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. ...

Research

Give youth a chance

PEGNet annual conference in Zambia discusses strategies to boost employment

Civil-society organisation

Depending on livestock

The mission of Vétérinaires Sans Frontières Germany

Letters

Public responses

D+C/E+Z Feedback from our readers

Cooperatives

Motors of prosperity

Cooperatives are underrated drivers of progress

Human Development Report 2014

Progress for everybody

Human Development Report considers ways to reduce poor people’s vulnerabilities

Leather

“Stricter than in Germany”

Uwe Hutzler: Setting sustainability standards in the tanning industry in Asia and the USA

United Nations

Proposed goals for global sustainability

UN working group comes up with list of 17 Goals and more than 120 indicators

Editorial

The real challenge

Development is neither about overcoming capitalism nor setting free market forces

Civil war

Invisible victims

Exiled Syrians help fellow citizens in Jordan in private rehabilitation centres

Inclusion

Something is happening

Togo sees progress in the struggle for the rights of people with disabilities

Governance

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

Sustainability

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