H.Jo Albers presents at EfD - Central America Seminar Series
Implementing REDD: A Spatial Nash Equilibrium Model and Community-level Payment Sharing in Tanzania
EfD funded projects are presented in the regular EfD seminar series, workshops, and conferences in the respective centers. EfD Seminars list these seminars and outcomes from seminars that are EfD-funded, EfD organized, and/or EfD co-organized. For upcoming seminars see Events.
Implementing REDD: A Spatial Nash Equilibrium Model and Community-level Payment Sharing in Tanzania
Do tropical forests provide natural insurance? Evidence on forest ecosystem services and human health from the Brazilian Amazon.
Evaluating policy impacts on tropical deforestation using the synthetic control method
The Environment for Development Tanzania (EfDT) conducted EfD’s Policy Day during the 8th EfD Annual Meeting, held on the 22 October 2014, at Golden Tulip Hotel, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
Research Proposal: Improving energy efficiency in Costa Rican households: the effect of pecuniary and non-pecuniary incentives in shaping the timing of consumption EfD researchers: Milagro Saborio Collaborators: Anthony Kwasnica and James Shortle, Penn State University
Research Proposal: Individual Incentives to Cooperate within Community-Based Resource Management Institutions: Sea Turtles in Costa Rica and Nicaragua
Research Proposal: Improving energy efficiency in Costa Rican households: the effect of pecuniary and non-pecuniary incentives in shaping the timing of consumption
Research Proposal: Improving energy efficiency in Costa Rican households: the effect of pecuniary and non-pecuniary incentives in shaping the timing of consumption EfD researchers: Francisco Alpízar, Róger Madrigal and Tabaré Capitán. PI: Róger Madrigal.
Research Proposal: Can anti-poverty policies reduce vulnerability to weather shocks? EfD-CA Researchers: Juan Robalino and Catalina Sandoval
The EfD-Kenya team was invited to make a presentation to the Nairobi City Water and Sewerage Company (NCWSC) Research and Development Committee on 26th June 2014.
EfD Kenya held a writing workshop from 23rd to 25th June 2014. The purpose of the workshop was to bring together participants of two ongoing EfD-K projects: Increasing block tariffs and the relationship between income and water use in Nairobi, Kenya project and Water sourcing and sanitation in rural Kenya.
The Environmental Economics Policy Form for Ethiopia (EEPFE) co-organized an international conference with Mekelle University (MU) on ‘Sustainable Land and Watershed Management: Experiences and Lessons” in Mekelle, Ethiopia, on 26-27 May 2014 at Axum Hotel.
A workshop on ‘Irrigation water pricing and institutional sustainability of irrigation sector in Ethiopia’ was conducted on May 2, 2014 at Harmony Hotel, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The workshop was co-organized by Ministry of Water, Irrigation and Energy (MoWIE) and the Environmental Economics Policy Forum for Ethiopia (EEPFE) at the Ethiopian Development Research Institute (EDRI).
This talk is about results and reflections of a 15-year process of participatory action research (PAR) in the areas of agro-ecology, food security, food sovereignty, climate change, and environmental conservation. The works have been conducted with cooperatives of small farmers in Central America and Mexico.
An Anatomy of Ambiguity Attitudes (with applications to climate change models)
Ecological economics combines natural and social sciences to understand the interactions between people and nature. In this talk, I will introduce the work of the Gund Institute for Ecological Economics at the University of Vermont. Many of our research priorities overlap with those of CATIE and present opportunities for collaboration. As an example, I'll describe a decade of
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the Environmental Economics Policy Research Unit (EPRU) of the School of Economics, University of Cape Town are delighted to announce the presentation of the OECD Environmental Performance Review of South Africa.
This study was done in respond to one of the policy measures adopted in the recent past by the government of Tanzania during the implementation of the Agricultural Sector Development Program (ASDP) is to subsidize the fertilizer and other agricultural inputs through the National Agricultural Input Voucher system (NAIVS).
EfD-Kenya held its first Annual Workshop on August 7, 2013 at Fairview Hotel in Nairobi. The workshop brought together researchers, policy makers, academia and other stakeholders in the environment sector.
EPRU held its quarterly research meeting on the 20 May 2013 at the Andros Boutique Hotel in Cape Town. The objective of the research meeting was to discuss progress and share ideas on the various research projects undertaken by EPRU and its networks.
Determinación del efecto del uso del suelo (influencia antropogénica) sobre la calidad de agua de las fuentes de abastecimiento de la población en la cuenca del Río Sarapiquí.
An empirical evaluation of governance and land use outcomes in Russia and future research on conservation approaches and land use outcomes in the Mesoamerica.
This workshop was organized by the Environmental Economics Policy Forum for Ethiopia (EEPFE) in collaboration with Portland State University and the World Bank on the 10th of December 2012 at Desalegn Hotel, Addis Ababa.
Environmental Economics Policy Forum for Ethiopia (EEPFE) organized a workshop on 'Impacts and Profitability of Biofuels in Ethiopia' on September 14, 2012
EEPFE organized a half-day workshop on Climate Change and Agriculture in Ethiopia on July 9, 2012. Three papers were presented on this day by Dr. Salvatore Di Falco, Assistant Professor in Environment and Development at London School of Economics and Dr. Alemu Mekonnen, Assistant Professor of Economics at Addis Ababa University and Center Director and Senior Research Fellow at EEPFE.
Another presentation in the 2012 EfD-CA Seminar Series at CATIE.
Another presentation in the 2012 EfD-CA Seminar Series at CATIE.
Another presentation in the 2012 EfD-CA Seminar Series at CATIE.
David N. Barton is Senior Research Scientist in the Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (NINA). He collaborates with CATIE as Director the PESILA and POLICYMIX projects.
This workshop, held on July 20, 2011, provided an informative session on current climate change scenarios in Africa generally and Ethiopia particularly while initiating a forum for discussion among invited stakeholders.
A Workshop on Methodologies for Pricing National Park Products will be held April 27-29 in Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe. The workshop is a continuation of the National Park Pricing Policy Workshop held in Kenya in November 2010.
The Environment for Development initiative arranged a Forest Tenure Impact Evaluation Workshop in connection to the World Bank’s annual conference on land and poverty in Washington D.C. on April 18-20, 2011. Recent developments in forest management institutions in Ethiopia, Kenya and Tanzania were reviewed during this workshop, and a potential impact evaluation program for forest tenure reform in East Africa was discussed. The workshop was held on Thursday April 21, 2011 and was open for all conference participants.