EfD Kenya
- 2010-02-26 "Kenya's natural resources need economic instruments" EfD researchers invited to public hearing: "Policy processes provide windows of opportunity to discuss research results, highlight the importance of natural resources to the economy – and get impact," says Paul Guthiga. Guthiga is one of the EfD research fellows who were invited by Kenya´s Ministry of Finance to a public sector hearing held to discuss the draft budget proposal on Environment, Water and Sanitation for 2009-2011.
- 2009-11-07 Third EfD Annual Meeting completed The Environment for Development (EfD) Annual Meeting 2009 has been successfully completed in Kenya 4-7 Nov 2009.
- 2009-09-24 UN Expert workshop on Economics of climate adaptation in Africa EfD-Kenya has been invited to participate in a high profile workshop organized by UNEP in collaboration with Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI), scheduled for 21-25 September, 2009 at UN Headquarters in Nairobi.
- 2009-05-26 Guthiga chose Kenya over Europe When Dr Paul Guthiga completed his thesis, he chose to return home to Kenya and join the EfD despite having been offered a post doc position at the Centre for Development Research, University of Bonn, Germany, where he studied.
- 2009-05-19 Why are farmers not adopting appropriate technologies? “Risks greatly affect farmers’ decisions to adopt farm technologies”, says Maurice Ogada, who is presenting his research findings at the international Nordic Conference on Development Economics scheduled for June, 18 - 19 in Oslo, Norway.
- 2008-11-25 REDD Conference in Italy Dr. Paul Guthiga of EfD-Kenya recently attended an international workshop on reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD) organised by the Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (Italy) and the Environmental Defense Fund (USA) in Milan, Italy.
- 2008-10-24 EfD involved in AERC Conference The African Economic Research Consortium (AERC) was hosting an international conference on Natural Resource Management and Climate Change in Sub-Saharan Africa 15-17 September 2008 in Nairobi. EfD Kenya was assisting to organize the workshop.
- 2008-10-14 EfD Kenya presented research at international congress on biodiversity Dr. Paul Guthiga of EfD-Kenya recently attended and presented research at an international congress on biodiversity held in South Africa, BIOTA Africa Congress 2008. More than 350 policy-makers, scientists, land users and other stakeholders from 20 African countries, Brazil and Germany discussed solutions for the challenges to Africa’s basis for survival – biological diversity – at Stellenbosch, South Africa from September 29 to October 3.
