Evaluating Mexico’s Plan to Slow Deforestation
Deforestation in developing countries and its impact on climate change drew international attention well before the United Nations organized the convention that produced the Kyoto Protocol in 1994. A decade later, Mexico launched a national program that pays landowners to preserve forest lands and the "environmental services" they provide, such as carbon sequestration, watershed protection and biodiversity conservation. Now,
Jennifer Alix-Garcia and her research team will try to determine whether the program works.
Neighbors Unleash Partnership on Grain
Usually nothing too exciting happens when you’re out walking the dog. But for
Jeremy Foltz and Sara Patterson, pets spawned a partnership that might help improve incomes and nutrition on the other side of the world.
February 23 - 3:45pm
Development Economics Workshop
Kweku Opoku-Agyemang - Heterogeneous Signaling at the Convergence of Formal and Informal Finance in Ghana
March 23 - 12:00pm
Department Seminars
Pascaline Dupas - Price Subsidies, Diagnostic Tests and Targeting of Malaria Treatment
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Paul Mitchell and his collaborators won the Integrated Pest Management Team Award from the Entomological Foundation. His multi-state research group documented a $6.9 billion benefit to U.S. corn producers resulting from 14 years of European corn borer suppression due to adoption of Bt corn hybrids.
Congratulations to Dan Bromley, who won the Reimar Lüst Award, given by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation to highly respected academics who have made an exceptional contribution to the long-term promotion of relations between Germany and their own countries.
Ag Econ among the Top Ten Majors for Employment, says a new study by Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce.
Last updated on Wed, Jan 25, 2012 10:57am