limited evidence on their validity and use for policy and practice. This article draws on research on the Decentralising Climate Funds p…
Mobile Peoples, Contested Borders: Land use Conflicts and Resolution Mechanisms among Borana and Guji Communities, Southern Ethiopia
Reconciling Flexibility and Tenure Security for Pastoral Resources: The Geography of Transhumance Networks in Eastern Senegal
The Role of Livestock Mobility in the Livelihood Strategies of Rural Peoples in Semi-Arid West Africa
Risk and intertemporal substitution: Livestock portfolios and off-take among Kenyan pastoralists
Leaving or Staying: Inter-Provincial Migration in Vietnam
Internal migration has several policy implications for economic growth and development for developing countries in general and for the fast growing low-income country of Vietnam in particular. Little research has been done, however, on inter-provincial migration in Vietnam. This study makes two major contributions to the migration and development literature in terms of the datasets and policy-relevant estimation approach. It is the first paper to…
Do Community Members Share Development Priorities? Results of a Ranking Exercise in East African Rangelands
This study investigates development priorities of individuals living in 11 communities in the arid and semi-arid rangelands of northern Kenya and southern Ethiopia. We first asked individuals to describe development efforts that have been implemented in their community. People were then asked to rank the usefulness of these different interventions. Finally, we asked them to rank their priorities for future development activities in their communit…
Empirical forecasting of slow-onset disasters for improved emergency response: An application to Kenya’s arid north
Understanding Declining Mobility and Inter‐household Transfers among East African Pastoralists
We model inter‐household transfers between nomadic livestock herders as the state‐dependent consequence of individuals' strategic interdependence, resulting from the existence of multiple, opposing externalities—more specifically, a public‐good security externality among individuals sharing a social (e.g. ethnic) identity in a potentially hostile environment, and a resource appropriation externality related to the use of common property grazing l…
Identifying Conservation Opportunities among Malinké Bushmeat Hunters of Guinea, West Africa
Interpersonal, Intertemporal and Spatial Variation in Risk Perceptions: Evidence from East Africa
Challenging Orthodoxies: Understanding Poverty in Pastoral Areas of East Africa
Understanding and alleviating poverty in Africa continues to receive considerable attention from a range of diverse actors, including politicians, international celebrities, academics, activists and practitioners. Despite the onslaught of interest, there is surprisingly little agreement on what constitutes poverty in rural Africa, how it should be assessed, and what should be done to alleviate it. Based on data from an interdisciplinary study of …
Bayesian Herders: Updating of Rainfall Beliefs in Response to External Forecasts
Educational Investments in a Dual Economy
We present a simple two‐period, dual‐economy model in which migration options may affect the informal financing of educational investments. When credit contracts are universally available and perfectly enforceable, spatially varied returns to human capital have no effect on educational investment patterns. But when financial markets are incomplete and informal mechanisms with imperfect contract enforcement must fill the breach, attributes that af…
Welfare dynamics in rural Kenya and Madagascar
This paper presents comparative qualitative and quantitative evidence from rural Kenya and Madagascar in an attempt to untangle the causality behind persistent poverty. We find striking differences in welfare dynamics depending on whether one uses total income, including stochastic terms and inevitable measurement error, or the predictable, structural component of income based on a household's asset holdings. Our results suggest the existence of …
Confronting the risk of asset loss: What role do livestock transfers in northern Kenya play
Institutional Arrangements for Rural Poverty Reduction and Resource Conservation
Linkages Between Community, Environmental, and Conflict Management: Experiences from Northern Kenya
Individual and Collective Rationality in Pastoral Production: Evidence From Northern Kenya
Assessing the Value of Climate Forecast Information for Pastoralists: Evidence from Southern Ethiopia and Northern Kenya
Interpersonal, Intertemporal and Spatial Variation in Risk Perceptions: Evidence from East Africa
Assessing the Value of Climate Forecast Information for Pastoralists: Evidence from Southern Ethiopia and Northern Kenya
Challenging Orthodoxies: Understanding Poverty in Pastoral Areas of East Africa
Understanding and alleviating poverty in Africa continues to receive considerable attention from a range of diverse actors, including politicians, international celebrities, academics, activists and practitioners. Despite the onslaught of interest, there is surprisingly little agreement on what constitutes poverty in rural Africa, how it should be assessed, and what should be done to alleviate it. Based on data from an interdisciplinary study of …
Linkages Between Community, Environmental, and Conflict Management: Experiences from Northern Kenya
Institutional Arrangements for Rural Poverty Reduction and Resource Conservation
Confronting the risk of asset loss: What role do livestock transfers in northern Kenya play
The Role of Livestock Mobility in the Livelihood Strategies of Rural Peoples in Semi-Arid West Africa
Resilience from the ground up: How Are Local Resilience Perceptions and Global Frameworks Aligned
Numerous resilience measurement frameworks for climate programmes have emerged over the past decade to operationalise the concept and aggregate results within and between programmes. Proxies of resilience, including subjective measures using perception data, have been proposed to measure resilience, but there is limited evidence on their validity and use for policy and practice. This article draws on research on the Decentralising Climate Funds p…
Individual and Collective Rationality in Pastoral Production: Evidence From Northern Kenya
Mobile Peoples, Contested Borders: Land use Conflicts and Resolution Mechanisms among Borana and Guji Communities, Southern Ethiopia
Bayesian Herders: Updating of Rainfall Beliefs in Response to External Forecasts
Identifying Conservation Opportunities among Malinké Bushmeat Hunters of Guinea, West Africa
Risk and intertemporal substitution: Livestock portfolios and off-take among Kenyan pastoralists
Empirical forecasting of slow-onset disasters for improved emergency response: An application to Kenya’s arid north
Leaving or Staying: Inter-Provincial Migration in Vietnam
Internal migration has several policy implications for economic growth and development for developing countries in general and for the fast growing low-income country of Vietnam in particular. Little research has been done, however, on inter-provincial migration in Vietnam. This study makes two major contributions to the migration and development literature in terms of the datasets and policy-relevant estimation approach. It is the first paper to…
Understanding Declining Mobility and Inter‐household Transfers among East African Pastoralists
We model inter‐household transfers between nomadic livestock herders as the state‐dependent consequence of individuals' strategic interdependence, resulting from the existence of multiple, opposing externalities—more specifically, a public‐good security externality among individuals sharing a social (e.g. ethnic) identity in a potentially hostile environment, and a resource appropriation externality related to the use of common property grazing l…
Diversity in Income-Generating Activities for Sedentarized Pastoral Women in Northern Kenya
As East African pastoralists settle around market centers, women often adopt new town-based activities to generate income. While settling in or near towns presents women with new opportunities, household poverty may prevent them from exploiting these opportunities or lead them to adopt environmentally unsustainable survival strategies that contribute to the localized degradation of the natural resource base. A survey of 102 Rendille women in and …
Assessing the Value of Climate Forecast Information for Pastoralists: Evidence from Southern Ethiopia and Northern Kenya
Institutional Arrangements for Rural Poverty Reduction and Resource Conservation
Linkages Between Community, Environmental, and Conflict Management: Experiences from Northern Kenya
Individual and Collective Rationality in Pastoral Production: Evidence From Northern Kenya
Welfare dynamics in rural Kenya and Madagascar
This paper presents comparative qualitative and quantitative evidence from rural Kenya and Madagascar in an attempt to untangle the causality behind persistent poverty. We find striking differences in welfare dynamics depending on whether one uses total income, including stochastic terms and inevitable measurement error, or the predictable, structural component of income based on a household's asset holdings. Our results suggest the existence of …
Confronting the risk of asset loss: What role do livestock transfers in northern Kenya play
Bayesian Herders: Updating of Rainfall Beliefs in Response to External Forecasts
Educational Investments in a Dual Economy
We present a simple two‐period, dual‐economy model in which migration options may affect the informal financing of educational investments. When credit contracts are universally available and perfectly enforceable, spatially varied returns to human capital have no effect on educational investment patterns. But when financial markets are incomplete and informal mechanisms with imperfect contract enforcement must fill the breach, attributes that af…
Interpersonal, Intertemporal and Spatial Variation in Risk Perceptions: Evidence from East Africa
Challenging Orthodoxies: Understanding Poverty in Pastoral Areas of East Africa
Understanding and alleviating poverty in Africa continues to receive considerable attention from a range of diverse actors, including politicians, international celebrities, academics, activists and practitioners. Despite the onslaught of interest, there is surprisingly little agreement on what constitutes poverty in rural Africa, how it should be assessed, and what should be done to alleviate it. Based on data from an interdisciplinary study of …
Do Community Members Share Development Priorities? Results of a Ranking Exercise in East African Rangelands
This study investigates development priorities of individuals living in 11 communities in the arid and semi-arid rangelands of northern Kenya and southern Ethiopia. We first asked individuals to describe development efforts that have been implemented in their community. People were then asked to rank the usefulness of these different interventions. Finally, we asked them to rank their priorities for future development activities in their communit…
Empirical forecasting of slow-onset disasters for improved emergency response: An application to Kenya’s arid north
Understanding Declining Mobility and Inter‐household Transfers among East African Pastoralists
We model inter‐household transfers between nomadic livestock herders as the state‐dependent consequence of individuals' strategic interdependence, resulting from the existence of multiple, opposing externalities—more specifically, a public‐good security externality among individuals sharing a social (e.g. ethnic) identity in a potentially hostile environment, and a resource appropriation externality related to the use of common property grazing l…
Identifying Conservation Opportunities among Malinké Bushmeat Hunters of Guinea, West Africa
Leaving or Staying: Inter-Provincial Migration in Vietnam
Internal migration has several policy implications for economic growth and development for developing countries in general and for the fast growing low-income country of Vietnam in particular. Little research has been done, however, on inter-provincial migration in Vietnam. This study makes two major contributions to the migration and development literature in terms of the datasets and policy-relevant estimation approach. It is the first paper to…
Risk and intertemporal substitution: Livestock portfolios and off-take among Kenyan pastoralists
The Role of Livestock Mobility in the Livelihood Strategies of Rural Peoples in Semi-Arid West Africa
Reconciling Flexibility and Tenure Security for Pastoral Resources: The Geography of Transhumance Networks in Eastern Senegal
Mobile Peoples, Contested Borders: Land use Conflicts and Resolution Mechanisms among Borana and Guji Communities, Southern Ethiopia
Land Use and Tenure Insecurity in the Drylands of Southern Ethiopia
This paper examines changing patterns of land rights and use in Borana and Guji zones, southern Ethiopia. It seeks to understand how heterogeneous groups of pastoralists and agropastoralists gain access to land under varied institutional configurations. We find different means of exclusion are pursued, including private enclosures that rely on customary institutions, government administration, and/or hybrid combinations to enforce claims. We also…
Resilience from the ground up: How Are Local Resilience Perceptions and Global Frameworks Aligned
Numerous resilience measurement frameworks for climate programmes have emerged over the past decade to operationalise the concept and aggregate results within and between programmes. Proxies of resilience, including subjective measures using perception data, have been proposed to measure resilience, but there is limited evidence on their validity and use for policy and practice. This article draws on research on the Decentralising Climate Funds p…
Diversify More or Less? Household Income Generation Strategies and Food Security in Rural Nigeria
We provide new findings on rural livelihood diversification in Nigeria, using panel data from the Living Standards Measurement Study – Integrated Surveys on Agriculture (LSMS-ISA). To a large extent, the patterns and the implications of livelihood diversification have been analysed using cross sectional data and a narrow definition of food security in previous studies. In some cases, analysis has been conducted in the absence of shock experiences…
Does Community-Based Adaptation Enhance Social Capital? Evidence from Senegal and Mali
Climate change and extreme climate shocks pose a significant threat to resource-dependent rural communities. Successfully supporting households to anticipate and adapt to climate variability and shocks, as well as build long term climate resilience, is essential to facing these changes. Given the importance of social capital in facilitating collective action and adaptation, the development community has focused on bottom-up, participatory adaptat…
The protective role of index insurance in the experience of violent conflict: Evidence from Ethiopia
Droughts are among the leading causes of livestock mortality and conflict among pastoralist populations in East Africa. To foster climate resiliency in these populations, Index Based Livestock Insurance (IBLI) products have become popular. These products, which allow herders to hedge climate risk, often utilize remote-sensed data to trigger indemnity payouts, thus ameliorating moral hazard issues associated with standard insurance products. We st…
Economics (22 works) · Geography (15 works) · Economic growth (13 works) · Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology (13 works) · Agricultural risk and resilience (12 works) · Livestock (11 works) · Pastoralism (10 works) · Business (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Agriculture (8 works)