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Forests
Jonas Erhardt

Banana, coffee, rubber trees

Agroforestry makes sense for marginalised people in the Philippines uplands

Editorial
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Walk the talk

Rich nations must walk the talk on climate finance

Local authorities
Souad Sassi
Uwe Korch

“New freedoms”

Since the revolution, twin cities of Tunis and Cologne are promoting freedom

Multilateral politics
Thomas Fues

At a crossroads

Designing the Global Partnership for Effective Development

Higher learning
Alan C. Robles
Alan C. Robles

Top tier schools and diploma mills

Expensive, but not always worth much: higher education in the Philippines

Indigenous communities
Almut Schilling-Vacaflor
Annegret Mähler
Gabriele Neusser

Explosive matter

Bolivia’s policy on natural gas and oil is conflict prone

Education
Rabiaa Ouerimi

Becoming independent

Bonn-Djerba: school exchange in spite of disabilities

Africa and Latin America
Pedro Morazán
Marie Müller

Fair gold

Ways to improve small-scale miners’ tough fate in Peru and the DR Congo

Editorial
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Do two things at once

Regulate extractive industries and make them serve the nation

Crisis areas
Aditi Roy Ghatak
Aditi Roy Ghatak

State of conflict

Some regions in India face the same problems resource-rich fragile states have

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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.

Better protection for schools in northern Nigeria
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

Sustainability

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

Better protection for schools in northern Nigeria
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