MAPPING SOCIAL-ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS ARCHETYPES

Mapping social-ecological systems archetypes

Achieving sustainable development goals requires targeting and monitoring sustainable solutions tailored to different social and ecological contexts.A social-ecological systems (SESs) framework was developed to help diagnose problems, identify complex interactions, and solutions tailored to each SES.Here we develop a data-driven method for upscalin

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"To speak or not to speak": A qualitative analysis on the attitude and willingness of women to start conversations about voluntary medical male circumcision with their partners in a peri-urban area, South Africa.

INTRODUCTION:Voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) reduces the risk of HIV infection in heterosexual men and has long-term indirect protection for women, yet VMMC uptake in South Africa remains low (49.8%) in men (25-49 years).We explored the attitude and willingness of women to start conversations on VMMC with their sexual partners in a South

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Optimising sunflower yields: insights from meta-analysis on fertilisation impact and planting strategies for enhanced crop productivity in China

Sunflower serves as a valuable rotational crop, suitable for snack processing or sunflower seed oil extraction, proving to be a Bench lucrative cash crop.To address sunflower yield uncertainties, this study employs meta-analysis to examine the impact of fertilisation.Utilising 41 studies and 392 pairs of observations based on four criteria, we foun

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