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Sustainability

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

Boro Baski
Boro Baski

Why some Indian famers are backing away from rice cultivation

In West Bengal, the green revolution made high-yielding rice cultivation attractive. Four decades later, the associated environmental problems have increased – and the climate crisis is further compounding them.

Neglected tropical diseases
Martin Kollmann
Katja Dombrowski
Katja Dombrowski

“Major obstacle for development”

Ending neglected tropical diseases is crucial to achieve 2030 Agenda

Humanitarian aid
Sabine Balk
Sabine Balk

Wishes and visions

Providing adequate schooling and strengthening the global health systems are main tasks of international cooperation

Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Why I feel ambivalent about Kagame’s AU chairmanship

The AU should insist on democratic principles the way ECOWAS does

Contraceptives
Maxwell Suuk

Planned parenthood via mobile phone

If teenage pregnancies are to be avoided, young people need sex education and access to contraceptives

Our view
Sheila Mysorekar
Sheila Mysorekar

By force or by consensus

Why military power had better be restrained by civilian governments

Nutrition
Dagmar Wolf
Dagmar Wolf

Big Food causes suffering

Author accuses the food industry of making the poor sick

Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

We must choose between the SDGs and a world of bloodshed

Faith-based populism is an abuse of religion

Bundeswehr
Tinko Weibezahl

Joint efforts lead to success

The military and civilian development actors should work together in conflict countries

G5 Sahel Joint Force
Julia Maria Egleder

Pulling together

The many military missions attempting to bring stability to West Africa are being hindered by a marked lack of coordination

Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

No, Donald Trump has not triggered an economic miracle

Growth data can be misleading, and many business journalists are not paying attention

Poverty Reduction

The first UN Sustainable Development Goal is to end poverty in all its forms everywhere.

Why some Indian famers are backing away from rice cultivation
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Lessons of failure
The problems with Glyphosate
Why pesticides are more a curse than a blessing

Gender Equality

In order to achieve gender equality, it is necessary to empower women and girls.

Breaking gender stereotypes: female bus driver in Rwanda
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The hard lot of old people
Women, climate and chocolate
Justice for victims of rape

Governance

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

Don’t stop, do better
Risking collapse
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Drawing the right conclusions from data
The desert alliance

Sustainability

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

Don’t stop, do better
Risking collapse
Why you might find our newsletter useful
Drawing the right conclusions from data
The desert alliance