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Kelvin Mashisia Shikuku

@Kelvinchish

Agricultural and Development Economist at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)

Nairobi, Kenyasites.google.com/view/kelvinmas…Joined November 2011

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Excellent insights at the #REF2023 on resilience building. Grateful to have the opportunity to speak about livestock insurance and financial inclusion for women.

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At the Resilience Evidence Forum #REF2023 Cape Town 20-23 June. Attention has been drawn to that 'resilience' may look different from different perspectives including for the farm communities we seek to serve. How canwe do better? @CGIAR @ILRI @USAIDEthiopia @theGCF @FAO

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Resource Conflict Institute

Courtesy call with the Wajir County Secretary to introduce PRM project and partners. The project is funded by the World Bank and in partnership with

@BiovIntCIAT_eng

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, RECONCILE will be piloting The Participatory Rangelands Management in Albajahan, Wajir County.

𝐖𝐚𝐣𝐢𝐫 𝐂𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐲 𝐆𝐨𝐯'𝐭

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3⃣Pasture production for forage conservation: fodder crops, and hay making aimed at teaching pastoralists on conserving the excess pastures during the rainy season for improved livestock feed availability during the dry seasons.

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KIPPRA today held a dissemination workshop on Kenya Economic Report 2022 Chapter on Livestock Industry and deliberations on the contribution of the industry to the country's GDP. The workshop was graced PS Livestock Hon. Jonathan Mueke.

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🇰🇪 Kenya strike back! Wekesa with the try 🔥 #HSBC7s | #London7s

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Excellent play by the Shujaas!!

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How has Kevin Wekesa done that?!?

His second hat trick in this Playoff Pool as @KenyaSevens are in control

#London7s | #HSBC7s

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Opinion: Tailor climate-smart livestock solutions to African context

Opinion: Tailor climate-smart livestock solutions to African context

Given the diversity of Africa’s livestock sector, a transition to productive and sustainable livestock will likely take some 10 to 15 years and require long-term investment into tailored research and...

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Super interesting!!

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Arianna Legovini

23 year later…deworming children reduced their children mortality by 22 percent twitter.com/BerkOzler12/st…

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Arianna Legovini

23 year later…deworming children reduced their children mortality by 22 percent

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Wow... nber.org/papers/w31162

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Kenya Met Department

Deputy Director Mr. Kennedy Thiong'o this morning received new server equipment from ILRI. The department has been collaborating with

to implement the

project whose objective is to develop tailored climate information and services and digital

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Philemon Chelanga

Defining and gathering high-frequency and representative data for policy-relevant indicators from complex ecosystems like pastoral drylands can be a up-hill task. A great crew (cgspace.cgiar.org/handle/10568/1) took the bold step to develop a replicable and scalable protocol. Bravo!

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presence at #AIM4CSummit discussion around livestock and climate with #LivestockandClimateinitiative as Innovation Sprint Partner

@BiovIntCIAT_eng

Juan Lucas Restrepo and Prof. Appolinaire Djikeng

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Well done

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World Agroforestry

What happens belowground supports life aboveground. If underground biodiversity is threatened, the important functions that soil performs are also threatened. "If we are serious about investing in our planet- we need to start from the soil up!" @lawinowiecki #EarthDay #SaveSoil

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@andersen_inger

Great pleasure to meet

, new

Director General. We at

value our partnership with ILRI including on #OneHealth and look forward to deepening this in the years ahead on issues such as climate, water, food systems & more as we seek progress #ForPeopleForPlanet.

UN Environment Programme in Africa

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Just 90 seconds of Alvin Otieno being ✨ Alvin Otieno ✨ Happy birthday,

@OfficialBuffah

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PS Harry Kimtai

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ILRI has been a major contributor in the livestock sector in regards to research and innovation and were glad to be working together especially this period when ILRI is planning to develop its vision 2030 strategy.

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PS Harry Kimtai

Today I received a courtesy visit from the new Director General ILRI, Professor Appolinaire Djikeng. We discussed on a range of issues in the livestock sector especially breeding and livestock insurance programmes that are currently being undertaken by SDLD.

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Global Center on Adaptation

#LLAChampions Adaptation Consortium designed a County Climate Change Fund to support communities to create, access & use climate finance from varied sources, to reduce their vulnerability to #climatechange. adaptationportal.gca.org/llahub/ Photo credit: Adaptation Consortium/Jane Kiiru

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How can we protect #livestock from the devastating effects of #drought? Tune in to #VoicesfromDrought report by

on

@citizentvkenya

on the Index-based livestock Insurance #IBLI policy in safeguarding livelihoods

| VOICES FROM THE DROUGHT | Counties in the north suffering the...

Several counties in the country that experienced long periods of drought have registered ahuge amount of rainfall in the past few days. The rains have caused...

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@Laura_UC_Moritz

The role of peer imitation in agriculturalindex insurance adoption: Findings from lab-in-the-field experiments in Kyrgyzstan Available OA in Review of Development Economics

@WileyEconomics

doi.org/10.1111/rode.1 Thanks to my coauthors

& Ihtiyor Bobojonov!

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

The role of peer imitation in agricultural index insurance adoption: Findings from lab‐in‐the‐field...

Frequent climate shocks require farmers in developing countries to increase their resilience. Although index insurance is often discussed as a promising climate adaptation strategy, take-up rates...

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