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Benson Kunchezera

bkunchezera84@gmail.com

is a Malawian freelance journalist based in Blantyre.

All articles of Benson Kunchezera

Agriculture
Benson Kunchezera

Cultivating easier crops

Due to multiple shocks like skyrocketing of prices of seeds, pesticides and fertilisers, many Malawian smallholder farmers are giving up tobacco growing.

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Poverty Reduction

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

Cultivating easier crops
Development is thwarted where corruption corrodes the common good
Tourism boom in Baltistan
Youth unemployment remains one of India’s great challenges
What Zanzibar's spices have to do with gender equality

Gender Equality

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

Reimagining African folktales
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

Governance

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

Development is thwarted where corruption corrodes the common good
Better protection for schools in northern Nigeria
Preventing Boko Haram from recruiting young people
Evicting indigenous people
How a pedagogy of sustainability can help Africa’s future

Sustainability

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

Development is thwarted where corruption corrodes the common good
Better protection for schools in northern Nigeria
Preventing Boko Haram from recruiting young people
Evicting indigenous people
How a pedagogy of sustainability can help Africa’s future