Poverty Reduction

Africa

Environmental destruction

Poverty is an important driver of deforestation in sub-Saharan countries

Farms

Irrigation helps to cope with climate change

Irrigation is helping many of Zambia’s rain-dependent small-hold farmers to survive

Rising infection numbers

Gloomy outlook

Kenya is struggling to cope with the Covid-19 challenges

Civil society

Books for rural children in need

An NGO provides disadvantaged children in Malawi with text books for homeschooling in times of Corona

Marginalisation

Small wellspring of hope

A non-profit organisation tries to bring hope into the lives of underprivileged children in Guatemala

International trade

Embedding social standards

What the Coronavirus crisis teaches us about trade policy towards developing countries

Environment

Financing the fight against climate change

Facing twin plagues of floods and droughts, Zambia lacks resources to fight the effects of climate change

Water treatment

“Each drop of water matters”

DBL Group, a Bangladeshi garments producer, recycles its industrial water

Elections

Protected by God

Burundi has held elections – without much consideration of the corona pandemic

Traffic safety

Carnage on the roads

Ghana’s roads are increasingly scenes of serious traffic accidents

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