Professor Jintao Xu, professor of economics at Peking University and Coordinator of the EfD in China, will share the experiences of the recent rapid reform of collective forestry in China at a seminar…

The Emergence of Land Markets in Africa is the first publication in the new Environment for Development (EfD) book series. EfD books focus on research and applications in environmental and natural…

Research Officer position at the Environmental Policy Research Unit (EPRU) under the Southern Africa Labour & Development Research Unit (SALDRU) at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. See…

"Biodiversity conservation should take place inside and outside protected areas, if biodiversity targets are to be met. This will only succeed if appropriate social and economic incentives and…

Anders Ekbom, from Sida Helpdesk for Environmental Economics, participates in a panel discussion on this year’s Global Monitoring Report, when the report is presented by the World Bank at Sida in…

Research officer position at the EfD Secretariat, Environmental Economics Unit, Sweden. Situated in the city centre of Göteborg, The School of Business, Economics and Law is a highly research-oriented…

A meeting to shape research to support increased forest cover in Ethiopia was held on 24 March 2008 at the Ethiopian Development Research Institute in Addis Ababa. This was a follow-up meeting to a…

An international conference on collective forest tenure and regulatory reform in China was held in Beijing on February 28-29, 2008. Conference background note Conference agenda (link to webpage with…

Peter Parks, Professor at Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA, is here at the Environmental Economics Unit (EEU) to lecture in the advanced graduate course Natural Resource Economics. Parks is widely…

Allen Blackman, senior research fellow at Resources for the Future (RFF), will spend one year at CATIE in Costa Rica. As resident advisor for the EfD Program for Central America, he will collaborate…