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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. ...

July/August edition

Letters to the editor

Letters to the editor: July/August edition

Multilateral politics
Liane Schalatek

Another opportunity

Ahead of the UN climate summit in Durban, the Green Climate Fund is taking shape

Gender policies
Bimbola Oyesola
Bimbola Oyesola

The odds against women

Nigerian trade unions promote gender justice, though not with much bite

Editorial
Eva-Maria Verfürth

Slow progress

After decades of campaigning, women still deserve to be protected and pomoted in working life

Relevant reading
Inga Müller

Equality pays

Relevant reading: why it pays to promote equal opportunities for both sexes

Millennium Development Goals
Aigul Azimova
Nazgul Abazbekova

Saving women’s lives

Tough labour conditions for Central Asia’s female health workers

Women’s rights
Larisa Brown

Double-edged reform

Extending maternity leave in Kenya was a double-edged reform

Class divides
Wanda Steindorf

Wealthy maids

Some domestic helpers in Brazil make good money

Workers’ rights
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

A victory for household helpers

ILO passes convention to protect household helpers

Social protection
Bernd Schubert

Consistently inconsistent

Internationally, cash transfer programmes are accepted as important means to fight poverty

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.

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
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Sustainability

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

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
Why you might find our newsletter useful