First evaluation of the use of assisted natural regeneration by central african farmers to restore their landscapes by Arnot Kpolita, Emilien Dubiez, Olga Yongo, Régis Peltier

“…However, despite this genuine initial enthusiasm, this restoration drive will need to be monitored and supported due to the current context of extreme poverty and economic, social and political instability.…”
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The Unseen—An Investigative Analysis of Thematic and Spatial Coverage of News on the Ongoing Refugee Crisis in West Africa by Hansi Senaratne, Martin Mühlbauer, Ralph Kiefl, Andrea Cárdenas, Lallu Prathapan, Torsten Riedlinger, Carolin Biewer, Hannes Taubenböck

“…A culmination of identity politics, climate-driven disasters, and extreme poverty has led to this humanitarian crisis in the region and is exacerbated by a lack of political will and misplaced media attention. …”
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Inflation-poverty causal nexus in sub-Saharan African countries: an asymmetric panel causality approach by Clement Olalekan Olaniyi, Nicholas M. Odhiambo

“…Practical implications – All stakeholders and policymakers must pay adequate attention to issues of asymmetric structures, nonlinearities and country-to-country policy variations to address country-specific issues and the socioeconomic problems in the probable causal nexus between the high incidence of extreme poverty and double-digit inflation rates in most SSA countries. …”
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Sustentabilidade e o Ensino Colaborativo na Escola: uma experiência interdisciplinar no Projeto SustentaCAp2030<br>Sustainability and Collaborative Teaching in schools: an interdis... by Daniella Assemany, Jorge Felipe Marçal

“…The results show students' perception about the situation of extreme poverty in the Brazilian population, which occurs due to the history of colonialism, slavery and racism.…”
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A milagrosa economia da religião: um ensaio sobre capital social by David Lehmann

“…<br>Religion is often claimed to contribute to social capital, though under certain circumstances; it is widely recognized that movements of religious renewal and revival are mostly commonly observed among low-income, and marginalized populations, and sometimes seem to be the only institution-builders in circumstances of extreme poverty and institutional decay or vacuum; religious movements exhibit numerous undemocratic features: authoritarian hierarchies, strong pressures on followers to make sacrifices, to conform, and to contribute money. …”
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Poverty levels and children's health status: study of risk factors in an urban population of low socioeconomic level Nível de pobreza e estado de saúde das crianças: um estudo de f... by Roberto M.S. Issler, Elsa R.J. Giugliani, Guilherme T. Kreutz, Clarice F. Meneses, Elisa B. Justo, Valerie M. Kreutz, Milton Pires

“…Children from families living in extreme poverty (poorest quartile) were found to have higher infant mortality rate, lower birth weights, more hospitalizations, and higher malnutrition rates, in addition to belonging to more numerous families. …”
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Influence of serum levels of vitamin D on IgE response in schoolchildren with asthma in poor communities by Eduardo Egea, Gloria Garavito, Luis Carlos Fang-Mercado, Dary Luz Mendoza, José Miguel Escamilla, Elsie De los Rios, Rodolfo Dennis, Mario Sanchez-Borges

“…Methods: Case-control study in 1340 schoolchildren (687 asthmatic and 653 controls) from communities in extreme poverty in Barranquilla, Cartagena, Santa Marta, and Montería. …”
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Uso e ocupação do solo em São Paulo, alterações climáticas e os riscos ambientais contemporâneos by Jane Zilda dos Santos Ramires, Neli Aparecida de Mello-Théry

“…This phenomenon is exacerbated in major cities of less developed countries, where we see the increasing number of people living in extreme poverty surviving in areas of risk, such as hillsides and areas prone to flooding. …”
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Manifestations of social inequality in connection with the COVID-19 epidemic among men who have sex with men and transgender people in Ukraine: results of a survey of users of the... by Kasianczuk M. H.

“…COVID-19 significantly impacted the economic circumstances of the people surveyed: 24% lost at least two-thirds of their income, 41% lost their jobs, and 23% found themselves in extreme poverty and had to limit their food intake. Respondents who belong to socially more vulnerable populations were particularly heavily struck by the COVID-19 epidemic’s societal and economic changes in 2020. …”
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Socioeconomic Inequalities in Alcohol and Tobacco Consumption: A National Ecological Study in Mexican Adolescents by Leticia Ávila-Burgos, Rebeca Guzmán-Saldaña, María de Lourdes Márquez-Corona, América Patricia Pontigo-Loyola, Sonia Márquez-Rodríguez, Mariana Mora-Acosta, Gladys Remigia Acuña-González, Antonio Hernández-Morales, Carlo Eduardo Medina-Solís

“…The prevalence of tobacco consumption among middle-school adolescents correlated with the portion of the employed population that earned up to two minimum wages (r = 0.3960), the percentage in poverty by income 2008 (r = 0.4754) and 2010 (r = 0.4531), and the percentage in extreme poverty by income 2008 (r = 0.4612) and 2010 (r = 0.4291). …”
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Social ecosystem health: confronting the complexity and emergence of infectious diseases Saúde no ecossistema social: enfrentando a complexidade e a emergência de doenças infeccios... by Cristina de Albuquerque Possas

“…The emergence and re-emergence of infectious diseases and their rapid dissemination worldwide are challenging national health systems, particularly in developing countries affected by extreme poverty and environmental degradation. The expectations that new vaccines and drugs and global surveillance would help reverse these trends have been frustrated thus far by the complexity of the epidemiological transition, despite promising prospects for the near future in biomolecular research and genetic engineering. …”
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Social determinants of health pave the path to maternal deaths in rural Sri Lanka: reflections from social autopsies by Lasandha Irangani, Indika Ruwan Prasanna, Sajaan Praveena Gunarathne, Sandaru Hasaranga Shanthapriya, Nuwan Darshana Wickramasinghe, Suneth Buddhika Agampodi, Thilini Chanchala Agampodi

“…The patterns of social causes based on the type of maternal deaths were analyzed using mixed methods. Extreme poverty, low educational level, gender inequity, and elementary or below-level occupations of the husband were common in most deceased families. …”
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Transcriptomics-based analysis using RNA-Seq of the coconut (Cocos nucifera) leaf in response to yellow decline phytoplasma infection by Nejat, Naghmeh, Cahill, David M., Vadamalai, Ganesan, Ziemann, Mark, Rookes, James, Naderali, Neda

“…Invasive phytoplasmas wreak havoc on coconut palms worldwide, leading to high loss of income, food insecurity and extreme poverty of farmers in producing countries. Phytoplasmas as strictly biotrophic insect-transmitted bacterial pathogens instigate distinct changes in developmental processes and defence responses of the infected plants and manipulate plants to their own advantage; however, little is known about the cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying host–phytoplasma interactions. …”
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Beyond climate change: examining the role of environmental justice, agricultural mechanization, and social expenditures in alleviating rural poverty by Anser, Muhammad Khalid, Yousaf, Sheikh Usman, Usman, Bushra, Azam, Kamran, Abdullah Bandar, Nur Fatihah, Jambari, Hanifah, Sriyanto, Sriyanto, Zaman, Khalid

“…Extreme weather events and extreme poverty are two sides of the same coin, with far-reaching consequences for emerging nations like Pakistan. …”
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A secular trend in age at menarche in Yunnan Province, China: a multiethnic population study of 1,275,000 women by Wen Liu, Xuejing Yan, Chengyu Li, Qi Shu, Meng Chen, Le Cai, Dingyun You

“…The peak reduction among middling poverty and extreme poverty occurred in the early 2000s (0.4 and 0.32 years). …”
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Advances in Protozoan Epigenetic Targets and Their Inhibitors for the Development of New Potential Drugs by Carlos Gaona-López, Lenci K. Vazquez-Jimenez, Alonzo Gonzalez-Gonzalez, Timoteo Delgado-Maldonado, Eyrá Ortiz-Pérez, Benjamín Nogueda-Torres, Adriana Moreno-Rodríguez, Karina Vázquez, Emma Saavedra, Gildardo Rivera

“…Factors such as climate change, extreme poverty, migration, and a lack of life opportunities lead to the propagation of diseases classified as tropical or non-endemic. …”
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Factors affecting the preferred use of modern contraceptives in District Dang Nepal by Suprich Sapkota, Munawar Hussain Soomro, Prayas Gautam, Prakash Pant

“…<p><strong>Background: </strong>Improving reproductive health is central to achieving sustainable development goals on improving maternal health, reducing child mortality and eradicating extreme poverty. This requires access of the women to safe and effective methods of fertility control.…”
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Chicken eggs, childhood stunting and environmental hygiene: an ethnographic study from the Campylobacter genomics and environmental enteric dysfunction (CAGED) project in Ethiopia by Kevin Louis Bardosh, Jeylan Wolyie Hussein, Elias Ahmed Sadik, Jemal Yousuf Hassen, Mengistu Ketema, Abdulmuen Mohammed Ibrahim, Sarah Lindley McKune, Arie Hendrik Havelaar

“…Local narratives of extreme poverty, social dietary norms, parental fatalism, and lack of “dietary consciousness” (as it was called) were invoked to explain this. …”
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Haiti&#39;s progress in achieving its 10-year plan to eliminate cholera: hidden sickness cannot be cured by Koski-Karell V, Farmer PE, Isaac B, Campa EM, Viaud L, Namphy PC, Ternier R, Ivers LC

“…Bocozel is a rice-producing region where most people live in extreme poverty. The irrigation network is decrepit, the land is prone to environmental shocks, fertilizer is not affordable, and the government&#39;s capacity to assist farmers is undermined by resource constraints. …”
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Impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on rural poverty and policy responses in China by Ren-fu LUO, Cheng-fang LIU, Jing-jing GAO, Tian-yi WANG, Hua-yong ZHI, Peng-fei SHI, Ji-kun HUANG

“…Given the sudden outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, a timely study on the impacts of and policy response to the pandemic on rural poverty in China is critically important because China has aimed to completely eradicate extreme poverty by the end of 2020. This paper uses data from the latest round of a nationally representative household panel survey to examine the impacts of the pandemic on rural poverty in China. …”
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