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By starting to destroy coca plantations with pesticides once more, Colombia and the USA are set to make organised crime stronger, not weaker: State Secretary Pompeo (left) visiting President Duque in January.

Violent strife

Rekindling the war on drugs

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by Fabio Andrés Díaz Pabón
Pink dolphins live in the Amazon.

Primary forests

Indigenous peoples are key stakeholders

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by Carmen Josse
Nature needs protection: Tsavo West National Park in Kenya.

Biodiversity

Keeping the life insurance

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by Stephan Opitz
KfW Board Member Joachim Nagel during a test run on the new Metroline in Nagpur, promoted by KfW.

Development finance

“This is a marathon”

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by Joachim Nagel
by Sabine Balk
Sabine Balk
by Hans Dembowski
Senegalese farmer on a parched field: agriculture requires fertile soil and water, but both are becoming rarer.

Risks to humanity

“The most powerful driving force is climate change”

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by Dirk Messner
by Katja Dombrowski
Farmer in his cherry and apple plantation in the Tifnoute Valley, Taroudant.

Rural development

Involve the local community

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by Kerstin Opfer
Anitha Reddy of the NGO Sahaja Samrudha shows the seed bank.

Organic farming

In touch with nature

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by Anitha Reddy
by Sabine Balk
Sabine Balk
In August 2017, after three days of intense rainfall, a slope in the regent area of Freetown collapsed, causing a major landslide.

Urban development

The need for holistic action

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by Carolyn Williams-Gerdes
Loggers with chainsaws have moved in.

Unsustainable livelihoods

Savè chainsaw massacre

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by Karim Okanla
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