Over 80 participants from the environment and natural resources sector including, senior civil servants, the academia, civil society organization, members of the public, and students convened at…
The Environment and Climate Research Center(ECRC) EfD-Ethiopia, has launched the complied policy brief on one of its research projects "Social and Environmental trade-offs in Africa Agriculture". The…
The Environment and Climate Research Center (ECRC) at the Policy Studies Institute (PSI) hosted a half-day policy day workshop on July 12, 2022. The policy workshop aimed to share research findings on…
Uganda’s participants in the Inclusive Green Economy (IGE) program, so-called IGE fellows, call for national policy instruments that have clear objectives and implementation plans. They also emphasize…
Climate change is challenging the ability of protected areas (PAs) to meet their objectives. To improve PA planning, we developed a framework for assessing PA vulnerability to climate change based on consideration of potential climate change impacts on species and their habitats and resource use. Furthermore, the capacity of PAs to adapt to these climate threats was determined through assessment of PA management effectiveness, adjacent land use, and financial resilience. Users reach a PA-specific vulnerability score and rank based on scoring of these categories.
Debate about what proportion of the Earth to protect often overshadows the question of how nature should be conserved and by whom. We present a systematic review and narrative synthesis of 169 publications investigating how different forms of governance influence conservation outcomes, paying particular attention to the role played by Indigenous peoples and local communities. We find a stark contrast between the outcomes produced by externally controlled conservation, and those produced by locally controlled efforts.
Twenty researchers from the Global South who obtained their doctor’s degree five years ago or less are participating in the EfD’s Early Career Fellowship program. The purpose of the program is to…
Welcome to the EEU seminar next Monday. Our guest speaker is Claudia Aravena who is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics at Heirot-Watt University. Claudia's research encompasses a…
Ethiopia held a national consultative workshop on April 11-12, 2022 to prepare for the upcoming United Nations Stockholm+50 conference. The workshop aimed to showcase Ethiopia’s stride, in the past 50…