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SDG8
Green transformation

Crisis as an opportunity

Crises like the Covid-19 pandemic offer opportunities for eco-friendly stimulus programmes

Agriculture

Innovative farming in a refugee camp

A soilless cultivation technique allows refugees in a camp to grow fruit and vegetables on a small space

Poverty

School closures in pandemic showed multidimensional poverty

UNICEF reckons that one third of the world’s schoolchildren did not get formal lessons because of Covid-19

Informal sector

Undocumented job is best opportunity many Pakistanis get

In Pakistan, the informal sector accounts for 75 % to the workforce and one third of GDP

Conservation

Goats farming reduces poaching

Farmers are encouraged to breed goats so they do not have to destroy wildlife to survive

Discrimination

Development cooperation must become more inclusive

Policy makers and civil society must recognise inclusion as a cross-cutting task – and so must international development and humanitarian relief

Culture Special

American joy and sorrow

The novel "Behold the Dreamers" scrutinises the "American dream" based on the experiences of an immigrant family from Cameroon

Resources

Zambia and DRC partnering in battery production

Zambia and the DRC hope to become massive producers and refiners of cobalt for electric vehicle batteries

Kenyan election

Suggestion to legalise industrial hemp

A candidate of Kenya’s presidential election proposes to generate income by legalising hemp to reduce the high public debt

Fight for survival

Underage “okada” riders in Ghana

The involvement of underage children in the commercial motorcycle taxi business is raising concern

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Sustainability

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