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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. ...

Print edition

Contents June issue

D+C/E+Z: Contents page of June’s print edition with links to all contributions

Nowadays
Okello Ciro

Refugee for a lifetime

Many long-term refugees have spent their entire life in refugee camps

Commodities
Gerrit Wiesmann

Escaping the resource curse

It is difficult, but not impossible to escape the resource curse

News

In brief

Military coup in Thailand, Open Knowledge Festival in Berlin, new momentum in climate talks, Egypt's presidential elections and a recent ILO report

Human rights
Eva-Maria Verfürth

The road to mass starvation

In South Sudan, many people are still internally displaced – the recent peace treaty is a sham

Infrastructure
Matthias von Bechtolsheim
Eva Terberger

A brief history of irrigation

Evaluation of irrigation projects

South Asia
Boro Baski
Boro Baski

Huge challenges

As the limits of the Green Revolution are becoming ever more obvious, Indian agriculture faces huge challenges

Review essay
Ingo Melchers
Heike Hoeffler
Ellen Funch

Nuanced assessment

Relevant publications on commercial agriculture

Nowadays
Mona Naggar
Mona Naggar

A new life

In a Beirut workshop, Syrian women refugees are starting a new life

Financial sector
Katharina Braun
Anna Luisa Paffhausen

A development bank for Mozambique

Mozambique hopes to stimulate its economy with the help of a new government-owned development bank

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.

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
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