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Crop diversity
Farai Shawn Matiashe

Seeds of prosperity

A seed bank in eastern Zimbabwe ensures a recovery after natural disaster

Climate crisis
Wanjohi Kabukuru

Learning from each other to cope with climate crisis

IIED/ICCCAD publication tackles loss and damage due to global heating

International cooperation
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

How to escape global crises

Only international cooperation can deliver global green recovery

USA
Katie Cashman

The US needs to build back better

President Joe Biden so far has failed to get Congress to pass important climate policies

Climate crisis
Imme Scholz

Ban solar geoengineering

If a technology’s risks cannot be assessed, it must not be used – and certainly not globally

Mali
Karim Okanla

It is hard to see how ECOWAS can escape stalemate

Because Mali’s military regime has postponed elections, ECOWAS has imposed sanctions.

Democracy
Katie Cashman
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Looming minority rule in the USA

Joe Biden’s global influence is diminished by an unrepresentative Senate

Financing
José Siaba Serrate
José Siaba Serrate

A push from development banks

Multilateral development banks play an important role for the economic recovery of Latin American and Caribbean countries

Latin America
José Siaba Serrate
José Siaba Serrate

Implementing a green recovery agenda

Latin America has room for improvement in using nature-based solutions, digitalising sectors, and improving transport and energy infrastructure

Green recovery
José Siaba Serrate
José Siaba Serrate

Reviving Latin American economies sustainably

Latin America and the Caribbean should focus its economic recovery budget on ‘green’ projects

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Poverty Reduction

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

An Indian student expresses her concern about global heating
Biogas innovation: Clean energy and fertiliser for Malawi’s farmers
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Coping with strife, climate impacts and a broken economy
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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