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After two decades of dictatorship, The Gambia embraced democracy with President Adama Barrow’s 2016 election victory. But as is often the case in transitions from autocracy to democracy, stability remains elusive and economic growth insufficient to alleviate structural problems like high unemployment. Barrow was re-elected in December 2021, and a crucial test for his second term will be to curb rising insecurity and crime. Under Yahya Jammeh’s rule, communal clashes and crimes such as armed robbery, arson and banditry were uncommon in The Gambia. There was little political room for internal and external conflicts. Jammeh was notorious for ‘setting an example’ with anyone believed to be threatening the country’s stability, especially those who challenged the security forces.
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Nature-based solutions (NBS) provide a promising means to a climate resilient future. To guide investments in NBS, stated preference studies have become a common tool to evaluate the benefits of NBS in developing countries. Due to subsistence lifestyles and generally lower incomes, SP studies in developing countries increasingly use time payments as an alternative to the traditionally implemented money payments. It remains unclear, however, how time values should be converted into money values, how the payment affects willingness to pay (WTP) estimates, and how this influence varies across settings with different levels of market integration. We compare the results of choice experiments that use either time or money payments and that are implemented in urban and rural Ghana. The choice experiments target to value different NBS aimed at erosion prevention and other ecosystem service benefits along the highly erosion prone Ghanaian coastline. Time payments are converted into monetary units using two generic wage-based conversion rates and one novel individual-specific non-wage-based conversion rate. We find higher WTP estimates for the time payments. Moreover, we find that the underlying implicit assumptions related to the currently commonly applied generic wage-based conversion rates do not hold. Finally, we find higher levels of market integration and smaller WTP disparities in the urban site, providing evidence that market integration allows for convergence of WTP estimates. These results provide guidance on the accurate estimation of NBS benefits through the implementation of stated preference studies with time payments.
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Incluso así, está claro que, si queremos alimentar a la creciente población humana, que depende de la proteína animal, tendremos que apelar en gran medida de la acuicultura industrial. Los principales grupos ambientalistas han abrazado esta idea. En un informe de 2019, Nature Conservancy pedía más inversiones en piscifactorías,
argumentando que para 2050 la industria debería convertirse en nuestra principal fuente de productos del mar. Muchos conservacionistas dicen que la piscicultura se puede hacer aún más sostenible mediante una supervisión más estricta, métodos mejorados para el compostaje de residuos y nuevas tecnologías para recircular el agua en piscinas terrestres. Algunos han presionado para que las granjas de acuicultura se ubiquen más lejos de la costa en aguas más profundas y con corrientes rápidas que ayudan a diluir los efluentes.
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