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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 farmers 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.

Climate-smart agriculture
Michaela Schaller

A complex undertaking

In Kenya, climate-smart agriculture can provide a solution to the challenges brought about by climate change

Fair trade
Linda Engel

A drop in prices is hurting cocoa farmers

Sustainable cocoa cultivation improves living conditions for farmers

Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Climate change and the decline of the Roman Empire

Environmental dimensions of human history are increasingly well understood

German ODA
Wolfram Klein

Lighthouse projects

Climate action and urban development are focal areas of Indo-German cooperation

German ODA
Wolfram Klein

No progress without India

Cooperating with a strategic partner

Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

German science publisher caves in to Chinese censorship

Springer Nature blocks access to controversial topics

Military engagement
Mohamed Gueye
Katja Dombrowski
Katja Dombrowski

“If the French troops leave, Mali will collapse"

The French military intervenes in many former colonies

Linguistics
Katja Dombrowski
Katja Dombrowski

European languages are dominant in Africa

Divisive and unifying: English or French as an official language

Accounting for history
Kehinde Andrews
Katja Dombrowski
Katja Dombrowski
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

“We’re looking at really big numbers”

British scholar says western prosperity was built on slavery, so reparations should be paid

Letter to the editor
Reinhard Woytek

Investment is key to decent-work agenda

Reader challenges our author’s reasoning

Poverty Reduction

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

Why some Indian farmers 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
Why you might find our newsletter useful
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
Why you might find our newsletter useful
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