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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.

Beverage industry
Alan C. Robles
Alan C. Robles

A poor nation’s beer conquers the world

How a pils from Manila became a global brand

Comment
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Great nations

What makes a nation great

Burundi needs institutions, not a strongman

Cheaponomics
Sabine Balk
Sabine Balk

Why cheap is expensive

Low consumer-good prices are misleading because they hide the true social and environmental costs

Renewable energy
Boris Schinke
Conrad Schetter

The social dimension of “desert power”

Research project on the social impacts of a concentrated solar power station in Morocco

Online propaganda
Ute Schaeffer

Countering the media strategy of ISIS

Media must fight ISIS’ online propaganda

Refugees
Jana Jagalski

Last exit

How the EU is contributing to causes of flight

Scholarships
Jana Jagalski

Discovering new perspectives

Artists-in-residence programmes facilitate international exchange

Comment
Clara Osei-Boateng
Kristina Rehbein

Back in the credit trap

Supposed model country Ghana is one again struggling with foreign debt

Ensemble Modern

Composers and performers

Innovative German-Indonesian project for contemporary music

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