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Research study prioritizes food security and gender equity in Central America

Smallholder family farmers located in the dry corridor within the Trifinio Region, which comprehends…

In Costa Rica protected areas reduce the incidence of hydrological disasters

This is the main result of a research that can be useful for policy makers in the country, the most…

Using Payments for Ecosystem Services to Protect Water Resources

A four-minute video summarizes the work done by researchers from EfD-CA at CATIE to provide a PES…

A payment for ecosystem services to improve the management in two watershed of Jamaica

Researchers from CATIE supported the establishment of the Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES)…

Recent publications

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Funding Inclusive Green Transition through Greenhouse Gas Pricing

2015 was a special year. During a few months the political stars aligned and made it possible for the international…

4 May 2020 | Peer Reviewed | India, Colombia, China, Vietnam, Sweden, Central America, Global Hub

How to Ask Farmers about Risk to Help Design Agricultural Policies

Researchers and officials interested in people’s attitudes toward risk when designing public policies should make sure…

18 May 2020 | Research Brief | Sweden, Central America

A framework for selecting and designing policies to reduce marine plastic pollution in developing countries

The polluting of marine ecosystems with plastics is both a global and a local problem with potentially severe…

2 May 2020 | Peer Reviewed | South Africa, India, Chile, Vietnam, Sweden, Tanzania, Central America

Analyzing the effect of biodegradable packaging on plastic consumption in the wholesale market: a field experiment in the Costa Rican farmer’s market

27 Apr 2020 | Other Publications | Central America

Alternatives for Risk Elicitation in the Field

Although field experimental methods are the workhorse of researchers interested in risk preferences, practitioners find…

24 Oct 2019 | EfD Discussion Paper | Central America

Magnitude and Distribution of Electricity and Water Subsidies for Households in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

In Addis Ababa, an increasing block tariff has been used to calculate households’ monthly bills for electricity and…

7 Oct 2019 | Discussion Paper | Central America

Upcoming events

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The 14th Annual Meeting of the Environment for Development Initiative

Wednesday 18 November — Tuesday 24 November, 2020

The EfD Annual Meeting is the largest annual conference in the Global South on the application of…

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EfD Central America

Cartago

Costa Rica

efd@catie.ac.cr

+506 2558 2624

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