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Development and cooperation

D + C

Entwicklung und Zusammenarbeit

E + Z

Sustainability

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

Javier A. Cisterna Figueroa

Latin America is burning

Year after year, valuable ecosystems are destroyed by wildfires. This drives climate change and decimates biodiversity. Slash-and-burn agriculture is partly to blame.

Ecology
Melaku Worede

“Smallholders matter most”

The world community depends on African smallholders and their landraces

Human rights
Boro Baski
Boro Baski

Legally entitled to a full stomach

Indian government wants to enforce right to food with new legislation

Official development assistance
Henning Andresen

Less is more

Why less development aid might sometimes deliver more

Interview
Joachim von Braun

“Promising developments”

Recent agricultural developments are promising

Food security
Benjamin Luig
Armin Paasch

Risks compounded

Food security is hampered by financial speculation and liberalisation of commodity markets

Facilitating engagement
Gabriela Büssemaker

“A solid shared roof”

”A solid roof“

Agriculture
Hans-Heinrich Bass

Green renaissance, not revolution

Africa needs green renaissance, not green revolution

Urban development
Caroline Triml

Wasteful buildings

Energy efficient urbanisation

Reform
Dagmar Wolf
Dagmar Wolf

Slow but sustainable

Slow but steady reform of Mali’s cotton sector

Comment
Karim Okanla

In troubled waters

AU Chairman Boni Yayi faces daunting challenges

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
The hard lot of old people

Gender Equality

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

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?
How GIZ gets young people moving

Governance

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

Drawing the right conclusions from data
The desert alliance
How to challenge a corrupt system
Gukurahundi: Zimbabwe’s lingering genocide wounds
Lessons of failure

Sustainability

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

Drawing the right conclusions from data
The desert alliance
How to challenge a corrupt system
Gukurahundi: Zimbabwe’s lingering genocide wounds
Lessons of failure