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Food security
Kwadwo Asenso-Okyere

Productivity boost

Africa’s agricultural productivity must rise

Crime
Cletus Gregor Barié

Art versus violence

Mobilising creative artists against Colombia’s culture of violence

Civic participation
Michael Konow

Grassroots matter

In Niger, civil society needs support at the grassroots level

Good governance
Maria Elisabeth Rotter

Sensible but insufficient

Plans for the European Endowment for Democracy are heading in the wrong direction

Policy advice
Fabian Scholtes

Bridging the gap

How to interest aid agencies adn policymakers in research

Regional integration
Glenn Brigaldino

Enabling Africa to develop

Africa needs infrastructure that links countries to one another

Impact assessment
Roger Peltzer
Susanne Neubert
Susanne Neubert

Higher standard of living

Proof of higher standards of living: Cotton Made in Africa

Health
Ghadeer Mohammed
Maika Müller
Mirja Michalscheck
Muhammad Khalifa

Simple, but effective

The tradition of puryfing drinking water with clay filters deserves to be revitalised in the Arab World

New media
Norbert Herrmann

Free and meaningful

Useful and unexpensive: zivil society organisations should use web-based social media

Climate protection
Peter Hauff

Difficult business

Challenging business: CDM application in Indonesia

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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