Can Information Enhanced with Nudges Mitigate the Rise of Childhood Obesity in the Global South?

Submitted by Luat Do on
EfD Authors:
Nam, Pham Khanh

We conducted a RCT to test whether updating nutrition information sets of parents along with nudges reduces excess body fat among primary schoolchildren in urban Vietnam. Parents of overweight or obese children were randomly offered a nutrition consultation that led to goal setting with soft commitment, BMI-for-age report card, and weight scale. After 6 months, the intervention reduced body fat, waist circumference, and the likelihood of being overweight or obese, which are partly explained by improvements in diets and diet-related parental perceptions.

Peer Reviewed
Experiments, Health, Policy Design

Implicaciones metodológicas e inconsistencias de la Tercera Comunicación Nacional sobre Cambio Climático de Colombia

Submitted by Manuela Fonseca on
EfD Authors:
Arango Aramburo, Santiago
Villegas-Palacio, Clara

Las Comunicaciones Nacionales sobre Cambio Climático (CNCC) son un mecanismo para que los países informen sus avances en mitigación y adaptación, y constituyen uno de los elementos de base para la política sobre cambio climático a escala nacional. Colombia ha emitido tres CNCC.

Peer Reviewed
Policy Design

We can incorporate agriculture ecosystems into urban green economy in Tanzania: Dar es Salaam households are willing to pay

Submitted by Petra Hansson on
EfD Authors:
Tibesigwa, Byela
Ntuli, Herbert
Muta Denje, Telvin

We are living in a crisis era, with competing land use for finite land and ill-informed myopic urban land-use policies that remain stagnant, in a world with a rapidly changing urban environment, such as the mushrooming urban agriculture. While smallholder farms in and around cities, in sub-Saharan Africa, provide many ecosystem services including boosting household income and nutrition, and access to land constraints these benefits. This paper examines the willingness to pay for urban farm plots, using a random parameter logit model.

EfD Discussion Paper
Agriculture, Climate Change, Land, Policy Design, Urban

Economic Valuation of Forest Ecosystem Services in Kenya: Implication for Design of PES Schemes and Participatory Forest Management

Submitted by Jane Nyawira Maina on
EfD Authors:
Okumu, Boscow
Muchapondwa, Edwin

Forest ecosystem services are critical for human well-being as well as functioning and growth of economies. However, despite the growing demand for these services, they are hardly given due consideration in public policy formulation. The values attached to these services by local communities are also generally unknown in developing countries. Using a case study of the Mau forest conservancy in Kenya, this study applied a choice experiment technique to estimate the value attached to salient forest ecosystem services by forest-adjacent communities.

Peer Reviewed
Forestry, Policy Design
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