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SUMMARY:Bioeconomic characterization of oil palm production and adoption among non-industrial producers in Cameroon
DESCRIPTION:Bioeconomic characterization of oil palm production and adoption among non-industrial producers in Cameroon: Some environmental and socio-ecological implications\nRegardless of the environmental and socio-ecological implications of oil palm cultivation\, palm oil is considered one of the most important oil crops in the world because of its high production efficiency\, and has seen a marked increase in the area of land under cultivation. While previous studies have analyzed the implications of this increase in cultivation on various socio-economic and environmental indicators\, less is known about the drivers and constraints of production\, especially with respect to economic and profitability motives. In this study\, we used a survey of non-industrial producers in Cameroon to assess the drivers of oil palm adoption and production. We employ a double hurdle model in a two-step regression framework to characterize oil palm adoption by smallholder farmers\, and the extent of oil palm cultivation\, in relation to socio-economic\, environmental and contextual features. For comparison purposes\, a Tobit model was also estimated. We find that different socio-economic\, ecological and contextual characteristics have a differential relationship with both the likelihood of cultivating oil palm and the area under oil palm cultivation. Key amongst these are expected profitability measures like market orientation and access to market information\, land tenure security\, and access to improved farm inputs. Some aspects of transaction cost and labour availability also come into play in determining production. Across a range of different farm classifications related to size of production\, we find that oil palm cultivation is adopted by all farm groups. We also show that our results are robust over several specifications including ordinary least square estimates in the framework of the linear probability model and LASSO regressions. Our study thus provides evidence of several leverage points for improving the oil palm sector for non-industrial producers. \n  \nSpeaker: Ernest L. Molua\nProfessor\, Department of Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness\, University of Buea\, Cameroon\n\n\nTime: 16h00-18h00 CAT (GMT+2)\nDate: 20 September 2021\nZoom link: https://up-ac-za.zoom.us/j/96621485626?pwd=Lzl0SVpMOEt1MVVZODNldklpUHkwQT09
URL:https://afaere.org/event/bioeconomic-characterization-of-oil-palm-production-and-adoption-among-non-industrial-producers-in-cameroon-some-environmental-and-socio-ecological-implications/
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SUMMARY:Water Rights and Water Fights: Transboundary Water Governance in Africa
DESCRIPTION:Water Rights and Water Fights: Transboundary Water Governance in Africa\nAfrica has experienced various disputes over access to and rights over the shared water resources among riparian countries. This webinar assesses the impacts of mega water diversion projects on the access to water resources\, by using interdisciplinary lenses. \nAfrica is a continent of transboundary waters that has experienced various disputes over access to and rights over the shared water resources among riparian countries. This webinar focuses on the impacts of mega water diversion projects on the access to water resources\, population\, and ecosystems in the largest African water basins (the Congo and the Nile). The webinar aims to shed light on the role of state and non-state actors in transboundary water resources governance in Africa using interdisciplinary lenses (legal studies\, economics and regional governance). \nRSVP\n  \n\nProgram \nDate: Thursday 14 October 2021 \nTime: 16:00 – 18:00 Brussels Time \n16:00 Introduction \nJoao Teixeira de Freitas (Moderator BSoG/VUB) \n16:05 Transboundary Water Resources in Africa: Conflict or Cooperation? \nAfaf Rahim (BSoG/VUB) \n16:20 The Congo River Basin in the broader setting of international waterways in the SADC Region \nErik Franckx  (Faculty of Law (VUB)\, Nelson Mandela University (South Africa) and Belgian Society for International Law). \n16:40 Private Public Partnership role in the Regional (Congo Basin- Lake Chad) Water Resource Management \nNidhi Nagabhatla (UNU CRIS) and Ramazan Caner Sayan (Cranfield University) \n17:00 Governing the Nile River Basin: The Search for a New Legal Regime \nJohn Mukum Mbaku (Weber State University -Utah) \n17:20 The Role of the State and Companies in Protecting and Respecting Water Access Rights \n(Comparing Nile and Congo basin Cases) \nLiliana Lizarazo Rodriguez (BSoG/VUB – University of Antwerp) \n17:35 Q & A \nOrganized by: ERC Curiae Virides Research Project (BSoG/VUB- Belgium)\, in collaboration with UNU-CRIS (Belgium). \n\n\n\nZoom link: https://up-ac-za.zoom.us/j/96621485626?pwd=Lzl0SVpMOEt1MVVZODNldklpUHkwQThttps://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_fDIyPi0QRiyEhqT3aIF2Bw09
URL:https://afaere.org/event/water-rights-and-water-fights-transboundary-water-governance-in-africa/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20211213T140000
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SUMMARY:Welfare Sensitivity and Positional Preferences in a Developing  Country
DESCRIPTION:Welfare Sensitivity and Positional Preferences in a Developing Country\nIt is well-established in the empirical literature that people care about relative-status or positionality\, hence any policy that makes someone better off imposes negative externality on his/her peers. However\, the effectiveness of public policy aimed at mitigating positional externality hinges on the measurement of relative concerns\, which is individual and context specific requiring empirical data. This study investigates positional concerns among over-exploited natural resource dependent communities with defined gender roles in a developing country\, and the specific role of welfare sensitivity in moderating relative concerns. We found that compared to the women\, the men were more positional\, on average\, and relative concerns are context dependent for both genders. Next\, the men had lower welfare sensitivity than the women\, and for both groups\, and for a specific context\, being welfare sensitive over a narrow (broader) income range correlates with a relatively higher (lower) degree of positionality. \n  \nDate: 13 December 2021\nTime: 12h00 Ghana; 14h00 SA \n14h00-14h05: Welcome and Introduction of AFAERE \nCharles Nhemachena\, Secretary General\, AFAERE \n14h05-14h10: Introduction of Speaker \nNnaemeka Chukwuone\, President-Elect\, AFAERE \n14h10-14h40: Context\, Welfare Sensitivity and Positional Preferences in a Developing Country \nWisdom Akpalu\, Former President\, AFAERE\nDean\, School of Research and Graduate Studies (SRGS)\,\nGhana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA)\,\nBox AH 50\, Achimota-Accra\, Ghana. Tel: +233 20 961 2485. \n14h40-14h50: Discussion (Q & A)\n14h50-15h00: Presidential Address and Vote of Thanks\nSelma Karuaihe\, President\, AFAERE \nWebinar Format\n30 Minutes presentations by the speaker. (We follow South African time – same as CAT)\n10 minutes of Q&A at the end of the presentation. \n  \nZoom Link : https://up-ac-za.zoom.us/j/93249790757?pwd=WSt3MjlaRTloWjBGQXlza3pxKzVCZz09
URL:https://afaere.org/event/welfare-sensitivity-and-positional-preferences-in-a-developing-country/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20220304T160000
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SUMMARY:Gender Norms\, Women’s Executive Function\, and Anti-Poverty Programs:  Experimental Evidence from India
DESCRIPTION:Gender Norms\, Women’s Executive Function\, and Anti-Poverty Programs: Experimental Evidence from India\nSociocultural norms and executive function are powerful factors in an individual’s agency\, decision-making\, and development. Gender norms\, for example\, mediate the relationship between economic development and women’s labor market outcomes. Executive functions make it possible for a person to live\, work\, and learn. They are important for taking simple to complex actions\, from cooking\, shopping\, nurturing children\, planning\, and to execution. Low executive functions can frustrate the success of anti-poverty and empowerment programs through participants’ inadequate planning\, improper utilization of resources\, and the lack of timely actions. In developing countries\, among the fundamental obstacles to poverty alleviation and women’s empowerment are gender norms and women’s low executive functions.\nIn this talk\, Prof. Rahman will describe a women’s anti-poverty program in India and present evidence on its causal effects on gender norms and women’ executive function. The policy implications of the findings for anti-poverty programs and women’s empowerment will also be discussed. \nAbout the speaker\nProf. Tauhidur Rahman is a development economist and an associate professor in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of Arizona. He is the Founding Director of the Initiative for Agency and Development (IfAD)\, a state-of-the art experimentation initiative housed at the University of Arizona that discovers and promotes solutions to the problems of agency\, and development. He was a visiting professor of law and economics at University of Oslo\, Norway in 2011. He has been a regular visiting researcher at the Development Economics Research Group of the World Bank\, Washington\, DC. He was trained as an applied econometrician\, with research interests in development economics\, behavioral economics\, law and economics\, and program evaluation. He has studied issues such as measurements and analysis of human well-being\, child labor\, child and elderly health\, environmental justice and environmental regulations\, and impacts of community-driven anti-poverty programs. His current research projects include measurements of poverty and well-being\, agency\, behavioral impacts of anti-poverty programs\, and climate information services for climate-resilient development. He has served on panels of USDA\, EPA and NSF\, and has collaborated with USAID and UN institutions. He is the co-author of Environmental Justice and Federalism (Edward Elgar Publishing\, 2013)\, and author of two-volume book (in progress)\, Empowering the Poor. \n  \n16h00-16h05: Welcome and Introduction of AFAERE \nCharles Nhemachena\, Secretary General\, AFAERE \n  \n16h05-16h10: Introduction of Speaker \nSelma Karuaihe\, President\, AFAERE \n  \n16h10-16h40: “Gender Norms\, Women’s Executive Function\, and Anti-Poverty Programs: \nExperimental Evidence from India”\nProfessor Tauhidur Rahman\, PhD\nFounding Director: The Initiative for Agency and Development (IfAD)\nAssociate Professor\, Dept. of Agricultural and Resource Economics\nAssociate Professor\, Department of Economics (Courtesy)\nThe University of Arizona\, Tucson\, AZ \n16h40-16h50: Discussion (Q & A)\n16h50-17h00: Vote of Thanks \nWisdom Akpalu\, Former President\, AFAERE \nWebinar Format\n30 Minutes presentations by the speaker. (We follow South African time – same as CAT)\n10 minutes of Q&A at the end of the presentation. \n  \nZoom Link:  https://up-ac-za.zoom.us/j/91349589841?pwd=TjF5dFNiVFlHekVwV0RPT05ZcjZEUT09\n  \n\n  \n 
URL:https://afaere.org/event/gender-norms-womens-executive-function-and-anti-poverty-programs-experimental-evidence-from-india/
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SUMMARY:Randomized Controlled Trials in Environment and Development Economics
DESCRIPTION:Randomized Controlled Trials in Environment and Development Economics\nRandomized Controlled Trials (RCTs)\, also known as Randomized Evaluations\, have gained increasing prominence as a methodology for evaluating policy impacts. In RCTs\, researchers randomly assign study participants to one or more groups: the “treatment group\,” which receives the intervention\, and the “control group”\, which doesn’t. Researchers measure the outcome variables of interest in these groups to identify the impact of the treatment as the single mean difference between the treatment and control groups. RCTs also empower researchers and policymakers to tailor their research designs to address specific inquiries about program\neffectiveness and its underlying theory of change. Well-designed and meticulously executed RCTs can help understand the program’s effectiveness\, the potential unforeseen consequences\, the primary beneficiaries\, the efficacy of various program components\, cost-effectiveness\, and\nhow the program compares to other programs with similar goals. \nThis webinar aims to equip participants with the fundamental aspects of RCTs\, emphasizing RCTs involving environment and development interventions. \n  \nWednesday\, December 20 2023 \n14:00 – 16:00 (WAT) \nJoin Zoom Meeting: https://unn-edu-ng.zoom.us/j/99723722365?pwd=c2lnS0E0aDA2MHhGY2lPbkRWSWhCZz09 \nMeeting ID: 997 2372 2365 \nPasscode: 257357 \n14:00-14:05: Welcome and Introduction of AFAERE \nNnaemeka Chukwuone\, President\, AFAERE \n14:05-14:10: Introduction of Speaker \nPrecious Zikhali\, President-Elect\, AFAERE \n14:10-15:30: Randomized Controlled Trials in Environment and Development Economics \nSpeaker: Yonas Alem (PhD)\, Director\, Academic Programs (EfD)\, Associate Professor\, Department of Economics\, School of Business\, Economics and Law\, University of Gothenburg \n14:30 – 14:45: Question and Answer \n16h40 – 16h45: Vote of Thanks by Selma Karuihe\, Former President\, AFAERE \n  \n  \n
URL:https://afaere.org/event/randomized-controlled-trials-in-environment-and-development-economics/
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SUMMARY:AFAERE Webinar 2025
DESCRIPTION:TOPIC: The U.S. Trade War and Africa’s Green Future\nDate: July 30\, 2025\nTime: 2 PM WAT\nZoom link will be provided later \nFocus Areas\n1. Impact of the U.S. trade war on Africa’s clean energy goals and natural resource sustainability. \n2. Risks and vulnerabilities for African natural resources amid global trade tensions. \n3. Policy and market responses from Africa\, China\, and the U.S.\, and how Africa can adapt and thrive. \nKeynote Speaker\n \nProf. Anthony Onoja\nProfessor of Agricultural Economics\, University of Port Harcourt \nMore Information\nWe encourage interested researchers to join AFAERE (https://afaere.org/membership/ ). For questions related to AFAERE membership\, please contact afaerecouncil@gmail.com
URL:https://afaere.org/event/afaere-webinar-2025/
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