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Development and cooperation

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Entwicklung und Zusammenarbeit

E + Z

Sustainability

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

Javier A. Cisterna Figueroa

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.

Fruit industry
Syed Muhammad Abubakar

Multiple adversities

Pakistan’s mango sector is hurt by environmental changes and slow exports

Our view
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Belonging together

Nations are nothing natural, but human-made “imagined communities”

Infrastructure
Katie Cashman

Build back better

IEA wants stimulus money to drive climate protection

Nursing care and support
Almut Schnerring
Sascha Verlan

A new intergenerational compact

Once more, Covid-19 shows that care work is largely left to women – and that must change

Food security
Raphael Mweninguwe

Hunger amidst plenty

A promising programme to subsidise farm inputs is falling victim to corruption and mismanagement

Informal sector
Lawrence Kilimwiko

Massive economic pain

Covid-19 has badly affected informal livelihoods in Tanzania, but the impacts on the entire economy are harsh

Summer Special
Katja Dombrowski
Katja Dombrowski

The shattered soul of Mauritius

In his latest novel, J. M. G. Le Clézio searches once again for a lost paradise

Eye care
Derrick Silimina
Derrick Silimina

Helping Zambians to see

China is at the forefront of helping Zambia to fight cataracts, an eye disease that can lead to blindness

Summer Special
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Kolkata, New York, Venice

Amitav Ghosh’s novel “Gun island” deals with global heating and global migration

Democratic governance
Raphael Mweninguwe

Great expectations

Malawi’s new president must fight corruption, stimulate the economy and get a grip on Covid-19

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.

Drawing the right conclusions from data
The desert alliance
How to challenge a corrupt system
Gukurahundi: Zimbabwe’s lingering genocide wounds
Lessons of failure

Sustainability

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

Drawing the right conclusions from data
The desert alliance
How to challenge a corrupt system
Gukurahundi: Zimbabwe’s lingering genocide wounds
Lessons of failure