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This content aligns with Goal 3: Good Health and Wellbeing and Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities by providing an overview of the paralympics as an encouraging success story that has fundamentally changed one of the many aspects of disabled people’s lives.

This chapter aligns with SDG Goal 5: Gender equality and Goal 10: Reduced inequalities by highlighting the frequency with which women are misdiagnosed and considering how sex and gender can better be implemented in healthcare research.

Nutrition research benefits from broad and intensive participation by stakeholders. The articles in this special issue demonstrate that understanding participation is complex because it incorporates the dimensions of stakeholders, activity, time, and intensity. Early involvement in research can help prioritize the problems to be addressed, refine the specific research question, and determine acceptable community-based approaches to be used in an intervention. The included papers provide insight into how to define and measure participation, how to explore approaches to encourage participation of direct and indirect beneficiaries, and how participation at different time points and by different stakeholders can validate and support interventions and enhance effectiveness.

This study showed that agricultural intensification reduced fungal Shannon diversity and weakened soil multifunctionality, where fungal diversity was the major driver of soil multifunctionality. The Authors suggested that sustaining microbial diversity, especially fungal diversity can reduce the effect of agricultural intensification on soil multifunctionality.