Researchers and stakeholders discussed these challenges at an event at Los Andes University in Bogotá. They agreed that universities have an important role in providing scientific-based information…
Mauricio Oyarzo, an EfD researcher from Universidad de Concepción, recently completed a research stay at the Colombian Universidad Nacional, to collaborate on an EfD research project on gold mining in…
EfD Colombia hosted an event called Progress towards air quality in urban areas. Stakeholders from the Secretaries of Environment, Health, and Mobility in Bogotá, Bucaramanga, Valle de Aburrá…
Jorge Maldonado, EfD Colombia, was part of the scientific committee of the 6th Mangrove and Macrobenthos Management Conference held in Cartagena last year. During this conference, he and some…
The SDG 8 Initiative, which is coordinated from the University of Gothenburg, includes several collaborating institutions, among others eight so-called Satellite Universities in low- and middle-income…
Results from a literature review on how countries with internal conflicts manage nature give input to a capacity-building project for a local community that needs to manage its natural resources…
Fisheries have a long tradition of implementing sustainable practices. In aquaculture, the concept of sustainable practices is more recent and there is therefore a need for methodologies to evaluate…
60 researchers from EfD and partner organizations have been working intensely for a year and a half to develop a research agenda to support a low-carbon transition and gender equity in the Global…
Women in Environmental Economics for Development (WinEED) members gathered during breakfast to meet and brainstorm on how to work in the network. Women economists working in Bogotá met to discuss…
Like other countries with high extraction and exports of oil and minerals, Colombia may be vulnerable to the so-called “resource curse”. Carlos Adrián Saldarriaga , EfD Colombia, has studied the…