The Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR and World Agroforestry (ICRAF) joined forces in 2019, leveraging a combined 65 years’ experience in research on the role of forests and trees in solving critical global challenges.
Judith is an Agricultural Economist based in Nairobi, Kenya. She holds a Ph.D. from Kyushu University in Japan and a Master’s degree from the University of Antwerp in Belgium. Prior to joining ICRAF, Judith had worked for over 10 years with national research centres (Kenya Agricultural Research Institute-KARI) and regional research organizations (Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa-FARA). Judith’s research interests span from impact assessment, production economics, markets and value chain analysis to policy and institutional analysis. Her current research focuses on identifying best bet methods for making markets work for the marginalized groups like women and the poor, including designing monitoring, evaluation and learning framework for projects at the Centre, as well as developing quantitative and qualitative methods for assessing the impact of value chain interventions on the livelihoods of marginalized households.
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The Drylands Development Programme (DryDev) is a six-year initiative (August 2013 to July 2019) funded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) of the Netherlands, with a substantial contribution…