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Sustainability

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

Raphael Mweninguwe

Biogas innovation: Clean energy and fertiliser for Malawi’s farmers

EcoGen, a Malawian start-up, transforms animal waste into biogas and bio-fertiliser, providing farmers with affordable energy and sustainable farming solutions. This innovation helps reduce reliance on firewood and chemical fertilisers.

Relevant reading
Imme Scholz

Live up to promises

Expert essays on adapting to climate change

Focus
Kathrin Seelige
Tilman Altenburg

Opportunity for rural development

Biofuels: chances for rural development in India

Climate
Hannelore Börgel

Not enough time

Seasonal water management makes a difference in crisis-torn Chad

Budget support
Benjamin-Immanuel Hoff

Double strategy

Budgetary controls need to be improved in developing counries

Comment
Tobias Luppe

Revolutionary ideas

Patent protection affects HIV/AIDS treatment

Comment
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Farewell, G8

G20 summit only took small step in the right direction

World Development Report
Eva Dick
Einhard Schmidt-Kallert

Relevant rural-urban interplay

World Development Report on rural-urban migration

Donor harmonisation
Bernard Petit

Tackling the trust deficit

International programmes on adaptation to climate change

Fighting hunger
Klaus Klennert
Lioba Weingärtner

An opportunity in crisis

Global food security

Donors’ responsibility
Saleemul Huq

“A mandate for change”

Needs of developing countries for adapting to climate change.D

Poverty Reduction

The first UN Sustainable Development Goal is to end poverty in all its forms everywhere.

Biogas innovation: Clean energy and fertiliser for Malawi’s farmers
Why we believe in our Digital Monthly
Coping with strife, climate impacts and a broken economy
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Financing development and climate goals

Gender Equality

In order to achieve gender equality, it is necessary to empower women and girls.

NGO documents worsening plight of Afghan women
Improving female entrepreneurs’ self-esteem
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Kenyan military ordered to end HIV discrimination in recruitment
A cookbook reveals the connection of diet and tradition

Governance

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

NGO documents worsening plight of Afghan women
Coping with strife, climate impacts and a broken economy
Voodoo allows a holistic view of the cosmos
Brazil’s colonial legacies and current challenges
Indigenous banks collapsing in Zambia: A closer look at Investrust

Sustainability

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

NGO documents worsening plight of Afghan women
Coping with strife, climate impacts and a broken economy
Voodoo allows a holistic view of the cosmos
Brazil’s colonial legacies and current challenges
Indigenous banks collapsing in Zambia: A closer look at Investrust