Attitudes Toward Uncertainty Among the Poor: Evidence from Rural Ethiopia
EfD Authors:
We investigate risk and ambiguity attitudes among Ethiopian farmers in one of the poorest regions of the world.
Agriculture, Experiments
Institutions, sustainable land use and consumer welfare: The case of forest and grazing lands in Northern Ethiopia
EfD Authors:
Land is an essential factor of production. Institutions that govern its efficient use determine the sustainability of this essential resource. In Ethiopia all land is publicly owned. Such an institutional setting is said to have resulted in major degradation of Ethiopia’s land resources and dissipation of the resource rent. An alternative to this is assigning private property institution.
EfD workshop on impact of climate change in Africa
Over 60 representatives from various governmental and non-governmental organizations participated in this informative Climate Change Workshop organized together by EEPFE and EDRI on July 20. Ethiopian…
EfD Ethiopia Center Report 2010
This report presents EfD Ethiopia/Environmental Economics Policy Forum for Ethiopia, its members and work during 2010. 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
Climate change to reduce average income of Ethiopia by about 30 percent within the next 50 years
Press release from Environmental Economics Policy Forum for Ethiopia, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 2011-07-20 Agriculture, particularly rain-fed agriculture, is likely to be affected by climate change…
Climate conventions should consider early onset of climate change in Africa
Press release from Environmental Economics Policy Forum for Ethiopia, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 2011-07-20 Though climate change is a global problem, it affects countries differently because of lack of…