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Updates from Environment for Development, a global network of researchers solving the world’s most urgent environmental and development challenges.
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Newsletter from EfD
April 2021
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Dear friend of Environment for Development,
We have a lot of news to share with you, some very positive, in this newsletter.
One of our most comprehensive undertakings so far, the Inclusive Green Economy project in East Africa, has now kicked off.
You will also read about smart ways to minimize food waste, reduce plastic in the oceans, and how to increase motivation to preserve ecosystems. We share a video from Vietnam on how the environment can benefit from celebrity endorsement.
Some news is bad, such as rising temperatures and how they affect workers. But the upside is that those findings were reported in over 40 Indian newspapers and thereby hopefully will have an impact on policy-making. This and much more is to be found below - enjoy the read!
You get this newsletter because we believe that you share the passion for our work! It provides you with the latest news and research from our network.
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The Inclusive Green Economy program is now launched in East Africa
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An extensive program for capacity development in Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda has kicked off. EfD and the Gothenburg Centre for Sustainable Development (GMV) collaborate in this unique program.
Civil servants will be provided with insights and tools to work for a transition towards an inclusive green economy (IGE) in their respective countries.
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SETI moves forward and relocates to Chile
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The Sustainable Energy Transitions Initiative (SETI), EfD’s energy collaborative, has moved to EfD Chile. With the continued support of the colleagues at Duke University, the SETI administration team will work to advance the collaborative even further. Several activities are in the pipeline!
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Video: Reducing plastic pollution in Vietnam
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The CMaR collaborative shows how an experiment with celebrity endorsement influenced people's behavior to reduce plastic pollution. The results are very encouraging and the concept can be adapted to different countries' different conditions. Check it out and be inspired!
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Stop post-harvest loss to end food waste and improve food security
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Martin Chegere (middle) in a training session with Tanzanian farmers. Photo: EfD.
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Food waste is a severe problem on a global level, in rich countries as well as in the Global South. Martin Chegere and Razack Lokina, EfD Tanzania, have published a paper titled “The impact of hermetic storage bag supply and training on food security in Tanzania”. Training and appropriate storage material for farmers can reduce post-harvest loss significantly. Inexpensive tools can have a great effect.
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Researchers address unequal access to health care and food in Nigerian cities
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Chukwuedozie Ajaero, is one of the authors of the study. Photo: EfD
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Access to healthcare and nutrition is very unequal in Nigerian cities. A group of researchers, including Chukwuedozie Ajaero, a senior research fellow at EfD Nigeria, have studied urban development policies. They find that policy-makers need to do much better. Otherwise, the problems will keep growing.
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How educating kids may help turn the tide on ocean plastics
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César Salazar is looking for solutions on how to reduce plastic in our oceans. Photo: EfD
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Plastic pollution in the ocean is a severe problem for Chile. Meet EfD researcher César Salazar, Associate Professor at Universidad del Bio-Bio, Chile, who has been part of a very interesting research project on plastic pollution, with promising results.
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Climate change impairs Indian productivity due to heat stress on workers
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Rising temperatures affect workers and thus productivity. Photo: Emir Krasnic, Pixabay
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New research shows that it gets harder for people to work when it gets hotter, and this may lead to a reduction in national output in warmer years. A hotter climate may also lead to increased income inequality. This research, conducted by Anant Sudarshan and EfD researcher Eswaran Somanathan, has been cited in more than 40 newspapers in India.
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What could explain low uptake of rural electricity programs in Africa?
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Why are the electricity programs not that successful in Tanzania?
Photo: Creative Commons BY-SA.
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A substantial fraction of households reside “under the grid” in spite of considerable state subsidy of a rural energy program. Why is that? This study investigates the reasons for the low uptake of seemingly highly subsidized, productive, and modern energy. The researchers found some household characteristics that explain why getting connected is too expensive even with subsidies. Gunther Bensch and EfD researchers Remidius Ruhinduka, Onesmo Selejio, and Razack Lokina conducted the study.
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How to make farmers motivated to help preserve forest ecosystems
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Degradation of the forest and it's resources could mean loss of livelihood for many rural households. Photo: Emocje, Pixabay.
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The conservation of forest ecosystems in Ethiopia is crucial for soil and water conservation as well as biodiversity. Yet, there is significant degradation of the forests. The study, Willingness to accept compensation for Afromontane forest ecosystems conservation, focusing on the Desa’a state forest, located in northern Ethiopia, suggests actions that the government could take and how certain compensations could be effective. One of the authors is EfD Researcher Dawit W. Mulatu.
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Four job opportunities at SEI Headquarters
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The Stockholm Environment Institute is recruiting four research candidates to work with sustainability and trade, sustainable finance, and industry and energy transitions.
Location: Stockholm, Sweden (remote work from another country is not possible)
Deadline: May 2, 2021
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Fellowship scheme at the Grantham Institute
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The Grantham Institute for Climate Change and the Environment at Imperial College London have a new 3-year Fellowship scheme. While those with climate science expertise will be considered favorably they are also interested in candidates who have interests in environmental engineering and climate finance/economics.
Deadline: May 3, 2021
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Ph.D. student, SLU, Umeå, Sweden
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SBCA: European Conference 2021
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The second Society for Benefit-Cost Analysis: European Conference 2021 (SBCAEC2021) will be held digitally October 19-20, 2021. The Society for Benefit-Cost Analysis is an international group of practitioners, academics, and others who are working to improve the theory and application of the tools of benefit-cost analysis (BCA).
Submission deadline: June 1, 2021
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Online Ph.D. workshop May 24, 2021
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The First University of Pretoria Economics Ph.D. workshop brings together Ph.D. students, supervisors, academics, HoDs, postdocs, and international discussants. That will provide African-based Ph.D.s with a platform to present, to receive feedback at the highest level, and to build a valuable network.
Interested participants are invited to submit papers to Manoel Bittencourt, manoel.bittencourt@up.ac.za, by
April 30, 2021.
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Call for Papers - 2021 SETI Virtual Workshop
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The sixth meeting of the Sustainable Energy Transitions Initiative (SETI) will take place June 17 – 19, 2021, virtually. The workshop will be co-hosted by NENRE-EfD Chile at the University of Concepción and by Duke University.
Submission of research related to the current state of the global energy transition are welcome.
For questions about the meeting, please mail seti@udec.cl.
The deadline for the call for papers is April 30, 2021.
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