He has experience working in the public sector having worked with the National Treasury and Planning in Kenya and is currently a Fellow with Tegemeo Institute of Agricultural Policy and Development of Egerton University.
His current research focus is on farm productivity, technology adoption, irrigation, governance, resilience and impact evaluation., irrigation, credit, governance, land issues, and resilience, where he has a number of publications.
He is also a member of the International Association of Agricultural Economists (IAAE), African Association of Agricultural Economics (AAAE), African Evaluation Association (AfREA), Evaluation Society of Kenya (ESK), and the Institute of Economic Affairs (EIA) in Kenya.
He aspires to make a significant contribution towards addressing food insecurity and poverty in developing countries.
Tim Njagi
Research Fellow Tegemeo InstituteDear David,
Thanks for initiating this useful discussion. I want to share experiences from our organisation on how we have navigated some of the points you raised.
To minimise the time burden on respondents, we try to be strict during questionnaire development. This generates some payback that all the questions we ask relate to some indicator that we will analyse. It also helps us remove some useful and desirable questions to only relevant questions without which our assessment would not be complete.
We have found engaging farmers to tell their stories as we present our findings very useful. It also helps ground-truth our findings. in addition, they can enumerate lessons learnt during the assessment.
For us at Tegemeo Institute, we try and have forums with farmers where we discuss our findings and how they can use the findings for their benefit. in addition, we have found the use of infographics handy with farmers as utilising local information networks to disseminate information. Furthermore, when we have compared farmers, we have found their approaches to make comparisons and deductions quite informative. I definitely recommend participatory approaches.