Optimising engagement in a digital parenting intervention to prevent violence against adolescents in Tanzania: protocol for a cluster randomised factorial trial by Roselinde Janowski, Ohad Green, Yulia Shenderovich, David Stern, Lily Clements, Joyce Wamoyi, Mwita Wambura, Jamie M. Lachman, G. J. Melendez-Torres, Frances Gardner, Lauren Baerecke, Esmee Te Winkel, Anna Booij, Orli Setton, Sibongile Tsoanyane, Sussie Mjwara, Laetitia Christine, Abigail Ornellas, Nicole Chetty, Jonathan Klapwijk, Isang Awah, Nyasha Manjengenja, Kudely Sokoine, Sabrina Majikata, Lucie D. Cluver

“…The app is based on the evidence-based Parenting for Lifelong Health for Teens programme, developed collaboratively by academic institutions in the Global South and North, the WHO, and UNICEF. Methods/design Sixteen neighbourhoods, i.e., clusters, will be randomised to one of eight experimental conditions which consist of any combination of three components (Support: self-guided/moderated WhatsApp groups; App Design: sequential workshops/non-sequential modules; Digital Literacy Training: on/off). …”
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Mainstreaming climate change adaptation into urban development : lessons from two South African cities by Farrell, Leanne A. (Leanne Andrea)

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Social-ecological change: insights from the Southern African Program on Ecosystem Change and Society by Reinette Biggs, Hayley S. Clements, Graeme S. Cumming, Georgina Cundill, Alta de Vos, Maike Hamann, Linda Luvuno, Dirk J. Roux, Odirilwe Selomane, Ryan Blanchard, Jessica Cockburn, Luthando Dziba, Karen J. Esler, Christo Fabricius, Rebecka Henriksson, Karen Kotschy, Regina Lindborg, Vanessa A. Masterson, Jeanne L. Nel, Patrick O’Farrell, Carolyn G. Palmer, Laura Pereira, Sharon Pollard, Rika Preiser, Robert J. Scholes, Charlie Shackleton, Sheona Shackleton, Nadia Sitas, Jasper A. Slingsby, Marja Spierenburg, Maria Tengö, Belinda Reyers

“…To date, much SES research has been done in or from the Global North, where the challenges and contexts for supporting sustainability transformations are substantially different from the Global South. This paper synthesises emerging insights on SES dynamics that can inform actions and advance research to support sustainability transformations specifically in the southern African context. …”
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An integrated process for planning, delivery, and stewardship of urban nature-based solutions: The Connecting Nature Framework by Marcus J. Collier, Niki Frantzeskaki, Stuart Connop, Gillian Dick, Adina Dumitru, Agnieszka Dziubała, Isobel Fletcher, Pauline Georgiou, Katharina Hölscher, Esmee Kooijman, Marleen Lodder, Natalia Madajczyk, Siobhan McQuaid, Caroline Nash, Agnieszka Osipiuk, Mien Quartier, Alice Reil, Mary-Lee Rhodes, Daniela Rizzi, Paula Vandergert, Katrien Van De Sijpe, Peter Vos, Dimitra Xidous

“…The planning process guided by the proposed framework has already yielded promising results with some of the cities of the project, though further usage and its adoption by other cities is needed to explore its potential in different contexts especially in the Global South. The paper concludes with suggestions on how this may be realised.…”
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Communicating risk during early phases of COVID-19: Comparing governing structures for emergency risk communication across four contexts by Brogan Geurts, Heide Weishaar, Almudena Mari Saez, Florin Cristea, Carlos Rocha, Kafayat Aminu, Melisa Mei Jin Tan, Bienvenu Salim Camara, Bienvenu Salim Camara, Lansana Barry, Paul Thea, Johannes Boucsein, Johannes Boucsein, Johannes Boucsein, Thurid Bahr, Sameh Al-Awlaqi, Francisco Pozo-Martin, Evgeniya Boklage, Alexandre Delamou, Alexandre Delamou, Ayodele Samuel Jegede, Helena Legido-Quigley, Charbel El Bcheraoui

“…The findings suggest considerable potential and transferable learning opportunities exist between countries in the global north and countries in the global south with experience of managing outbreaks.…”
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La rappresentazione BIM per la documentazione e l’analisi storico-critica del patrimonio modernista. Il rilievo del progetto e la modellazione digitale dell’architettura brasiliana... by Marcello Balzani, Federica Maietti, Marco Medici

“…</p><p>Nonostante l'ampio uso in architettura di precetti modernisti nei paesi un tempo definiti in via di sviluppo (oggi identificati dalla comunità internazionale come <em>Global South Countries</em>), l’approccio storico-critico dell’architettura tende a concentrarsi sullo sviluppo di tale movimento per lo più in Occidente. …”
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Drivers of planktonic chlorophyll a in pampean shallow lakes by María Laura Sánchez, Irina Izaguirre, Horacio Zagarese, María Romina Schiaffino, Manuel Castro Berman, Leonardo Lagomarsino, G. Chaparro, Sofìa Baliña, María Solange Vera, Kendra Spence Cheruvelil

“…Although agricultural intensification has been linked with the increment of lake eutrophication and shallow lake research has demonstrated the importance of submerged macrophytes for maintaining water clarity, less is known about the role of macrophytes and the effects of agriculture on shallow lakes of the global south. Shallow lakes in the Pampean region of Argentina are subjected to high anthropic pressure and are classified as eutrophic and hypereutrophic and, in spite of most of them are turbid and dominated by phytoplankton biomass, some remain in a clear-vegetated regime with profuse submerged macrophytes. …”
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Applying State-of-the-Art Deep-Learning Methods to Classify Urban Cities of the Developing World by A. K. M. Mahbubur Rahman, Moinul Zaber, Qianwei Cheng, Abu Bakar Siddik Nayem, Anis Sarker, Ovi Paul, Ryosuke Shibasaki

“…This paper shows the efficacy of a novel urban categorization framework based on deep learning, and a novel categorization method customized for cities in the global south. The proposed categorization method assesses urban space broadly on two dimensions—the states of urbanization and the architectural form of the units observed. …”
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“THE SEAMY SIDE OF THE CITY”: MARGINAL LANDSCAPES AND CONTEMPORARY VISUAL CULTURE / «ИЗНАНКА ГОРОДА»: МАРГИНАЛЬНЫЕ ЛАНДШАФТЫ И СОВРЕМЕННАЯ ВИЗУАЛЬНАЯ КУЛЬТУРА... by LAVRENOVA OLGA A. / ЛАВРЕНОВА О.А.

“…In modern mass culture, the “location” of the global south slums is especially trendy. In such exterior, hyper-popular feature films such as Slumdog Millionaire have been shot, causing a new cultural phenomenon—mass slum tourism. …”
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Deep Learning Enables Instant and Versatile Estimation of Rice Yield Using Ground-Based RGB Images by Yu Tanaka, Tomoya Watanabe, Keisuke Katsura, Yasuhiro Tsujimoto, Toshiyuki Takai, Takashi Sonam Tashi Tanaka, Kensuke Kawamura, Hiroki Saito, Koki Homma, Salifou Goube Mairoua, Kokou Ahouanton, Ali Ibrahim, Kalimuthu Senthilkumar, Vimal Kumar Semwal, Eduardo Jose Graterol Matute, Edgar Corredor, Raafat El-Namaky, Norvie Manigbas, Eduardo Jimmy P. Quilang, Yu Iwahashi, Kota Nakajima, Eisuke Takeuchi, Kazuki Saito

“…However, its productivity is poorly assessed especially in the global South. Here, we provide a first study to perform a deep-learning-based approach for instantaneously estimating rice yield using red-green-blue images. …”
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Gene therapy for selected neuromuscular and trinucleotide repeat disorders – An insight to subsume South Asia for multicenter clinical trials by Nalaka Wijekoon, Lakmal Gonawala, Pyara Ratnayake, Darshana Sirisena, Harsha Gunasekara, Athula Dissanayake, Sunethra Senanayake, Ajantha Keshavaraj, Yetrib Hathout, Harry W.M. Steinbusch, Chandra Mohan, Ashwin Dalal, Eric Hoffman, K.Ranil D de Silva

“…By fostering collaboration between researchers, clinicians, patient advocacy groups, government and industry in gene therapy initiatives for the inherited-diseases community in the developing world would link the Global North and Global South and breathe life into the motto “Together we can make a difference”.…”
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Developing policy-relevant biodiversity indicators: lessons learnt from case studies in Africa by Anne-Julie Rochette, Jean Didier T Akpona, Hugues Adeloui Akpona, Gaston S Akouehou, Blanchard Mayundo Kwezi, Chabi A M S Djagoun, Bernadette Habonimana, Rodrigue Idohou, Ingride S Legba, Benoît Nzigidahera, Augustin Orou Matilo, Mohammed Sghir Taleb, Benjamin Toirambe Bamoninga, Sarah Ivory, Luc Janssens de Bisthoven, Maarten P M Vanhove

“…We hope that these case studies and lessons learnt can stimulate and support countries in the Global South to formulate policy-relevant biodiversity indicators.…”
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Equity and justice should underpin the discourse on tipping points by L. M. Pereira, L. M. Pereira, I. Gianelli, I. Gianelli, T. Achieng, D. Amon, D. Amon, S. Archibald, S. Arif, A. Castro, A. Castro, T. P. Chimbadzwa, K. Coetzer, K. Coetzer, T.-L. Field, O. Selomane, N. Sitas, N. Sitas, N. Stevens, N. Stevens, S. Villasante, M. Armani, D. M. Kimuyu, I. J. Adewumi, I. J. Adewumi, D. M. Lapola, D. Obura, P. Pinho, F. Roa-Clavijo, J. Rocha, U. R. Sumaila, U. R. Sumaila

“…An energy transition that remains based on natural resource inputs from the Global South must be unpacked with an equity and justice lens to understand the true cost of this transition. …”
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Using an innovative family-centered evidence toolkit to improve the livelihood of people with disabilities in Bamenda (Cameroon): a mixed-method study by Mirabel Nain Yuh, Mirabel Nain Yuh, Mirabel Nain Yuh, Gloria Akah Ndum Okwen, Gloria Akah Ndum Okwen, Rigobert Hanny Pambe Miong, Rigobert Hanny Pambe Miong, Nicola Luigi Bragazzi, Nicola Luigi Bragazzi, Nicola Luigi Bragazzi, Nicola Luigi Bragazzi, Jude Dzevela Kong, Jude Dzevela Kong, Jude Dzevela Kong, Zahra Movahedi Nia, Zahra Movahedi Nia, Zahra Movahedi Nia, Zahra Movahedi Nia, Tetamiyaka Tezok Kinlabel, Tetamiyaka Tezok Kinlabel, Okwen Patrick Mbah, Okwen Patrick Mbah, Okwen Patrick Mbah, Okwen Patrick Mbah

“…BackgroundMost of the disability-related scholarly literature focuses on high-income countries, whereas there is a lack of data concerning challenges (barriers and obstacles) and opportunities (participatory research and community engagement) in the Global South. Moreover, many frameworks for interventions for people with disabilities (PWDs) have been designed for resource-rich contexts, and little is known about their translatability to low- and middle-income countries (LMICs).ObjectiveThe main objective of this study was to design and pilot an interventional approach based on an innovative framework aimed at improving the livelihood of PWDs in LMICs.MethodologyThe present mixed-method study was conducted in Bamenda, North-West Region of Cameroon, through an intervention of household visits by community health workers using innovation and best practices informed by a systematic literature review and embedded into an evidence toolkit called the eBASE Family-Centered Evidence Toolkit for Disabilities (EFCETD), adapted from the WHO matrix and consisting of 43 questions across five categories (health, education, social wellbeing, empowerment, and livelihood). …”
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Challenges for climate change adaptation in Latin America and the Caribbean region by Tereza Cavazos, Maria Laura Bettolli, Maria Laura Bettolli, Donovan Campbell, Roberto A. Sánchez Rodríguez, Michelle Mycoo, Paola A. Arias, Juan Rivera, Michelle Simões Reboita, Carla Gulizia, Carla Gulizia, Carla Gulizia, Hugo G. Hidalgo, Eric J. Alfaro, Tannecia S. Stephenson, Anna A. Sörensson, Anna A. Sörensson, Anna A. Sörensson, Ruth Cerezo-Mota, Edwin Castellanos, Edwin Castellanos, Debora Ley, Roché Mahon

“…The discussions and insights presented in this work could be extrapolated to other countries in the Global South.…”
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Interstitial Intelligence: Human-Rodent Sensing, Cognition, and Work in Morogoro, Tanzania by Lee, Jia Hui

“…Drawing on both archival and ethnographic research, I argue that human-rodent encounters in Tanzania are nodes for generating critique, theorization, and speculation about thinking as the practice relates to questions of science, technology, and innovation in the global South. In Part I, I present a history of the development of rodent science in Tanzania that began during the British colonial government of Tanganyika. …”
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Redefining pandemic preparedness: Multidisciplinary insights from the CERP modelling workshop in infectious diseases, workshop report by Marta C. Nunes, Edward Thommes, Holger Fröhlich, Antoine Flahault, Julien Arino, Marc Baguelin, Matthew Biggerstaff, Gaston Bizel-Bizellot, Rebecca Borchering, Giacomo Cacciapaglia, Simon Cauchemez, Alex Barbier--Chebbah, Carsten Claussen, Christine Choirat, Monica Cojocaru, Catherine Commaille-Chapus, Chitin Hon, Jude Kong, Nicolas Lambert, Katharina B. Lauer, Thorsten Lehr, Cédric Mahe, Vincent Marechal, Adel Mebarki, Seyed Moghadas, Rene Niehus, Lulla Opatowski, Francesco Parino, Gery Pruvost, Andreas Schuppert, Rodolphe Thiébaut, Andrea Thomas-Bachli, Cecile Viboud, Jianhong Wu, Pascal Crépey, Laurent Coudeville

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In This Issue: Race and Ethnicity in Food Systems Work by Duncan Hilchey

“…Alexander Kaufman finds there may be tradeoffs to adopting organic production in the Global South. He suggests that program planners should take participants' environmental views and perceptions of well-being into account in Unraveling the Differences Between Organic and Non-Organic Thai Rice Farmers' Environmental Views and Perceptions of Well-being. …”
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IN THIS ISSUE: Food Systems Resilience by Duncan Hilchey

“…Furthermore, resilience can’t come without the support of public- and private-sector actors, including local government and NGOs, who will need ways of measuring food system resilience as they address growing opportunities and challenges in their communities—whether in North America, Europe, or the Global South. With this issue, we are pleased to welcome our newest columnist, Teresa Mares, professor of anthropology at the University of Vermont. …”
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Analysis of OpenStreetMap Data Quality at Different Stages of a Participatory Mapping Process: Evidence from Slums in Africa and Asia by Godwin Yeboah, João Porto de Albuquerque, Rafael Troilo, Grant Tregonning, Shanaka Perera, Syed A. K. Shifat Ahmed, Motunrayo Ajisola, Ornob Alam, Navneet Aujla, Syed Iqbal Azam, Kehkashan Azeem, Pauline Bakibinga, Yen-Fu Chen, Nazratun Nayeem Choudhury, Peter J. Diggle, Olufunke Fayehun, Paramjit Gill, Frances Griffiths, Bronwyn Harris, Romaina Iqbal, Caroline Kabaria, Abdhalah Kasiira Ziraba, Afreen Zaman Khan, Peter Kibe, Lyagamula Kisia, Catherine Kyobutungi, Richard J. Lilford, Jason J. Madan, Nelson Mbaya, Blessing Mberu, Shukri F. Mohamed, Helen Muir, Ahsana Nazish, Anne Njeri, Oladoyin Odubanjo, Akinyinka Omigbodun, Mary E. Osuh, Eme Owoaje, Oyinlola Oyebode, Vangelis Pitidis, Omar Rahman, Narjis Rizvi, Jo Sartori, Simon Smith, Olalekan John Taiwo, Philipp Ulbrich, Olalekan A. Uthman, Samuel I. Watson, Ria Wilson, Rita Yusuf

“…Data were drawn from an OpenStreetMap-based participatory mapping process developed as part of a research project focusing on understanding inequalities in healthcare access of slum residents in the Global South. Descriptive statistics and qualitative analysis were employed to examine the following research question: What is the spatial data quality of collaborative remote mapping achieved by volunteer mappers in morphologically complex urban areas? …”
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