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Anti-Bolsonaro, pro-environment protesters in Rio de Janeiro in 2019.

Rules of governance

Demise of Brazil’s democracy would speed up climate crisis

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by André de Mello e Souza
Small-scale farmer in Zimbabwe.

Food security

“Smallholder farms must benefit from innovations”

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by Hildegard Lingnau
Hildegard Lingnau
by Hans Dembowski
by Jörg Döbereiner

International finance institutions

Two multilateral banks based in China

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by Praveen Jha
This year’s BRICS summit was a digitised event.

International relations

A brief history of the BRICS

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by Praveen Jha
Patient in Kolkata in May2021: when the Covid-19 wave escalated, not everyone who needed oxygen found access.

Coronavirus

Dramatically diverging Covid numbers

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by Suparna Banerjee
Suparna Banerjee
Staff of agricultural insurer Pula update details of a farmer in Kenya, 2021.

Digitalisation

Marketing digital microinsurance

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by Dirk Reinhard
Farmers need protection against climate risks: Harvesting rice in Bangladesh.

Finance

Inclusive insurance for everyone

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by Dirk Reinhard
A pastoralist stands among goats and sheep that presumably died of exposure to extreme weather in Kenya, 2022.

Informal sector

Social protection for everyone

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by Markus Loewe
Markus Loewe
Indigenous Warao families from Venezuela in a shelter in Roraima, Brazil’s northern state.

Migration

Some Warao “will stay for good” in Brazil

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by Carlos Alberto Marinho Cirino
by Lisa Kuner
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