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Celebrating the legalisation of marihauana in Montevideo in December 2013.

Non-traditional agriculture

Caring about cannabis

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by Sebastián Artigas

12.06.2014

Civil-society engagement in Mozambique: Demonstration against a law on new privileges for members of parliament in Maputo in May.

Civil society

Cooperation, not instrumentalisation

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by Friedrich Kaufmann

by Winfried Borowczak

11.06.2014

Gerd Müller, Germany’s Development Minister, visiting the Institut Polytechnique Rural de Formation et de Recherche Appliqueé in Katibougou, Mali.

Agriculture

Promoting structural change

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by Gerd Müller

30.05.2014

African farmers water fields with watering cans in December 2011.

Infrastructure

A brief history of irrigation

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by Matthias von Bechtolsheim

by Eva Terberger

28.05.2014

Malawi’s smallholder farmers like the fertiliser subsidies.

Rural development

Ineffective subsidies

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by Raphael Mweninguwe

27.05.2014

For protection purposes, deep tubewells are often dug inside huts.

South Asia

Huge challenges

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Boro Baski

26.05.2014

Netizens demonstrating against limiting online liberties in the Philippines in 2012.

Civil society

Protective encryption

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by Eva-Maria Verfürth

23.05.2014

Harvesting coffee in Kenya.

Review essay

Nuanced assessment

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by Ingo Melchers

by Heike Hoeffler

21.05.2014

Shiva temples on the banks of Chatterjee Para Pond.

Urban environment

Old mirrors

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20.05.2014

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