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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.

Biodiversity
Roman Herre

Productive smallholders

High-tech agriculture threatens smallholders as well as biodiversity

Security
Meike Scholz

In search of African solutions

African security architecture developing at snail's pace

Biological diversity
Linda Siegele
Le'a Malia Kanehe

Tough talks

Biodiversity talks must respect rights of indigenous peoples and local communities

Climate Change
Thomas Marzahl

Slow progress

Climate talks inch forwards

Food
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

100 million more people face hunger

Food: 100 million more people face hunger

Food and biological diversity
Rafael Schneider

“Cities depend on the world market”

Only change in rural development will stop food-price inflation

Poverty and biodiversity
Frithjof Schmidt
Janna Schönfeld

Plundering West Africa

EU trade policy is undermining EU goals in terms of development and environment in West Africa

Biodiversity
Lennart Båge

Feeding a growing population

Biodiversity: Feeding a growing population

Crisis state
Heinrich Plote

Infrastructure of peace

Infrastructure for Liberia’s new start

Aid effectiveness
Peter Nunnenkamp

The myth of NGO superiority

Aid effectiveness: The myth of NGO superiority

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