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Food security

Wasting valuable grains

According to FAO, a third of all food produced worldwide is wasted

Ecological destruction

Conquest by chainsaw

Logging in the subtropical dry forest deprives indigenous people in Argentina of their livelihood

Post-2015 debate

Set the right example

VENRO wants Germany to become a model environmental sustainability and social justice.

Forestry

Sustainable use

Governments and the private sector must make the timber trade more sustainable

Europe

Growing complexity

David Kleimann and other scholars argue that EU trade policy is over-ambitious

Deforestation

Global trends

Every year more and more rainforest is being cleared – damaging humans and the climate

Central Africa

Tropical forest in peril

Ephrem Balole et al: The government of the DRC is not doing nearly enough to protect the rainforest

World market

Haute couture

Designer fashion from Africa on the rise

Business paper

The greatest risk

Global warming is more dangerous than governments’ deficit-spending, as even FT chief economist argues

Africa

Conflict over water

River and lake borders are not always clearly defined in Africa, so water disputes are common

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