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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.

United Nations
Peter Hauff

Green power for all?

How to provide sustainable energy to everyone

Technological progress
Jan Peter Schemmel
Saskia Nagel

Debating consequences

Technologial innovations’ risks and benefits

Media
Joseph Miller

Migration myths

Media contort migration from Africa

Social media
Eva-Maria Verfürth

Help is coming via twitter

Social media have become indispensable for aid agencies

Comment
Dirk Niebel

Upheaval in North Africa

Germany’s Development Minister Dirk Niebel on how he is supporting the Arab Spring

Sustainable forestry
Thomas Jaeschke
Heike Friedhoff

Rainforest and climate protection

How to protect the Amazonian rainforest

Comment
Miriam Schröder

An important sign

China is moving on climate change – slowly

Comment
Raphael Mweninguwe

Arguing with the government

Donors argue with Malawi’s President Mutharika over governance issues

Editorial
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Smallholder productivity

The daunting challenge of feeding 9 billion people

Agriculture
Christopher Evards

Catching up on fish

Aquaculture’s growth potential in Africa is huge

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