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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.

Food security
Kwadwo Asenso-Okyere

Productivity boost

Africa’s agricultural productivity must rise

Humanitarian aid
Jedida Oneko

Hunger in the Horn of Africa

The worst of the east African famine is over – for now

Agriculture
Ewald Quaye Garr

“We all win”

A Ghanaian agro-buisness blazes a promising trail

Print edition

Contents February issue

D+C/E+Z: Contents page of February's print edition with links to all contributions

Aid effectiveness
Jörg Mühlbach

A Nicaraguan NGO’s experience

Nicaragua’s Centro Humboldt would benefit from Donor Harmonisation

Natural resources
Peter Hauff

Mandatory standards

When natural resources are exploited, many countries pay little heed to the environmental and social consequences

Editorial
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Risky investments

In spite of the aid affectiveness agenda, developmental programmes are still risky investments

Niger
Yahouza Sadissou

Africa’s new oil exporting nation

Niger is Africa's new oil exporting nation

Aid effectiveness
Raphael Mweninguwe

When funding is discontinued

Malawi knows what it means when donors discontinue budget support

Donor action
Andris Piebalgs

Results matter, not input

EU Commissioner Piebalgs explains how he wants to boost aid effectiveness

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