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. ...

Emergency relief

Save human lives

In East and Central Africa, millions of people are fleeing drought, hunger, terror and civil war

World economy

Sustainability requires fair wages

Sustainable economic development is not possible without fair pay

Climate change

Predictable disasters

In Bangladesh, climate change is accelerating rural-urban migration

Skills training

Empower India’s climate refugees

Skills training would help people from India’s Delta islands to cope with the impacts of global warming

Coastal communities

Fish species are disappearing

In West Africa, coastal communities’ livelihoods are at risk because of overfishing and oil production

ODA

Cash transfers help the extreme poor

The idea of social protection is gaining momentum in development aid

Comment

Maghreb at risk

Closer economic cooperation could bring more stability to North Africa

Resilience

The rise of a concept

Resilience has become a new buzzword in development circles – the impacts are not always positive

Infrastructure

No access to clean water

Clean drinking water is hard to get in South Sudan

Corporate Atlas 2017

Controlling our food

A small number of multinational corporations control the global food industry from the field to the supermarket shelf