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Development finance

Raise the bar

Civil-society organisations blame international financial institutions for neglecting human rights abuses

Technological choices

The downsides of green growth

Why naïve green-growth strategies can lead to failure

Germany’s Federal Government

“Humanity’s common future”

Gerd Müller, Germany’s new federal minister for economic cooperation and development, spells out the fundamentals of his policies

Smallholder farms

Peer pressure

Smart-phone apps could boost productivity even of illiterate farmers

Food security

Struggling smallholders

Despite living in a stable economy, half of all Kenyans are poor

Editorial

Global public good

Law of the jungle – why forests are disapperaring fast from developing countries and why Germans don't understand the reasons

Heat

Our cruel summer days

The hot season is the toughest time of the year in most of rural India – and Adivasi communities struggle to cope

Renewables

Powering the transition

Supposedly green energy technologies can have detrimental side effects that need to be addressed

Solar energy

Light and dark

Solar markets are growing fast in Burkina Faso, but much remains to be done to tap their full potential

Water

Fleeing drought

Climate change: In Nepal, entire villages must relocate because water scarcity is getting worse

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Governance

Achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals will require good governance – from the local to the global level.

Sustainability

The UN Sustainable Development Goals aim to transform economies in an environmentally sound manner, leaving no one behind.