Isabelle Baltenweck

Isabelle Baltenweck

Program Leader: Policies, Institutions and Livelihoods

Isabelle is a development economist with twenty years of post-doctoral experience in agricultural systems in Africa, South and South-East Asia, with a focus on livestock value chains. Starting her career as a development economist with an emphasis on adoption and impact assessment studies in livestock systems, she has increasingly sharpened her skills in gender and social equity research, looking at how women and men’s needs and capabilities differ in terms of accessing and using technologies and practices, also resulting in varied, and sometimes opposite, impact. She has worked at the interface of research and development, working with private sector, farmers’ groups, ministries, NGOs and investors. Her work has a direct relevance to the activities of development practitioners and the private sector, and resulted in publications targeted at that audience.

My Projects

East Africa Dairy Development (EADD) project

East Africa Dairy Development (EADD) project

My Blog Posts

Une approche « chaine de valeur » pour l’Initiative du One CGIAR sur la productivité animale durable au Mali

My Publications

Synopsis: The dynamic impact of alternative livestock sector interventions and spending options in Rwanda

  • Aragie, Emerta A.
  • Bahta, Sirak T.
  • Baltenweck, Isabelle
  • Enahoro, Dolapo K.
  • Karugia, Joseph T.
  • Thurlow, James
  • Warner, James

Livestock for sustainable food system

  • Unger, Fred
  • Hung Nguyen-Viet
  • Baltenweck, Isabelle
  • Whitbread, Anthony M.
  • Tarawali, Shirley A.

The dynamic impacts of alternative livestock sector intervention and spending options in Rwanda

  • Aragie, Emerta A.
  • Bahta, Sirak T.
  • Baltenweck, Isabelle
  • Enahoro, Dolapo K.
  • Karugia, Joseph T.
  • Thurlow, James
  • Warner, James
ILRI publication cover

Gender relations and women's empowerment in small-scale irrigated forage production in the Amhara and SNNP Regions of Ethiopia

  • Omondi, Immaculate A.
  • Njuguna-Mungai, Esther
  • Bezabih, Melkamu
  • Teufel, Nils
  • Galiè, Alessandra
  • Njiru, Nelly
  • Kariuki, Eunice
  • Mulema, Annet Abenakyo
  • Baltenweck, Isabelle
  • Jones, Christopher S.

Theory of change for the dairy value chain in Ethiopia, developed for the CGIAR Initiative Sustainable Animal Productivity for Livelihoods, Nutrition and Gender Inclusion

  • Mekuriaw, Zeleke
  • Meseret, Selam
  • Temesgen, Wudu
  • Derseh, Melkamu
  • Marshall, Karen
  • Baltenweck, Isabelle
ILRI publication cover

Narratives on livestock in the international climate agenda

  • Bassou, A.
  • Alary, V.
  • Hrabanski, M.
  • Blanfort, V.
  • Baltenweck, Isabelle