EfD News
- 2012-11-01 | central america EfD to become independent legal entity At the recent EfD annual meeting in Costa Rica the Coordination Committee made a number of important decisions.
- 2012-10-31 | central america | Agriculture Climate change Forestry Parks & Wildlife Policy design Media reports on EfD Policy Day in Costa Rica International and Costa Rican local media showed great interest in covering the EfD Policy Day celebrated on October 25, 2012
- 2012-10-31 Annual World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty, April 2013. The World Bank invites the submission of abstracts (between 800 and 1500 words) on the theme "Moving towards transparent land governance: Evidence-based next steps.” The deadline is November 15th, 2012. The conference will be held at the World Bank Headquarters in Washington, D.C., on April 8-11, 2013. This is a great opportunity for EfD researchers to reach out to policy makers, implementing organizations and donors.
- 2012-10-29 | ethiopia | Agriculture Mintewab Bezabih received award for best paper on gender The paper "The Role of Land Certification in Reducing Gender Gaps in Productivity in Rural Ethiopia" written by EfD research fellow Mintewab Bezabih, EfD Associate Stein T. Holden and Andrea Mannberg, was given the "Uma Lele’s Award to Best Contributed Paper on Gender" at the International Conference of Agricultural Economists (IAAE).
- 2012-10-28 | ethiopia | Forestry EEPFE Research Fellow presents a paper on Common Property Forest Management EEPFE research fellow, Dr. Abebe Damte presented a paper on 'Common Property Forest Management: Implications for REDD in Ethiopia' at the Climate Change and Development Policy Conference organized by the UNU-WIDER from 28-29 September 2012 in Helsinki, Finland.
- 2012-10-20 | central america | Agriculture Climate change Forestry Parks & Wildlife Policy design Experts and policymakers meet in Costa Rica to discuss climate change, water and natural resources The goal is to identify needs for policy making and research in these three issues that are key for development in Central America.
- 2012-10-20 | central america | Agriculture Climate change Forestry Parks & Wildlife Policy design PRESS RELEASE: Experts and policymakers meet in Costa Rica to discuss climate change, water and natural resources The goal is to identify needs for policy making and research in these three issues that are key for development in Central America.
- 2012-10-15 Climate negotiations relying on “dangerous” thresholds will not succeed Press release from University of Gothenburg, School of Business, Economics and Law, Environmental Economics Unit, 15 Oct 2012
- 2012-10-15 Climate negotiations relying on “dangerous” thresholds will not succeed The identified critical threshold for dangerous climate change saying that the increase in global temperature should be below 2 degrees Celsius seems not to have helped the climate negotiations so far. New research shows that negotiations based on such a threshold fail because its value is determined by Nature and is inherently uncertain. Climate negotiators should therefore focus on other collective strategies.
- 2012-09-28 | kenya | Climate change Workshop on Economic Analysis of Adaptation Options to Climate Change in Africa September 6-11, 2012 EfD-Kenya implemented an IDRC-funded (International Development Research Centre) workshop on Economic Analysis of Adaptation Options to Climate Change.
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