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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.

Development agencies
Julia Manske

Learning from other countries

International experience of digitalising the way development agencies work

Development policy
Julia Manske

Opportunities and risks

Development policymakers need to deal with digital transformation and use new technologies themselves

Inequality
Dominik Hartmann

Building bridges

Innovative interdisciplinary approaches needed to tackle digital divide and growing inequality

Research
Dominik Hartmann

New interdisciplinary approaches

Scientists look for alternative pathways

German policy
Bernd Bornhorst

Credibility test

Germany’s Federal Government needs time frame for fulfilling pledge to spend 0.7 % of GNI on aid

European Op-Ed views

Realpolitik without enthusiasm

European newspaper comments on EU-Turkey agreement on refugee issues

Peacebuilding
Dagmar Wolf
Dagmar Wolf

Lasting solutions

Germany’s Civil Peace Service supports non-violent conflict resolutions in order to build long-term peace

Relevant reading
Stefan Rother

Freedom and development

A lack of consensus concerning the definition of a refugee has serious consequences for millions of people

Migration
Ridwanul Hoque

Asian challenge

Bangladesh and other Asian countries must act to alleviate the plight of Rohingya refugees

Biodiversity
Katja Dombrowski
Katja Dombrowski

Rising to global threat

Pesticide use and climate change drive bees and butterflies toward extinction

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.

Success in Senegal and South Africa
Supporting local vaccine production in Africa
Don’t stop, do better
Risking collapse
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Sustainability

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

Success in Senegal and South Africa
Supporting local vaccine production in Africa
Don’t stop, do better
Risking collapse
Why you might find our newsletter useful