EfD Joint Report 2012/13
This report presents the Environment for Development Initiative (EfD), its members and work during 2012/13. For a free hardcopy, please send an email to: info@efdinitiative.org
EfD Ethiopia Center Report 2012/13
This report presents EfD Ethiopia/Environmental Economics Policy Forum for Ethiopia, its members and work during 2012/13. For a free hardcopy, please send an email to: info@efdinitiative.org
The Ethiopian node of the Environment for Development initiative, EfD Ethiopia, is based at:
Environmental Economics Policy Forum for Ethiopia (EEPFE)
Ethiopian Development Research Institute (EDRI)
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Land and forest tenure reforms workshop in Ethiopia, February 21-22, 2011
Land reforms have played a central role in the political economy of many countries in the world and have been subject to massive disagreements between different political interest groups and…
Forest Tenure Impact Evaluation Workshop
The Environment for Development initiative arranged a Forest Tenure Impact Evaluation Workshop in connection to the World Bank’s annual conference on land and poverty in Washington D.C. on April 18-20…
Paper presented by EfD researcher on 2011 CSAE
Centre for the Study of African Economies Conference 2011 on Economic Development in Africa was held at St Catherine's College, Oxford, 20-22 March 2011. Junior research fellow of EfD Ethiopia, Rahel…
Ninth International Conference on the Ethiopian Economy
The conference was organized by the Ethiopian Economics Association (EEA) on July 21-23, 2011 in Addis Ababa. EfD Ethiopia researchers and associates presented their papers on this conference. Over 90…
Does community and household tree planting imply increased use of wood for fuel? Evidence from Ethiopia
EfD Authors:
As a result of many years of deforestation, fuelwood scarcity is a critical problem in Ethiopia. The Ethiopian government encouraged afforestation and tree growing at both the community and household levels as a policy to stem deforestation and degradation of agricultural lands. The rationale underlying the tree growing strategy is that some significant part of whatever is planted will be used as fuelwood, thereby reducing the demand for wood from native forestlands and use of crop residues and animal dung needed for soil improvement.
Property rights, institutions and choice of fuelwood source in rural Ethiopia
EfD Authors:
This study examines the relationship between property rights, defined by land tenure security and the strength of local-level institutions, and household's preferences for fuelwood source. A multinomial regression model applied to survey data collected in rural Ethiopia underpins the analysis. Results from the discrete choice model indicate that active local-level institutions increase household dependency on open access forests, while land security reduces open access forest dependence.
Research Seminar 20
The topic of the twentieth Research Seminar Series will be “Adoption and Impact Assessment of Improved Maize Varieties in Ethiopia” and it will be presented by Dr. Moti Jaleta at Addis Ababa…
Local Institutions and Better Forests: Empirical Evidence from Household Data
This research aims to enhance informed policy-making and sustainable management of natural resources in Ethiopia through furthering our understanding of the factors that contribute to success (better