EfD-Central America
The EfD-CA aims to
contribute to the design and evaluation of public policies and local
institutional arrangements that affect environmental protection, sustainable
natural resources management and poverty alleviation by:
i. strengthening the
understanding of the causes and consequences of human decisions as key inputs
into policy making, and
ii. increasing the interaction between academia and policy makers in Central America.
Our purposes
To continue developing the administrative capacity and the infrastructure that enables the Center to: i. conduct high quality research on a broader set of topics, ii. increase the number of local and visiting scholars, iii. expand the number of international and national collaborators, and iv. provide the tools and means for interacting with policy makers in the region.
To provide proactive, science-based advice on available policy options and critical analysis of existing initiatives that affect environmental protection, sustainable natural resources management and poverty alleviation based on the construction of a research agenda that prioritizes problems and policy processes in close interaction with stakeholders at all levels.
To increase the Center’s capacity to conduct high quality academic, policy relevant research on poverty issues and environmental and natural resource economics in the Central American context.
To increase the local capacity of people at academic and non academic organizations (NGO’s public institutes and the civil society) to conduct, critically evaluate and interpret research on environmental and natural resource economics and policy.
To communicate our research results in an effective way given the variety of backgrounds, interests and technical capacities of our target audience, and with aim of not only affecting policy making, but also receiving feedback on our research results and agendas.
Headquarters
The EfD-CA is an integral part of the thematic program on Governance and Socio-economics of Environmental Goods and Services (GSEBSA) of the Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Center (CATIE, by its Spanish acronym).
CATIE is the leading regional research and higher education institution in the fields of agriculture, agroforestry and natural resource management. Its mission is “contribute to rural poverty reduction by promoting competitive and sustainable agriculture and natural resource management, through higher education, research and technical cooperation”. CATIE’s unique strength comes from an integrated approach that combines multiple disciplines (from economics to biotechnology) and various strategies that include research, higher education, training and technical assistance.
The collaboration between GSEBSA, CATIE and EEU is governed by an EfD agreement.
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