http://www.efdinitiative.org daily 1 2007-11-25T17:36:13Z http://www.efdinitiative.org/centers/kenya/news-press/news-archive/2011/the-environment-poverty-reduction-nexus-needs-more-attention-in-kenya EfD Kenya notes in its commissioned report for World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) that environmental issues are recognized as important at very high levels of planning in Kenya. Still, the environment-poverty reduction nexus has not received its due attention in terms of policy prioritization, money allocation, political and civil society support, and actual implementation. No publisher karinbackteman 2011-06-09T09:07:04Z Article http://www.efdinitiative.org/centers/kenya/news-press/news-archive/2010/efd-research-on-redd-discussed-at-unitar-yale-conference Daniel Slunge, Policy Analyst at the Environmental Economics Unit, University of Gothenburg, was invited speaker at the second Conference on Environmental Governance and Democracy: Strengthening Institutions to Address Climate Change and Advance a Green Economy, organized by the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) and Yale University, 17-19 September 2010. No publisher karinbackteman 2010-09-21T12:21:59Z Article http://www.efdinitiative.org/centers/kenya/news-press/news-archive/2010/kenyas-natural-resources-need-economic-instruments-efd-researchers-invited-to-public-hearing 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. No publisher karinbackteman 2010-02-26T10:58:41Z Article http://www.efdinitiative.org/centers/kenya/news-press/news-archive/2009/third-efd-annual-meeting-completed The Environment for Development (EfD) Annual Meeting 2009 has been successfully completed in Kenya 4-7 Nov 2009. No publisher karinbackteman 2010-03-22T09:55:09Z Article http://www.efdinitiative.org/centers/kenya/news-press/news-archive/2009/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. No publisher maurice 2009-09-24T11:23:08Z Article http://www.efdinitiative.org/centers/kenya/news-press/news-archive/2009/dr-guthiga-chose-to-return-to-kenya 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. No publisher karinbackteman 2009-09-24T10:38:08Z Article http://www.efdinitiative.org/centers/kenya/news-press/news-archive/2009/without-appropriate-technologies-agriculture-is-a-threat-to-the-environment “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. No publisher Wairimu 2009-05-20T12:38:20Z Article http://www.efdinitiative.org/centers/kenya/news-press/news-archive/2008/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. No publisher Wairimu 2008-11-25T09:13:39Z Article http://www.efdinitiative.org/centers/kenya/news-press/news-archive/2008/efd-involved-in-aerc-conference-on-natural-resource-management-and-climate-change-in-sub-saharan-africa 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. No publisher karinbackteman 2008-10-24T13:50:00Z Article http://www.efdinitiative.org/centers/kenya/news-press/news-archive/2008/efd-kenya-attended-high-level-congress-on-biodiversity-south-africa 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. No publisher karinbackteman 2009-03-05T08:23:20Z Article