Levi Orero

Surveys & evaluation · Agriculture and food systems

Hi, I'm Levi.

I lead survey and evaluation work in agriculture and food systems, and I've been doing it for about eight years across Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and Rwanda. That covers household surveys, impact evaluations, soil health assessments and field data collection, from the questionnaire all the way to the final analysis.

Wrangla360 Publications

Work

Most of what I'm good at is the unglamorous part that decides whether a study holds up: instrument design, enumerator training, getting the same households back for the next round, and catching data problems while the team is still in the field instead of three months later. I currently run Wrangla360, a research and data quality consultancy based in Nairobi.

Before Wrangla360, I was a data analyst on asset-based community-driven development, agroecological transformation and holistic metrics for agroecology. My background is in statistics. I write most of my analysis in R, use Python when it's the better tool, and like maps more than is probably healthy.

Analysis
R, RStudio, Shiny, Python, Jupyter, Colab
Field data
ODK, KoboToolbox, SurveyCTO
Spatial
QGIS

Projects

Smaller and older things

Publications

Selected peer-reviewed

Full list

Journal articles and book chapters

  1. Bartoli, C., Orero, L., & Brunetta, F. (2026). The role of blockchain technology in agrifood systems. In J. Sarkis (Ed.), The Palgrave Handbook of Blockchain Technology for Business. Palgrave Macmillan. doi:10.1007/978-3-031-76014-3_10-1
  2. Bartoli, C., Annosi, M. C., Orero, L., & Brunetta, F. (2025). Crowdfunding for sustainability: Key elements driving crowdfunding success across economic, social, and environmental goals. Finance Research Letters, 107400.
  3. Orero, L., Omondi, O. E., & Omolo, O. B. (2024). A Bayesian model for predicting monthly fire frequency in Kenya. PLOS ONE.
  4. Fuchs, L. E., Orero, L., Kipkorir, L. A., Apondi, V., & Owili, S. O. (2024). Scaling models for Regreening Africa: enhancing agroecological integration through smallholders' assets and agency in Kenya. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 8, 1449615.
  5. Obwocha, E. B., Ramisch, J. J., Duguma, L., & Orero, L. (2022). The relationship between climate change, variability, and food security: Understanding the impacts and building resilient food systems in West Pokot County, Kenya. Sustainability, 14(2), 765. PDF
  6. Fuchs, L. E., Orero, L., Ngoima, S., Kuyah, S., & Neufeldt, H. (2022). Asset-based adaptation project promotes tree and shrub diversity and above-ground carbon stocks in smallholder agroforestry systems in Western Kenya. Link
  7. Fuchs, L. E., Orero, L., & Apondi, V. A. (2021). How to stop wasting money in international development: Using a structured group selection approach to counter procedural inefficiency. World Development Perspectives, 24, 100364. Link
  8. Kamwilu, E., Duguma, L. A., & Orero, L. (2021). The potentials and challenges of achieving sustainability through charcoal producer associations in Kenya: A missed opportunity? Sustainability, 13(4), 2288. PDF
  9. Fuchs, L. E., Orero, L., Namoi, N., & Neufeldt, H. (2019). How to effectively enhance sustainable livelihoods in smallholder systems: A comparative study from Western Kenya. Sustainability, 11(6), 1564. Link

Reports and working papers

World Economic Forum reports are cited under the institution's name. I'm a contributing author on items 10, 12, 13 and 14.

  1. World Economic Forum & NTT DATA. (2025). Data and digital readiness for food systems.
  2. Lamanna, C., Coe, R., Crossland, M., Fuchs, L. E., Barahona, C., Chiputwa, B., Orero, L., Adoyo, B., & Geck, M. (2024). Developing holistic assessments of food and agricultural systems. PDF
  3. World Economic Forum & NTT DATA. (2024). Scaling technology adoption for soil health: A focus on Africa. PDF
  4. World Economic Forum. (2024). Food and water systems in the intelligent age. Link
  5. World Economic Forum & Boston Consulting Group. (2024). Mainstreaming food innovation: A roadmap for stakeholders. Link
  6. Nyawira, S., Bolo, P., Ntinyari, W., Orero, L., Onyango, K., Manjella, A., … & Fuchs, L. E. (2023). Kenya context assessment report: A desk-top review of the context of agroecological principles of Kiambu and Makueni counties.
  7. Fuchs, L. E., Korir, H., Adoyo, B., Bolo, P., Kuria, A., Sakha, M., Gumo, P., Mbelwa, M., Syano, N., Kiruthi, E., & Levi, O. (2023). Co-designing on-farm innovations in the Agroecological Living Landscapes (ALLs) in Kenya.
  8. Carsan, S., McMullin, S., Obiri, B., Duguma, L., Guuroh, R., Bah, A., Orero, L., & Muthee, K. (2022). Land-seascape food and nutrition profiles. USAID Women Shellfishers and Food Security Project.
  9. Crawford, B., Adu-Afarwuah, S., Oaks, F., Kyei-Arthur, F., Chuku, E. O., Okyere, I., Duguma, L., Carsan, S., McMullin, S., Muthee, K., Bah, A., Orero, L., Janha, F., Arnold, C. D., & Kent, K. (2022). The women shellfishers and food security project: Multivariate analysis of the theory of change model. University of Rhode Island.
  10. Cunningham, G., Fuchs, L. E., Orero, L., Apondi, V. A., & Kipkorir, L. (2018). The integrated household leaky bucket. Coady Innovation Series, 14. PDF

Submitted

  1. Orero, L., Fuchs, L. E., Kipkorir, L., Apondi, V., & van Dien, L. C. Giving smallholder farmers back the power over their data: Lessons from western Kenya.

Get in touch

The quickest way to reach me about survey or evaluation work is by email.