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. ...

Special needs

Dysfunctional support system

India's state-run system for providing educational opportunities to persons with disabilities is deeply flawed

Global warming

Be prepared

Climate change is challenging humanitarian aid in new ways

Strategies

Beyond aid – new ways forward?

Beyond aid: The need to redesign development cooperation

Relevant reading

An alternative model of governance

The post-2015 agenda should be based on an alternative model of global governance

Food security

Eradicate hunger in ten years

IFPRI states that evidence-based policies are needed to end hunger and malnutrition

Poverty

Redefining poverty

Valentin Lang and Hildegard Lingnau: The post-2015 agenda needs to redefine poverty and measure it in new ways

Inequality

Self-serving middle classes

Hopes that rising incomes automatically lead to more activism for good governance are probably exaggerated

Editorial

Radical and far-reaching

The huge challenges of drafting the post-2015 agenda

Inclusion

One billion people overlooked

Since disability affects more than 1 billion people, the issue belongs on the post-2015 agenda

Multilateral affairs

Value for money

Post 2015, the developing countries must improve governance, and the rich world must do more to provide global public goods

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.