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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. ...

Economics
Rainer Thiele

Discussing "pro-poor growth"

Annual PEGNet conference will assess how growth can be made to benefit disadvantaged people

Multilateral affairs
Bernd Bornhorst

Missed opportunity

In the eyes of civil-society organisations, the UN conference on Financing for Development in Addis Ababa was a disappointment

Monetary union
Mohamed Gueye

Lessons not learned

Greece’s crisis reminds African observers of failed structural-adjustment programmes

Food
Alie Yunus Kallay

Hunger in Ebola quarantine

Ebola quarantine in Sierra Leone leaves people without food

Health care
Jutta Reinhard-Rupp

Wormy water

Merck, the German pharma corporation, is contributing to the elimination of schistosomiasis

Health care
Jutta Reinhard-Rupp

Transmission and implications of bilharzia

Transmission and impact of schistosomiasis

Fighting poverty
Jessica Hagen-Zanker

Tackling social exclusion

ODI researchers assess impact of social protection programmes in South Asia

Adapting to climate change
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

The view from below

What climate change means for livelihoods in Bangladesh

UN
Rebecca Renz

Hunger in numbers

UN argues that MDG 1 showed fighting hunger can succeed

Paramedics
Genene Regassa
Esmael Tessema
Nicoletta Buono
Cornelia Heine

From the community,  for the community

Why community-based animal-health workers are indispensable, not only in Ethiopia

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
Why you might find our newsletter useful
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
Why you might find our newsletter useful
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.

Kenyan military ordered to end HIV discrimination in recruitment
In Pakistan, authoritarian attitudes are a colonial legacy
Why we believe in our Digital Monthly
History did not end
Lessons to be learnt from Nepal’s recent excessive rains

Sustainability

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

Kenyan military ordered to end HIV discrimination in recruitment
In Pakistan, authoritarian attitudes are a colonial legacy
Why we believe in our Digital Monthly
History did not end
Lessons to be learnt from Nepal’s recent excessive rains