President Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete of Tanzania recently appointed Dr. Adolf F. Mkenda to be the chairman of the Parastatal Pension Fund, PPF, which is one of the largest pension fund in Tanzania. Dr…
In 2010 parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) adopted the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011 – 2020 which comprised an ambitious set of 20 targets for slowing, halting, and…
EPRU Research Fellow Jane Turpie taught a course in economic valuation and environmental policy instruments as part of a course on the economic tools for conservation and infrastructure planning in…
This week the Economics Department at Rhodes University celebrated the launch of a Research Focus Area in Resource Economics, having won substantial funding from the university over a three-year…
Yonas W. Alemu (PhD), Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg, Environment for Development initiative, research officer conducted training from 2nd July to 6th July, 2012 at the University…
The EfD organized and offered the first summer course on “Panel Data Econometrics” at the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Mekelle University, Ethiopia in July 2012. The courses were taught…
CATIE and Conservation International joined forces to work together in research and capacity building to bring impacts at both the policy and field implementation scale. Central American smallholder…
EfD Associate Paul Guthiga, Kenya, is one of the authors of an article that will be published in 13 September 2012 issue of Nature. The paper is titled “Averting biodiversity collapse in tropical…
The latest issue of RFF Resources magazine is a special issue on "Balancing Economic and Environmental Progress in Developing Countries". It is being guest edited by EfD Research Fellow Allen Blackman…
The EfD Coordination Committee, headed by EfD Director Gunnar Köhlin, welcomes as a new EfD Partner the Chilean research center Research Nucleus on Environmental and Natural Resource Economics at the…