Aquaculture Magazine awarded EfD Researcher
Aquaculture Economics and Management Maganize awarded EfD researcher Jorge Dresdner and Felipe Quezada with the Best Paper Award for 2017 for their work called “What can we learn from a health crisis…
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Plastic pollution and aquaculture brought together researchers and policy makers in Chile
The VI Workshop on Economics of Natural Resources and Environment was held on March 21st and 22nd in Santiago, Chile. The activity was organized by the Environment for Development Initiative (EfD) and…
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Policy Design |
Chile
‘Water Map’ helps Cape Town through last days of drought emergency
In January 2018, Cape Town came within three months of initiating ‘Day Zero’, the day when emergency rationing measures would kick in, and city utility managers would shut off water to homes in the…
EfD external evaluation – invitation to tender
The EfD Initiative is now looking to have an external evaluation carried out. The purpose of the evaluation is to provide an overall assessment of the extent to which EfD fulfills its main objective…
New project on Electricity access in Ethiopia
Researchers at the Environment and Climate Research Center (ECRC) based at the Policy Studies Institute (PSI) have been awarded research funding for a project entitled “Impacts and Drivers of Policies…
EfD present at UN report: Urgent action needed to tackle chemical pollution as global production is set to double by 2030
About the The Global Chemicals Outlook II – From Legacies to Innovative Solutions: Implementing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development: The report was developed with substantive input from a wide…
Two television debate programs invited EfD Colombia Director Jorge Bonilla to discuss recent air quality problems in Bogotá
February is a critical month for Bogotá in terms of air quality. There are two factors that explain this situation: emissions and meteorology. These two factors cause that Bogota’s atmosphere present…
The right variety for the right farm - a citizen science approach to farmers
Scientists from Bioversity International and EfD Central America's hots institution CATIE involved farmers in research processes through citizen science From a recent study conducted in Nicaragua…
Prioritizing agriculture industralisation as a weapon for transforming Tanzania into a middle-income country
T he President of the United Republic of Tanzania, His Excellence Dr . John Pombe Magufuli launched the second phase of the Agricultural Sector Development Program (ASDP2) in 2018. This program was at…
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Agriculture |
Tanzania
Single-use plastics: breaking consumers’ bad habits
When it comes to getting people to change their behaviour around mindlessly throwing away single-use plastics, rather than re-using or recycling them, what small messages are most likely to prod them…