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Patti Kristjanson
Leader, Innovation Works
Dr. Kristjanson is an agricultural economist whose expertise includes poverty analyses, impact assessment, agricultural policy analysis and implementation, and agricultural production and marketing systems analysis. She has 20 years of post-PhD experience leading and managing multidisciplinary teams from international and national agricultural research centres, in collaboration with universities, donors and governments in 15 African countries, Peru, India, and 5 SE Asian countries. She has teaching experience at the University level and in applied economic and policy analysis training in Africa and
Dr. Kristjanson is now leading an ILRI-wide initiative called ‘Innovation Works’ that is exploring ways in which ILRI and partner research teams can efficiently and effectively increase the probability that the knowledge they generate together will lead to action that helps to sustainably alleviate poverty and improve the lives of vulnerable groups. She has been leading several ‘Challenge Dialogues’ that are bringing together people all over the world to come up with innovative collaborative actions on the following Challenges:
- ‘One Health’ – bringing together human health, animal health and climate/ecosystem health communities together to tackle global infectious disease challenges.
- ‘Women and Livestock’ – bringing together private and public sector researchers and development practitioners virtually in order co-create innovative approaches to enhancing poor women’s access to, and benefits from, a key asset for them – livestock.
For more on these initiatives, go to: www.ilri.org/innovationworks
Latest publications (all downloadable):
Kristjanson P, Reid R, Dickson N, Clark WC, Romney D, Puskur R, MacMillan S, Grace D. 2009. Linking International Agricultural Research Knowledge with Action for Sustainable Development. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 9(13):5047-5052.
Kristjanson P, Mango N, Krishna A, Radeny M, Johnson N. 2009. Understanding poverty dynamics in Kenya. Journal of International Development. In press.
Reid RS, Nkedianye D, Said MY, Kaelo D, Neselle M, Makui O, Onetu L, Kiruswa S, Ole Kamuaro N, Kristjanson P, Burnsilver SB, Goldman M, Boone RB, Dickson NM, Clark WC. 2009. Evolution of models to support community and policy action with science: balancing pastoral livelihoods and wildlife conservation in savannas of East Africa. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA, in press.
Homewood K, Trench P, Kristjanson P (eds). 2009. Staying Maasai? Livelihoods, conservation and development in East African Rangelands. Springer Press. Book available at: http://springer.com/978-0-387-87491-3. Introductory Chapter available here: Changing land use, livelihoods and wildlife conservation in Maasailand. Chpt 1, pp1-32
McPeak J, Doss C, Barrett C, Kristjanson P. 2009. Do Community Members Share Development Priorities? Results of a Ranking Exercise in East African Rangelands. Journal of Development Studies. (in press)
Mude A, Barrett C, McPeak J, Kaitho R, Kristjanson P. 2009. Empirical Forecasting of Slow-Onset Disasters for Improved Emergency Response: An Application to Kenya's Arid North. Food Policy. (in press)
Little PD, McPeak J, Barrett C, Kristjanson P. 2008. Challenging Orthodoxies: Understanding Pastoral Poverty in East Africa. Development and Change 39 (4): 585-609.
Thornton PK, Jones PG, Owiyo T, Kruska RL, Herrero M, Orindi V, Bhadwal S, Kristjanson P, Notenbaert A, Bekele N, Omolo A. 2008. Climate change and poverty in Africa: Mapping hotspots of vulnerability. African Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics. Vol 2 No 1 March.
Radeny M, Nkedianye D, Kristjanson P, Herrero M. 2008. Livelihood choices and returns among pastoralists: Evidence from southern Kenya. Nomadic Peoples 11 (2): 31-56.
Okwi P, Ndeng'e G, Kristjanson P, Arunga M, Notenbaert A, Omolo A, Henninger N, Benson T, Kariuki P, Owuor J. 2007. Geographic determinants of poverty in rural Kenya: A national and provincial analysis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 104 (43):16721-17240.
Kristjanson P, Krishna A, Radeny M, Kuan J, Quilca G, Sanchez-Urrelo A, Leon-Velarde C. 2007. Poverty Dynamics and the Role of Livestock in the Peruvian Andes. Agricultural Systems 94 (2): 294-308.
Krishna A, Kristjanson P, Radeny M, Kuan J, Quilca G, Sanchez-Urrelo A. 2006. Escaping Poverty and Becoming Poor in Forty Communities of the Peruvian Andes. Development and Change 37(5): 997–1021.
Kristjanson P, Radeny M, Baltenweck I.,Ogutu J, Notenbaert A. 2005. Livelihood mapping and poverty correlates at a meso-level in Kenya. Food Policy 30: 568–583.
Kristjanson P.M., Okike I., Tarawali S., Singh B.B., Manyong, V.M. 2005. Farmers’ perceptions of benefits and factors affecting the adoption of improved dual-purpose cowpea in the dry savannas of Nigeria. Agricultural Economics 32:195–210. (2)
Krishna A., Kristjanson P., Radeny M., Nindo W. 2004. Escaping Poverty and Becoming Poor in Twenty Kenyan Villages. Journal of Human Development, Vol. 5, No. 2: 211-220.
Place F., Kariuki G., Wangila J., Makauki A., Ndubi J. and Kristjanson P. 2004. Assessing the Factors Underlying Differences in Achievements of Farmer Groups: Methodological Issues and Empirical Findings from the Highlands of Central Kenya. Agricultural Systems, Vol. 82, No. 3: 197-353.
Scarpa R., Ruto E.S.K., Kristjanson P., Radeny M., Drucker A.G. and Rege J.E.O. 2003. Valuing indigenous cattle breeds in Kenya: An empirical comparison of stated and revealed preference value estimates. Ecological Economics Special Issue: Valuing Animal Genetic Resources. Vol. 45, No. 3: 409-426.
Contact details:
Leader, Innovation Works Initiative
International Livestock Research Institute
PO Box 30709, Nairobi, Kenya 00100
Ph: 254-20-422-3000 Fax:254-20-422-3001
email: p.kristjanson@cgiar.org
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