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

Ownership of small livestock species, but not aggregate livestock, is associated with an increased risk of anemia among children in Ethiopia: A propensity score matching analysis

  • Zerfu, Taddese Alemu
  • Abera, A.
  • Duncan, Alan J.
  • Baltenweck, Isabelle
  • McNeill, Geraldine

Measuring competitiveness and inclusivity in livestock value chains

  • Kassie, Girma T.
  • Asnake, Woinishet
  • Ouma, Emily A.
  • Yitayih, Mulugeta
  • Burkart, Stefan
  • Baltenweck, Isabelle
  • Rekik, Mourad

Mapping the Indian donkey and mule population and potential intervention strategies and partners

  • Ravichandran, Thanammal
  • Perumal, Ramesh K.
  • Kennady, Vijayalakshmy
  • Baltenweck, Isabelle
  • Wright, Iain
  • Burden, F.
  • Rahman, Habibar

Means of livelihood, clean environment to women empowerment: The multi-faceted role of donkeys

  • Ravichandran, Thanammal
  • Perumal, Ramesh K.
  • Kennady, Vijayalakshmy
  • Raw, Z.
  • Cooke, F.
  • Baltenweck, Isabelle
  • Rahman, Habibar

Affordability of meat for global consumers and the need to sustain investment capacity for livestock farmers

  • Ederer, Per
  • Baltenweck, Isabelle
  • Blignaut, J.N.
  • Moretti, C.
  • Tarawali, Shirley A.

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

  • Ouma, Emily A.
  • Marshall, Karen
  • Johnson, N.
  • Oba, Peter
  • Dione, Michel M.
  • Lukuyu, Ben A.
  • Njuguna-Mungai, Esther
  • Notenbaert, An Maria Omer
  • Buono, Nicoletta
  • Peters, Michael
  • Hoek, R. van der
  • Ahumuza, Ronnie
  • Rekik, Mourad
  • Baltenweck, Isabelle