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Global challenges

Pay attention to co-benefits

Co-benefits – development efforts can reduce poverty and secure global public goods at the same time

Deforestation

Global trends

Every year more and more rainforest is being cleared – damaging humans and the climate

West Africa

Small country, global challenge

The national and global dimensions of forest pillage in Liberia

Central Africa

Tropical forest in peril

Ephrem Balole et al: The government of the DRC is not doing nearly enough to protect the rainforest

Organic agriculture

Deluge impact

A. K. Ghosh: Salt-resistant landraces inspire hope after sea flooded fields in Ganges Delta – but more seed is needed

Forests degradation

The end of over-optimism

Poor people's access to resources and governance are core issues of reducing carbon emissions from deforestation

The Philippines

Hope for Peace

Road to an autonomous Muslim region in southern Philippines remains bumpy

Peace missions

The long haul

The African Peace and Security Architecture is already proving useful even though it is still work in progress

South Asia

Still estranged

Sri Lanka's civil war is over, but the government is acting in an increasingly authoritarian manner

Reconciliation

Rebels in search of peace

In Senegal’s Casamance region, an NGO is working on reconciling independence fighters – first among one another, and then with the government

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