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Poverty reduction

Beneficiaries of India’s MGNREGA, the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act.

Social protection

How social-protection systems matter in the climate crisis

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by Stefan Beierl

Traditions

Poverty and cultural norms push youngsters to get married

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by Raphael Mweninguwe
A herder looks after his camels in Kenya, 2021.

Drought

Travelling far to keep herds alive

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by Christoph Schneider-Yattara
A villager shows the remains of his dead cows on a farm struck by drought in Kenya in March 2022.

Drought

Linking humanitarian relief to development and peacebuilding

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by Christoph Schneider-Yattara
Villager in a maize crop field damaged by drought in Kenya, March 2022.

Our view

There is no excuse for lacking action anymore

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by Hans Dembowski
Textile Partnership Members' Meeting in 2016 with the then Federal Development Minister Gerd Müller (second from right).

Supply chains

Multi-stakeholder initiative held back by industry lobbies

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by Gisela Burckhardt
Bags bearing the Green Button label.

Human rights

Sustainability certifications: stricter criteria needed

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by Gisela Burckhardt
Cotton picker in a field in Sindh.

Labour rights

Dangerous cotton harvest

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by Imran Mukhtar
The shores of Lake Tanganyika are increasingly unsafe.

Global heating

Lake Tanganyika: levees needed

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by Mireille Kanyange
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