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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. ...

Food security
Sabine Balk
Sabine Balk

Not enough for a healthy life

Malnutrition affects 2.5 billion people and can impair physical and mental development

Interview
Vladimir Antwi-Danso

“It’s a game”

Ghanaian scholar says aid has promoted growth in his country, but not institution building

Official development assistance
Kiros Abeselom

Systemic flaws

Development aid in the face of vested interests

Commissioner for development
Neven Mimica

“We assess challenges together”

The EU spends about $ 71 billion of the western $ 134 billion official development assistance (ODA)

European Year for Development
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

A special year

The European Year for Development is much more than a PR effort

Value chains
Theresa Krinninger

Due diligence

Without binding laws, the value chain of mobile phones will not become more equitable

Natural disaster
Raphael Mweninguwe

Floods as part of life

Severe floods in Malawi are threatening agricultural crops

Development assistance
Sipho Moyo

EU scores high

2015 will shape the future of the world’s development

Ebola epidemic
Margret Gieraths-Nimene
Sabine Balk
Sabine Balk

New challenges

Margret Gieraths-Nimene heads a clinic for less fortunate in Monrovia and set up two Ebola isolation units last summer

European Union
Svea Koch
Mark Furness

Challenged by complexity

Why the EU is an ODA giant but cannot translate financial leverage into real political influence

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.

Why we believe in our Digital Monthly
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

Sustainability

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

Why we believe in our Digital Monthly
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