Academic awards, thesis/dissertations
2004. Surviving Pastoral Decline: Pastoral sedentarisation, natural resource management and livelihood diversification in Marsabit District, Northern Kenya, Ph.D thesis (cum laude /with distinction) Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands (jointly with Karen Witsenburg).
2004. Winner of Lustrum Publication Award for outstanding publication in Social Sciences and Humanities category of the Netherlands Foundation for the Advancement of Tropical Research (WOTRO) in ten years from research, The Netherlands
1999. The benefits of access to protected areas: Some estimates for Marsabit Forest Reserve in Northern Kenya. MSc. dissertation: Environment Department, University of York, UK. Unpublished manuscript, 1999.
1996. Economic analysis of the environmental impacts of water projects: A Contingent Valuation Survey of Maikona and Sagante Areas of Marsabit District, Northern Kenya. M.Phil. thesis manuscript, Moi University, Eldoret (Kenya).
1993. Bachelor of Arts in Education (B.ED (Hon., Maths and Economics), Moi University, Kenya.