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. ...

Child soldiers

Jobs instead of arms

The international community must end profiteering with child soldiers

Non-governmental organisations

Rising to a global health menace

NGO activism must drive whole-of-society response to non-communicable diseases

Letters to the editor

Issues that have contributed to African poverty

Readers respond to our D+C/E+Z print edition 2017/11-12

International law

Don’t let them off the hook

Quitting the ICC does not protect a country’s violent leadership from prosecution

Industrial policy

Pragmatism instead of ideology

State industrial policy should appropriately govern market processes

Humanitarian aid

Triple mission

medico international insists on people’s right to having their basic needs fulfilled

Vocational training

Breaking down barriers

On Rwanda’s labour market, young people with disabilities deserve better inclusion

Humanitarian aid

Prevention is better

In Bangladesh, new preventive approaches are being taken in humanitarian aid

Our view

Dangerous generosity

Philanthropy must be geared to capable and democratically legitimate statehood