EfD Nigeria charts roadmap for incorporating natural capital in Nigeria's national accounting
Despite Nigeria’s enormous natural resources, the country is yet to incorporate and mainstream natural capital and ecosystem services in its system of national accounting, fortunately, the Resource…
Long-rains crops, short-rains crops, permanent crops and fruit crops: The ‘hidden’ multiple season-cropping system for adaptation to rain variability by smallholder farms
To adapt is to survive. However, sub-Saharan Africa, although highly dependent on agriculture, is vulnerable, most affected, with low-adaptive capacity.
Understanding how human behavior influences economic decision-making
Behavioral economist Prof Martine Visser is pioneering the use of ‘green nudging’ methods to encourage people in a developing world context to adopt pro-environmental behavior in the interest of the
Socioeconomic impacts of Covid-19 on the aquaculture sector: contributions from Chile EfD researchers
The economics and social impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic have risen a big alert among all industrial sectors worldwide. This is also the case for the Chilean aquaculture industry, which has been…
2021 Annual Conference - Society for Benefit-Cost analysis
The Society for Benefit-Cost Analysis is now accepting abstracts for The 2021 Annual Conference, as well as proposals for 2021 professional development workshops. The conference will be held online…
EfD’s Annual Meeting – a virtual success
EfD overcame the challenges presented by the pandemic by carrying out its 14th Annual Meeting in virtual mode. A great line-up of speakers and more participants than ever ensured a successful event…
ENRRI-EfD Ghana trained journalists on natural resource reporting
ENRRI-EfD Ghana organized training on the environment and natural resource reporting for journalists from key private and public media outlets in Ghana. The two-day training (19 – 20 November) – very…
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Who Benefits from Climate-Friendly Agriculture? The Marginal Returns to a Rainfed System of Rice Intensification in Tanzania Invitation to African Association of Environmental and Resource Economists'…
Climate Policy and Innovation in the Absence of Commitment
We compare the effects of price and quantity instruments (an emissions tax and a quota with tradable permits) on the incentive to innovate to reduce the cost of an emission-free technology. We assume that the government cannot commit to the level of a policy instrument before R&D occurs but sets the level to be socially optimal after the results of R&D are realized. The equivalence of price and quantity instruments in inducing innovation that is seen in end-of-pipe abatement models does not hold.