Oil palm plantation systems are at a crossroads☆ by Rival Alain, Chalil Diana

“…The key issue is no longer simply to increase productivity, but to foster innovations designed to support endangered tropical biodiversity, while providing a decent living for shrinking agricultural communities in the Global South. Agroforestry practices have a role to play in providing substantial climate change mitigation with an impact comparable to other climate-focused solutions, such as reforestation. …”
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Analysis of Global Search and Research Interests on Dentists Using Infoveillance and Bibliometric Approaches by Kehinde Kazeem Kanmodi, Oluwafemi Abolade, Jimoh Amzat, Lawrence Achilles Nnyanzi

“…The findings show that, over the years, there has been a significant growth in the volume of information search and research outputs on dentists with huge inequalities existing between the Global South and North. It is also notable that the COVID-19 pandemic played a significantly influential role in the global information search and dissemination trends on dentists. …”
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Opportunity and Survival in the Urban Informal Food Sector of Namibia by Jonathan S. Crush, Lawrence Kazembe, Ndeyapo Nickanor

“…Literature on participation in the informal food sector in cities of the Global South is conventionally characterized by a survivalist or opportunistic perspective. …”
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Understanding the trends and characteristics of smart urbanism across continents by Lim Seng BOON, Jalaluddin Abdul MALEK, Mohd Yusof HUSSAIN, Zurinah TAHIR

“… Lack of understanding across the global north and global south, and with the need for alternative development paths in smart urbanism discourse are issues highlighted by recent smart urbanism research. …”
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Widespread Geographical Disparities in Phytoplankton Ecology Research in the Face of Climate Change: A Review by Rael Adhiambo, Paul Kojo Mensah, Emmanuel Acheampong

“…Strategic investment in terms of targeted funding, institutional networks, and partnerships between the global north and global south are necessary to increase phytoplankton research across different ecosystems in the tropics.…”
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The global polarisation of remote work by Fabian Braesemann, Fabian Stephany, Ole Teutloff, Otto Kässi, Mark Graham, Vili Lehdonvirta

“…First, countries are globally divided: North American, European, and South Asian remote platform workers attract most jobs, while many Global South countries participate only marginally. Secondly, remote jobs are pulled to large cities; rural areas fall behind. …”
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The health equity characteristics of research exploring the unmet community mobility needs of older adults: a scoping review by Hester van Biljon, Lana van Niekerk, Isabel Margot-Cattin, Fasloen Adams, Nicola Plastow, David Bellagamba, Anders Kottorp, Ann-Helen Patomella

“…Results Findings showed underrepresentation of articles considering rural settings [9%] and originating in the global South [14%]. Gender, disability, education, and transport / driving were identified as key health equity characteristics and only 10 articles provided detail on all four of these. …”
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Strengthening and measuring monitoring and evaluation capacity in selected African programmes by Steven Masvaure, Tebogo E. Fish

“…Background: Strengthening the capacities of countries and organisations to perform monitoring and evaluation (ME) functions is gaining momentum in the Global South. However, there is limited literature on the effectiveness and impact of these capacity strengthening initiatives in Africa. …”
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On-site actors’ agency within international media development by Ines Drefs

“…International efforts aimed at developing a specific region’s or country’s media sector commonly involve both onsite actors (usually from the Global South) and external actors (usually from the Global North). …”
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What's next for responsible artificial intelligence: a way forward through responsible innovation by Heinz Herrmann

“…A role-specific recommendation for policy makers is made to deploy modes of engaging with the Global South with more urgency to avoid the risk of harming vulnerable populations. …”
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Diversity and neocolonialism in Big Data research: Avoiding extractivism while struggling with paternalism by Paula Helm, Amalia de Götzen, Luca Cernuzzi, Alethia Hume, Shyam Diwakar, Salvador Ruiz Correa, Daniel Gatica-Perez

“…While most criticism initially focused on the impacts on Western societies, attention is now increasingly turning to the consequences for communities in the Global South. To date, debates have focused on private-sector activities. …”
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Psychometric properties of Indonesian slums dwellers’ place attachment by Tery Setiawan, Missiliana Riasnugrahani, Edwin de Jong

“…However, the bulk of these confirmatory studies have been conducted in Western societies, neglecting people in the Global South and particularly people living in unstable, environmentally fragile regions such as slum areas. …”
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HARARE AS A DESTINATION FOR INFORMAL BUSINESS TOURISM: PERSPECTIVES OF THE CROSS-BORDER TRADERS by Logistic MAKONI, Christian M. ROGERSON, Tembi M. TICHAAWA

“…Business tourism scholarship in the Global South is an undeveloped theme in international research. …”
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Unlocking the potential of forage fish to reduce the global burden of disease by Shujuan Xia, Jun'ya Takakura, Kazuaki Tsuchiya, Chaeyeon Park, Ryan F Heneghan, Kiyoshi Takahashi, Norma Beavers

“…Policies targeting the allocation of forage fish to regions where they are needed, such as the Global South, could be more effective in maximising the potential of forage fish to reduce the global burden of disease.…”
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Mapping the vulnerability of indigenous fruit trees to environmental change in the fragile savannah ecological zone of Northern Ghana by Emmanuel K. Derbile, Simon Kaba. Kanlisi, Frederick Dapilah

“…Following the incidence of environmental change globally and its negative consequences on livelihoods of local populations, vulnerability assessment has become central to mitigation and adaptation response in the global south. However, researches on vulnerability to climate change in the African continent have seldom focused on Indigenous Fruit Trees (IFTs) although they are an essential part of the strategic forest resources and livelihood systems of local communities. …”
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The Learning Activation Approach—Understanding Indonesia’s Energy Transition by Teaching It by Ariel Macaspac Hernandez, Yudhi Timor Bimo Prakoso

“…Indonesia is an important bridge to Muslim countries, the voice of the Global South in the G20 and a main pillar of the 134-country-strong G77. …”
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Double exposure to capitalist expansion and climatic change: a study of vulnerability on the Ghanaian coastal commodity frontier by Callum Nolan, Izabela Delabre, Filippo Menga, Michael K. Goodman

“…Work to date however has failed to consider how the impacts of frontier expansion interact with climate change despite the two phenomena being closely linked in both causes and effects, and largely impacting most severely upon rural communities in the Global South. We seek to address this gap with a focus on the coastal commodity frontier: social-ecological systems within which marine and terrestrial frontier expansion can occur concurrently, while being impacted by climatic change. …”
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Moving from the Margins: Towards an Inclusive Urban Representation of Older People in Zimbabwe’s Policy Discourse by Busisiwe Chikomborero Ncube Makore, Sura Al-Maiyah

“…Population ageing has become a major global demographic shift but perhaps less noticeable in the Global South. Zimbabwe, like many African countries, is experiencing and will continue to witness an increase in older age, hence questioning its readiness to handle such change. …”
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Guest Editorial : Urban Youth - Engaging young people and their futures in African cities by Laura Nkula-Wenz, Rike Sitas, Mercy Brown-Luthango

“…To outline the broader knowledge project this volume connects to, we then discuss a few basic epistemological overlaps between the emerging fields of Global South Youth Studies and Southern urbanism. Introducing the rich array of creative, rigorous, experimental and propositional practices and research- based contributions that make up this themed volume constitutes the heart of this editorial. …”
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Integrated Planning: Towards a Mutually Inclusive Approach to Infrastructure Planning and Design by Dario Hernan Schoulund, Carlos Alberto Amura, Karina Landman

“…The result surfaces on the relative qualities of public spaces: projects that are functionally successful but spatially poor, and vice versa This is critical in the global south, where infrastructure is prioritized, and politicized, as the key driver of change but often heedless of spatial consequences. …”
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