Equity and implications of response strategies on gender relations: Identifying ways of mainstreaming gender into response strategies in Southeast Nigeria

Submitted by Nnaemeka Chukwuone on
EfD Authors:
Onyinyechi Ifeanyi, Nnadi

The interactions between prevailing gender gaps and climate variability and change (CVC) response strategies can intensify inequalities among farmers. Hence, this study examined implications of CVC response strategies on gender relations among farmers in Southeast Nigeria and ways of mainstreaming gender into the strategies.

Peer Reviewed
Agriculture, Climate Change, Gender

Food and forests: understanding agriculture and conservation trade-offs in Ethiopia

Submitted by Yitatek Yitbarek on
EfD Authors:
Gebrehiwot Gidey, Tagel

Agricultural expansion is the number one driver of the loss of nature and its biodiversity and ecosystem services.1 But efforts to rapidly reduce these losses must recognize the political and economic realities of developing countries striving for economic growth and poverty eradication in the face of climate change. How to balance the competing objectives of agricultural production (SDG 2) and nature conservation (SDG 15) is a critical challenge for sustainable development, and there is growing recognition that success will require transformative change

Policy Brief
Agriculture

Households and tree-planting for wood energy production – Do perceptions matter?

Submitted by Salvatory Macha on
EfD Authors:
Kulindwa, Yusuph J.

While forests are a primary source of energy for the majority of Tanzanian households, the forest cover is rapidly declining. The Tanzanian government has introduced a tree-planting campaign strategy, aimed at reducing pressure on natural forests.

Peer Reviewed
Forestry

Financing a sustainable ocean economy

Submitted by Vicentia Quartey on
EfD Authors:
Akpalu, Wisdom

AbstractThe ocean, which regulates climate and supports vital ecosystem services, is crucial to our Earth system and livelihoods. Yet, it is threatened by anthropogenic pressures and climate change. A healthy ocean that supports a sustainable ocean economy requires adequate financing vehicles that generate, invest, align, and account for financial capital to achieve sustained ocean health and governance.

Peer Reviewed
Conservation, Fisheries

Decentralized Forest Management: Experimental and Quasi-experimental Evidence

Submitted by Petra Hansson on
EfD Authors:
Blackman, Allen
Bluffstone, Randall

Developing country forests sustain livelihoods, help to control flooding, recharge aquifers, pollinate crops, cycle nutrients, harbor biodiversity, and sequester carbon. As a result, forest loss and degradation have serious environmental and socioeconomic consequences. Decentralization and devolution of governance have arguably been the most important policy trend affecting developing countries’ forests over the past three decades.

Peer Reviewed
Forestry

erceived Community Resilience to Floods and Droughts Induced by Climate Change in Semi-arid Ghana

Submitted by Vicentia Quartey on
EfD Authors:
Yiran, Gerald

Droughts and floods are some of the major climatic hazards in the semi-arid areas of Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Climate change affects the periodicity and severity of such hazards, and eventually the well-being of many rural communities in the region, including semi-arid Ghana. Enhancing the resilience of local communities to droughts and floods would be a necessary step to meet different national development priorities. The aim of this chapter is to assess the perceived community resilience to recurrent floods and droughts induced by climate change.

Book Chapter
Climate Change

Renewable electricity and sustainable development goals in the EU

Submitted by Vicentia Quartey on
EfD Authors:
Karimu, Amin

Renewable energy (RE) has a strong synergy with some of the sustainable development goals (SDGs), thus its successful deployment can potentially result in an impact on these SDGs. In this study, we examine the synergy effect of renewable electricity on selected SDGs via the electricity prices for the European Union (EU) countries. Using panel data and a two-step estimation approach, our findings indicate a strong synergy effect between renewable electricity prices, SDG 7 (affordable and clean energy) and SDG 8 (decent work and economic growth).

Peer Reviewed
Energy
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