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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
December 2022
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Dear friends of EfD,
the 16th year of EfD is about to end and our global network is thriving as you can see from this month’s newsletter. The presentation of our collaborative programs continues and you can learn more about our Natural Capital program and the latest from the Emission Pricing for Development program.
On policy, the Inclusive Green Economy fellows met in Rwanda for cross-country learning and there are other interesting activities in Uganda and Nicaragua.
Last but not least, there are also a couple of interesting peer-reviewed publications featured.
Thank you for a productive 2022 and Seasons Greetings to you all!
Gunnar Köhlin, Director
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The “resource curse” hampers communities’ development
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Activities with miners in Antioquia. Photo: Carlos Adrián Saldarriaga.
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Like other countries with high extraction and exports of oil and minerals, Colombia may be vulnerable to the so-called “resource curse”. EfD researcher Carlos Adrián Saldarriaga has studied the conditions under which mining activities can be negative for communities. Read this important article!
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Natural Capital Collaborative (NatCap)
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Collaborative program highlights how to better value ecosystems and the services they provide
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Photo: Kenza Loussouarn, Pexels.
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The collaborative, Natural Capital (NatCap), aims to improve the knowledge and empirical experience of valuing ecosystem services and focuses on three pillars: biodiversity, water systems, and sustainable agriculture. Are you interested in joining this collaborative program? Learn more about their work and upcoming plans!
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Emissions Pricing for Development (EPfD)
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Acceptability of carbon pricing is necessary for equitable climate policy
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The meeting participants doing a forest trail. Photo: CECFEE.
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The Emissions Pricing for Development (EPfD) collaborative concluded its research & policy workshop in Dharamshala, India, focusing on the public acceptability of carbon pricing in developing countries and instruments for fair climate policies. Read more about this!
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Inclusive Green Economy program (IGE)
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Senior civil servants met to discuss green growth policies
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Justus Taali and Priscillah Shiroko, Ministry of Energy, Kenya, discuss policies with other participants in the IGE program. Photo: Anders Ekbom.
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27 civil servants from five East African countries met in Rwanda on November 22-24 to discuss policies for achieving a green and inclusive economy in their countries. This cross-country workshop was a part of the Inclusive Green Economy (IGE) program and the participants, so-called IGE Fellows, are the second cohort of this successful program.
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Project shows great advantages of water harvesting for smallholders farmers
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The water reservoirs are helping the farmer's families to produce more and better crops. Photo: Cosecha del Agua project.
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EfD Researchers Roger Madrigal and Eduardo Pacay have evaluated the financial benefits of water harvesting infrastructures in Nicaragua with a focus on smallholder farmers. The results are very positive. Learn more about this interesting project!
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Better policies and regulations are needed to develop off-grid energy
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Peter Babyenda presented findings of the study at a meeting at Makerere University, Kampala. Photo: EfD.
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There are several obstacles to developing off-grid energy in Eastern Africa. Those include, according to a recent study presented in SSRN Electronic Journal by among others EfD researcher Peter Babyenda, poor market information, lack of technical capacity, insufficient regulation, and lack of funding.
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Uganda’s local governments want to decentralize governance of national forests
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The Mpigi District Local Government and stakeholders in the forestry sector want environmental economists from Makerere University to conduct research on the impacts of decentralizing the governance of national forests in Uganda to provide evidence for policy changes. Currently, according to them, mismanagement of the forests is causing a depletion of ecosystems in Uganda. Read more about this interesting discussion!
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EfD India researcher receives prestigious award
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Haripriya Gundimeda receives the award. Photo: EfD India.
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EfD researcher Haripriya Gundimeda, Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay, has been awarded the Qimpro Platinum Standard 2022 award under the category Environment. The Quimpro Foundation recognizes quality leaders in environment and other categories. Haripriya Gundimeda has had an important role in implementing green accounting in India, among many other things. Congratulations to Haripriya Gundimeda! Read more about this!
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EfD Chile researcher is recognized for conducting high-impact research
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Mauricio Oyarzo at the award ceremony. Photo: EfD Chile.
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The EfD Chile researcher, Mauricio Oyarzo, has been awarded the second edition of the Research and Artistic Creation of Excellence Award by the Vice Chancellor of Research and Development (VRID) of the University of Concepción. Congratulations to Mauricio Oyarzo too! Check out this story!
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We can incorporate agriculture ecosystems into urban green economy in Tanzania: Dar es Salaam households are willing to pay
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Urban agriculture. Photo: Telvin Muta Denje
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Smallholder farms in and around cities in sub-Saharan Africa provide many ecosystem services and boost household income and nutrition. But the lack of access to land constraints these benefits. In this EfD Discussion Paper, EfD researchers Byela Tibesigwa, Herbert Ntuli, and Telvin Muta Denje find that households are willing to pay for urban farm plots. The researchers want to nudge policymakers to craft inclusive green economy strategies that include urban agriculture and irrigation infrastructure. Read this interesting paper!
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Distributional preferences in adolescent peer networks
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EfD researchers Yonas Alem, Fredrik Carlsson, and Martin G. Kocher and their co-authors Simon Schürz and Mikael Lindahl have studied distributional preferences in adolescent peer networks. The study was published in Experimental Economics. They found, among other things, that pairs of students who report a friendship link are more likely to exhibit the same preference type. A low rank in academic performance and a central position within the network relate positively to a higher likelihood of being classified as spiteful. Check out this exciting study!
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Allocative efficiency or misallocation of resources? The emergence of forestland rental markets and the forest devolution reform in China
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This study by EfD researchers Yuanyuan Yi, Fredrik Carlsson, Gunnar Köhlin, and Jintao Xu published in European Review of Agricultural Economicsevaluates whether the devolution reform of forestland to household management improves efficiency and household welfare. They find that participation in the forestland rental markets increases household per-capita income and they do not find any support for forestland captured by land-richer, wealthier, larger or powerful households. Read this interesting article!
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African Futures Research Leadership Program Cohort 4 - Call for Scholars
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The Alliance for African Partnership (AAP) is seeking applicants for the fourth African Futures Research Leadership Program cohort. This competitive visiting scholar program will target early-career women researchers from the AAP consortium to work for one year at Michigan State University (MSU)
Deadline for application: January 31, 2023.
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Agricultural Economist Graduates
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SA Canegrowers, partnering with AgriSETA, have a graduate opportunity for Graduate Agricultural Economists to support SA Canegrowers in the administration and information sharing of financial products for farm employees, assist the Regional Staff in various business and economic duties as required, and support growers in their farm business, in the respective areas.
Deadline for applications: Jan 3, 2023
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Two-year postdoc fellowships at Wits University, South Africa
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Develop your academic CV by undertaking a postdoc fellowship at Wits University.
The Centennial Fellowships operate in three different modes:
*Sandwich fellowships with top 100 global universities. Split your postdoc fellowship between Wits and selected international universities.
*Industry fellowships with tech firms hosted by a Wits academic and focused on innovation.
*Conventional fellowships working with a Wits host on a multidisciplinary research project.
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International Climate Protection Fellowship, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
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Are you working academically or practically in climate protection or climate-relevant resource conservation in your home country – a non-European developing or transition country? Then you can apply for an International Climate Protection Fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.
Deadline for applications: Feb 1, 2023
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African Futures Research Leadership Program Cohort 4
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The Alliance for African Partnership (AAP) is seeking applicants for the fourth African Futures Research Leadership Program cohort. This competitive visiting scholar program will target early-career women researchers from the AAP consortium to work for one year at Michigan State University (MSU)
Deadline for application: Jan 31, 2023.
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ARUA Climate Change and Inequalities Symposium Justice in Transition
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The ARUA research symposium on climate change and inequality will create spaces for innovative, transdisciplinary exchange to facilitate novel networks and collaborations between early and mid-career researchers, senior scholars and practitioners in understanding the relationships between these major global societal challenges.
Date: 7-8 March 2023
University of Cape Town, South Africa
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EAERE 2023 - Call for Policy and Thematic Sessions
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There will be two types of pre-organized sessions at EAERE 2023 for which proposals are now invited. Firstly, Policy Sessions aim to advance the use of environmental and resource economics to support policy-making and to provide a forum of exchange between policy-makers and academics. Secondly, the Thematic Sessions aim to highlight current research on a subject in environmental and resource economics. They will consist of three to four papers connected by a unifying theme.
Conference dates: June 27-30 2023
Deadline for proposals: January 31
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There is a lot of new, exciting research on our website. Catch up on our work!
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