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- 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.
- 2009-04-16 UN Expert Group Meeting: Sustainable agriculture in Africa For the poor of the world, improved agricultural productivity and reduced land degradation is vital. The United Nations, the World Bank, and other bodies are currently making tremendous investments in African agriculture. How researchers can contribute to ensuring that these resources are put to best use was the main question for the expert group meeting, organised by the United Nations, together with environmental economists from the School of Economics, Business and Law, University of Gothenburg. The 27 participants included researchers, agricultural consultants, ministers and aid donors.
- 2009-04-16 | eeu sweden UN Expert Group Meeting: How can researchers contribute to productive and sustainable agriculture in Africa? Press release from Environmental Economics Unit, School of Business, Economics and Law, University of Gothenburg, 2009-04-15
- 2009-03-24 EfD members attended the WB conference "Land Governance in Support of the MDGs" EfD members from six countries participated in the conference "Land Governance in Support of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs): Responding to new challenges", held in Washington DC, March 9-10, 2009. Presentations were held by Jintao Xu, EfD in China, Tekie Alemu, EfD in Ethiopia, and Stein Holden, EfD Associate. John Mduma represented EfD Tanzania. Wilfred Nyangena represented EfD in Kenya, and Gunnar Köhlin, EfD Director, participated as chair and discussant.
- 2009-03-20 | south africa | Climate change EPRU/EfD South Africa participated actively to South African Climate Change Summit Kerri Brick, EfD research fellow, and Martine Visser, EfD research fellow and coordinator, presented papers on the economics of climate change mitigation at the 2009 South African Climate Change Summit, held in Johannesburg 3-6 March 2009.
- 2009-03-16 Biofuel can provide a boost to Tanzania Read the opinion article (in Swedish only) on biofuel in Tanzania, written by ten researchers from Tanzania and Sweden, among them Razack Lokina, EfD Coordinator in Tanzania, and Håkan Eggert, resident advisor at EfD in Tanzania.
- 2009-03-13 | tanzania | Fisheries EfD researcher comments on Tanzania´s fisheries governance in This day Dr Lokina coordinator of EfD in Tanzania was interviewed by the daily paper This day, to comment on the strategies on strengthen fisheries governance and legal frameworks to eliminate illegal, unregulated and unreported fishing in the sub regional states of the Indian Ocean.
- 2009-02-27 | tanzania | Climate change Climate change policy research in Tanzania Mark Purdon of the University of Toronto (Canada) carried -out research in collaboration at EfD Tanzania on climate change policy. The subject is the performance of existing projects under the Kyoto Protocol’s carbon offset system Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) operating in Tanzania and their contribution to sustainable regional development, with a focus on land governance.
- 2009-02-25 | tanzania Help the villagers save Tanzania’s forests EfD Tanzania Pressrelease 2009-02-20
- 2009-02-24 | tanzania | Forestry EfD research helps villagers save Tanzania’s forests The Deputy Minister for Natural Resources and Tourism, Ezekiel Maige, recently underscored the need for people living around forest reserves to be empowered with forest management skills. Researchers at Environment for Development Tanzania (EfDT), an initiative based at the Department of Economics at the University of Dar es Salaam, have identified a number of critical areas that will help both to protect Tanzania’s forests and the livelihoods of those villagers living close to the forests.
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