Patti Kristjanson
Biographic Data
| ID | 118026 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Patti Kristjanson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Patti |
| FAMILY NAME | Kristjanson |
| SIGNATURE | KRISTJANSON P |
| AFFILIATIONS | International Livestock Research Institute |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6059-4187 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 149 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Supporting pathways to prosperity in forest landscapes – A PRIME framework
We develop a framework to conceptualize the multiple ways forests contribute to poverty reduction and inform development interventions in forest landscapes. We identify five key strategies for reducing poverty in forest landscapes: a) improvements in productivity (P) of forest land and labor; b) governance reform to strengthen community, household and women’s rights (R) over forests and land; c) investments (I) in institutions, infrastructure and…
Is agricultural adaptation to global change in lower-income countries on track to meet the future food production challenge
Agriculture is critical to sustainable development, and agricultural production by smallholders in lower-income countries contributes substantially to the food security of both rural and urban populations. Smallholders face many challenges related to urbanisation, sustainable use of natural resources and climate change. While there will be different ways of achieving sustainable agricultural systems, all will involve adaptation on a massive scale…
Understanding gender dimensions of agriculture and climate change in smallholder farming communities
In Uganda, Ghana and Bangladesh, participatory tools were used for a socio-economic and gender analysis of three topics: climate-smart agriculture (CSA), climate analogue approaches, and climate and weather forecasting. Policy and programme-relevant results were obtained. Smallholders are changing agricultural practices due to observations of climatic and environmental change. Women appear to be less adaptive because of financial or resource cons…
How resilient are farming households and communities to a changing climate in Africa? A gender-based perspective
In this paper we examine conditions that underlie vulnerability and resilience possibilities for households and communities that face and respond to climate- and other changes, in nine East and West African countries. We base our analysis on a unique integrated qualitative and quantitative dataset composed of household surveys and village focus group studies carried out across a wide range of environments and agricultural systems. We identify hum…
Implications on equity in agricultural carbon market projects: A Gendered Analysis of Access, Decision Making, and Outcomes
Carbon market projects have focused on reducing greenhouse gas emissions, often at the expense of achieving sustainable development goals. A central pillar in sustainable development is equity, yet most projects pay little attention to equity implications for underrepresented farmers, especially women. Agricultural carbon market projects that explicitly seek to promote sustainable agricultural land management practices are quickly gaining attenti…
Challenges to scenario-guided adaptive action on food security under climate change
This paper examines the development and use of scenarios as an approach to guide action in multi-level, multi-actor adaptation contexts such as food security under climate change. Three challenges are highlighted: (1) ensuring the appropriate scope for action; (2) moving beyond intervention-based decision guidance; and (3) developing long-term shared capacity for strategic planning. To overcome these challenges we have applied explorative scenari…
Smallholder farmer cropping decisions related to climate variability across multiple regions
A long history of household-level research has provided important local-level insights into climate adaptation strategies in the agricultural sector. It remains unclear to what extent these strategies are generalizable or vary across regions. In this study we ask about three potential key factors influencing farming households’ ability to adapt: access to weather information, household and agricultural production-related assets, and participation…
Climate change, agriculture and food security: A global partnership to link research and action for low-income agricultural producers and consumers
Options for support to agriculture and food security under climate change
Kenyan Dairy Policy Change: Influence Pathways and Economic Impacts
Research that matters: Outcome Mapping for Linking Knowledge to Poverty-Reduction Actions
An ‘Outcome Mapping’ approach was applied retrospectively to five diverse, highly collaborative research projects aimed at poverty reduction. Designed to help plan for, clarify, and document intended and actual changes in behaviour, actions, and relationships of groups and organisations that directly influence a project's intended beneficiaries, Outcome Mapping enabled us to identify and describe the strategies and actions that played important r…
Rethinking impact: Understanding the Complexity of Poverty and Change - Overview
The international workshop ‘Rethinking Impact: Understanding the Complexity of Poverty and Change’ (Cali, Colombia, 26–28 March 2008) explored the challenges inherent in evaluating agricultural research-for-development efforts, identifying lessons and approaches for sustainably improving livelihoods. Use-oriented research which links knowledge with action has greater welfare and development impacts. Researchers must help to link diverse stakehold…
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
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 …
Spatial determinants of poverty in rural Kenya
This article investigates the link between poverty incidence and geographical conditions within rural locations in Kenya. Evidence from poverty maps for Kenya and other developing countries suggests that poverty and income distribution are not homogenous. We use spatial regression techniques to explore the effects of geographic factors on poverty. Slope, soil type, distance/travel time to public resources, elevation, type of land use, and demogra…
Livelihood Choices and Returns among Pastoralists: Evidence from Southern Kenya
Pastoral systems are rapidly changing in Africa and elsewhere, yet relatively little is known regarding what, and how well, households in these systems are now doing. This article addresses livelihood choices and income diversification strategies in a traditionally Maasai pastoral area of southern Kenya, and the factors influencing the returns to their diverse livelihood strategies. We explore how well household-level versus geographic factors ex…
Fixing the Hole in the Bucket: Household Poverty Dynamics in the Peruvian Andes
Achieving the Millennium Development Goal of halving poverty will require simultaneous action on two separate fronts: helping poor people escapefrompoverty, and stemming the flow of peopleintopoverty. This article examines forty Peruvian communities, and finds that descents into poverty have occurred alongside escapes in every one of them. Escape and descent are asymmetric in terms of reasons: while one set of reasons is responsible for escapes f…
Livelihood mapping and poverty correlates at a meso-level in Kenya
Escaping Poverty and Becoming Poor in 20 Kenyan Villages
Three hundred and sixteen households in 20 western Kenyan villages — 19% of all households in these villages — managed successfully to escape from poverty in the past 25 years. However, another 325 households (i.e. 19% of all households of these villages) fell into abiding poverty in the same period. Different causes are associated with households falling into poverty and those overcoming poverty. Separate policies will be required consequently t…
Valuing indigenous cattle breeds in Kenya: An empirical comparison of stated and revealed preference value estimates
Locating poor livestock keepers at the global level for research and development targeting
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 …
On the role of information in decision making
Challenges to scenario-guided adaptive action on food security under climate change
This paper examines the development and use of scenarios as an approach to guide action in multi-level, multi-actor adaptation contexts such as food security under climate change. Three challenges are highlighted: (1) ensuring the appropriate scope for action; (2) moving beyond intervention-based decision guidance; and (3) developing long-term shared capacity for strategic planning. To overcome these challenges we have applied explorative scenari…
How resilient are farming households and communities to a changing climate in Africa? A gender-based perspective
In this paper we examine conditions that underlie vulnerability and resilience possibilities for households and communities that face and respond to climate- and other changes, in nine East and West African countries. We base our analysis on a unique integrated qualitative and quantitative dataset composed of household surveys and village focus group studies carried out across a wide range of environments and agricultural systems. We identify hum…
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 …
Smallholder farmer cropping decisions related to climate variability across multiple regions
A long history of household-level research has provided important local-level insights into climate adaptation strategies in the agricultural sector. It remains unclear to what extent these strategies are generalizable or vary across regions. In this study we ask about three potential key factors influencing farming households’ ability to adapt: access to weather information, household and agricultural production-related assets, and participation…
Supporting pathways to prosperity in forest landscapes – A PRIME framework
We develop a framework to conceptualize the multiple ways forests contribute to poverty reduction and inform development interventions in forest landscapes. We identify five key strategies for reducing poverty in forest landscapes: a) improvements in productivity (P) of forest land and labor; b) governance reform to strengthen community, household and women’s rights (R) over forests and land; c) investments (I) in institutions, infrastructure and…
Options for support to agriculture and food security under climate change
Livelihood mapping and poverty correlates at a meso-level in Kenya
Is agricultural adaptation to global change in lower-income countries on track to meet the future food production challenge
Agriculture is critical to sustainable development, and agricultural production by smallholders in lower-income countries contributes substantially to the food security of both rural and urban populations. Smallholders face many challenges related to urbanisation, sustainable use of natural resources and climate change. While there will be different ways of achieving sustainable agricultural systems, all will involve adaptation on a massive scale…
Kenyan Dairy Policy Change: Influence Pathways and Economic Impacts
Implications on equity in agricultural carbon market projects: A Gendered Analysis of Access, Decision Making, and Outcomes
Carbon market projects have focused on reducing greenhouse gas emissions, often at the expense of achieving sustainable development goals. A central pillar in sustainable development is equity, yet most projects pay little attention to equity implications for underrepresented farmers, especially women. Agricultural carbon market projects that explicitly seek to promote sustainable agricultural land management practices are quickly gaining attenti…
Climate change, agriculture and food security: A global partnership to link research and action for low-income agricultural producers and consumers
Empirical forecasting of slow-onset disasters for improved emergency response: An application to Kenya’s arid north
Livelihood Choices and Returns among Pastoralists: Evidence from Southern Kenya
Pastoral systems are rapidly changing in Africa and elsewhere, yet relatively little is known regarding what, and how well, households in these systems are now doing. This article addresses livelihood choices and income diversification strategies in a traditionally Maasai pastoral area of southern Kenya, and the factors influencing the returns to their diverse livelihood strategies. We explore how well household-level versus geographic factors ex…
On the role of information in decision making
Research that matters: Outcome Mapping for Linking Knowledge to Poverty-Reduction Actions
An ‘Outcome Mapping’ approach was applied retrospectively to five diverse, highly collaborative research projects aimed at poverty reduction. Designed to help plan for, clarify, and document intended and actual changes in behaviour, actions, and relationships of groups and organisations that directly influence a project's intended beneficiaries, Outcome Mapping enabled us to identify and describe the strategies and actions that played important r…
Fixing the Hole in the Bucket: Household Poverty Dynamics in the Peruvian Andes
Achieving the Millennium Development Goal of halving poverty will require simultaneous action on two separate fronts: helping poor people escapefrompoverty, and stemming the flow of peopleintopoverty. This article examines forty Peruvian communities, and finds that descents into poverty have occurred alongside escapes in every one of them. Escape and descent are asymmetric in terms of reasons: while one set of reasons is responsible for escapes f…
On the role of information in decision making
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 …
Valuing indigenous cattle breeds in Kenya: An empirical comparison of stated and revealed preference value estimates
Locating poor livestock keepers at the global level for research and development targeting
Escaping Poverty and Becoming Poor in 20 Kenyan Villages
Three hundred and sixteen households in 20 western Kenyan villages — 19% of all households in these villages — managed successfully to escape from poverty in the past 25 years. However, another 325 households (i.e. 19% of all households of these villages) fell into abiding poverty in the same period. Different causes are associated with households falling into poverty and those overcoming poverty. Separate policies will be required consequently t…
Livelihood mapping and poverty correlates at a meso-level in Kenya
Fixing the Hole in the Bucket: Household Poverty Dynamics in the Peruvian Andes
Achieving the Millennium Development Goal of halving poverty will require simultaneous action on two separate fronts: helping poor people escapefrompoverty, and stemming the flow of peopleintopoverty. This article examines forty Peruvian communities, and finds that descents into poverty have occurred alongside escapes in every one of them. Escape and descent are asymmetric in terms of reasons: while one set of reasons is responsible for escapes f…
Spatial determinants of poverty in rural Kenya
This article investigates the link between poverty incidence and geographical conditions within rural locations in Kenya. Evidence from poverty maps for Kenya and other developing countries suggests that poverty and income distribution are not homogenous. We use spatial regression techniques to explore the effects of geographic factors on poverty. Slope, soil type, distance/travel time to public resources, elevation, type of land use, and demogra…
Livelihood Choices and Returns among Pastoralists: Evidence from Southern Kenya
Pastoral systems are rapidly changing in Africa and elsewhere, yet relatively little is known regarding what, and how well, households in these systems are now doing. This article addresses livelihood choices and income diversification strategies in a traditionally Maasai pastoral area of southern Kenya, and the factors influencing the returns to their diverse livelihood strategies. We explore how well household-level versus geographic factors ex…
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
Kenyan Dairy Policy Change: Influence Pathways and Economic Impacts
Research that matters: Outcome Mapping for Linking Knowledge to Poverty-Reduction Actions
An ‘Outcome Mapping’ approach was applied retrospectively to five diverse, highly collaborative research projects aimed at poverty reduction. Designed to help plan for, clarify, and document intended and actual changes in behaviour, actions, and relationships of groups and organisations that directly influence a project's intended beneficiaries, Outcome Mapping enabled us to identify and describe the strategies and actions that played important r…
Rethinking impact: Understanding the Complexity of Poverty and Change - Overview
The international workshop ‘Rethinking Impact: Understanding the Complexity of Poverty and Change’ (Cali, Colombia, 26–28 March 2008) explored the challenges inherent in evaluating agricultural research-for-development efforts, identifying lessons and approaches for sustainably improving livelihoods. Use-oriented research which links knowledge with action has greater welfare and development impacts. Researchers must help to link diverse stakehold…
Options for support to agriculture and food security under climate change
Climate change, agriculture and food security: A global partnership to link research and action for low-income agricultural producers and consumers
Challenges to scenario-guided adaptive action on food security under climate change
This paper examines the development and use of scenarios as an approach to guide action in multi-level, multi-actor adaptation contexts such as food security under climate change. Three challenges are highlighted: (1) ensuring the appropriate scope for action; (2) moving beyond intervention-based decision guidance; and (3) developing long-term shared capacity for strategic planning. To overcome these challenges we have applied explorative scenari…
Smallholder farmer cropping decisions related to climate variability across multiple regions
A long history of household-level research has provided important local-level insights into climate adaptation strategies in the agricultural sector. It remains unclear to what extent these strategies are generalizable or vary across regions. In this study we ask about three potential key factors influencing farming households’ ability to adapt: access to weather information, household and agricultural production-related assets, and participation…
How resilient are farming households and communities to a changing climate in Africa? A gender-based perspective
In this paper we examine conditions that underlie vulnerability and resilience possibilities for households and communities that face and respond to climate- and other changes, in nine East and West African countries. We base our analysis on a unique integrated qualitative and quantitative dataset composed of household surveys and village focus group studies carried out across a wide range of environments and agricultural systems. We identify hum…
Implications on equity in agricultural carbon market projects: A Gendered Analysis of Access, Decision Making, and Outcomes
Carbon market projects have focused on reducing greenhouse gas emissions, often at the expense of achieving sustainable development goals. A central pillar in sustainable development is equity, yet most projects pay little attention to equity implications for underrepresented farmers, especially women. Agricultural carbon market projects that explicitly seek to promote sustainable agricultural land management practices are quickly gaining attenti…
Understanding gender dimensions of agriculture and climate change in smallholder farming communities
In Uganda, Ghana and Bangladesh, participatory tools were used for a socio-economic and gender analysis of three topics: climate-smart agriculture (CSA), climate analogue approaches, and climate and weather forecasting. Policy and programme-relevant results were obtained. Smallholders are changing agricultural practices due to observations of climatic and environmental change. Women appear to be less adaptive because of financial or resource cons…
Is agricultural adaptation to global change in lower-income countries on track to meet the future food production challenge
Agriculture is critical to sustainable development, and agricultural production by smallholders in lower-income countries contributes substantially to the food security of both rural and urban populations. Smallholders face many challenges related to urbanisation, sustainable use of natural resources and climate change. While there will be different ways of achieving sustainable agricultural systems, all will involve adaptation on a massive scale…
Supporting pathways to prosperity in forest landscapes – A PRIME framework
We develop a framework to conceptualize the multiple ways forests contribute to poverty reduction and inform development interventions in forest landscapes. We identify five key strategies for reducing poverty in forest landscapes: a) improvements in productivity (P) of forest land and labor; b) governance reform to strengthen community, household and women’s rights (R) over forests and land; c) investments (I) in institutions, infrastructure and…
Economics (24 works) · Geography (20 works) · Economic growth (18 works) · Business (17 works) · Agriculture (13 works) · Political science (13 works) · Environmental resource management (12 works) · Agricultural Innovations and Practices (11 works) · Poverty (11 works) · Agricultural risk and resilience (9 works)