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EfD Central America helps Water Community Organizations interact with policymakers
In Costa Rica, Water Community Organizations (WCO) play a key role in providing water for about 1,5 million people, which represents nearly 30% of the population of the country. To support the WCOs…
Participants in the Inclusive Green Program forward their new knowledge to colleagues
The graduates from the Inclusive Green Economy program, IGE fellows, organized a workshop with the help of the IGE support team to train their colleagues on inclusive green economy. The participants…
The use of nudges saves electricity
Traditional economics relies on increasing prices to effectively influence behavioral change. There are, however, a variety of psychological tools which can be equally effective in influencing changes…
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Energy |
South Africa
Stakeholders call for new fishery law in Nigeria
Stakeholders, including fishermen, fish farmers, researchers and regulators from government agencies have signed a communique requesting Nigeria’s national assembly to review the Nigerian Fisheries…
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Agriculture |
Nigeria
Policymakers got training on natural resource accounting for better policy decisions
Civil servants from government ministries, departments, and agencies met in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania to learn how they can take advantage of research in environmental economics. EfD Tanzania’s Director…
Call for women researchers to participate in WinEED visits to EfD centers
This is an open call for two (2) women researchers on topics in the intersection of environmental economics, gender, and development. They will visit the EfD Centers in the Global South. The two (2)…
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Colombia
January's newsletter is out!
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EfD South Africa addresses the knowledge gap in ecosystem service valuation
Ecosystems are vital to human wellbeing yet the value of the services they provide is often ill-understood in the context of national accounts and policy analysis. EfD researcher, Jane Turpie…
Scientists want to get rid of toxic chemicals in plastic
Thousands of toxic chemicals can be found in plastics on the market. If plastic containing toxic chemicals is collected and recycled, the chemicals can spread into new plastic products. In a new…