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Always too hot or too cold: provisional post-earthquake classroom.

School quality

Nepal’s deep educational divides

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by Abishek Thapa
Learning about resin codes on plastic bottles in a Tamil Nadu government school.

Global environment

Waste less to avoid being inundated by plastic

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by Mukta Martens
Adult education workshop in Kakuma.

Refugee education

Too many camps do not have schools

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by Qaabata Boru
The image, taken with a surveying drone, allows KfW to evaluate an irrigation project in the Sikasso region of Mali. The colours indicate the different crops: cabbage is blue, lettuce light green, onions dark green.

Technical solutions

Remote project management is helpful in times of crisis

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by Jochen Harnisch
by Meinhard Rögner
Recycling digital devices in India in 2017.

Environmental hazards

Stop global trend of chemical intensification

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by Hans-Christian Stolzenberg
The success of Kamala Harris, the first female, Black and South Asian vice president of the USA, is appreciated by women in Painganadu, the Tamil Nadu village her grandfather came from.

Migration

India’s diaspora is influential, though few members vote

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by Roli Mahajan

Agriculture

Pesticides are useful, but must be applied responsibly

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by Patrick Ajwang
Support for farming is crucial for reducing poverty: Women in business as commercial vegetable growers in Burkina Faso.

Research

Pathways out of extreme poverty and hunger

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by Frank Bliss
by Karin Gaesing
Destitute woman sorting plastic waste on a Karachi street.

Health hazards

In Pakistan, toxins put the poor particularly at risk

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by Imran Mukhtar
Imran Mukhtar
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