Artisanal and small-scale mining in Tanzania and health implications: A policy perspective by Mwemezi J. Rwiza, Erasto Focus, Jonas Bayuo, Joseph Modest Kimaro, Matthias Kleinke, Theresia J. Lyasenga, Jerry T. Mosses, Janeth Marwa

“…The mineral sector, especially its small-scale subsector, has become significant in the emerging economies of the Global South. Tanzania is the focus of this policy exposition paper because, aside from Ghana and South Africa, Tanzania is ranked 4th in Africa in terms of its mineral deposits and small-scale mining activities. …”
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Protecting healthcare workers during a pandemic: what can a WHO collaborating centre research partnership contribute? by Jerry M. Spiegel, Muzimkhulu Zungu, Annalee Yassi, Karen Lockhart, Kerry Sidwell Wilson, Arnold I. Okpani, David Jones, Natasha Sanabria

“…To ascertain whether and how working as a partnership of two World Health Organization collaborating centres (WHOCCs), based respectively in the Global North and Global South, can add insights on “what works to protect healthcare workers (HCWs) during a pandemic, in what contexts, using what mechanism, to achieve what outcome”. …”
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‘It’s about time’: policymakers’ and health practitioners’ perspectives on implementing fertility care in the Gambian health system by Anna Afferri, Susan Dierickx, Haddijatou Allen, Mustapha Bittaye, Musa Marena, Allan Pacey, Julie Balen

“…Abstract Background Infertility is a major health issue worldwide, yet very few examples of interventions addressing infertility in the Global South have been documented to date. In The Gambia, West Africa, infertility is recognised as a burden and the health authorities have included it in several health policies and the new National Reproductive Health Strategy however, a detailed operationalisation plan for fertility care has not yet been established. …”
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Opportunities and challenges in preventing violence against adolescent girls through gender transformative, whole-family support programming in Northeast Nigeria by Andrea Koris, Shadrack Steven, Veronica Akika, Cassondra Puls, Charles Okoro, David Bitrus, Ilana Seff, Julianne Deitch, Lindsay Stark

“…However, existing evidence of family support programming that effectively reduces violence against girls by addressing intersecting forms of household violence are limited, particularly in the Global South. Through a qualitative implementation evaluation informed by a grounded theoretical approach, we explored the perceived impact of a gender transformative, whole-family support intervention aimed at building adolescent girls’ protective assets against violence, among program participants in two communities of internally displaced people Maiduguri, Borno State, Northeast Nigeria. …”
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The social cost of carbon dioxide under climate-economy feedbacks and temperature variability by Jarmo S Kikstra, Paul Waidelich, James Rising, Dmitry Yumashev, Chris Hope, Chris M Brierley

“…Both the economy feedbacks and other increases since PAGE09 are almost entirely due to higher damages in the Global South. Including an estimate of interannual temperature variability increases the width of the SCCO _2 distribution, with particularly strong effects in the tails and a slight increase in the mean SCCO _2 . …”
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Study of Convergence and Divergence of EAEU Integration Processes Based on the Gini Index by M. L. Gorbunova, I. D. Komarov, T. E. Maslova

“…At the same time, the use of the interstate Gini index for the analysis of convergence and divergence of integration processes made it possible to conclude that the integration models of the states of the Global North and the Global South are diverse.…”
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Resisting colonial state crime: The experience of the Peace Community of San José de Apartadó by Gustavo Rojas Páez

“…This article suggests that the impunity of crimes of the powerful in the Global South must be understood in terms of a continuity of colonial state crime. …”
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Voices of Peasant Farmers from the Margins of the Global Food Crisis by Breann Maxwell, Zulfiya Tursunova

“…Akram-Lodhi’s approach is especially useful as an introduction for readers who wish to understand the devastating effects of the global food regimes on the lives of individuals, especially in the global South. Through personal accounts of peasant farmers, the author fills a niche in the literature by examining the process by which the world food system has become a capitalist enterprise in the hands of power holders, corporations, the IMF and World Bank, and privileged consumers in the North....…”
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Frailty status and associated factors among older PLHIV in Southern Ethiopia. by Endrias Markos Woldesemayat, Natalie St Clair-Sullivan, Andargachew Kassa, Taye Gari, Keneni Gutema, Nana Chea, Kindie Woubshet, Netsanet Bogale, Amare Assefa, Jaime Vera

“…<h4>Background</h4>Studies addressing frailty are limited in the global south, including Ethiopia. We estimated the prevalence of frailty and associated factors among older people living with HIV (PLHIV) attending a large Comprehensive Specialized Hospital in southern Ethiopia.…”
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Domain Adaptation for Semantic Segmentation of Historical Panchromatic Orthomosaics in Central Africa by Nicholus Mboga, Stefano D’Aronco, Tais Grippa, Charlotte Pelletier, Stefanos Georganos, Sabine Vanhuysse, Eléonore Wolff, Benoît Smets, Olivier Dewitte, Moritz Lennert, Jan Dirk Wegner

“…Multitemporal environmental and urban studies are essential to guide policy making to ultimately improve human wellbeing in the Global South. Land-cover products derived from historical aerial orthomosaics acquired decades ago can provide important evidence to inform long-term studies. …”
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A systematic review on the role of trust in the water governance literature by Remko Voogd, Peter M. Rudberg, Jasper R. de Vries, Raoul Beunen, Aileen Aseron Espiritu, Nadine Methner, Rasmus Kløcker Larsen, Gunn Elin Fedreheim, Sander Goes, Elizabeth Kruger

“…We also observe that the role of trust is often understudied, especially in the context of the global south and with regard to ethnic minorities and indigenous people as the subjects of trust. …”
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Consumer willingness to pay a premium for orange-fleshed sweet potato puree products: a gender-responsive evidence from Becker–DeGroot–Marschak experimental auction among low- and... by Charity M. Wangithi, Annette M. Nyangaresi, Rajendran Srinivasulu, Mukani Moyo, Tawanda Muzhingi, Nozomi Kawarazuka

“…Vitamin A deficiency (VAD) is a major public health problem affecting people of all ages, particularly women of reproductive age and young children in the Global South. Nutrient-enriched (biofortified) orange-fleshed sweet potato (OFSP) has promising potential as a sustainable food vehicle to combat VAD. …”
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Species Richness and Composition of Forest Birds in Urban Parks and Reserves of Buenos Aires City, Argentina by Ianina N. Godoy, Fabricio C. Gorleri, Maximiliano A. Cristaldi, Lucas M. Leveau

“…However, the relationship between green spaces and forest birds has been scarcely studied in the Global South. In this work, we used citizen science data (eBird) to assess the variation in the species richness and composition of forest birds in two types of public urban green spaces characterized by different vegetation composition and management: parks and reserves. …”
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Where Humans and the Planetary Conflate—An Introduction to Environing Media by Adam Wickberg, Johan Gärdebo

“…The paper outlines the theory of environing media using examples from the Global South, in particular the shaping and sensing of landscapes in and around the Philippines. …”
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Attitudes toward water resilience and potential for improvement by Julia Baird, Gillian Dale, Gary Pickering

“…We found that, across six countries in the Global South and North, attitudes showed moderate support for water resilience. …”
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On farmers’ perceptions of climate change and its nexus with climate data and adaptive capacity. A comprehensive review by Sandra Ricart, Andrea Castelletti, Claudio Gandolfi

“…Nonetheless, we observe some research gaps: (a) a conceptual mismatch in ‘normal pattern’ or ‘drought’ meaning, (b) poor or limited data from meteorological stations, (c) overlook or oversimplification of local knowledge in describing perception, (d) farmers’ memory weaknesses to keep track of climate alterations, and (e) a geographical dissonance in favour of Global South regions. Our science-metric study also reveals some research questions to be consolidated: Can the perception of extreme events increase climate change awareness? …”
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Non-breeding ecology of a Neotropical-Nearctic migrant, the Common Nighthawk ( Chordeiles minor ): habitat, activity patterns, molt, and migration by Kristina L. Cockle, Olga Villalba, Nestor Fariña, Alejandro Bodrati, Luis G. Pagano, Eliza D. Stein, Andrea R. Norris

“…Programs aiming to conserve long-distance migratory aerial insectivores should support long-term monitoring led from the Global South, especially in the Cerrado and southern South America. …”
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Making the post-2020 global biodiversity framework a successful tool for building biodiverse, inclusive, resilient and safe food systems for all by Anja Gassner, Philip Dobie, Rhett Harrison, Adriana Vidal, Eduardo Somarriba, Francois Pythoud, Chetan Kumar, Yves Laumonier, Ashwini Chhatre

“…It is the largest source of employment in many countries in the global South. At the same time cities depend upon imported food that is produced in far-away countries and shipped around the world. …”
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Frailty status and associated factors among older PLHIV in Southern Ethiopia by Endrias Markos Woldesemayat, Natalie St Clair-Sullivan, Andargachew Kassa, Taye Gari, Keneni Gutema, Nana Chea, Kindie Woubshet, Netsanet Bogale, Amare Assefa, Jaime Vera

“…<h4>Background</h4> Studies addressing frailty are limited in the global south, including Ethiopia. We estimated the prevalence of frailty and associated factors among older people living with HIV (PLHIV) attending a large Comprehensive Specialized Hospital in southern Ethiopia. …”
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Quantifying the foodshed: a systematic review of urban food flow and local food self-sufficiency research by Kerstin Schreiber, Gordon M Hickey, Geneviève S Metson, Brian E Robinson, Graham K MacDonald

“…LFS capacity studies are the most common type but the majority of cases we found in the literature were from cities or regions in the Global North with underrepresentation of rapidly urbanizing regions of the Global South. We use a synthetic framework with ten criteria to further classify foodshed studies, which illustrates the challenges of quantitatively comparing results across studies with different methodologies. …”
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