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Smallholder farms
Hendrik Knoche
HS Jamadagni
PR Sheshagiri Rao

Peer pressure

Smart-phone apps could boost productivity even of illiterate farmers

Internet
Alan C. Robles
Alan C. Robles

Putting a check on leaders

Long before the Arab spring, mobilisation by SMS toppled a president in Philippines

E-governance
Maja Bott
Bianca Clausen

Great opportunities

Information technology opens up new opportunities for improving governance

Mobile telephony
Michael Ruffert

Citizen participate via SMS

In Togo, some citizens use text messages to monitor their local government

Expanding market
Alan C. Robles
Alan C. Robles

Business dimensions

The Internet's business relevance has grown dramatically in the Philippines

Stemming corruption
Michael Ruffert

Government watchdogs

Uganda's supreme auditors put a check on illicit financial flows

Amazonia
Hannah Milberg

Participatory conservation

Participatory conservation: involving local people in the management of nature reserves

Climate protection

Preparing for action

Involving indigenous peoples in REDD+ projects seems promising – in Bolivia even more so than in Ecuador

Health

Systemic failure

Health is a global public good and must figure among the post-2015 development goals.

Global Governance
Fernando J. Cardim de Carvalho

The rise and fall of the G20

The emergence of the G20 as a forum of the world’s most important leaders raised great expectations in late 2008. They have been disappointed.

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Poverty Reduction

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

Youth unemployment remains one of India’s great challenges
What Zanzibar's spices have to do with gender equality
Fundamental human right under attack
Why Kenya’s youth is taking to the streets
Don’t leave sex education to internet pornography

Gender Equality

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

The literary power of Black women writers
What Zanzibar's spices have to do with gender equality
The fate of a Rwandan man with disability
Fundamental human right under attack
Don’t leave sex education to internet pornography

Governance

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

Preventing Boko Haram from recruiting young people
Evicting indigenous people
How a pedagogy of sustainability can help Africa’s future
Youth unemployment remains one of India’s great challenges
Waithood – endless adolescence

Sustainability

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

Preventing Boko Haram from recruiting young people
Evicting indigenous people
How a pedagogy of sustainability can help Africa’s future
Youth unemployment remains one of India’s great challenges
Waithood – endless adolescence