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Development and cooperation

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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. ...

Small businesses
Moutaz Ali

Earning money with scorpion poison

Award encourages private entrepreneurship and small businesses start ups in Libya

Africa
Thomas Silberhorn

No development without tax revenue

A new partnership with Africa to improve domestic resource mobilisation

Letter to the editor
Winfried Pinger

Marshall Plan with Africa must succeed

African SMEs need better financial services and more competent vocational training, and Germany can help

Land policy
Elijah Grega

How to ease tensions in Sierra Leone

In Sierra Leone, too many farmers have lost their fields as a consequence of large-scale international investments

Gender
Ibrahim Orèd'Ola Falola

Empowering women for economic growth

Women in Togo fight for equal economic opportunities

Colonial legacy
Henning Melber

No land in sight

Despite independence since 1990, land ownership remains unfairly distributed in Namibia

Rural development
Ellen Thalman

Tangible goals

Berlin Charter provides G20 with advice concerning rural development

Climate-change adaptation
Daniel Nordmann
Till Below

Making flood-risk maps publically available

Climate-sensitive flood protection in the Western Balkans set to reduce risks to people, business and environment

Climate-change adaptation
Daniel Nordmann
Till Below

Documentation by drones

New form of water management in Thailand is relying on the participation of everyone involved

Flood prevention
Daniel Nordmann
Till Below

After us, the deluge?

Climate change adaptation is particularly important in regard to water management

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.

Kenyan military ordered to end HIV discrimination in recruitment
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

Governance

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

Tuberculosis in Mozambique
When new medications lose their efficacy immediately
Kenyan military ordered to end HIV discrimination in recruitment
In Pakistan, authoritarian attitudes are a colonial legacy
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Sustainability

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

Tuberculosis in Mozambique
When new medications lose their efficacy immediately
Kenyan military ordered to end HIV discrimination in recruitment
In Pakistan, authoritarian attitudes are a colonial legacy
Why we believe in our Digital Monthly