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9/2024

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Harmful practices
Susanne Neubert
Susanne Neubert

Why pesticides are more a curse than a blessing

Herbicides, fungicides and insecticides cause serious environmental harm and put human health at risk – but they are not a foolproof way to boost production.

Crop management
Susanne Neubert
Susanne Neubert

The problems with Glyphosate

Glyphosate/Roundup is a prominent recent example of a pesticide causing controversy

Sustainable agriculture
Cornelie Jäger

Non-competitive livestock production and new nutritional behaviour

In non-competitive livestock farming, animals are kept in a way that ensures there is no competition with food crop production. This has considerable advantages – but also significant implications for human nutritional behaviour.

Poverty Reduction

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

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Pakistan’s rural infrastructure is inadequate
The Global NARS Consortium’s revolutionary approach to food security
Lessons to be learnt from Nepal’s recent excessive rains

Gender Equality

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

Improving female entrepreneurs’ self-esteem
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Kenyan military ordered to end HIV discrimination in recruitment
A cookbook reveals the connection of diet and tradition
A story is always part of the currents of its time

Governance

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

Voodoo allows a holistic view of the cosmos
Brazil’s colonial legacies and current challenges
Indigenous banks collapsing in Zambia: A closer look at Investrust
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Financing development and climate goals

Sustainability

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

Voodoo allows a holistic view of the cosmos
Brazil’s colonial legacies and current challenges
Indigenous banks collapsing in Zambia: A closer look at Investrust
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Financing development and climate goals