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Solar energy even on cloudy days.

Good News

Solar energy despite clouds, and days off during menstruation

The two pieces of good news this month are about harnessing solar energy even on cloudy days and additional two paid days off for female employees experiencing menstrual pain.

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Gerd Müller, Germany’s Development Minister, visiting the Institut Polytechnique Rural de Formation et de Recherche Appliqueé in Katibougou, Mali.

Agriculture

Promoting structural change

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by Gerd Müller
Tanzanian plant breeding station.

Editorial

More knowledge, more innovation

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by Sabine Balk
Sabine Balk
African farmers water fields with watering cans in December 2011.

Infrastructure

A brief history of irrigation

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by Matthias von Bechtolsheim
by Eva Terberger
Harvesting coffee in Kenya.

Review essay

Nuanced assessment

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by Ingo Melchers
by Heike Hoeffler
by Ellen Funch

Rule of law

Assess new legislation early on

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by Kai Hauerstein
Local self-administration

Print edition

Contents May issue

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Relevance for daily work (“not important at all” to “very important”), estimated future relevance (“very likely to decrease” to “very likely to increase”) and quality of current cooperation (“very bad” to “very good”).

Development research

Untapped potential

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by Linda Kleemann
by Maximilian Neumann
A woman cooking at home in Cambodia’s Stung Treng District.

Health

Cooking stoves kill

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by Sheila Mysorekar
Sheila Mysorekar
Heavy rain in Lesotho: changing weather patterns will hurt agriculture.

Environment

Urgent need for action

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by Christoph Suess
Ban Ki-moon, UN secretary general, and Enrique Pena Nieto, Mexico’s president, during the opening ceremony of the High-Level Meeting.

Expert opinion

Lasting relevance

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