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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.

Nuclear energy
Peter Hauff

Future on shaky ground

Risks of nuclear plants in Iran, Pakistan, Philippines

Evaluation
Matthias Großmann
Maya Schnell

Personal perceptions make a difference

Why subjective indicators for development are meaningful

Global food security
Marita Wiggerthale

“High prices mean hunger”

Oxfam experts warns: hunger crises are imminent

Trade policy
Kathrin Berensmann
Kathrin Berensmann
Clara Brandi

After the financial crisis

New trade barriers hurt least developed countries

Donor harmonisation
Joseph Miller

Room for improvement

The ECDPM’s critcial assessment of budget support in Southern African countries

Financial markets
Peter Hauff

Withdrawal from emerging markets

Investors shun emerging markets

Plant breeding
Yoya Doctor

Self-confident rural communities

SEARICE helps Asian smallholders breed crop varieties

Education
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Informed use of the media

Informed use of media: the role of journalism

Plant breeding
Philippe Dumont
Stéphane Pouzadoux

The role of hybrid rice

The role of Bayer CropScience’s hybrid rice

Comment
Ridwanul Hoque

No way to treat a legend

The way Bangladesh’s government treats Grameen Bank founder Yunus is shameful

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