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Pesticide application on a wheat field in Punjab, India.

Sustainability

Rethinking agricultural productivity

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by Hannah Schragmann
Indigenous leaders rally to protect the Amazon rainforest ahead of the Amazon Summit in Belem, Brazil, in 2023.

Global Governance

The drivers of change are at the local level

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by Pirmin Spiegel
by Jörg Döbereiner
Civil society matters: activists demanding action from G20 in Jakarta in 2023.

Global development

Facilitating constructive cooperation in a multipolar world

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by Anna-Katharina Hornidge
Anna-Katharina Hornidge
The Kenyan Ogiek community filed a lawsuit to challenge the eviction from Mau Forest, their home, in favour of planned carbon offsetting schemes.

Carbon credits

Africa is chasing billions

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by Wanjohi Kabukuru
UN Security Council meeting in September 2023.

Multilateral organisations

What geopolitics have to do with golf clubs

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by Katharina Wilhelm Otieno
Wildfire on Rhodes, the Greek island, in summer 2023.

Global sustainability

The reasons why global environmental policymaking has failed so far

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by Hans Dembowski
Dravidian languages are not related to Hindi and have totally different scripts: Malayalam, Hindi and English on a no smoking sign in a railway station.

Hindu-supremacism

Why South India snubs Modi

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by Krupa Ge
Svenja Schulze, Germany’s federal minister for economic cooperation and development, visiting a boarding school in Burkina Faso in March.

Development policy

Germany’s development policy serves all people

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by Svenja Schulze
Svenja Schulze
Barricade on Jerusalem street in war of 1948.

MENA

Two peoples’ experience of displacement

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by Hans Dembowski
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