http://www.mendeley.com/profiles/tezira-lore/

I love Linux.

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• Current Research Projects
  • Index Based Livestock Insurance in Northern Kenya and Southern Ethiopia
  • Index-based insurance products for managing climate risks in East Africa
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•  Area of Expertise
  • Development Economics
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•  Research Interests
  • Household intertemporal decisions and poverty dynamics
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• Recent Publications
  • Mude, A., Chantarat, S., Barrett, C., Carter, M., Ikegami, M. and McPeak, J. (2011) “Insuring Against Drought-Related Livestock Mortality: Piloting Index Based Livestock Insurance in Northern Kenya” in Towards Priority Actions for Market Development for African Farmers: Proceedings of an International Conference. 13-15 May 2009, Nairobi, Kenya. AGRA and ILRI, Nairobi, Kenya. pp. 175-188.
  • M. R. Carter and M. Ikegami (2009) "Looking Forward: Theory-based Measures of Chronic Poverty and Vulnerability,"  in T. Addison, D. Hulme and R. Kanbur ed. Poverty Dynamics: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Oxford University Press, Chapter 6. Link to book link to working paper version
    
  • M. Ikegami (2009) "Poverty dynamics in Kagera, Tanzania: A survey.” Journal of Policy and Culture - The 15th Anniversary Foundation Memory Extra - Integrating Policy and Culture: The First Step, Tokyo: Faculty of Policy Studies, Chuo University, March,  pp. 143-169.
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•  Working Papers
  • Carter, M. R., M. Ikegami, and S. Janzen (2011) “Dynamic Demand for Index-Based Livestock Insurance in the Presence of Poverty Traps” presented at Index Insurance Innovation Initiative (I4) Technical Meeting, 13-14 May 2011, Washington, DC pdf
  • M. Ikegami, C. B. Barrett, and S. Chantarat (2011) ”Dynamic Effects of Index Based Livestock Insurance on Household Intertemporal Behavior and Welfare” Working Paper, presented at Africa Growth Forum “Enhancing Agricultural Productivity for Shared Growth in Africa” at Brookings Institute, USA on January 19-20, 2011
  • M. Ikegami (2010) Agricultural Productivity and Mortality: Evidence from Kagera, Tanzania. Presented at Agriculture for Development in Sub-Saharan Africa in Mombasa, Kenya, May 2009 organized by African Economic Research Consortium. link
  • Barrett, C. B., M. R. Carter, and M. Ikegami (2008) Poverty Traps and Social Protection, World Bank Social Protection Discussion Paper Series No.0804. pdf link

Jane Gitau is a writer, editor and conference rapporteur. She holds an M.A in Journalism Studies from the University of Wales  Cardiff, .She has built a strong professional and academic career in the field of Communications with special emphasize on Research & Documentation, public relations, writing and editing articles, journals, Public Awareness (PA) and Information, Education and Communication (IEC) materials for various organizations.  
Her professional experiences span across the fields of gender and development, media and academia.   This has been gained through varied national, regional and international exposure with the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI),Uganda Christian University, Makerere University, the Eastern African Sub-regional Support Initiative for the Advancement of Women (EASSI), All Africa Press Service, the media and the religious  sector. She has been involved in communications across the fields of gender and development, media and academia. Her Core Competence is in Public Relations, Development Communication, Creating, Writing and editing publications and speeches. Her research interests are Media, Governance and Gender.
Web site links to some of the articles she has published are:
 ohttp://www.eastandard.net/InsidePage.php?mnu=details&id=1143989631&catid=259  (Maggie Kigozi)
 ohttp://www.eastandard.net/archives/cl/hm_news/news.php?articleid=1143975926 (Kodwo Ankrah)
 ohttp://www.lambethconference.org/1998/news/lambethdaily/072998ld.pdf (Lambeth lunch)
 ohttp://www.mubs.ac.ug/docs/Ajobal%20Vol%201%20No1.pdf (Journal of business and law)
 o http://justus.anglican.org/resources/Lambeth1998/Lambeth-Daily/06/dailylives.html (Rwanda rises)
 o http://www.mubs.ac.ug/docs/Ajobal%20Vol%201%20No1.pdf (AJOBAL)
 o http://www.iiav.nl/epublications/2006/know_how2006/catalogo/indices/inabc.html (Women in Media)
 o http://www.isis.or.ug/downloads/womens_world_37.pdf  (Isis WICCE)
 o http://www.anglicancommunion.org/acns/news.cfm/1996/8/1/ACNS93 6 (Adano)
 o http://allafrica.com/stories/200709170442.html  (Kabojja)

A natural resources and environmental social scientist with 10 years of experience in natural resources management and planning, biodiversity, sustainable livelihoods and conservation biology. Skilled in valuation of ecosystem services, socio-economic assessment, climate change impacts and scenario analyses, vulnerability and food security.

Some recent publication:
Bryan E., Ringler C., Okoba B., Koo J., Herrero M., Silvestri S., 2011. Agricultural Management for Climate Change Adaptation, Greenhouse Gas Mitigation, and Agricultural Productivity. Insights from Kenya. IFPRI Discussion Paper 01098, p.42.   http://www.ifpri.org/sites/default/files/publications/ifpridp01098.pdf
Silvestri S., Herrero M., Bryan E., Ringler C., Okoba B., 2011. How Kenyan Farmers Perceive and Adapt to Climate Change and what are the barriers to adaptation: a community –based perspective in pastoralist areas. IPMPCC International workshop on Indigenous Peoples, Marginalized Populations and Climate Change: Vulnerability, Adaptation and Traditional Knowledge, by United Nations University (UNU), Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (SCBD), United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Mexican National Institute of Ecology (INE), Mexico City, Mexico (19-21 July 2011). Book of abstract, p.81.
Silvestri S., Kershaw F., (Eds), 2010. Framing the Flow: Innovative Approaches to Understand, Protect and Value Ecosystem Services Across Linked Habitats, UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre, 62 p. ISBN 978-92-807-3065-4.  http://www.unep-wcmc.org/oneocean/pdf/Framing%20the%20Flow.pdf
TEEB, 2010. The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity: Ecological and Economic Foundations. Edited by Pushpam Kumar. Earthscan, London and Washington. (As co-author in chapter 7).
Kershaw F, Walker S, Silvestri S., Scharlemann J., 2010. How monitoring can support the implementation of valuation tools and positive incentive measures. UNEP-WCMC. Convention on Biological Diversity, UNEP/CBD/COP/10/INF/17, pp 23. http://www.cbd.int/doc/meetings/cop/cop-10/information/cop-10-inf-17-en.pdf
Ericksen, P., Said, M., de Leeuw, J., Silvestri, S., Zaibet, L., Kifugo, S., Sijmons, K., Kinuti, J., Ng’ang’a, L., Landsberg, F., Stickler, M., 2011. Mapping and valuing ecosystem services in the Ewaso Ng’iro Watershed. ILRI – WRI - Danida Report. International Livestock Research Institute, 108 p.
http://www.ilri.cgiar.org/bitstream/handle/10568/12483/Ericksen%20etal%202011_Mapping%20and%20Valuing%20ecosystem%20services.pdf?sequence=1
Ding H., Silvestri S., Chiabai A., Nunes P.A.L.D., 2010. A Hybrid Approach to the Valuation of Climate Change Effects on Ecosystem Services: Evidence from the European Forests. FEEM working paper, 50.2010 http://www.feem.it/userfiles/attach/20104161234144NDL2010-050.pdf
Shine C., Kettunen M., Mapendembe A., Herkenrath P. Silvestri S. & ten Brink P. 2009. Technical support to EU strategy on invasive species (IAS) – Analysis of the impacts of policy options/measures to address IAS (Final module report for the European Commission). UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre/Institute for European Environmental Policy (IEEP), Brussels, Belgium. 104 pp. + Annexes. http://ec.europa.eu/environment/nature/invasivealien/docs/Shine2009_IAS%20Task%203.pdf