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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.

Editorial
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

New ways

The Green Revolution is part of the problem, not the solution

Agriculture
Hartmut Meyer
Annette von Lossau

Dispute over food security

Dispute over food security and intellectual property rights

Seed
Christoph Herrlinger

Best legal protection

The best legal protection for breeders of plant varieties

Food security
Francois Meienberg

Infringement of farmers’ rights

Strict enforcement of intellectual property rights hurts farmers

Farmers' rights in India
Suman Sahai

The way it always was

India’s law on plant variety protection and farmers’ rights

Microfinance
Inka Rank

Beyond more income

Grameen Bank model works for Argentina’s Fundación León

Business development
Balthas Seibold
Phillip Winter

Freedom to innovate

Global commons allow for innovation without patents

Agriculture
Rolf Jördens

“Legal framework for investment”

UPOV’s plant variety protection serves to stimulate investment and modernisation

Natural resources
Claudia Isabel Rittel

The limits of voluntary transparency

The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative is at a crossroads

German development agencies
Jennifer Dube

Jennifer Dube’s views on reform

Jennifer Dube’s views on reform of German development agencies

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