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Sustainability

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

Susanne Neubert
Susanne Neubert

The problems with Glyphosate

Pesticides have often caused controversy because their detrimental side-effects were initially ignored and later intentionally played down. The most recent example is probably the herbicide Glyphosate/Roundup.

Rural development
Olaf Hirschmann

Making a village healthier

The German Institute for Medical Mission is supporting health care in Malawi by encouraging communities to take the initiative

Approaches
Francisco Marí

Industrial agriculture has failed

The solution to the present food price and hunger crisis is to transition food production to agroecological concepts suited to the location

Food prices
Francisco Marí

Number of starving people worldwide is again on the rise

Rocketing food prices are only partly due to shortages; food speculation and energy prices are key drivers

Financial sector
Maren van Treel
Maren van Treel

Experts debate on how to achieve green economy

Johan Rockström, the eminent environment expert, considers biodiversity crisis more dangerous than climate crisis

Fighting poverty
Svenja Schulze
Svenja Schulze

Social protection improves food security

Why social safety nets are key to fighting hunger and poverty in the global south

Global Governance
Saleemul Huq

In Sharm el-Sheikh, loss and damage must be on the agenda

A Bangladeshi perspective on this year’s UN climate summit

Rural development
Parviz Koohafkan

Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems

Why the FAO is promoting disadvantaged rural communities who live in intricate relationships with ecosystems

Fossil energy
Zohra Cosima Benamar

Moscow and Riyadh share a longing for Trump

OPEC+ cuts oil production for economic reasons – and with geopolitical implications

Women's rights
Shora Azarnoush

Protests continue in Iran – and get international support

Brutal repression is not deterring people from expressing their discontent with Tehran’s fundamentalist regime

Farming
Dasmani Laary

Expensive input

Ghanaian farmers can’t afford fertiliser anymore

Poverty Reduction

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

Lessons of failure
The problems with Glyphosate
Why pesticides are more a curse than a blessing
More financial support for college students
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Gender Equality

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

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The hard lot of old people
Women, climate and chocolate
Justice for victims of rape
How can we infer the colour of a person’s skin?

Governance

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

Gukurahundi: Zimbabwe’s lingering genocide wounds
Lessons of failure
The exception of dengue
Overshadowed by the “Big Three”
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Sustainability

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

Gukurahundi: Zimbabwe’s lingering genocide wounds
Lessons of failure
The exception of dengue
Overshadowed by the “Big Three”
Why we believe in our Digital Monthly