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{"title":"Volumetric pricing in rural Central America: Drivers of adoption and potential effects on water delivery","authors":"Róger Madrigal-Ballestero ,&nbsp;Katrina Mullan ,&nbsp;Eduardo Pacay ,&nbsp;Subhrendu K. Pattanayak ,&nbsp;Juan Robalino ,&nbsp;Pablo Evia","doi":"10.1016/j.wds.2024.100163","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wds.2024.100163","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In rural and peri‑urban areas of Central America, community water organizations (CWOs) provide water to 60 % of the population, thereby playing a pivotal role in achieving multiple Sustainable Development Goals. However, the underlying environmental, climatic, and institutional factors explaining the adoption of volumetric pricing from these water providers and its effect on service delivery are typically overlooked in the literature. In this paper, we address two issues. First, we test whether volumetric pricing affects the service water delivery in a rural setting, drawing on a random sample of cross-sectional data on 154 CWOs in Costa Rica, Guatemala, and Nicaragua. We find that volumetric pricing is associated with substantially more successful water delivery, even when conditioned on institutional capacity, environmental attributes, climatic conditions, and country-fixed effects. Despite this strong relationship, volumetric pricing has yet to be widely adopted, particularly in Nicaragua and Guatemala. Therefore, as the second goal, we try to identify the institutional and socio-ecological conditions in which volumetric pricing is adopted. We find that volumetric pricing is more likely used when communities (1) experience adverse environmental and climatic conditions associated with water scarcity and (2) have greater institutional capacity. Our results highlight the importance of examining the social-ecological system to assess the performance and adoption of water management institutions</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101285,"journal":{"name":"World Development Sustainability","volume":"4 ","pages":"Article 100163"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2772655X24000417/pdfft?md5=873fa557b8f45f7b7d4f25d6448643e6&pid=1-s2.0-S2772655X24000417-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141243808","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Erratum to “Food systems science for peace and security: Is research for development key for achieving systematic change?” [World Development Sustainability (2022), Volume 1, 100004]","authors":"Theresa Liebig ,&nbsp;Grazia Pacillo ,&nbsp;Diego Osorio ,&nbsp;Peter Läderach","doi":"10.1016/j.wds.2024.100171","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wds.2024.100171","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":101285,"journal":{"name":"World Development Sustainability","volume":"4 ","pages":"Article 100171"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2772655X24000491/pdfft?md5=515230a7977f8213defcaafe0c055345&pid=1-s2.0-S2772655X24000491-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141439007","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Effects of FDI, GDP and energy use on ecological footprint in Finland: An ARDL approach","authors":"Irina Georgescu ,&nbsp;Jani Kinnunen","doi":"10.1016/j.wds.2024.100157","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.wds.2024.100157","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Each economy faces the challenge of escalating carbon emissions, a factor which leads to environmental degradation. This study explores the impact of GDP per capita, FDI and energy use on ecological footprint in Finland during 1990–2021 using the ARDL model and checks the existence of the Environmental Kuznets Curve. Three hypotheses were proposed and empirically tested. The long-run ARDL dynamics show that: (i) GDP negatively influences ecological footprint; (ii) FDI negatively impacts ecological footprint; (iii) energy use positively influences ecological footprint. Another result of the paper is the existence of a U-shaped Environmental Kuznets Curve between GDP and ecological footprint. The findings are deliberated along with policy implications and proposed avenues for future research.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101285,"journal":{"name":"World Development Sustainability","volume":"4 ","pages":"Article 100157"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2772655X24000351/pdfft?md5=4d46a69ae059b271022bf900226a9e6d&pid=1-s2.0-S2772655X24000351-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141136249","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Professional networks and access to extension as drivers of sustainable agricultural practices among Ghanaian oil palm farmers","authors":"Oscar Ampofo ,&nbsp;Emile Mawutor Tsekpo ,&nbsp;Nathaniel Amoh Boateng","doi":"10.1016/j.wds.2024.100160","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wds.2024.100160","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Increasing agricultural productivity through the uptake of sustainable agricultural practices (SAPs) offers a credible pathway to addressing food insecurity while preserving vital ecosystem resources, as such, factors that drive farmers' decisions to adopt these SAPs need examination. Most extant studies, on the adoption of SAPs, however, tend to place emphasis on socioeconomic incentives, giving little attention to the role of professional networks and institutional factors especially on oil palm which has strong links to deforestation and reduction in tree cover despite the numerous economic benefits. Using cross-sectional data from six oil palm producing regions in Ghana, this study analyses the role of producer membership, links with institutions such as NGOs, and extension access in the adoption of improved seeds, fertilizers, pest management practices, soil and moisture conservation practices, and legume cover crops among oil palm farmers in Ghana. The study employs a multivariate probit model to examine the probability of adopting SAPs and a poisson regression to model the intensity of SAPs adopted. The study also uses the instrumental variable approach to circumvent the issue of endogeneity. Results indicate that these networks and institutions significantly affect farmers’ adoption of SAPs. The study also finds heterogeneous associations with the adoption decisions depending on the type of innovation. In particular, we show evidence that farmers’ link with formal institutions is negatively associated with the adoption of diverse input intensive technologies, whereas it is positively associated with the adoption of natural resource management technologies. However, we find a consistent positive association of membership of producer organization on the adoption of different SAPs except legume cover cropping. Though differing relationships, we find that extension access and membership of producer organization are significantly associated with the intensity of SAPs adoption. Taken together, our findings suggest an integrated approach by the actors in the promotion of SAPs.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101285,"journal":{"name":"World Development Sustainability","volume":"4 ","pages":"Article 100160"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2772655X24000387/pdfft?md5=0b331f6cda1404ca856261c296354822&pid=1-s2.0-S2772655X24000387-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141325215","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Transition to sustainable environment and economic growth in Tunisia: An ARDL approach","authors":"Emna Trabelsi","doi":"10.1016/j.wds.2024.100165","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wds.2024.100165","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study investigates the relationship between environmental sustainability and economic growth in Tunisia by employing the Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) approach, Principal Component Analysis (PCA), and Granger Causality on annual data from 1990 to 2022. It aims to understand how environmental sustainability influences Tunisia's economic growth, revealing a substantial positive long-term association. The research is crucial in the global discourse on sustainability, providing insights for informed policy-making and sustainable development, particularly in developing nations like Tunisia. By utilizing the PCA, the ARDL approach, and Granger causality, the analysis gains robustness, offering a comprehensive understanding of the complex relationship. The originality lies in its Tunisia-specific focus, contributing perspectives to the broader conversation on environmental sustainability and economic growth. Notably, we identify a positive long-term impact of environmental sustainability on Tunisia's economic growth, with implications for policymakers, economists, and environmental advocates. The robustness of the results to different proxies reinforces the credibility and applicability of the findings, advancing both academic understanding and providing actionable insights for policymakers aiming to balance economic prosperity and environmental sustainability in Tunisia and similar developing economies. A green economy model mut be embraced in Tunisia, that meets economic and environmental goals, particularly decarbonization through energy security, creating quality jobs through trade openness and FDI, promoting entrepreneurship and technology start-ups.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101285,"journal":{"name":"World Development Sustainability","volume":"4 ","pages":"Article 100165"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2772655X24000430/pdfft?md5=da20ecc977bf40a9c6e532a6d3d556b2&pid=1-s2.0-S2772655X24000430-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141325216","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Effects of food price changes on child undernutrition among agricultural households in Nigeria","authors":"Dare Akerele ,&nbsp;Olusegun Fadare ,&nbsp;Adebayo Ogunniyi ,&nbsp;Olutayo Adeyemi ,&nbsp;Mistura Rufai","doi":"10.1016/j.wds.2024.100158","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wds.2024.100158","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study examines the effects of changing food prices on the nutritional outcomes of children under five years old in Nigeria, utilising data from the 2013 and 2016 Nigeria Living Standards Measurement Study – Integrated Surveys on Agriculture (LSMS-ISA). We applied correlated random-effects probit and fixed-effects regression models to analyse the data. Results indicate an increase in stunting and decreases in wasting and underweight conditions among children over the years studied. Specifically, higher prices for fish, eggs, beef, rice, and cooking oil have a significant association with increased stunting, while increases in the prices of maize and garri are associated with greater wasting. Underweight increase with higher prices of milk, maize, and rice. In contrast, modest increases in yam and beans prices have not exacerbated undernutrition. The study also highlights the importance of household income growth and women's involvement in financial decisions in reducing child undernutrition. We advocate for agriculture-led, nutrition-sensitive policies that address the high costs of animal proteins and staples such as rice, maize, and garri, while monitoring and carefully regulating upticks in the prices of yam and beans.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101285,"journal":{"name":"World Development Sustainability","volume":"4 ","pages":"Article 100158"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2772655X24000363/pdfft?md5=37e16ba634be05f58d50dccdd08f68bd&pid=1-s2.0-S2772655X24000363-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141243809","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Erratum to “The dynamics of asymmetry among fertility, income inequality and financial development in Bangladesh” [World Development Sustainability (2022), Volume 1, 100014]","authors":"Humaira Husain","doi":"10.1016/j.wds.2024.100172","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wds.2024.100172","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":101285,"journal":{"name":"World Development Sustainability","volume":"4 ","pages":"Article 100172"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2772655X24000508/pdfft?md5=63c04855df2e55e4ddcb909e03b1918f&pid=1-s2.0-S2772655X24000508-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141438988","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Enhancing safe vegetable cultivation through capacity development: Exploring the need for low-external-input utilization among farmers in Bangladesh","authors":"Mohammad Golam Farouque ,&nbsp;Mohammed Nasir Uddin ,&nbsp;Debashis Roy ,&nbsp;Saifur Rahman ,&nbsp;Khondokar H. Kabir ,&nbsp;Joseph L. Donaldson","doi":"10.1016/j.wds.2024.100161","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wds.2024.100161","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Excessive use of agrochemicals in vegetable cultivation has led to several problems, including serious health and environmental issues. Therefore, farming with low-external inputs (LEIs) is inevitable for enhancing safety and security. Thus, the study investigates the need for capacity building on low-external-input techniques, identifies factors that may influence the need for capacity building, and explores the challenges faced by vegetable farmers while using low-external inputs for vegetable cultivation. The study, conducted in Daudkandi and Sherpur Upazila of Cumilla and Bogura districts, involved 400 farmers surveyed face-to-face using a structured questionnaire. The findings revealed that 69% farmers acknowledged a pressing need for capacity development in LEI practices. Factors such as education, family income, training participation, social mobility, extension agent engagement, and food safety awareness were found to significantly influence the need for capacity building. In addition, key challenges faced by farmers during LEI adoption included inadequate technical expertise, suboptimal results, and insufficient method demonstrations. Extension officials are encouraged to prioritize the identified capacity-building needs and emphasize the dissemination of agrochemical-related information to vegetable farmers to prevent input dealers from promoting their use. These measures can empower farmers to adopt safe and sustainable LEI practices, enhancing both vegetable quality and environmental health in Bangladesh.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101285,"journal":{"name":"World Development Sustainability","volume":"4 ","pages":"Article 100161"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2772655X24000399/pdfft?md5=d9b09df7d65bbec7a1d3e0bbfaca5f18&pid=1-s2.0-S2772655X24000399-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141249762","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The effect of fire-induced forest-degradation on rainfall: A causal inference analysis of the case of the Brazilian Amazon","authors":"Thiago F․ Morello R․ Silva","doi":"10.1016/j.wds.2024.100162","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.wds.2024.100162","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Forest degradation by fires is growing in a fast pace in the Brazilian portion of the Amazonian rainforest, damaging the regional environment and economy. Seeking to measure the impact of such process on rainfall, the paper analyses a wide diversity of fine-grained satellite measurements with causal inference techniques. Results show that agricultural fires increase forest fires in 40 % of the usual rise in forest fires due to seasonal warming. Rainfall is reduced in 25 % of the rainfall decay normally caused by seasonal drying. Impacts on agricultural production were detected, but the evidence was not strong. These findings considerably expand the hitherto available evidence, which is not only scarce and biased by confounders, but essentially uni-disciplinary and thus partial in terms of the acknowledged consequences.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101285,"journal":{"name":"World Development Sustainability","volume":"5 ","pages":"Article 100162"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2772655X24000405/pdfft?md5=6a50be55cad27cdb881b1e4003c29564&pid=1-s2.0-S2772655X24000405-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141961582","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Creating energy poverty by an anti-energy poverty policy? An analysis of the impact of the “coal-to-gas” policy in Northern China","authors":"Jianping Yao ,&nbsp;Lingzi Zhang ,&nbsp;Zhanping Hu ,&nbsp;Yanan Xie","doi":"10.1016/j.wds.2024.100154","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.wds.2024.100154","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The recent <strong>“</strong>coal-to-gas\" (CTG) energy policy serves as an important measure to mitigate air pollution in northern China, and also carries out a mission of alleviating rural energy poverty. To unravel the impact of the CTG policy on rural energy poverty, this study examines the effect on economic and well-being dimensions of energy poverty based on data from five villages in northern China. The findings indicate that in general the CTG policy only limitedly alleviated rural energy poverty with effects varying significantly across different social groups. Economically, the policy has significantly increased recipients’ financial burden, and thereby exacerbated their energy poverty. In terms of well-being, the policy has improved the quality of life for villagers by reducing cooking time and raising indoor temperature, thus contributing to a reduction in energy poverty. The CTG recipients are distinguished into four categories based on varied experiences on economic and well-being aspects, with only one third experiencing overall positive impacts. The study suggests that energy policies intended to alleviate energy poverty may paradoxically perpetuate it. The differential impact across social groups calls for more nuanced and targeted approaches to mitigate the adverse effects of energy policies.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101285,"journal":{"name":"World Development Sustainability","volume":"4 ","pages":"Article 100154"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2772655X24000326/pdfft?md5=dfd8647ad9203520d9958a3a608e2a4f&pid=1-s2.0-S2772655X24000326-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141057163","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}