Stakeholders in Nigeria’s carbon market, comprising representatives from government ministries and agencies, the Central Bank of Nigeria, academia, and the private sector, have expressed a unified…
The yearly conference serves as a meeting point for development economists active in the Nordic countries, but is also targeted more generally to academic researchers in Europe and beyond with a…
Experts met to discuss how heavy industry can support the country’s industrialization and modernization efforts at a recent workshop organized by Vietnam’s Central Economic Commission. Dr. Le Thanh…
EfD Ethiopia hosted a workshop on January 16 with senior civil servants, policymakers, researchers, and NGO experts to discuss energy efficiency and reduced emissions to ensure a sustainable energy…
A workshop was organized on January 15 to validate Ethiopia’s clean cooking roadmap 2025-2035, developed by the Ministry of Water and Energy (MoWE). Experts from ministries, regional and city…
The agreement between the Department of Economics at Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia, and the University of Gothenburg ended in December 2024. The former EfD Colombia center will now be a…
EfD Central America (EfD-CA) has, since its establishment in 2007, been a driving force in promoting sustainable development and environmental research in the region. By fostering collaborations with…
Land tenure security (LTS) is important for achieving many sustainable development goals but its influence on forest cover is mixed. The uncertain relationship between LTS and forests is driven, in part, by the moderating influence of other drivers of deforestation. In this paper we illustrate this complex relationship between LTS and forest cover for individual private landholders in the Colombian Amazon. We use household surveys and econometric analysis with matching techniques to examine whether formal land titles and perceptions of LTS influence forest cover.
This study evaluates the Vietnamese shrimp farming industry through a Triple Bottom Line (TBL) perspective, using the Aquaculture Performance Indicators (API) to assess social, economic, and environmental performance. Over the past 25 years, Vietnamese shrimp farming has grown rapidly and diversified into four systems: Extensive, Semi-intensive, Intensive, and Super-intensive, and data is collected for all these systems.