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Ugandan vegetable framer: women do most of agricultural work in Africa.

UNCCD

Ecosystems and other land-related resources must be secured

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by Chimezie Anajama
The platform Amitruck links truck drivers and their vehicles with customers

Amitruck

Uber for trucks

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by Sabine Balk
Sabine Balk
Oven production at PowerStove in Nigeria.

Financing

“We consider impact with every investment”

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by Thomas Festerling
by Sabine Balk
Sabine Balk
A villager shows the remains of his dead cows on a farm struck by drought in Kenya in March 2022.

Drought

Linking humanitarian relief to development and peacebuilding

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by Christoph Schneider-Yattara
Bags bearing the Green Button label.

Human rights

Sustainability certifications: stricter criteria needed

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by Gisela Burckhardt
Cotton picker in a field in Sindh.

Labour rights

Dangerous cotton harvest

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by Imran Mukhtar
Imran Mukhtar
Sowing cotton in a field in Punjab.

Agriculture

How the climate crisis affects cotton production in Pakistan

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by Imran Mukhtar
Imran Mukhtar
Student participating in Braille lesson during pandemic.

Disabilities

Indonesia’s information gap affecting the disabled

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by Ika Ningtyas
Roseau, the capital of Dominica, after Hurricane Maria in 2017.

Tropical storms

CARICOM plans to boost disaster resilience

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by Marjorie Pons Piñeyro
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