Agriculture - Sustainable land management

Land degradation threatens food security and the sustainability of agricultural production in many developing countries. In response, government and development agencies have invested substantial resources in promoting sustainable land management technologies (SLMTs). In spite of the great efforts to promote bunds, SLMTs have not been widely adopted by smallholders in many developing countries.

central america | Agriculture Behavior ec. Forestry Policy design Consecuencias imprevistas y efectos en el comportamiento de los mecanismos de selección de Pagos por Servicios Ambientales ¿Cómo los incentivos de mercado afectan el comportamiento de los que no reciben el PSA? Con este estudio el Programa de Investigación en Desarrollo, Economía y Ambiente (IDEA) de CATIE se dio a la tarea de explorar esta pregunta en Costa Rica. Muñoz Brenes, Carlos, Francisco Alpízar, Anna Nordén y Laura Villalobos. 2012. “Consecuencias imprevistas y efectos en el comportamiento de los mecanismos de selección de Pagos por Servicios Ambientales.” InfoCATIE, Año 1 (1) Agosto 2012. CATIE, Costa Rica.

central america | Agriculture Policy design Conceptualización y elaboración de indicadores para la la línea de base del MAP Chacon-Cascante, A., Naranjo, M.A. y Villalobos, L. “Conceptualización y elaboración de indicadores para la la línea de base del MAP.” Informe consultoría Programa Agroambiental Mesoamericano.

central america | Agriculture Forestry Más allá de la dimensión financiera: Impacto del Programa Ambiental Mesoamericano en la calidad de vida y los capitales de sus familias beneneficiarias Impacto del Programa Ambiental Mesoamericano (MAP) en la calidad de vida y los capitales de sus familias beneneficiarias Chacón-Cascante, A., Naranjo, M.A., Villalobos, L. “Más allá de la dimensión financiera: Impacto del Programa Ambiental Mesoamericano en la calidad de vida y los capitales de sus familias beneneficiarias.” Informe consultoría Programa Agroambiental Mesoamericano.

central america | Agriculture Does eco-certification have environmental benefits? Organic coffee in Costa Rica We analyze the environmental impacts of organic coffee certification in central Costa Rica. We use propensity score matching to control for self-selection bias. Organic certification reduces chemical input use. Organic certification increases adoption of environmentally friendly practices. Blackman, Allen and Maria A. Naranjo. 2012., “Does Eco-Certification Have Environmental Benefits? Organic Coffee in Costa Rica”. Ecological Economics, Volume 83, November 2012, Pages 60–68

south africa | Agriculture Risk Preferences and Environmental Uncertainty: Implications for Crop Diversification Decisions in Ethiopia To the extent that diversifying income portfolio is used as a strategy for shielding against production risk, both individual risk aversion and weather uncertainty could affect crop diversification decisions. This paper is concerned with empirically assessing the effects of risk aversion and rainfall variability on farm level diversity. Bezabih Mintewab and Mare Sarr, “Risk Preferences and Environmental Uncertainty: Implications for Crop Diversification Decisions in Ethiopia”, Environmental and Resource Economics, DOI 10.1007/s10640-012-9573-3, forthcoming.

ethiopia | Agriculture Behavior ec. Employment Dynamics in the Rural Nonfarm Sector in Ethiopia: Do the Poor Have Time on Their Side? We study rural employment transitions in Ethiopia between farming and both low- and high-return nonfarm employment. Bezu, Sosina and Christopher Barrett, 2012, “Employment dynamics in the rural nonfarm sector in Ethiopia: Do the poor have time on their side?”, Journal of Development Studies, 48(9):1223-1240, 1 September 2012.

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

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).

central america | Agriculture Climate change Forestry Parks & Wildlife Policy design Policy Day / / Día de Políticas Jueves 25 de Octubre, 2012 Hotel Bougainvillea, Santo Domingo de Heredia, Costa Rica EfD-América Central

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.

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