Interviews
Meet research fellows and associates within the EfD network:
- 2009-05-26 Guthiga chose to return to Kenya "EfD gave me a smooth transition to my home country after my studies in Europe", says Paul Maina Guthiga, research fellow of EfD in Kenya. He is currently focusing on the anticipated economics impacts of implementing Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD) mitigation scheme, as well as ongoing forest reforms in Kenya.
- 2009-03-26 "Land governance is of great importance to EfD Tanzania" Dr John Mduma, EfD research fellow at EfD Tanzania participated in the conference "Land Governance in Support of the Millennium Development Goals: Responding to new challenges", held in Washington DC, March 9-10, 2009. He shares his experiences and thoughts in an interview below.
- 2008-12-09 Jintao Xu never planned to be an environmental economist Professor Jintao Xu, the coordinator of EfD in China and one of China´s most prominent experts in forestry economics, did not really plan to become an environmental economist. ”From the beginning it was just by accident. My application material for studying industrial management was picked up by Beijing Forestry University.
- 2008-12-01 Razack Lokina: "EfD has a role to play in fast-changing Tanzania" Razack Lokina grew up as the son of a small coffee farmer in the village of Msangeni, in the Mwanga District of the Kilimanjaro Region. Now he is a fellow researcher and coordinator at the EfD center in Tanzania.
- 2008-04-08 Peter Parks loves life as a professor ”I love teaching. It is the best part of my job,” says Peter Parks, professor at Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA, and an EfD Research Associate. 2008 is the tenth year he has been asked to come to teach in Natural Resource Economics at the University of Gothenburg. Students from 17 countries are attending his course.
- 2008-01-27 Francisco Alpizar gets his boots muddy ”I want to create a research environment that works like an academy but with people who are prepared to get their boots muddy – ready to go out into the field and to contact policy makers,” says Francisco Alpizar, coordinator of the EfD in Central America.
