Regulatory agencies, fishing companies, and other stakeholders in Nigeria’s fisheries and aquaculture sector have decided to work towards making a revised version of the Nigerian Sea Fisheries Act of…
EfD Colombia and WinEED, hosted at the Department of Economics at Los Andes University in Bogotá, received the visit of EfD India's young researcher Nikita Sangwan in October. One purpose was to…
The regulation of hazardous chemicals in Europe has been shaped by economic interests, according to a study published in Nature Communications. The researchers, from the University of Gothenburg and…
The Ministry of Finance in Ethiopia has exempted electric vehicles from value-added tax (VAT), excise tax, and surtaxes and reduced the import tax on those vehicles. A participant in the Inclusive…
A team of EfD Central America researchers provided a training titled Monitoring the provision of ecosystem services using InVEST to make decisions. The aim was to strengthen the capacities of the…
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The Eigth Annual Meeting on Environmental Economics was marked by face-to-face attendance and included the participation of representatives from the academic, political, business, and civil society…
Fisheries and aquaculture contribute to about 260 million jobs globally. But the oceans, lakes, and rivers are under severe pressure. Pollution, overfishing, and poor governance are serious threats to…
The Environment for Development Initiative (EfD) Makerere Centre has launched two new collaborative projects, one on improving the National Water Authority’s water bill payments and one analysis of…
A study conducted by researchers at EfD-Mak Uganda has shown that Chapati vendors could only afford to use the Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) cookstoves in their households. The study findings…