Welcome to the Environment and Climate Research Center
The Environment and Climate Research Center aims to conduct rigorous policy-oriented research on the economics of climate and the environment, undertake impact evaluation of Ethiopia’s Climate Resilient Green Economy (CRGE)-related interventions, provide evidence-based policy advice, compile and disseminate knowledge and data, serve as a research-policy interaction hub, and contribute to capacity building on the economics of climate change and the environment.The center was officially established on February 23, 2015 and instituted as a special research center within the Ethiopian Development Research Institute (EDRI). EDRI has partnered with the Environment for Development Initiative (EfD) and the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI) to establish the Environment and Climate Research Center (ECRC).
ECRC builds upon EDRI’s long-standing collaborative research program with EfD, the Environmental Economics Policy Forum for Ethiopia (EEPFE), a pioneer project in Ethiopia’s environment and climate policy research.
Gebreegziabher, Zenebe, G. Cornelis van Kooten and Daan P van Soest. 2017. “Technological Innovation and Dispersion: Environmental Benefits and the Adoption of Improved Biomass Cookstoves in Tigrai, Northern Ethiopia.” Energy Economics 67: 337-345.
Damte Beyene, Abebe, Alemu Mekonnen, Menale Kassie, Salvatore Di Falco and Mintewab Bezabih. 2017. “Determinants of Adoption and Impacts of Sustainable Land Management and Climate Smart Agricultural Practices (SLM-CSA)” EfD Discussion Paper Series
Damte Beyene, Abebe, Alemu Mekonnen, Menale Kassie, Salvatore Di Falco and Mintewab Bezabih. 2017. “Determinants of Adoption and Impacts of Sustainable Land Management and Climate Smart Agricultural Practices (SLM-CSA): Panel Data Evidence from the Ethiopian Highlands.” EfD Discussion Paper Series EfD DP 17-10.
Hailu, Elias, Mintewab Bezabih and Tadele Ferede. 2017. “The Impact of Credit Constraints and Climatic Factors on Choice of Adaptation Strategies: Evidence from Rural Ethiopia.” EfD Discussion Paper Series EfD DP 17-01.
Teklewold, Hailemariam and Alemu Mekonnen. 2017. “Land Use Policy.” Science Direct 67: 449-459.
Gebreheiwot, Tagel and Carolina Castilla. 2017. “Do safety net transfers improve household diets and reduce under nutrition? Evidence from rural Ethiopia.”
Kahsay, Goytom Abraha and Daniel Osberghaus. 2017. “Storm Damage and Risk Preferences: Panel Evidence from Germany.” Environ Resource Econ : 1-18.
Abay, kibrom, Goytom Abraha Kahsay and Guush Berhane. 2017. “Social Networks and Factor Markets: Panel Data Evidence from Ethiopia.” Journal of Development Studies : 1-17.
Kahsay, Goytom Abraha and Lars Hansen. 2016. “The effect of climate change and adaptation policy on agricultural production in Eastern Africa.” Ecological Economics 121: 54.
Kahsay, Goytom Abraha and Margaret Samahita. 2015. “Pay-What-You-Want pricing schemes: A self-image perspective.” Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance 7: 17-28.
Kahsay, Goytom Abraha , Laura Mørch Andersen and Lars Hansen. 2014. “Price reactions when consumers are concerned about pro-social reputation.” Department of Food and Resource Economics 2014/09: 58.
Teklewold, Hailemariam and Alemu Mekonnen. 2017. “The Tilling of Land in a Changing Climate: Panel Data Evidence from the Nile Basin of Ethiopia.” EfD Discussion Paper Series .
Bezabih, Mintewab and Eyerusalem Siba. 2017. “The Land Certification Program and Off-Farm Employment in Ethiopia.” EfD Discussion Paper Series .
Gebreheiwot, Tagel, Anne van der Veen and Ben Maathuis. 2016. “Governing agricultural drought: Monitoring using the vegetation condition index.” Ethiopian Journal of Environmental Studies and Management 9:3: 354-371.
Gebreheiwot, Tagel and Anne van der Veen . 2015. “Estimating the impact of a food security program by propensity-score matching.” Journal of Development and Agricultural Economics 7:1: 38-47.
Gebreheiwot, Tagel and Anne van der Veen . 2014. “The Effect of Enclosures in Rehabilitating Degraded Vegetation: A Case of Enderta District, Northern Ethiopia .” Forest Research 3:4: .
Gebreheiwot, Tagel and Anne van der Veen . 2013. “Assessing the evidence of climate variability in the northern part of Ethiopia .” Journal of Development and Agricultural Economics 5:3: 104-119.
Gebreheiwot, Tagel and Anne van der Veen . 2014. “Coping with Food Insecurity on a Micro-Scale: Evidence from Ethiopian Rural Households.” Ecology of Food and Nutition 52:2: 214-240.
Gebreheiwot, Tagel and Anne van der Veen . 2013. “Climate change vulnerability in Ethiopia: disaggregation of Tigray Region .” Journal of Eastern African Studies 7:4: 607-629.
Gebreheiwot, Tagel and Anne van der Veen . 2014. “Environmental Management .” springer 54:0364-152: .
Gebreheiwot, Tagel and Anne van der Veen . 2013. “Environmental Management .” springer 52: 29-44.
Gebreheiwot, Tagel, Anne van der Veen and Ben Maathuis. 2011. “International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation.” Science Direct 13:3: 309-321.
van der Veen , Anne and Tagel Gebreheiwot. 2011. “Effect of Policy Interventions on Food Security in Tigray, Northern Ethiopia.” Ecology and Society 16:1: .
Teklewold, Hailemariam, Alemu Mekonnen, Gunnar Köhlin and Salvatore Di Falco. 2017. “Does Adoption of multiple climate-smart practices improve farmers’ climate resilience? Empirical evidence from the Nile basin of Ethiopia.” Climate Change Economics 8: No. 1 (2017) 1750001: .
Andersson, Camilla , Mintewab Bezabih and Andrea Mannberg. 2017. “Food Policy.” Science Direct 66: 1-11.
Mulugeta Negede, Betelhem and Wondwossen Bogale Eremed. 2016. “Renewable Energy for Climate Change Mitigation: An Overview of Biogas Energy in East Africa” .
Gebreegziabher, Zenebe, Alemu Mekonnen, Tadele Ferede and Gunnar Köhlin. 2016. “The Economics of Biodiesel Production in East Africa: The Case of Ethiopia ” .
Alem, Yonas, Abebe Damte Beyene, Gunnar Köhlin and Alemu Mekonnen. 2016. “Modeling household cooking fuel choice: A panel multinomial logit approach.” Science Direct 59: 129-137.
Gebreegziabher, Zenebe and G. Cornelis van Kooten. 2015. “Single versus Multiple Objective(s) Decision Making: An Application to Subsistence Farms in Northern Ethiopia.” Ethiopian Journal of Economics XXIV:2: 129-157.
Vieider, Ferdinand, Abebe Damte Beyene, Randall Bluffstone, Sahan Dissanayake, Zenebe Gebreegziabher, Peter Martinsson and Alemu Mekonnen. 2016. “Measuring risk preferences in rural Ethiopia.” Economic Development and Cultural Change :forthcoming: .
Bouchouicha, Ranoua, Peter Martinsson, Haileselassie Medhin and Ferdinand Vieider. 2016. “Stake effects on ambiguity attitudes for gains and losses.” Theory & decision :forthcoming: .
Teklewold, Hailemariam, Alemu Mekonnen, Gunnar Köhlin and Salvatore Di Falco. 2016. “Does Adoption of Multiple Climate-Smart Practices Improve Farmers’ Climate Resilience? Empirical Evidence from the Nile Basin of Ethiopia.” EfD Discussion Paper Series 16-21.
Gebreegziabher, Zenebe, Alemu Mekonnen, Rahel Deribe and Samuel Abera. 2016. “Mapping Vulnerability to Climate Change of the Farming Sector in the Nile Basin of Ethiopia A Micro-level Perspective.” EfD Discussion Paper Series 19-16.
Woubishet, Dawit. 2014. “Coupling socio-economic factors and eco-hydrological processes using a cascade-modeling approach.” Journal of Hydrology 518: 49-59.
Woubishet, Dawit. 2013. “The Effects of Groundwater and Surface Water Use on Total Water Availability and Implications for Water Management: The Case of Lake Naivasha, Kenya.” Water Resources Management 27:9: 3477-3492.
Woubishet, Dawit. 2016. “Accounting for Spatial Non-Stationarity to Estimate Population Distribution Using Land Use/Cover. Case Study: the Lake Naivasha Basin, Kenya .” Journal of Settlements and Spatial Planing 4:1: 33-44.
Woubishet, Dawit. 2014. “Supporting IWRM through spatial integrated assessment in the Lake Naivasha basin, Kenya.” International Journal of Water Resources Development 30:3: 605-618.
Woubishet, Dawit. 2014. “Farm households' preferences for collective and individual actions to improve water-related ecosystem services: The Lake Naivasha basin, Kenya.” Science Direct 7: 22-33.
Woubishet, Dawit. 2015. “Firms’ willingness to invest in a water fund to improve water-related ecosystem services in the Lake Naivasha basin, Kenya.” Water International 40:3: 463-482.
Woubishet, Dawit, Richard Mulwa, Leonie Joubert, Salvatory Macha, Eugenia León and Felipe Vásquez Lavín. 2016. “EfD Stories”
Alem, Yonas and Lisa Andersson. 2016. “International Remittances and Private Inter-household Transfers: Exploring the Links.” EfD Discussion Paper Series 16-14.
Damte Beyene, Abebe, Randall Bluffstone and Alemu Mekonnen. 2016. “Even when communities do a good job of managing forests, additional incentives are needed to encourage them to store more carbon: A Study in Ethiopia” EfD Research Brief DRB 13-07
Alem, Yonas and Nzinga H. Broussard. 2016. “The Impact of Safety Nets on Technology Adoption: A Di erence-in-Di ferences Analysis.” EfD Discussion Paper Series 16-13.
Alem, Yonas and Nzinga H. Broussard. 2016. “The Impact of Safety Nets on Technology Adoption A Difference-in-Differences Analysis .” EfD Discussion Paper Series DP 16-13.
Woubishet, Dawit. 2016. “The Impact of CO2 Emissions on Agricultural Productivity and Household Welfare in Ethiopia: A Computable General Equilibrium Analysis.” EfD Discussion Paper Series 16-08.
Teklewold, Hailemariam. 2016. “On the Joint Estimation of Technology Adoption and Market Participation under Transaction Costs in Smallholder Dairying in Ethiopia.” EfD Discussion Paper Series 16-04.
Andersson, Camilla , Mintewab Bezabih and Andrea Mannberg. 2016. “The Ethiopian Commodity Exchange and Spatial Price Dispersion.” EfD Discussion Paper Series 16-02.
Akay, Alpaslan, Lisa Andersson, Peter Martinsson and Haileselassie Medhin. 2014. “Positional Concerns among the Poor: Does Reference Group Matter? Evidence from Survey Experiments.” Journal of African Economies 23:5: 673-699.