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- 2008-08-20 EEPFE holds second sustainable land management (SLM) workshop The second SLM workshop was organized in the town of Mekelle, Tigray Region in Northern Ethiopia, from August 8 – 9, 2008. This event was organized jointly by Mekelle University (MU) and Environmental Economics Policy Forum for Ethiopia of the Ethiopian Development Research Institute (EEPFE/EDRI).
- 2008-07-10 Call for Papers: Natural Resource Management and Economic Development AFRICAN ECONOMIC RESEARCH CONSORTIUM (AERC) International Conference on Natural Resource Management, Climate Change and Economic Development in Africa: Issues, Opportunities and Challenges
- 2008-07-09 Call for Papers on: Climate Change and Economic Development AFRICAN ECONOMIC RESEARCH CONSORTIUM (AERC) International Conference on Natural Resource Management, Climate Change and Economic Development in Africa: Issues, Opportunities and Challenges
- 2008-06-26 Ed Barbier spoke at the Preconference on Environment and Development A great number of researchers working on environment and development issues were participating in the conference EAERE 2008 in Gothenburg, Sweden, June 26-28. Therefore, a special preconference on environment and development was arranged on June 25, in connection with EAERE 2008.
- 2008-06-24 | central america | Agriculture Policy design Más preguntas que respuestas Francisco Alpízar y Milagro Saborío wrote an article for “La Nación” (1 June 2008) the most important newspaper in Costa Rica on the topic of biofuels. (Spanish only)
- 2008-06-24 EfD research workshop in connection with EAERE An EfD research workshop was held on June 24 at the Environmental Economics Unit, in connection with the EAERE 2008 conference
- 2008-05-29 Postdoc position at EfD Center for Ethiopia Postdoc position at EfD Center for Ethiopia - Environmental Economics Policy Forum for Ethiopia
- 2008-05-21 Land Titling, A Blessing or a Curse? Professor Jintao Xu, professor of economics at Peking University and Coordinator of the EfD in China, will share the experiences of the recent rapid reform of collective forestry in China at a seminar titled Agriculture, land markets and development on May 22 in Sweden. It is one in a series of seminars at the Royal Swedish Academy of Agriculture and Forestry to follow up the World Development Report 2008 – Agriculture for Development.
- 2008-05-21 First publication in EfD book series The Emergence of Land Markets in Africa is the first publication in the new Environment for Development (EfD) book series.
- 2008-05-21 Research Officer position at EPRU Research Officer position at the Environmental Policy Research Unit (EPRU) under the Southern Africa Labour & Development Research Unit (SALDRU) at the University of Cape Town, South Africa.