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Sustainability
Agriculture
Thomas Kruchem

Fire farming

Small farmers in southern Africa cannot make a living from their inefficient slash-and-burn agriculture

Environment
Christoph Suess

Urgent need for action

IPCC says that climate change can be mitigated, and warns that action must be taken fast

Expert opinion

Lasting relevance

How experts assess the results of the High-Level-Meeting (HLM) of the Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation (GPEDC) in Mexico City

Editorial
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

All politics is local

Devolution of government powers to sub-national levels deepens democracy and serves long term stability

Refugees
Mona Naggar
Mona Naggar

Education crisis

There are not enough schools for Syrian refugee children in Lebanon

Migration
Christina Stobwasser

Torn life

What China's migrants aspire to and how they cope with daily challenges

Employment

Transcultural training

German managers learn about informal vocational training and slum life in Mumbai

Migration
Ellen Thalman

Unknown people

Why global standards for international migration would make sense

Letters

Public responses

D+C/E+Z Feedback from our readers

In brief
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Africa’s women farmers are disadvantaged

Why Africa’s women farmers produce less than their male counterparts

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Poverty Reduction

The first UN Sustainable Development Goal is to end poverty in all its forms everywhere.

Youth unemployment remains one of India’s great challenges
What Zanzibar's spices have to do with gender equality
Fundamental human right under attack
Why Kenya’s youth is taking to the streets
Don’t leave sex education to internet pornography

Gender Equality

In order to achieve gender equality, it is necessary to empower women and girls.

The literary power of Black women writers
What Zanzibar's spices have to do with gender equality
The fate of a Rwandan man with disability
Fundamental human right under attack
Don’t leave sex education to internet pornography

Governance

Achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals will require good governance – from the local to the global level.

How a pedagogy of sustainability can help Africa’s future
Youth unemployment remains one of India’s great challenges
Waithood – endless adolescence
“Dialogue of life”
Why Kenya’s youth is taking to the streets

Sustainability

The UN Sustainable Development Goals aim to transform economies in an environmentally sound manner, leaving no one behind.

How a pedagogy of sustainability can help Africa’s future
Youth unemployment remains one of India’s great challenges
Waithood – endless adolescence
“Dialogue of life”
Why Kenya’s youth is taking to the streets