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

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. ...

India

Santal worries

The young generation of India's Adivasis struggles with tough problems other youth do not have

Economic policy

Stuck in informal employment

Prominent Indian economists emphasise indispensability of growth in new book on development policy

Poverty reduction

Lessons from failure

Disappointing basic-income-grant project in Namibia

Nowadays

Direct aid

Grassroots initiative supports Syrian refugees in Beirut

Water

Fleeing drought

Climate change: In Nepal, entire villages must relocate because water scarcity is getting worse

Debt relief

Historical model

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

International civil society

Five principles

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

Land grabbing

Damaging investments

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

Editorial

Appropriate business environment

The beautyful but challenging vision of integrated rural development

Value chains

Sustainability

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