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Local and regional food production diversity are positively associated with household dietary diversity in rural Africa
(2025-01-02)Undernutrition and low dietary quality remain widespread issues in Africa. As most rural households in the region are involved in farming, the diversification of own farm production could improve their access to nutritious ... -
Motivational drivers and the effectiveness of conservation incentives
(2025-12-24)The debate about how external incentives (e.g., payments for ecosystem services) and internal motivations (e.g., intrinsic values) interact in producing conservation outcomes is still unresolved. This paper examines the ... -
Urban households' food safety knowledge and behaviour: Choice of food markets and cooking practices
(2023-08-06)Food safety is a public health issue and a shared responsibility of everyone. Traditional food markets can be high-risk locations for the spread of foodborne diseases, especially in developing countries. The focus has been ... -
Wheat Farmers' Perception of Constraints and Their Adaptive Capacity to Changing Demands in Egypt
(2023-08-03)Most of the approximately 105 million Egyptians depend on wheat in the form of baladi bread for their daily diet. Millions of smallholders along the River Nile have produced wheat for millennia; however, in more recent ... -
How legitimate are urban climate planning processes?: A comparative assessment of Accra, Ahmedabad, Bonn and São Paulo
(2025-01-20)Urban climate action plans (UCAPs) guide cities in identifying key climate risks and in addressing climate change. Designed to guide urban transformation over decades through near-term and long-term actions reducing emissions ... -
Plural Sustainabilities: Reflections and Ways Ahead
(2025-07)"Sustainability" is a diverse and contested concept that cannot be reduced to a single definition or practice. We propose the concept of "plural sustainabilities" to raise awareness of how different worldviews, knowledge ... -
Protecting the data of African agricultural producers: A review of national laws, compliance and perceptions
(2023-08-25)With the rapid spread of digital tools that collect large amounts of data from agricultural producers across Africa, there is a growing need to strike a balance between data protection and use. To inform this debate, this ... -
Agroecology and resilience of smallholder food security: A systematic review
(2023-10-18)Multiple covariate shocks such as the COVID-19 pandemic, the Russia–Ukraine conflict, and pre-existing climate shocks pose serious threats to smallholder livelihoods. The cascading effects of these multiple shocks, including ... -
Steady-State and Dynamic Simulation for Wastewater Treatment Plant Management: Case Study of Maghnia City, North-West Algeria
(2024-01-12)Given the critical importance of addressing effluent quality concerns, the present study was dedicated to developing a dynamic simulation model based on the Activated Sludge Model 1 (ASM1) of a wastewater treatment plant ... -
Does the Absence of Men from the Household Increase Girls’ Shares in Education Expenditures?: Evidence from Rural Pakistan
(2023-05-07)This article investigates the impact of men’s migration on expenditure by left-behind households on children’s education, focusing on the gendered distribution of this expenditure. Using longitudinal survey data of rural ... -
The Contribution of Agronomic Management to Sustainably Intensify Egypt’s Wheat Production
(2023-04-28)In Egypt, recent shortfalls in the wheat supply from Russia and Ukraine have necessitated substantial increases in domestic production. As agricultural practices influence the yield of bread wheat, we assessed current ... -
Building flood-resilient cities by promoting SUDS adoption: A multi-sector analysis of barriers and benefits in Bogotá, Colombia
(2023-04-01)In light of rapid urbanization and climate change, managing urban flood risk by combining traditional pipe-bound infrastructure with sustainable urban drainage systems (SUDS) has recently gained significant attention. SUDS ... -
Factors affecting consumption of edible insects as food: entomophagy in Myanmar
(2023-05-26)With the world’s population rapidly increasing, food security and malnutrition have emerged as critical issues. Edible insects offer an alternative protein source that requires less land and water than conventional livestock ... -
Report on the Expert Workshop 'Revisiting Sustainability: Challenges for science and policy'
(2021-09-20)Sustainability and sustainable development will accompany us in the years to come, challenging us intellectually in dealing with their scientific basis as well as related implementation. Particularly, this involves ... -
A Typology and Preferences for Pigeon Pea in Smallholder Mixed Farming Systems in Uganda
(2022-08-09)Pigeon pea (Cajanus cajan) remains an under-researched ‘orphan crop’ yet is important for food and nutrition security of smallholders. Furthermore, smallholders are heterogeneous, with varying perceptions and resource ... -
Pixel-Based Long-Term (2001–2020) Estimations of Forest Fire Emissions over the Himalaya
(2022-10-23)Forest/wildfires have been one of the most notable severe catastrophes in recent decades across the globe, and their intensity is expected to rise with global warming. Forest fire contributes significantly to particulate ... -
Testing the mHM-MPR Reliability for Parameter Transferability across Locations in North–Central Nigeria
(2022-09-02)Hydrologic modeling in Nigeria is plagued by non-existent or paucity of hydro-metrological/morphological records, which has detrimental impacts on sustainable water resource management and agricultural production. Nowadays, ... -
Assessing Barriers in Adaptation of Water Management Innovations under Rotational Canal Water Distribution System
(2022-06-23)This study assessed problems associated with irrigation water provisions and the potential barriers to the adaptation of the interventions (soil moisture sensors, on-farm water storage facilities and the drip method) under ... -
Trends and Prospects of Change in Wheat Self-Sufficiency in Egypt
(2022-12-20)Egypt is the largest wheat importer in the world; however, it produces only half of the 20 million tons of wheat that it consumes annually. The population of Egypt is currently growing by 1.94% per year, and projections ... -
New or Traditional Approaches in Argentina's Bioeconomy?: Biomass and Biotechnology Use, Local Embeddedness, and Sustainability Outcomes of Bioeconomic Ventures
(2022-11-04)The bioeconomy continues to be a contested field in the political debate. There is still no consensus on how a bioeconomy should be designed and anchored in society. Alternative bioeconomy concepts that deviate from the ...
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