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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.

Rural development
Jürgen Fechter

Agricultural competence

Farmers must choose profession, rather than merely comply with tradition

Food
Claire Schaffnit-Chatterjee

“Some moderation would be wise”

Why subsistance farmers should switch to commercial agriculture

Comment
Olayinka Oyegbile

Gaddafi’s long shadows

Gaddafi’s long shadows south of the Sahara

Comment
Vladimir Antwi-Danso

Salt in an open sore

The world is turning away as Côte d’Ivoire slides into civil war

Poverty reduction
Dominik Hartmann

Meaningful help for self-help

Conditional cash transfers complement microcredit schemes in Brazil

Southern Africa
Raphael Mweninguwe

Setting an African example

Malawi’s president is proud of agricultural success

Refugees
Joseph Miller

European dilemma

Refugees: European dilemma

Financial markets

Debating the price of food

Financial markets: Debating food prices

Agriculture in China
Peter Hauff

Feeding the masses

For 20 % of the world’s population, China has only 10 % of Earth’s arable land

Transparency
Claudia Schwegmann

Standardised data agreed

IATI standards serve to make aid more transparent

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