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Ernährung, Hunger

Healthy diets

Eco-friendly agriculture must reduce farmers’ costs

The global food system is not only environmentally harmful, but also makes poverty worse in rural areas of emerging markets and developing countries.

Food habits

Popular street food in Uganda

Among the low-income earners the chapati has taken a distinct identity as a staple food.

Agriculture

Cultivating easier crops

Due to multiple shocks like skyrocketing of prices of seeds, pesticides and fertilisers, many Malawian smallholder farmers are giving up tobacco growing.

Development finance

How IDA needs to be reformed

The World Bank has enabled a dramatic reduction in extreme poverty. However, this masks a divergence between stable and fragile countries.

Global crises, local impacts

When a relatively strong African country is struggling on all fronts

If you want to know what impacts multiple global crises have on the daily life of a developing country, consider the example of Kenya

Sustainability

Rethinking agricultural productivity

The conventional method of measuring agricultural productivity overlooks long-term effects such as soil degradation. An alternative approach is needed to incentivise and reward sustainable farming practices.

Climate crisis

Drought means national disaster in Zambia

Agriculture and electric power generation are falling short

Village savings and loan schemes

Credits save life and promote resilience

Credit and savings from the village savings and loan schemes are used by Malawians for several purposes. For many, it provides money for common groceries in times when agriculture harvests decline.

Development paradigms

How the SDGs are different

For many years, the paradigm was that underdeveloped countries should catch up.

Rules-based world order

In Gaza, children are dying of hunger

Israel has the legal obligation to stop the unprecedented humanitarian crisis on territory occupied by its troops.

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