Sustainability

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

Coping with strife, climate impacts and a broken economy

Because of long-lasting civil strife, climate impacts and a dysfunctional economy, the humanitarian situation is bad in the DRC. The development and adoption of eco-friendly farm practices would put local communities in a better position to ensure their own fo...

Rural development

Agricultural policies must take into account local voices

Because of the climate crisis, a rethink is needed in rural affairs, and it is indeed happening internationally

Creating value

Women, climate and chocolate

To eradicate hunger globally, more value must be created locally.

Migration

Belonging to more than one nation

Jhumpa Lahiri’s novel „The Namesake“ tells the story of an Indian-American family whose members never quite know where they truly belong.

Our view

How to end hunger

Progress regarding SDG2 – the eradication of hunger – remains too slow.

Healthy diets

Eco-friendly agriculture must reduce farmers’ costs

The global food system is not only environmentally harmful, but also makes poverty worse in rural areas of emerging markets and developing countries.

Political engagement

Young people yearning for a peaceful Africa

In the conflict-ridden Great Lakes Region of East Africa, youngsters are involved in a project for peace. Many of them dream of a continent that thrives in unity.

Pakistan

Tourism boom in Baltistan

More and more Pakistani vacationers are discovering the remote mountainous region in the country’s north-east. The trend is bringing in buying power and creating jobs, but it also harbours the risk of social and ecological conflict.

Education

How a pedagogy of sustainability can help Africa’s future

Africa, with its diversity, is struggling with numerous complex problems that require innovative solutions. Education, especially tertiary education, is key to unlocking Africa’s potential in a sustainable way.

Respectful tourism

Mexico must include its indigenous population in the tourism sector

Mexico owes many of its tourist attractions to its wealth of indigenous communities. It is important that they are included in the country’s tourism industry in a sustainable, respectful and empowering way.

Ecological change

Ghana introduces emissions tax

Law makers argue that the policy will reduce the carbon footprint and mitigate the negative effects of pollution on public health and the environment. Some economists disagree.