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Sustainability
Agriculture
Dirk Niebel

Better prepared

In view of climate change, more resilience will reduce hunger in developing countries

Globalisation sceptics
Martina Sabra

Many open questions

World Social Forum in Tunis boosts leftist, secular and feminist forces in the Arab world

Debt relief
Sandra Abild

Historical model

Debt report by German NGOs reconsiders West German past and assesses current risks in developing world

Eco-friendly farms

Organic potential in Europe’s poorest country

In Moldova, organic farming has many advantages. It is labour intensive, environmentally friendly and yields high-value products.

International civil society
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Five principles

Civil-society organisations from around the world demand UN development agenda with more bite

Energy
Sandra Abild

Low-cost climate protection

Asian Development Bank suggests introducing carbon taxes in Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, and says climate protection need not thwart growth.

Military
Sheila Mysorekar
Sheila Mysorekar

Weapons in areas of conflict

Two years after the revolutions – western arms for the countries of the Arab Spring

Traffic
Hans-Heinrich Bass
Thanh Trung Nguyen

Imminent gridlock

Vietnam needs to tackle urban-traffic congestion

Land grabbing
Sandra Abild

Damaging investments

Oxfam warns of increasing land grabbing and wants the World Bank to halt investments

Editorial
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Appropriate business environment

The beautyful but challenging vision of integrated rural development

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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.

Preventing Boko Haram from recruiting young people
Evicting indigenous people
How a pedagogy of sustainability can help Africa’s future
Youth unemployment remains one of India’s great challenges
Waithood – endless adolescence

Sustainability

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

Preventing Boko Haram from recruiting young people
Evicting indigenous people
How a pedagogy of sustainability can help Africa’s future
Youth unemployment remains one of India’s great challenges
Waithood – endless adolescence