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{"title":"Cultivating sustainability: Adoption and intensity of soil fertility management technologies among rural farms in Zambia","authors":"Louis Chikopela ,&nbsp;Thomson H. Kalinda ,&nbsp;John N. Ng'ombe ,&nbsp;Elias Kuntashula","doi":"10.1016/j.wds.2024.100174","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wds.2024.100174","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Despite the numerous advantages of soil fertility management (SFM) practices and substantial investments to promote adoption, uptake of these technologies remains low across sub-Saharan Africa. We study the adoption and intensity of key SFM practices - improved fallow, animal manure, compost, crop residue retention, minimum tillage, inorganic fertilizer, and intercropping among rural farmers in Zambia. Data from 1234 rural farms and the multivariate probit (MVP) and generalized Poisson regression models are used. The MVP model highlights interconnections among practices, emphasizing the need for integrated interventions. Socio-demographics like gender, age, education, and household labor availability significantly influence adoption of SFM practices. Farm characteristics including experience, land ownership, livestock, and off-farm income also play pivotal roles. Accessibility of information via phones, radio, and farmer groups emerged as a crucial enabler, while extension services, credit, and proximity to markets and roads shape adoption decisions. Results indicate education, household labor, off-farm income, and group membership drive intensity of adoption. Extension contacts, training, and agro-ecological region location also affect intensity with regional variations. Key policy implications emerge. First, the complementarities among practices underscore the need for holistic strategies recognizing these synergies. Second, enhancing education specifically for younger farmers can promote adoption of SFM technologies by increasing knowledge. Third, spurring farmer groups facilitates knowledge exchange, input access, and collaborative adoption. Fourth, strategic extension services and training programs are vital to address knowledge gaps for sustained adoption. Overall, this study provides insights to guide policies for promoting SFM practices among rural farms.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101285,"journal":{"name":"World Development Sustainability","volume":"5 ","pages":"Article 100174"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2772655X24000521/pdfft?md5=35350dffc2afb94f5c9f7866f6b89d6f&pid=1-s2.0-S2772655X24000521-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141596807","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":"‘Online grazing permit’: A review of novel digitalisation procedures of natural resources management projects in Iran","authors":"Farshad Amiraslani ,&nbsp;Elham Mortazavi Sarmad","doi":"10.1016/j.wds.2024.100167","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wds.2024.100167","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Globally, there is a constant growth in digitalisation and e-services. Their main benefits include higher transparency, reliability and accountability of service providers while strengthening fair competition and collaboration. This article improves upon previous literature by adding a new innovative dimension to natural resources management through digitalisation processes. It also narrates a relatively swift alteration of public policies in response to growing access demands to digital data. Here, we examine one of the well-established Iranian public organisations for natural resources management, called 'Forest, Rangeland and Watershed Management Organisation'. This organisation has shifted its procedures to become a significant electronic service provider within a relatively short period. Given its extended offices, diverse range of activities, and human resources portfolio, it could become a role model for other similar organisations at the national, regional and global levels. This review paper highlights the challenges of forming a national digital-based authority for natural resource management. We will cover a few remarks on such quick transition strengths and failures. The lessons learned can be considered in other similar contexts.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101285,"journal":{"name":"World Development Sustainability","volume":"5 ","pages":"Article 100167"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2772655X24000454/pdfft?md5=8bba9247e1acda77383f5654aa5f70d9&pid=1-s2.0-S2772655X24000454-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141484604","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":"Global exposure to climate change at a subnational jurisdiction level","authors":"Michaël Goujon ,&nbsp;Olivier Santoni ,&nbsp;Laurent Wagner","doi":"10.1016/j.wds.2024.100168","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wds.2024.100168","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In the context of climate change, there is a need to identify the most vulnerable \"hotspots\" to the various risks that should attract the most attention from analysts and decision-makers. In this paper, we focus on territories’ exposure to the main consequences of climate change, considering both intensity and the level of physical exposure to main climate change hazards. We propose a composite indicator that can be computed globally but at the sub-national level, covering 47,138 administrative units in the World (all land but Antarctica). It should be helpful as a first step to assess risks for countries characterized by high geoclimatic diversity but also transboundary risks. It would help identify the most vulnerable subnational administrative units and serve as one tool for adaptation planning.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101285,"journal":{"name":"World Development Sustainability","volume":"5 ","pages":"Article 100168"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2772655X24000466/pdfft?md5=e89703e7f7f4abc95c07c3ff57749f83&pid=1-s2.0-S2772655X24000466-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141484603","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":"Impact of agricultural credit on coffee productivity in Kenya","authors":"Richard Wamalwa Wanzala ,&nbsp;Nyankomo Marwa ,&nbsp;Elizabeth Nanziri Lwanga","doi":"10.1016/j.wds.2024.100166","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wds.2024.100166","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Historically, agricultural credit programs have been used as a policy instrument to improve agricultural productivity and livelihoods of smallholder farmers. The effectiveness of such credit programs has been widely deliberated with an opaque unanimity being reached since yield is stochastic. Therefore, this study examines the impact of agricultural credit provided by the Government of Kenya as an intervention to boost coffee productivity. Over the years, there has been little – if any – in-depth analysis that has been dedicated to establishing the impact of this agricultural credit on coffee productivity. This study surveyed 174 smallholder coffee farmers (participants and non-participants in the credit program) in Kiambu County in Kenya between 2015 and 2019. The paper espouses the DEA Malmquist index to estimate the efficiency of coffee productivity for participating and non-participating coffee farmers in the credit program. The empirical results disclose that participating farmers had the highest geomean for productivity change (152 %), efficiency change (40.5 %), technical change (53.2 %) and scale efficiency (40.5 %). Bayesian Modelling Average was used to assess determinants of coffee productivity. Bayesian Modelling Average (BMA) was used to assess determinants of coffee productivity. The findings from BMA analysis indicated that variety, education, extension visits and crop system had a positive impact on coffee productivity. Gender and age of farmer had a negative impact on coffee productivity. Thus, these insights from the empirical work would be instrumental in providing policy directions in terms of agricultural lending and crafting policies aimed at enhancing the efficiency of coffee productivity.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101285,"journal":{"name":"World Development Sustainability","volume":"5 ","pages":"Article 100166"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2772655X24000442/pdfft?md5=ee0892bb0abcc770e0977b0c47db9716&pid=1-s2.0-S2772655X24000442-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141484602","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":"Factor productivity nexus economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa: Symmetric and asymmetric panel approaches","authors":"Urgaia R. Worku","doi":"10.1016/j.wds.2024.100169","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wds.2024.100169","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study examines the effect and role of total factor productivity with other major determinants on economic growth in the Sub – Saharan Africa(SSA).It employs the data obtained from the World Bank Development Indicators spanning from 1990 to 2022 using panel ARDL, GMM and their extended asymmetric non-linear (NARDL) and (NGMM) models. The NARDL and NGMM are more superior to the counterpart ARDL and GMM symmetric models in the long-run than the short-run estimation, ensuring more efficient and reliable information regarding the effects of productivity on economic growth analysis. Finally, the robust dynamic inter-temporal Granger causality tests show that asymmetrically there is bi-directional causality between the growth rate of an upward movement in total factor productivity and real GDP. There is also bi-directional causality of a downward movement in the growth rate of the terms of trade and real GDP growth rate. The empirical findings of the study are extremely important indicators for sustained economic growth in the SSA region. Hence, this research work recommends that governments should enhance total factor productivity and terms of trade through job-trainning provision and promote trading among themselves as policy tools.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101285,"journal":{"name":"World Development Sustainability","volume":"5 ","pages":"Article 100169"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2772655X24000478/pdfft?md5=2d6af6728309de35123528bae69c6eb2&pid=1-s2.0-S2772655X24000478-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141542248","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":"Social capital enhances the resilience of agricultural cooperatives: Comparative case studies in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam","authors":"Hieu Hong Hua ,&nbsp;Peter R. Brown","doi":"10.1016/j.wds.2024.100170","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wds.2024.100170","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Agricultural cooperatives play an important role in increasing rice production and contribute to the rural economy of the Mekong Delta, Vietnam, but their resilience can be influenced by community governance and the social capital of members. This study investigated the comparative importance of social capital of members in two agricultural cooperatives in the Mekong Delta of Vietnam. We focused on two primary research questions: (1) How has social capital influenced the resilience of agricultural cooperatives for rice production? (2) What key factors influenced social capital in the two cooperatives? The study applied qualitative and quantitative data collection methods including focus group discussions, in-depth interviews, and household surveys. Measures of social capital of members in the cooperative in An Giang scored higher than that of members in the cooperative in Can Tho. Our study found that low levels of education amongst members and weak bonding social capital between subgroups with different social networks and different farming outputs in the same cooperative were two key factors impacting adversely on the resilience of the two cooperatives. Trust was revealed to be a very important component of successful ACs. These are critical areas that need to be addressed by policy makers in order to improve the community governance and resilience of rice farming cooperatives in the Mekong Delta.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101285,"journal":{"name":"World Development Sustainability","volume":"5 ","pages":"Article 100170"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2772655X2400048X/pdfft?md5=b35c667546b4f746962d681d727aba8a&pid=1-s2.0-S2772655X2400048X-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141434896","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":"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":"Sustainability in Vietnam: Examining economic growth, energy, innovation, agriculture, and forests' impact on CO2 emissions","authors":"Asif Raihan ,&nbsp;Md. Atik Hasan ,&nbsp;Liton Chandra Voumik ,&nbsp;Dulal Chandra Pattak ,&nbsp;Salma Akter ,&nbsp;Mohammad Ridwan","doi":"10.1016/j.wds.2024.100164","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wds.2024.100164","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Global warming, induced by human-generated greenhouse gases, especially carbon dioxide (CO₂), threatens the planet's ecology, economic development, and long-term viability in unparalleled ways. Vietnam's utilization of energy and CO₂ emanations are on the increase as a consequence of the country's increasing economic and improving agricultural practices. Governments seeking to accomplish an equilibrium between combating climate change and sustainable development would benefit from a deeper understanding of Vietnam's climate change vulnerability. A better understanding of the trade-off between pollution and economic growth is crucial if Vietnam is to slow the rate at which its environment is being damaged. So, the current study empirically examined the connections between GDP development, energy consumption, technical advancement, agricultural output, forest region, and carbon dioxide emissions in Vietnam. This study collected annual data from 1990 to 2020 and analyzed it using the Dynamic Ordinary Least Squares method. Based on the projection, Vietnam experiences a direct correlation between energy consumption and CO₂ emissions. This implies that an increase in energy consumption and economic growth corresponds to a corresponding emission of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Nevertheless, it is essential to acknowledge that this pattern might be alleviated by means of technological innovations, increased agricultural output, and initiatives to broaden forested regions. A negative correlation exists between these variables and CO₂ emissions; technological innovations, more sustainable agricultural methods, and forest preservation initiatives may contribute to the gradual reduction of CO₂ emissions. Therefore, environmental sustainability could be achieved through reduced emissions if the policies advocated in this article were implemented. Some of these policies include using renewable energy sources, encouraging innovations in technology, encouraging climate-conscious agriculture, and encouraging careful forest management.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101285,"journal":{"name":"World Development Sustainability","volume":"4 ","pages":"Article 100164"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2772655X24000429/pdfft?md5=54f0a2485e887b149e0e2fdf5b18c3d4&pid=1-s2.0-S2772655X24000429-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141291379","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}