Profile of

Area of Expertise:
Systems characterisation and analysis, ex post and ex ante impact assessment, and a wide variety of systems modelling.
Research Interest:
Climate change impacts on livelihoods; evolution of livestock systems in response to global drivers of change
Current research projects/ Research:

• Household modelling of agro-pastoral communities
• Assessing the impacts of climate change on households
• Technology targetting and policy assessment decision support tools
• Global hotspot analyses of poverty, livestock development and environmental issues

List of Recent Publications:

• Reid R S, Thornton P K and Kruska R L (2004). Fragmentation and loss of habitat for pastoral people and wildlife in East Africa: concepts and issues. African Journal of Range and Forage Science 21 (3), 171–181.
• Galvin K A, Thornton P K, Boone R B and Sunderland J (2004). Climate variability and impacts on East African livestock herders. African Journal of Range and Forage Science 21 (3), 183-189.
• Nicholson C F, Thornton P K and Muinga R (2004). Household-level impacts of dairy cow ownership in coastal Kenya. Journal of Agricultural Economics 55 (2), 175-195.
• Thornton P K, Fawcett R H, Galvin K A, Boone R B, Hudson J W and Vogel C H (2004). Evaluating management options that use climate forecasts: modelling livestock production systems in the semi-arid zone of South Africa. Climate Research 26, 33-42.
• Reid R S, Thornton P K, McCrab G J, Kruska R L, Atieno F and Jones P G (2003). Is it possible to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions in pastoral ecosystems of the tropics? Environment, Development and Sustainability 6, 91-109.
• Romney D L, Thorne P, Lukuyu B and Thornton P K (2003). Maize as food and feed in intensive smallholder systems: an evaluation of some options for improved integration in mixed farming systems of Kenya, Tanzania and Zimbabwe. Field Crops Research 84, 159-168.
• Thornton P K, Kristjanson P M and Thorne P J (2003). Measuring the potential impacts of improved food-feed crops: methods for ex ante assessment. Field Crops Research 84, 199-212.
• Thornton P K, Kruska R L, Henninger N, Kristjanson P M and Reid R S (2003). Livestock and poverty maps for research and development targeting in the developing world. Land Use Policy 20, 311-322.
• Jones P G and Thornton P K (2003). The potential impacts of climate change in tropical agriculture: the case of maize in Africa and Latin America in 2055. Global Environmental Change 13, 51-59.
• Kruska R L, Reid R S, Thornton P K, Henninger N and Kristjanson P M (2003). Mapping livestock-orientated agricultural production systems for the developing world. Agricultural Systems 77, 39-63.
• Thornton P K, Galvin K A and Boone R B (2003). An agro-pastoral household model for the rangelands of East Africa. Agricultural Systems 76, 601-622.