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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 famers 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.

In brief

News of the week

Relevant news – 14 February to 20 February

Development assistance
Sipho Moyo

EU scores high

2015 will shape the future of the world’s development

Trade and urbanisation
Katja Dombrowski
Katja Dombrowski

Growing transport threatens climate

Carbon emissions from international freight will quadruple by 2050, warns OECD Transport Outlook 2015

European policy
Theresa Krinninger

Unfinished business

The EU needs to follow up on the good intentions expressed at the EU-Africa Summit in 2014

European Union
Svea Koch
Mark Furness

Challenged by complexity

Why the EU is an ODA giant but cannot translate financial leverage into real political influence

In brief

News of the week

Relevant news – 6 February to 13 February

Relevant reading
Niels Keijzer
Christine Hackenesch

Moving targets

Why the EU should reform the way it runs development affairs

Development finance
Sabine Balk
Sabine Balk

Hopes and illusions

How the new BRICS bank could change international development finance

Comment
Dinesh C. Sharma

Life-blood of democracy

India’s government should improve governance instead of hounding civil society

Fight against hunger
Katja Dombrowski
Katja Dombrowski

NGO demands stronger G7 commitment

Rich countries have to shift focus in the fight against global hunger – and pledge more funding

Poverty Reduction

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

Why some Indian famers 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