Umweltproblematik

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.

Rural communities generally lack good public services and have too few economic opportunities. The climate crisis is compounding problems.

Four decades after the green revolution, the associated environmental problems are becoming increasingly obvious.

Year after year, valuable ecosystems are destroyed by wildfires. This drives climate change and decimates biodiversity. Slash-and-burn agriculture is partly to blame.

Glyphosate/Roundup is a prominent recent example of a pesticide causing controversy

Herbicides, fungicides and insecticides cause serious environmental harm and put human health at risk – but they are not a foolproof way to boost production.

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

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

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

Why Svenja Schulze, Germany’s federal minister for economic cooperation and development, should reject the utilitarian slogans of market-orthodox liberalism and populist nationalism.