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Rainwater harvesting is increasingly viewed as a major strategy for enhancing agricultural productivity and boosting farm income in many drought-prone areas. While this technology is being promoted in…
| Peer Reviewed | KenyaExcept for the lowlands and pastoralist areas, mixed crop-livestock farming is the dominant farming type in Ethiopia. However, there have been few attempts to look into the economic impacts of climate…
| Research Brief | EthiopiaBiofuels have received a great deal of attention globally, and many countries have embarked on producing biofuels, given the volatility and the recent all-time high of world oil prices. Because…
| Research Brief | Ethiopia, Global HubRandomized controlled trials (RCTs) in the social sciences are typically not double-blind, so participants know they are “treated” and will adjust their behavior accordingly. Such effort responses…
| Peer Reviewed | TanzaniaPrevious studies of poverty in developing countries have to a great extent focused on the characteristics of the household head and used these as proxies for the underlying ability of the household to…
| EfD Discussion Paper | Ethiopia, Global HubUnlike most studies of subjective well-being in developing countries, we use a fixed effects regression on three rounds of rich panel data to investigate the impact of relative standing on life…
| EfD Discussion Paper | Ethiopia, Global HubCombatting Poaching by Empowering Local Communities and Targeting Organised Crime. The illegal exploitation of wild abalone in South African coastal communities has been escalating since 1994, despite…
| Research Brief | South AfricaIn the contingent valuation method, both the goods being valued and the payment vehicles used to value them are mostly hypothetical. However, although numerous studies have examined the impact of…
| Peer Reviewed | SwedenRecent estimates reaffirm that conservation funds are insufficient to meet biodiversity conservation goals. Organizations focused on biodiversity conservation therefore need to capitalize on…
| Peer Reviewed |The introduction of a price on CO2 is expected to be more efficient than prescriptive regulation. It also instantiates substantial economic value. Initially, programs allocated this value to incumbent…
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