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Cocoa harvest in Ghana: For cocoa farmers, the billion-dollar market often does not yield much.

Supply chains

Tracking cocoa from tree to trade

Ghana has tested a digital system that aims to make cocoa supply chains more transparent and help the sector meet EU sustainability requirements. Farmers hope to benefit as well.

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by Nastaran Zarnegari
by Francis Dadzie Mintah

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Hand dug well in Silti district, constructed by GTM.

Disease control

No water, no hygiene

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by Katja Dombrowski
In the district of Meskan, only very few people have access to an improved latrine (left), most people have a traditional latrine (right), while 43 % of the households do not have access to any latrine.

Water and sanitation

“Every farmer must have an improved latrine”

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by Ibrahim Awol
by Katja Dombrowski
US President Donald Trump plans to weaken the development agency USAID.

Official development assistance

A matter of enlightened self-interest

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by Scott Morris
by Sabine Balk
Sabine Balk
People crossing a tributary to Lake Chad.

Water stress

The dwindling lake

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by Damilola Oyedele
The spinning mill of the DBL Group is clean as a whistle.

Garment production

Glimmers of hope

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by Sabine Balk
Sabine Balk
Ethiopian farmer assesses faild crops in early 2017.

Farming

Drought is the new normal

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by Belay Begashaw
Cologne was destroyed by allied air raids: When German policymakers speak of a Marshall Plan, they think of an economic miracle after a devastating, self-inflicted war.

Political jargon

A contentious term

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by Hans Dembowski
Gerd Müller with trainees of the German engineering company Krones in Nairobi.

International cooperation

“Our success will depend on joint action”

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by Gerd Müller
by Hans Dembowski
Africa needs regional integration: trucks waiting to cross the border from Botswana to Zambia.

International cooperation

Continent of opportunity

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by Frannie Leautier
“Happy life years” reached in Venezuela are significantly higher than in Sri Lanka, although the people in both countries have about the same life expectancy: farmer couple in Venezuela.

Research

More than a lack of money

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by Sebastian Rewerski