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Displaced people may see no alternative of destroying forests to start new farms: slash- and-burn cultivation in Brazil.

Technological choices

The downsides of green growth

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by Ian Christoplos
Prepare for more droughts: elephant digging up water from a dry riverbed in Kenya.

Lessons of the past

Unconditional support

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by Ronald Mangani
Digital revolution

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Contents February issue

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Fishermen at the Danjiangkou Dam, part of China’s South-North Water Transfer Project.

Infrastructure

Controversial undertakings

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by Frank Kürschner-Pelkmann

Letters

Public responses

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Opponents of the US administration’s surveillance programme in Washington.

Civil society

G8 nations at fault

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by Ellen Thalman
Money laundering is a challenge for regulators all over the world, including Germany: fog over Frankfurt, the financial centre.

Corruption

Stealing money from the needy

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by Sheila Mysorekar
Sheila Mysorekar
Leaf cutter ants in Honduras.

Global public goods

The web of life

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by Mathieu Régnier
Slum dwellers in Mombasa: inequality is growing in many countries.

News

In brief

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