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Poverty Reduction

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

Ravi Khetarpal
Roli Mahajan

The Global NARS Consortium’s revolutionary approach to food security

To date, agricultural research has been mostly geared to issues relevant to high-income nations. Developing countries’ national agricultural research systems (NARS) deserve much more influence – and a new consortium is being established to serve that purpose. ...

Social protection
Henning Melber

The South African social contract

Social protection is enshrined in South Africa's constitution, but poverty pervails nonetheless

PEGNet
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Challenging complexity

Reducing poverty and achieving sustainability are daunting goals, as PEGNet conference finds

News

In brief

Cyclone hits Indian coast, Lampedusa disaster, IPCC report on climate change, post-2015 debate and more

Public Health
Speciosa Wandira-Kazibwe

“Mental health issues are totally underrated in Africa”

UN special envoy assesses health-care challenges in Africa

Post-2015 debate
Ulrich Post
Klaus Körting

Set the right example

VENRO wants Germany to become a model environmental sustainability and social justice.

Global challenges
Moira Feil
Mario Stumm
Jürgen Zattler

Pay attention to co-benefits

Co-benefits – development efforts can reduce poverty and secure global public goods at the same time

Post-2015 agenda
Eva-Maria Verfürth

“New spirit”

Members of UN High-Level Panel on Post-2015 Agenda involve business leaders in debate

Deprivation
Sandra Abild

Urban poverty

IIED expert says food insecurity is increasingly becoming urban phenomenon

Food security
Susan Walker

Double burden of malnutrition

Why malnutrition hampers child development – and national development as well

International cooperation
Mareike Forchheim

Current MDG trends

Data from World Bank and UNDP show that, in spite of progress, the MDGs will not be met in 2015

Poverty Reduction

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

The Global NARS Consortium’s revolutionary approach to food security
Lessons to be learnt from Nepal’s recent excessive rains
A cookbook reveals the connection of diet and tradition
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Sex for fish: the exploitation of female fish traders in Malawi

Gender Equality

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

A cookbook reveals the connection of diet and tradition
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A story is always part of the currents of its time
Sex for fish: the exploitation of female fish traders in Malawi
Breaking gender stereotypes: female bus driver in Rwanda

Governance

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

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History did not end
Lessons to be learnt from Nepal’s recent excessive rains
How opium became a pillar of the British Empire
The forgotten Arab slave trade

Sustainability

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

Why we believe in our Digital Monthly
History did not end
Lessons to be learnt from Nepal’s recent excessive rains
How opium became a pillar of the British Empire
The forgotten Arab slave trade