Traditional crops and climate change adaptation: insights from the Andean agricultural sector

Submitted by Cristóbal Vásquez on
EfD Authors:
Vásquez Lavín, Felipe
Ponce, Roberto
Stehr, Alejandra

The growth of traditional crops could be a primary resource for adapting to climate change and strengthening agrosystems’ resilience. However, these crops tend to be replaced by non-traditional crops with higher productivity, higher market values, and higher short-term income. In this context, smallholders face trade-offs between maximizing short-term income and ensuring resilience to face likely future climate adversities. The economic assessment of such trade-offs has been commonly neglected in the literature.

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Agriculture, Climate Change, Policy Design, Water

Happy at Work in Africa? Measuring Hedonic Well‑Being Among Water Carriers in Rural Kenya Using the Experience Sampling Method

Submitted by Jane Nyawira Maina on
EfD Authors:
Cook, Joseph
Kabubo-Mariara, Jane
Despite work’s importance in people’s overall sense of purpose in life, several studies measuring momentary well-being find that people are very unhappy while at work. These studies have focused on workers in industrialized countries doing paid labor in the formal sector. For a large fraction of humanity, however, “work” is smallholder farming, tending cattle, and collecting water and fuelwood. We measure momentary well-being with the Experience Sampling Method in a sample of 195 subjects in rural Kenya. Subjects were the household’s main water carrier; 93% were women.
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Water
Participants of the workshop in Catillo Hot Springs (Parral)

EfD Chile researchers discussed local environmental policy with politicians and other stakeholders

The Eigth Annual Meeting on Environmental Economics was marked by face-to-face attendance and included the participation of representatives from the academic, political, business, and civil society…

| Agriculture, Air Quality, Biodiversity, Carbon Pricing, Climate Change, Conservation, Covid-19, Energy, Experiments, Fisheries, Forestry, Gender, Health, Land, Policy Design, Urban, Waste, Water | Chile
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