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Gerd Müller, Germany’s federal minister for economic cooperation and development, visiting the Integrated Polytechnic Regional Centre in the Rwandan capital Kigali in 2016.

EU Council presidency

Investing in the future

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by Gerd Müller
Jew’s mallow is unknown in many parts of the world but is very popular in the Middle East, here in the Gaza Strip in Palestine.

Neglected and underutilised species

Important for a sustainable diet

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by Silke Stöber
Disloyal future prime minister Boris Johnson with loyalist DUP leader Arlene Foster in summer 2019. Before rising to power, Johnson insisted there would be no border between Great Britain and Northern Ireland, but his Brexit agreement with the EU would introduce one.

Regional integration

Irish peace at risk

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by Ciarán Ó Maoláin
Refugees found in distress at sea off the Libyan coast in early 2018.

Mediterranean Sea

Defining relationship

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by Moutaz Ali
by Walid Ali
Market vendors from Myanmar in the Thai border town Mae Sot.

Regional integration

Borderline prosperity

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by Felix Haas
Climate strike in Frankfurt in March 2019.

Global environment

“Swimming against the tide”

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by Saleemul Huq
by Hans Dembowski
ZBNF experts help farmers preparing botanical extracts consisting of several leaves to be sprayed on the crops to protect them from pests.

Organic farming

Four wheels of Zero Budget Natural Farming

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by Vijay Kumar Thallam
by Sabine Balk
Sabine Balk
by Hans Dembowski
In Tunisia there are reform partnerships with the BMZ: employees of a pumping station at a meeting.

KfW

Paradigm shift: focus on investments in Africa

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by Stefan Oswald
Primary forests are important carbon sinks, not only in Costa Rica.

Agrarian reform

Agriculture without emissions

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by Susanne Neubert
Susanne Neubert
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