The Inclusive Green Economy program presented an unusual opportunity for knowledge sharing by bringing together groups with different backgrounds and skills. People in different stages of their…
Today we celebrate International Women's Day. We do that to mark and celebrate the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women and raise awareness about women's equality and…
On March 15th-18th 2022 the EfD-Mak center held a strategic planning meeting to write the strategic plan for the next five years to ensure that there is proper environmental management in Uganda…
EfD Ethiopia, ECRC, organized a training-of-trainers workshop on March 1, 2022. The workshop was part of the Inclusive Green Economy program (IGE), a capacity development program for civil servants in…
We welcome Stefan Ambec as the next speaker in the EEU seminar series. Stefan is a professor at Toulouse School of Economics and the Director of TSE Energy and Climate Center, and his research…
In this uncertain era of climate change, any strategy that can increase farm yield in resource-poor, rain-fed, agriculture-dependent regions, like sub-Saharan Africa, should be explored. Our study takes place in Namibia, a typical sub-Saharan African country exhibiting dry and vulnerable characteristics. Our estimation strategy is robust to selection bias caused by unobserved systematic differences and further validated by robustness tests to estimate the impact of joint decision-making on farm productivity and household outcomes.
Households in developing countries are subject to considerable risk and shocks, but most don’t have the ability to deal with them using formal mechanisms. We use five rounds of South African NIDS panel data and investigate the impact of shocks on the mental health of individuals. We find that experiencing idiosyncratic shocks, such as the death of a supportive family member and loss of assets, has significant negative impacts on mental health.
María del Pilar got tired of hearing lame excuses, such as “we would like to feature women researchers, but we can’t find any”. So she created a database of women researchers working in the field of
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EfD-Kenya Seminar activities continue. The next event will be on 17th March. You are warmly invited to this interesting presentation on Smallholder farmers’ dissatisfaction with marketing contract…