CEEPA’S SIXTH BIANNUAL RESEARCH WORKSHOP UNDER THE
ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS CAPACITY BUILDING PROGRAMME
Funded by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA) and IDRC,
Canada
2 - 7 November 2008, Kopanong Hotel, Benoni, South Africa
The Centre for Environmental Economics and Policy in Africa (CEEPA) is mandated to enhance the capacity of
African researchers to conduct environmental economics and policy inquiry of relevance to African problems
and increase the awareness of environmental and economic managers and policy makers of the role of
environmental economics in sustainable development. Under funding from the Swedish International
Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA), and International Development Research Centre (IDRC-Canada),
CEEPA will be awarding research grants on a competitive basis annually. Eligible candidates include all
researchers working in the field in Africa. The November 2008 workshop in South Africa is the sixth workshop
under this programme.
Day One
08:30 - 09:00
Sunday 2 Nov 2008
Registration and opening of the workshop
09:00 - 13:00
Plenary session
10:30 - 11:00
13:00 - 14:00
14:00 - 15:00
15:00 - 15:30
15:30 - 17:00
End of Day One
Prof Rashid Hassan
Director: CEEPA
Prof Tekie Alemu
Faculty of Business and Economics, Dept of Economics, Addis Ababa
University
Effects of land certification on various aspects of resource allocation in agricultural
production
Morning refreshments
Luncheon
Plenary session
Prof Rashid Hassan
Coping with and adapting to climate change: Effective mechanisms and policy
challenges for agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa
Afternoon refreshments
Movie: An inconvenient truth: Al Gore
Day Two
09:00 - 13:00
Monday 3 Nov 2008
Plenary session
10:30 - 11:00
13:00 - 14:00
Economic Management and Thresholds in Ecosystems
Morning refreshments
Luncheon
Prof Aart de Zeeuw
The Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics, The Royal Swedish Academy of
Sciences, Sweden, and Dept of Economics, Tilburg University The Netherlands
14:00 - 17:00
15:30 - 16:00
End of Day Two
Day Three
08:30 - 10:30
10:30 - 11:00
11:00 - 12:20
12:30 - 13:30
13:30 - 15:30
15:30 - 16:00
16:00 - 16:40
End of Day Three
Plenary session
Prof Aart de Zeeuw
Economic Management and Thresholds in Ecosystems
Afternoon refreshments
Tuesday 4 Nov 2008
Chairperson: David Starrett, Stanford University, USA
Individual consultations with all RPs at conference venue
Afio Zannou, Sarah Alobo, Hermann Danfouet (40 minutes each)
Morning refreshments
Individual consultations with all RPs at conference venue
Olumide Akinrinola, Kouame Euphrasie, (40 minutes each)
Luncheon
Chairperson: Rob Dellink – Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam
Individual consultations with all RPs at conference venue
Ibrahim Kasiyre, William Fonta, Gitau Kanyingi (40 minutes each)
Afternoon refreshments
Individual consultations with all RPs at conference venue
Ernest Molua (40 minutes)
Day Four
09:00 - 13:00
Wednesday 5 Nov 2008
Plenary session
11:00 - 11:30
13:00 - 14:00
14:00 - 17:00
Research design and report-writing
Morning refreshments
Luncheon
Plenary session
15:30 - 16:00
End of Day Four
Day Five
09:00 - 09:45
Dr David Glover
Environmental Economics, International Development Research Centre
(IDRC), Canada
Dr David Glover
Research design and report-writing
Afternoon refreshments
Thursday 6 Nov 2008
Chairperson: Marty Luckert, University of Alberta, Canada
Plenary session: New proposal presentation
Afio Zannon – Assessing indigenous knowledge, economic value and factors
determining the domestication of Tamarind in the parkland agroforestry
systems of Benin (West Africa)
09:45 - 10:30
Plenary session: New proposal presentation
10:30 - 11:15
Plenary session: New proposal presentation
11:15 - 11:30
11:30 - 12:15
12:15 - 13:00
13:00 - 14:00
Sarah Alobo – Determinants of the value of agricultural land in Uganda
Hermann Danfouet – The economic valuation of improved air quality in urban
areas: a case study of the city of Douala
Morning refreshments
Plenary session: New proposal presentation
Olumide Akinrinola – The impact of oil spillage on economic performance of
fishermen: lessons from the Niger-Delta area of Nigeria
Plenary session: New proposal presentation
Euphrasie Kouame – Environmental economics challenges and policies for
Africa: evidence form water resource management in rural areas of Côte
d’Ivoire
14:00 - 14:45
Luncheon
Chairperson: Tekie Alemu
Plenary session: Interim report presentation
14:45 - 15:30
Plenary session: Interim report presentation
15:30 - 16:00
16:00 - 16:45
17:00 - 18:30
End of Day Five
Day Six
Ibrahim Kasiyre – Household environmental conditions and disease prevalence
in Uganda: the impact of access to safe water and improved sanitation on
diarrhoea
William Fonta – Forest extraction income, poverty and inequality in rural
Nigeria: the case of the Cross River State (CRS) rain forest area
Afternoon refreshments
Plenary session: Interim report presentation
Raphael Gitau – The effect of contested land rights on investment and land
productivity in rural Kenya
RPs first meeting
08:00 - 08:45
Friday 7 Nov 2008
Chairperson: Moses Ikiara – KIPPRA, Kenya
Plenary session: Interim report presentation
08:45 - 09:30
Plenary session: Final report presentation
09:30 - 09:45
09:45 - 10:00
09:45 - 11:00
11:00 - 13:00
13:00 - 14:00
Ephias Makaudze – Exploring effective communication and assessing the
economic value of seasonal climate forecasts for smallholder farmers in
Zimbabwe
Ernest Molua – Global warming and coastal property: assessing the options and
cost of adaptation to households in the southwest coastal region of Cameroon
Closing
Morning refreshments
RP final meeting
RC meeting
Luncheon
Program: On Day 3, individual new proposals are presented to all resource persons. Presenter has 20
minutes to present then 20 minutes are for discussion. This presentation can be quite detailed. On day
five, the presentation must be only for 15 minutes, highlighting the main points only and the points
raised during the individual discussions.
Day 3: Individual meetings between researcher and resource persons
Time
Date
Researcher
08:30 - 09:10
Tuesday 4 November
Afio Zannou
09:10 - 09:50
Tuesday 4 November
Sarah Alobo
09:50 - 10:30
Tuesday 4 November
Hermann Danfouet
11:00 - 11:40
Tuesday 4 November
Olumide Akinrinola
11:40 - 12:20
Tuesday 4 November
Euphrasie Kouame
13:30 - 14:10
Tuesday 4 November
Ibrahim Kasiyre
14:10 - 14:50
Tuesday 4 November
William Fonta
14:50 - 15:30
Tuesday 4 November
Gitau Kanyingi
16:00 - 16:40
Tuesday 4 November
Ernest Molua
Day 5: Research Proposals and interim reports presentations programme: plenary session
09:00 - 09:15
Thursday 6 November
Afio Zannou
09:15 - 09:45
Thursday 6 November
Floor discussion
09:45 - 10:00
10:00 - 10:30
Thursday 6 November
Thursday 6 November
Sarah Alobo
Floor discussion
10:30 - 10:45
10:45 - 11:15
Thursday 6 November
Thursday 6 November
Hermann Danfouet
Floor discussion
11:30 - 11:45
11:45 - 12:15
Thursday 6 November
Thursday 6 November
Olumide Akinrinola
Floor discussion
12:15 - 12:30
12:30 - 13:00
Thursday 6 November
Thursday 6 November
Kouame Euphrasie
Floor discussion
14:00 - 14:15
14:15 - 14:45
Thursday 6 November
Thursday 6 November
Ibrahim Kasiyre
Floor discussion
14:45 - 15:00
15:00 - 15:30
Thursday 6 November
Thursday 6 November
William Fonta
Floor discussion
16:00 - 16:15
16:15 - 16:45
Thursday 6 November
Thursday 6 November
Gitau Kanyingi
Floor discussion
Day 6: Presentation of interim and final report
08:00 - 08:15
Friday 7 November
08:15 - 08:45
Friday 7 November
Ephias Makaudze
Floor discussion
08:45 - 09:00
09:00 - 09:30
Ernest Molua
Floor discussion
Friday 7 November
Friday 7 November