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• 2013-04-23 | central america Field visits kickoff for AC3 project on water and climate change adaptation EfD-CA Center research fellows Róger Madrigal and Eugenia León conducted the first field visits in rural communities in Nicaragua for the project.
• 2013-02-20 | central america Workshop on Environmental and Development Economics in Latin America Call for papers to the workshop. The goal of the event is to stimulate research in environmental and natural resource economics that is relevant to economic development in the region. To be held in Mexico City, October 4-5, 2013.
• 2013-02-01 | central america | Forestry Parks & Wildlife International expert meeting on financial architecture for sustainable forest management The activity consisted of presentations and analysis of multiple forest financing schemes with the goal to identify alternative financing sources for sustainable forestry.
• 2013-01-24 | central america | Climate change Forestry Policy design Payments for Ecosystem Services — no positive effect on incomes and jobs EfD researchers show that the Payments for Ecosystem Services program has no positive nor negative effects on people's income or jobs. And in the first three years of its implementation, the program had no effect on the deforestation rate. However, in the following five years, the program did slow down deforestation.
• 2012-11-01 | central america | Forestry Parks & Wildlife Policy design Francisco Alpízar to lecture in the IDB Biodiversity Speaker Series 2012 The Inter-American Development Bank is organizing a series of lectures with emphasis on Economics of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services.
• 2012-11-01 | central america EfD to become independent legal entity At the recent EfD annual meeting in Costa Rica the Coordination Committee made a number of important decisions.
• 2012-10-31 | central america | Agriculture Climate change Forestry Parks & Wildlife Policy design Media reports on EfD Policy Day in Costa Rica International and Costa Rican local media showed great interest in covering the EfD Policy Day celebrated on October 25, 2012
• 2012-10-20 | central america | Agriculture Climate change Forestry Parks & Wildlife Policy design PRESS RELEASE: Experts and policymakers meet in Costa Rica to discuss climate change, water and natural resources The goal is to identify needs for policy making and research in these three issues that are key for development in Central America.
• 2012-08-30 | central america | Agriculture Climate change Policy design Introducing The CASCADE Project: a new research initiative on ecosystem-based adaptation in Central America CATIE and Conservation International joined forces to work together in research and capacity building to bring impacts at both the policy and field implementation scale.
• 2012-07-26 | central america | Behavior ec. Policy design Martin Persson to present book chapter of research by EfD at a conference and a workshop in Portland, USA The conference is organized by Ecosystem Service Partnership and the workshop by CGIAR, ICRAF and CIFOR.
• 2012-07-26 | central america | Behavior ec. Experimental Economics conference in Antigua Guatemala CALL FOR PAPERS: Centro Vernon Smith announces a three-day international conference to be held in Antigua Guatemala, October 25th-27th, 2012.
• 2012-06-15 Should the squeaky wheel get all the oil? Payments for ecosystem services in Costa Rica: Does it matter who gets paid and why for the efficiency of payments for ecosystem services (PES) programs aimed to reduce deforestation and forest degradation? This is being studied by EfD Central America researchers. They are also studying the socioeconomic impacts of the PES program in Costa Rica. Since 1996 this national program has attracted international attention, and today it is regarded as a model for REDD+ credits.
• 2012-01-31 | central america | Behavior ec. Climate change Policy design Paul J. Ferraro to EfD-Central America Center at CATIE, Costa Rica Ferraro is a Fulbright Scholar (2011-2012) and will be working at EfD-CA as guest researcher from January until June, 2012.
• 2011-12-16 | central america | Climate change Course on Emissions Trading for Emerging Economies & Developing Countries ICAP Training Course in Costa Rica. From 19-28 March 2012. Applications deadline extended to 20 December 2011 (previously 15 December 2011).
• 2011-12-07 | central america | Policy design EfD Fellow Umaña speaks at workshop on Ecosystem Services and Human Well-Being Experts from around the world converge to discuss new approaches and policies for understanding the links between ecosystem services and evaluating the effects of agricultural development strategies and human well-being.
• 2011-11-10 | central america Travel Grants for Economists from Less Developed Countries Call for Nominations is open to attend the 2012 AAEA Annual Meeting in Seattle, August 12–14, 2012. Deadline: Monday, December 5th, 2011. For more info click on the web link below.
• 2011-10-24 | eeu sweden | Policy design 3ie Social Protection Thematic Window - Call for proposals The International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie)<http://www.3ieimpact.org/> is accepting proposals for quality impact evaluations of social protection programmes.
• 2011-10-19 | eeu sweden Call for Abstracts & Session Proposals for IIFET 2012 Tanzania Conference Please join us for IIFET’s 16th biennial conference: IIFET 2012 Tanzania Visible Possibilities: The Economics of Sustainable Fisheries, Aquaculture and Seafood Trade
• 2011-10-10 | central america | Climate change Policy design Experts Workshop on Climate Change & Water, Panama 2011 A highly selected interdisciplinary group of experts working on water and climate change in Latin America and the Caribbean met in Panama City, Panama from Thursday, September 29th to Saturday, October 1st, 2011.
• 2011-08-25 | central america | Climate change Policy design Project will conduct socioeconomic studies of the links between water and climate change in Latin America and the Caribbean The project seeks to promote capacity building for research, analysis and evaluation of the impacts of climate change and water, using the tools of environmental economics.
• 2011-08-24 | central america | Climate change Arranca proyecto de estudios socioeconómicos de los vínculos entre agua y cambio climático en América Latina y el Caribe Con el proyecto se busca promover la creación de capacidad de investigación, análisis y la evaluación del impacto del cambio climático y agua, utilizando las herramientas de la economía ambiental
• 2011-07-29 | central america María Angélica Naranjo named EfD-CA Center Deputy Director Success in achievement. Congratulations!
• 2011-07-29 | central america | Policy design Capacity building: Twenty eight new trained in Policy and Program Impact Evaluation Participants from Latin America and the Caribbean completed the Environmental and Resource Economics Training Course on Impact Evaluation by LACEEP at CATIE
• 2011-06-29 | central america | Climate change Policy design Francisco Alpízar to participate in an international scientific workshop on IPBES The IPBES (Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services) will work to build capacity for and strengthen the use of science in policy making by linking the scientific community and policy makers. The workshop and assessments will take place in Tokyo, Japan from the 25 to 27 of July 2011.
• 2011-06-17 | central america | Behavior ec. Policy design Environmental and development issues in Latin America: moving forward Economists in Latin America are moving beyond the prevailing ‘macro’ orientation of their research focusing more on questions linked to development and the use and management of the environmental resource base in the region.
• 2011-05-27 | central america | Behavior ec. Forestry Policy design Field Survey Analysis of Conservation Policies and Deforestation Decisions Through gathering landowners’ experiences and actual practices in situ, researchers at EfD-CA Center work on confirming research findings, contextualize, validate research, and set new hypothesis.
• 2011-05-02 | central america | Climate change Parks & Wildlife Policy design Two New Research Projects on Climate Change at EfD-CA EfD-CA at CATIE takes advantage of research synergies in institutional aspects of climate change, biodiversity, and water.
• 2011-04-07 | central america | Behavior ec. Economics of Ecosystem Services and Biodiversity LACEEP's XI Biannual Short Course.
• 2011-03-25 | central america | Climate change Forestry CATIE and FONAFIFO to cooperate for rural and forest development The work of both organizations will be more effective through this alliance which promotes sharing technical assistance and experiences.
• 2011-03-01 | central america | Climate change Chacón to study mechanisms of compensation, certification and credit The project provides a systematization of cases studies in Central America and Dominican Republic.

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