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Sustainability

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

Susanne Neubert
Susanne Neubert

The problems with Glyphosate

Pesticides have often caused controversy because their detrimental side-effects were initially ignored and later intentionally played down. The most recent example is probably the herbicide Glyphosate/Roundup.

Food security
Cathrine Schweikardt

Educate farmers

Dispute over intensification of smallholders’ production

Editorial
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Interrelated challenges

Afghanistan is not Vietnam

Innovative action
Hinrich Mercker

From prototype to real-life practice

InWEnt's new leadership programme tackles climate change

Migration
Cathrine Schweikardt

Underestimated potential

Local networking with migrations would help development agencies

Peace missions
Rita Schäfer

Women make peace

Women’s roles in UN peacekeeping

Agriculture
Cathrine Schweikardt

World Bank sees opportunities

World Bank considers foreign investors interest in African farmland an opportunity

Comment
Tobias Kahler

A double espresso

MDG summit's fine rhetorik must be followed up with action

Biodiversity
Peter Hauff

Priceless value

In view of dwindling biodiversity, scientists demand a “different economy”

Violence
Katrin Radtke

Aid at risk on many fronts

Humanitarian agencies must not over-react to new risks

Comment
Mohammad Ali Khan

Pakistani dilemma

Internationally, people seem to have tiered of Pakistan’s problems

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