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Development and cooperation

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Entwicklung und Zusammenarbeit

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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.

Agriculture
Markus Fibiger
Anna K. Weber
Simone Schnabel

Good intentions aren’t enough

Contract farming in Namibia is not yet as successful as planned

Roundtable
Simon Maxwell
Dirk Messner

“Focus on global development”

Global governance is the most important future development issue

Clean Development Mechanism
Nicola Ursina Blum
Christina Gradl
Anna Santa Cruz

Every little bit helps

Clean Development Mechanism: every little bit helps

Comment
Mark Gorman

Recognise urgent needs

UN tackles non-communicable diseases, but no fresh money is made available

50 years of Germany's Development Ministry
Dirk Niebel

Open minds – better opportunities

German minister on future development policy

Comment
Hajo Lanz

Wise guys not wanted

The West can support the transition to democracy in Egypt and Tunisia, but must not impose its beliefs

Environmental sustainability
Merle Becker

Rural potential

How climate protection depends on smarter agriculture

Aid history
Hans-Peter Repnik

“Political and democratic values”

Hans-Peter Repnik discusses his time in office as parliamentary state secretary in the development ministry

Aid history
Erhard Eppler

“The golden era could have begun right then”

Erhard Eppler discusses his time in office as German development minister

50 years BMZ

The African perspective

African expert assesses 50 years of German development policy

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.

The desert alliance
How to challenge a corrupt system
Gukurahundi: Zimbabwe’s lingering genocide wounds
Lessons of failure
The exception of dengue

Sustainability

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

The desert alliance
How to challenge a corrupt system
Gukurahundi: Zimbabwe’s lingering genocide wounds
Lessons of failure
The exception of dengue