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Poverty Reduction
Humanitarian aid

A time of reckoning

Humanitarian agencies are assessing what privilege, racism and inequality mean within their own ranks

Struggling family

Some cannot afford health worries

India’s poor cannot let worries about Covid-19 reduce their efforts to make money

Child labour

Underage on the job

Despite protective laws, Zimbabwean children are increasingly being put to work

Food insecurity

As in biblical times

East Africa is living with the looming threat of a second invasion of desert locusts

Global data

Poverty is worsening

Why the World Bank expects extreme poverty to increase dramatically this year

Food security

The ravages of acute hunger

In Zimbabwe, people increasingly worry not what, but whether they will eat tomorrow

Business support

“There is no shortage of ideas, just a shortage of money”

With WIDU.africa, micro-enterprises can receive funding from the diaspora and public grants

International NGO

Mother Earth’s food diversity

Slow Food is a global grassroots organisation, which was founded in Italy in 1989

Ethnic minority

Safe so far

Though India is badly affected by Covid-19, two Adivasi villages in West Bengal have not suffered infections yet

Traditional crops

Useful lessons

In Malawi, Slow Food campaigners are promoting the cultivation of traditional crops – and not only for health reasons

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