Joseph Karugia

Joseph Karugia

Principal Scientist – Agricultural Economist and Policy Expert

Joseph Karugia is a Principal Scientist at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), Nairobi, Kenya with expertise in agricultural economics and policy. He is the Interim Team Leader of the Policies and Foresight Team in the Policies, Institutions and Livelihoods Program of ILRI. Joseph is also serving as the Interim CGIAR Country Convener for Kenya. For about fourteen years until September 2021, Joseph was the Coordinator of the Eastern and Central Africa Node of the Regional Strategic Analysis and Knowledge Support System (ReSAKSS) which was, at the time, facilitated by ILRI and the Internatioonal Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). ReSAKSS is an information and knowledge management initiative with the objective of providing data, information and knowledge to governments, donors, and other stakeholders to improve the formulation, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of the Comprehensive African Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP), Africa’s blue print for transformaing food systems.

Prior to joining ILRI, Joseph was Research Manager at the African Economic Research Consortium (AERC), a premier economics research institution with a mandate of building capacity in policy-oriented economic research in sub–Saharan Africa. He was a faculty member at the University of Nairobi for more than twenty-eight years and served as Chairman of the Department of Agricultural Economics in 2002-2003. He has published numerous scholarly papers and is a member of several professional bodies. He holds B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees from the University of Nairobi, and a Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics from the University of Alberta, Canada.

My Projects

Climate Smart Digital Technologies for Agriculture and Food Security Pillar of the AAAP

ACTIVE

Climate Smart Digital Technologies for Agriculture and Food Security Pillar of the AAAP

ReSAKSS Phase III

ACTIVE

ReSAKSS Phase III

My Publications

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Enhancing coordination and collaboration across CGIAR centers in Kenya

  • Kimani, Judy
  • Karugia, Joseph T.
  • Kirui, Leonard
  • Place, Frank

Web-based simulation interfaces as decision support tools for livestock systems

  • Aboah, Joshua
  • Bahta, Sirak T.
  • Wanyoike, Francis N.
  • Chan, Derek
  • Karugia, Joseph T.

Transforming food systems in Kenya for a new era of growth and prosperity: Research-based recommendations for the new government

  • Breisinger, Clemens
  • Karugia, Joseph T.
  • Keenan, Michael
  • Mbuthia, Juneweenex
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Theory of Change: Development and Implementation of Tanzania Livestock Master Plan

  • Karugia, Joseph T.
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Identification of public investments, policy, and institutional changes in dairy value chain: Workshop objectives

  • Karugia, Joseph T.

Assessment of investment priorities for Tanzania’s dairy sector: Report on activities and accomplishments

  • Nicholson, Charles
  • Karugia, Joseph T.
  • Bahta, Sirak T.
  • Dizyee, Kanar
  • Omore, Amos O.
  • Mahenge, Jackson
  • Godwins, Skeeter