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Isabelle Baltenweck
Researcher at International Livestock Research Institute
Publications - 60
Citations - 1703
Isabelle Baltenweck is an academic researcher from International Livestock Research Institute. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Livelihood. The author has an hindex of 22, co-authored 53 publications receiving 1384 citations. Previous affiliations of Isabelle Baltenweck include CGIAR.
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Location and uptake: integrated household and GIS analysis of technology adoption and land use, with application to smallholder dairy farms in Kenya
TL;DR: In this paper, a set of GIS-derived measures of market access and agro-climate are included in a standard household model of technology uptake, applied to smallholder dairy farms in Kenya, using a sample of 3330 geo-referenced farm households.
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Exploring future changes in smallholder farming systems by linking socio-economic scenarios with regional and household models
Mario Herrero,Philip K. Thornton,Alberto Bernués,Isabelle Baltenweck,Joost Vervoort,Joost Vervoort,Jeannette van de Steeg,Stella Nabwile Makokha,Mark T. van Wijk,S. Karanja,Mariana C. Rufino,Mariana C. Rufino,Steven J. Staal +12 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore how smallholder agricultural systems in the Kenyan highlands might intensify and/or diversify in the future under a range of socioeconomic scenarios, and identify trajectories of intensification, diversification and stagnation for different farming systems.
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Livestock and Women’s Livelihoods
Patricia M. Kristjanson,A. Waters-Bayer,Nancy L. Johnson,A. Tipilda,Jemimah Njuki,Isabelle Baltenweck,Delia Grace,Susan MacMillan +7 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors apply a gender lens to a conceptual framework for understanding the role of livestock in pathways out of poverty, using a livelihoods approach that centralizes the importance of assets, markets, and other institutions.
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Livelihood mapping and poverty correlates at a meso-level in Kenya
Patricia M. Kristjanson,Maren A.O. Radeny,Isabelle Baltenweck,Joseph O. Ogutu,An Maria Omer Notenbaert +4 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors identify and map critical spatial factors grouped into natural, human, social, financial and physical capital assets, which largely determine livelihood options, strategies and welfare of agropastoral communities in a semi-arid district of southern Kenya.
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The COVID-19 Pandemic and Global Food Security.
Fernando O. Mardones,Karl M. Rich,Lisa Boden,Andrea I Moreno-Switt,Marisa L Caipo,Natalia Zimin-Veselkoff,Abdulaziz M Alateeqi,Isabelle Baltenweck +7 more
TL;DR: To prepare for future outbreaks or threats to food systems, the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic will be most acutely felt by the poorest and most vulnerable countries and communities and a “Planetary Health” perspective is needed.