Sustainability

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

Latin America is burning

Year after year, valuable ecosystems are destroyed by wildfires. This drives climate change and decimates biodiversity. Slash-and-burn agriculture is partly to blame.

Food security

The ravages of acute hunger

In Zimbabwe, people increasingly worry not what, but whether they will eat tomorrow

Business support

“There is no shortage of ideas, just a shortage of money”

With WIDU.africa, micro-enterprises can receive funding from the diaspora and public grants

Fisheries

Dying out

As fish catches in Burundi dwindle, fishers face hard times

International NGO

Mother Earth’s food diversity

Slow Food is a global grassroots organisation, which was founded in Italy in 1989

Traditional crops

Useful lessons

In Malawi, Slow Food campaigners are promoting the cultivation of traditional crops – and not only for health reasons

Our view

Lack of awareness

In regard to healthy diets, all world regions need better education

Our view

Taking stock of pandemic impacts

Covid-19 is proving to be an even more complex and longer lasting challenge than initially expected

Healthy nutrition

It’s all in the mix

Political will and raising public awareness are the basis for good nutrition

Multilateral development banks

Too many loopholes

The AIIB needs clear time-bound rules on information disclosure to mitigate environmental and social risk

Population growth

Putting Africa first

A ‘demographic dividend’ is a first step towards eradicating poverty in Africa

Governance

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

Sustainability

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