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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.

Our view
Sabine Balk
Sabine Balk

Risks and opportunities of digitalisation

Digital transformation of society and the economy requires government regulation

Internet
Charles Martin-Shields

Beijing’s growing influence on internet rules

China’s technological clout may influence internet governance

Technology
Charles Martin-Shields

How food aid sometimes serves US interests

Technologies used in development programmes carry hidden agendas

Humanitarian emergency
Markus Rudolf

Crisis in Ethiopia intensifies

In Ethiopia, humanitarian aid has become a political issue

Cyberspace
Charles Martin-Shields

Defining the new digital world order

The US and China are locked in a battle for dominance in cyberspace

Summer Special
Anke Schwarzer

Tribute to a murdered king

Hamburg MARKK exhibition spotlights the German colonial period in Cameroon

Summer Special
Sabine Balk
Sabine Balk

Healthy soil, healthy climate

Documentary presents a vision of farmers for a different, climate-friendly form of agriculture

Afghanistan
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Stop blaming victims for western failure in Afghanistan

Why ISAF could not succeed

Skills training
Rishikesh Thapa

Skills are needed to grasp digital opportunities

Digital tools can boost productivity in the informal sector, argues GIZ

Summer Special
Katja Dombrowski
Katja Dombrowski

The last colony

The documentary “Another Paradise” accompanies Chagossians’ fight to reclaim their stolen islands

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