Our Projects
- ethiopia | Agriculture Land management technology adoption: production risk, risk aversion and crop productivity in Ethiopia: A comparison study The agriculture sector in Ethiopia is characterized by low external input use and low productivity. It is also characterized by high nutrient depletion and soil erosion that limit farmers’ ability to increase agricultural production and reduce poverty and food insecurity.
- ethiopia | Agriculture Forestry Public Safety Nets and Crowding Out Effects: Tree Growing and Livestock in Highland Ethiopia Food insecurity is a common problem in Ethiopia because of natural (e.g. drought, flood) and idiosyncratic risks (e.g. illness). To reduce the welfare impact of risks, households use different risk coping strategies such as diversification of crops, different crop management practices, and informal risk sharing mechanisms.
- central america | Policy design Voluntary Environmental Regulation in Central America: Costa Rica’s Blue Flag Beach Certification Program The objective is to evaluate the performance of Costa Rica’s voluntary Blue Flag certification program, focusing on beach communities.
- central america | Policy design Reforming Transportation Price and Tax Policies in San José, Costa Rica Our research aims to develop a conceptual and empirical framework for analyzing the benefits and costs of various options for reforming pricing transportation in San José, and to use it to develop concrete policy recommendations.
- central america | Agriculture Behavior ec. Adoption of Sustainable Management Practices by Costa Rican Coffee Growers The objective is to identify the drivers of the adoption of sustainable land management practices by coffee farmers in Costa Rica
