EfD Uganda’s IGE Fellows of 2024 enrolled
The EfD Uganda participants in the Inclusive Green Economy Program, IGE Fellows, cohort of 2024-25, were officially enrolled in a yearlong capacity-building program at Makerere University on May 15…
The EfD Uganda participants in the Inclusive Green Economy Program, IGE Fellows, cohort of 2024-25, were officially enrolled in a yearlong capacity-building program at Makerere University on May 15…
EfD researcher and WinEED member Etenesh Asfaw, based in Moldavia, was the leader of a study applying a battery of OECD indicators of green growth of Uzbekistan’s economy. She explained the main…
Researchers from EfD Uganda presented findings to the Ugandan parliament on May 3rd, shedding light on the country's heavy reliance on biomass and proposing policy adjustments towards cleaner energy…
Researchers have challenged the Nigerian traditional approach to managing sacred forests, stating that conserving the forests only for cultural purposes lacks sustainability in the face of cultural…
A new article published in the Environmental and Resources Economics journal estimates the marginal effects of increasing forest cover on dengue prevalence in Costa Rica. The study shows that an…
Environmental economists and graduate students from Makerere University held a meeting with government officials to identify research and data gaps to address the persistent environmental and natural…
A team from EfD Uganda visited the Ministry of Water and Environment on February 27th, 2024 to share what they had learned on a study tour to Nepal in the fall of 2023. Nepal has been a world leader…
EfD has run an extensive and ambitious program, the Inclusive Green Economy in Practice program, since 2020 in five East African countries. In Uganda over 20 senior public servants from government…
EfD Central America researchers worked with the National Forestry Financing Fund (Fonafifo) to analyze the impact of the Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES) programs implemented since the 90s on the…
Environmental economists from Makerere University have called on urban authorities to harness the abundant human and organic waste in the cities to produce biogas and organic fertilizers. They argue…