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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.

Summer special
Lebogang Mokoena
Linda Engel

"You need to find your feet in a new community"

Lebogang Mokoena, a 25-year-old journalist from South Africa, has been volunteering in Berlin in a nursery school based on Waldorf/Steiner education

Coaching
Cédric Kotitschke
Alexandre Martinez

Supporting the drive for improvement

Technical cooperation needs to be more directly targeted to support processes of change

Katja Dombrowski
Katja Dombrowski

G20 summit did too much damage

World leaders should keep talking, but meet at the UN

Human and animal health
Cornelia Heine

The animals die first

Water and sanitation are crucial for human and animal health

Employment
Afshan Subohi

Pakistan needs jobs

Reasons to doubt the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor will massively boost employment in Pakistan

Agenda 2030
Martin Noltze
Sven Harten

New need for knowledge

Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) are the key to the success of global sustainability policies

Surrogate motherhood
Anika König

Anonymity is problematic

Surrogate mothers have no rights if surrogacy is illegal

Global Governance
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Setting the wrong example

Trump’s statement on Paris Agreement means renouncing claim to global leadership

International financial institutions
Korinna Horta

Concern for the most vulnerable

New World Bank Framework puts poor people at risk of displacement and marginalisation, ignoring lessons of the past

Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

In global affairs, zero-sum thinking is not enough

In Hamburg, Trump will personally experience just how complex and multilayered global affairs are

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
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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.

Supporting local vaccine production in Africa
Don’t stop, do better
Risking collapse
Why you might find our newsletter useful
Drawing the right conclusions from data

Sustainability

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

Supporting local vaccine production in Africa
Don’t stop, do better
Risking collapse
Why you might find our newsletter useful
Drawing the right conclusions from data