Sustainability

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

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Land grabbing

Damaging investments

Oxfam warns of increasing land grabbing and wants the World Bank to halt investments

Editorial

Appropriate business environment

The beautyful but challenging vision of integrated rural development

Value chains
Bangladesh

Enduring misery

Bangladesh does not guarantee food security as demanded by its constitution

Food industry

Loss and waste

Lots of food is wasted worldwide, but aid-agency efforts to improve matters hardly help the poor

World trade order

Something rotten in the food system

The current world trade order is skewed against the hungry and needy

Food

Need in a land of plenty

In spite of the DRC's huge agricultural potential, many people lack vital nutrients

Hunger

No food, no health

Malnutrition is a major problem among children in Tanzania. A physician explains why this hampers national development.

Health care

“Silent Murder”

Medicines are too expensive for poor people in developing countries, but local production could make a difference

Nowadays

Escaping poverty

Nowadays: a grassroots entrepreneur escapes poverty

Governance

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

Sustainability

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