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AI helps in the fight against marine litter.

Good News

Fight against marine litter and reduced under-five mortality

The two pieces of good news this month are about an underwater robot that removes litter from the sea and the succesful fight against under-five mortality.

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Svenja Schulze, Germany’s federal minister for economic cooperation and development.

Food security

New global alliance

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by D+C / E+Z
Villager in a maize crop field damaged by drought in Kenya, March 2022.

Our view

There is no excuse for lacking action anymore

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by Hans Dembowski
Textile Partnership Members' Meeting in 2016 with the then Federal Development Minister Gerd Müller (second from right).

Supply chains

Multi-stakeholder initiative held back by industry lobbies

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by Gisela Burckhardt
Bags bearing the Green Button label.

Human rights

Sustainability certifications: stricter criteria needed

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by Gisela Burckhardt
Cotton picker in a field in Sindh.

Labour rights

Dangerous cotton harvest

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by Imran Mukhtar

Mobile money

Fraudsters scam mobile phone users out of their

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by Derrick Silimina
Sowing cotton in a field in Punjab.

Agriculture

How the climate crisis affects cotton production in Pakistan

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by Imran Mukhtar
The shores of Lake Tanganyika are increasingly unsafe.

Global heating

Lake Tanganyika: levees needed

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by Mireille Kanyange
Roseau, the capital of Dominica, after Hurricane Maria in 2017.

Tropical storms

CARICOM plans to boost disaster resilience

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by Marjorie Pons Piñeyro

Food security

“A food crisis is looming”

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by Raphael Mweninguwe