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On smallholder crop productivity and on-farm entrepreneurship: empirical evidence from Ndumo-B and Makhathini irrigation schemes, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa 关于小农作物生产力和农场创业精神：来自南非夸祖鲁-纳塔尔省Ndumo-B和Makhathini灌溉计划的经验证据

World Development Sustainability Pub Date : 2025-06-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.wds.2025.100226

Edilegnaw Wale , Eliaza Mkuna

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A multiscale integrated analysis of six developing countries with established tourism economies: the case of Cuba, Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Malaysia, Jordan, and Tunisia 对古巴、多米尼加共和国、牙买加、马来西亚、约旦和突尼斯六个发展中国家旅游经济的多尺度综合分析

World Development Sustainability Pub Date : 2025-05-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.wds.2025.100223

Valeria Andreoni , Julia Jeyacheya

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Impact of municipal wastewater use on urban and peri‑urban agricultural productivity: the endogenous treatment-effects approach 城市污水利用对城市和城郊农业生产力的影响：内源性处理效应方法

World Development Sustainability Pub Date : 2025-05-17 DOI: 10.1016/j.wds.2025.100224

Mohammed Abdulai , Mohammed Tanko , Alhassan Andani

{"title":"Impact of municipal wastewater use on urban and peri‑urban agricultural productivity: the endogenous treatment-effects approach","authors":"Mohammed Abdulai , Mohammed Tanko , Alhassan Andani","doi":"10.1016/j.wds.2025.100224","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.wds.2025.100224","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Current trends in urbanization and climate change in many arid and semi-arid countries across sub-Saharan Africa are threatening the sustainability of Urban and Peri-urban Agriculture (UPA) and food systems due to rapidly growing competition for scarce resources such as water and land. Water scarcity in the sub-region is currently recognized as a multidimensional problem, affecting urban farm productivity, food safety, food security and poverty, as well as public health systems. The use of treated or untreated municipal wastewater (MWW) in agriculture has increasingly become a relevant option for freshwater conservation, optimizing the agronomic and economic gains, and increasing urban food security and nutrition. This study investigates empirically the link between MWW use and productivity of vegetable farmers in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. Using survey data from 416 vegetable farmers, we employed a semi-log production function augmented with an endogenous binary-treatment effect equation to estimate the drivers and impact of MWW use on value of vegetable output, accounting for selection bias and omitted variable problem. We find that MWW use alone is associated with higher value of vegetable output. However, regulation through contacts with extension agents reduces the agronomic and economic benefits of using MWW for irrigation. This study proposes a provision of small but efficient wastewater treatment technologies with the support of extension agents and a redesign of extension education that promotes safer MWW use to maximize its productivity benefits for all farmers. We also suggest that future research should explore the long-term impact of MWW use on soil health and the effect of extension education content and mode of delivery on vegetable production.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":101285,"journal":{"name":"World Development Sustainability","volume":"6 ","pages":"Article 100224"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144138208","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Bank sustainability: Do corporate governance and internal audit quality matter? 银行可持续性：公司治理和内部审计质量重要吗？

World Development Sustainability Pub Date : 2025-05-09 DOI: 10.1016/j.wds.2025.100222

Prince Gyimah , Richard Owusu-Afriyie

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Assessing the environmental impacts of urban sprawl on vegetation cover and ecosystem integrity in Wa municipality, Ghana 评估加纳瓦市城市扩张对植被覆盖和生态系统完整性的环境影响

World Development Sustainability Pub Date : 2025-05-08 DOI: 10.1016/j.wds.2025.100225

Justice Aduko , Mohammed Aminu Yakubu , Kwame Anokye

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Adaptive governance in the water-energy-food-ecosystem nexus for sustainable community sanitation 水-能源-食物-生态系统关系的适应性治理，促进可持续社区卫生

World Development Sustainability Pub Date : 2025-04-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.wds.2025.100220

Evi Siti Sofiyah , Imelda Masni Juniaty Sianipar , Ari Rahman , Naila Putri Caesarina , Sapta Suhardono , I Wayan Koko Suryawan , Chun-Hung Lee

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The impact of land tenure on deforestation and reforestation in Quilombola territories from 1985 to 2020 in Brazil 1985 - 2020年巴西Quilombola地区土地权属对森林砍伐和再造林的影响

World Development Sustainability Pub Date : 2025-04-24 DOI: 10.1016/j.wds.2025.100221

Rayna Benzeev , Cauê Bráz , Colleen Scanlan Lyons , Peter Newton

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Women's leadership in cooperative and social movement in the issue of food waste: Evidence from Bandung City 妇女在解决食物浪费问题的合作社和社会运动中的领导作用：来自万隆市的证据

World Development Sustainability Pub Date : 2025-04-21 DOI: 10.1016/j.wds.2025.100219

Arry Bainus , Dina Yulianti , Deasy Silvya Sari , Virtuous Setyaka , Wa Ode Kodrat Rahmatika

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Leveraging CA-ANN modelling for SDGs alignment: Previse future land use patterns and their influence on Mirik Lake of sub-Himalayan Region 利用CA-ANN模型实现可持续发展目标：预测未来土地利用模式及其对喜马拉雅地区Mirik湖的影响

World Development Sustainability Pub Date : 2025-04-10 DOI: 10.1016/j.wds.2025.100218

Md Ashif Ali , Saleha Jamal , Nilofer Wahid , Wani Suhail Ahmad

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From ideologies to practice: A political ecology approach to green transitions–The case of Tanzania's Ujamaa sustainability communities 从意识形态到实践：绿色转型的政治生态学方法——以坦桑尼亚Ujamaa可持续社区为例

World Development Sustainability Pub Date : 2025-03-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.wds.2025.100217

Christopher C. Graham

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