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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.

Interview
Vinod Thomas

“Interactive results”

World Bank expert discusses limits of evaluating complex developments in quantitative terms

Food security
Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul

Ways out of the silent tsunami

How the international community can escape food scarcity

AIDS prevention
Eleonore von Bothmer

Safe sex subsidy

Conditional cash transfers in support of safe sex

News
Eleonore von Bothmer

Germany second most-important donor country

Germany second most important donor according to OECD

Afghanistan
Claudia Isabel Rittel

Donors criticised

International NGOs lambast donors’ performance in Afghanistan

Religion and development
Charlotte Schmitz

Imams and women’s rights campaigners

GTZ organises debates of Muslim spiritual leaders and women’s rights organisations

IMF
Ellen Thalman

Reform at last

IMF finally reformed

Editorial
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Safeguarding human survival

Biodiversity is indispensable for human survival

Relevant reading
Rüdiger Korff

Frozen evolution

Frozen evolution in coservation parks

Biodiversity
Frison Emile

Indispensable resources

Green Revolution in Africa will depend on biodiversity

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
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Gender Equality

In order to achieve gender equality, it is necessary to empower women and girls.

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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?

Governance

Achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals will require good governance – from the local to the global level.

Lessons of failure
The exception of dengue
Overshadowed by the “Big Three”
Drug distribution is not enough in the fight against river blindness
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Sustainability

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

Lessons of failure
The exception of dengue
Overshadowed by the “Big Three”
Drug distribution is not enough in the fight against river blindness
Why we believe in our Digital Monthly