Dr. Bas van Ruijven (International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis) will be discussing global future energy demands and household energy access, and how climate change will affect these demands…
Carlos Chávez and César Salazar , fellow researchers from EfD Chile, are part of a team of Chilean scientists that has received funding from the Chilean Ministry of Environment to develop a tool that…
EfD Nigeria, in partnership with EfD Ghana, conducted a training session for fishery officers and policymakers on how to apply simple bioeconomic analysis to develop a fisheries management plan for…
Purpose
This paper aims to understand the causes of low adoption of hybrid rice technology. The paper also assesses the impact of adoption of hybrids and modern varieties on crop yield, vis-à-vis the old or traditional varieties.
Design/methodology/approach
Using unit-level data from a large-scale survey of farm households (19,877 paddy cultivators), the authors applied multi-nomial regression method to understand the factors for adoption of hybrid rice and instrumental variable method of regression to estimate its impact.
Findings
In contrast to previous research, which suggests that women's employment rises during negative household income shocks in low-income economies, the findings in this study, reveal that, despite an increased likelihood of seeking work due to aggregate income shocks, women's employment may not rise if their labor mobility is constrained. Moreover, the impact of climatic shocks may be enduring. The cross-sectional analysis indicates that gender disparities in non-farm employment and migration are more pronounced in villages exposed to higher risks from rainfall variability.
Kenya's energy mix encompasses biomass, oil, electricity, coal, and hydrogen, with coal and hydrogen being less prevalent. Most Kenyan citizens rely on biomass, especially firewood and charcoal, but…
AbstractEmployment income data are coarsened as a result of questionnaire design. In the previous chapter we saw that Statistics South Africa (SSA) ask two employment income questions: an exact income question with a showcard follow-up. In public-use datasets, this results in two income variables: a continuously distributed variable for exact income responses and a categorical variable for bounded income responses with separate categories for nonresponse. It is the task of the researcher to then generate a single income variable that effectively deals with this mixture of data types.
Manuel Estay and Leonardo Salazar are research fellows from NENRE EfD-Chile and participated in one of the latest episodes of the TV show Exploradores (Explorers). They addressed the Chilean…
The study identifies current energy markets and associated (actors) stakeholders in Africa. It will then recommend institutional structures that could reconcile the VCM with Articles 4 (binding