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Devoting time to off-farm activities, while complementing agricultural incomes, may be constrained by labor availability and financial capacity. This paper assesses the importance of rainfall patterns…
21 October 2010 | EfD Discussion Paper | Ethiopia, Global HubDependency of urban Ethiopian households on rural areas for about 85 percent of their fuel needs is a significant cause of deforestation and forest degradation, resulting in growing fuel scarcity and…
21 October 2010 | EfD Discussion Paper | Ethiopia, Global HubThis paper investigates the opportunities for reducing the pressure of urban centers on rural forest areas, using a dataset of 350 urban households in Tigrai in northern Ethiopia. We applied an almost…
21 August 2010 | EfD Discussion Paper | EthiopiaThe paper analyses the economic impacts of climate change-induced adjustments on the performance of the Tanzanian economy, using a country-wide CGE model. The general equilibrium framework enables…
1 July 2010 | EfD Discussion Paper | SwedenThis paper explores whether any investment products or strategies in South Africa take environmental sustainability into account. By looking at how environmental, social, and governance (ESG) criteria…
1 July 2010 | EfD Discussion Paper | South AfricaWetlands are commonly understood to have the capacity to reduce the loads of excess nutrients, pathogens, sediments, and other contaminants generated by various activities in their catchment areas…
30 June 2010 | EfD Discussion Paper | South AfricaThe authors conducted a field experiment in a protected area to explore the effects of conformity to a social reference versus a comparable, but imposed, suggested donation. By keeping the intrinsic…
30 June 2010 | EfD Discussion Paper | Central AmericaInitiatives certifying that farms and firms adhere to predefined environmental and social welfare production standards are increasingly popular. According to proponents, they create financial…
5 June 2010 | EfD Discussion Paper | Central AmericaThis paper investigates the use of charges and standards in dealing with a common externality, plastic litter from shopping bags in Botswana. The country passed a plastic bag tax (effective 2007) to…
4 June 2010 | EfD Discussion Paper | South AfricaThis paper evaluates the ex-post impact of adopting improved groundnut varieties on crop income and rural poverty in rural Uganda. The study utilizes cross-sectional farm household data collected in…
4 June 2010 | EfD Discussion Paper | Ethiopia