![Alignment of insecticide research topics with the specific targets of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) and the number of published articles for the period 2017–2019 in tropical countries.](https://prod.sdgresources.relx.com/sites/default/files/styles/sus_content_listing_image/public/1-s2_0-s2214574520300791-gr1_lrg.jpg?itok=ZhO74BPq)
Tropical cropping systems are highly dependent on synthetic insecticides, which generates sustainability issues.
![Schematic representation of the impact of termites on SDGs.](https://prod.sdgresources.relx.com/sites/default/files/styles/sus_content_listing_image/public/1-s2_0-s2214574520300742-gr4_lrg.jpg?itok=H3qBKkoI)
Termites are amongst the main macroinvertebrate decomposers in tropical ecosystems and they exert additional impacts through the creation of biostructures (mounds, galleries, sheetings, etc.) with dif
![Developing a circular agriculture based on the production of black soldier flies (BSF) as feed and using the BSF waste stream as biofertilizer can support poverty alleviation, food security, economic integration, sustainable communities in rural areas](https://prod.sdgresources.relx.com/sites/default/files/styles/sus_content_listing_image/public/1-s2.0-s2214574520300754-gr2_lrg.jpg?itok=eCgP36FX)
Insects such as the black soldier fly (BSF) are a nutritious feed component for livestock with high protein levels. BSF can be reared on a wide range of organic residual streams.
In this paper, we revisit the entrepreneurship and poverty relationship under a eudaimonic perspective that brings together conversion factors, and future prosperity expectations.
The empirical analysis shows that unregulated water vending makes households without connection to pay higher tariffs for water. The paper among others recommends that tariffs at which vendors should sell water to customers should be set and closely monitored in order to ensure that households without connections have access to water at reasonable tariffs.
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were designed to address interactions between the economy, society, and the biosphere.
With the increasing importance of ‘emerging powers’ in the global economy, questions are raised about the role of developing countries in shaping global norms.
Across the lower- and middle-income world, investors are acquiring rights to large swathes of land for agricultural development, threatening both existing livelihoods and the environment. The full weight of future impacts remains uncertain. But research on sustainable agriculture offers avenues to mitigate, diffuse, and avoid negative environmental and social consequences.