Digital monthly

9/2023

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The project “Knowing water better”

Benjamin Kiersch

06.10.2023

Distribute water equitably

Findings from the FAO project “Knowing water better”, which analysed water rights in Rwanda, Sri Lanka and Senegal

Water tenure

Benjamin Kiersch

05.10.2023

Fair access to water for all

In many places, water use is not sufficiently regulated by law. The FAO’s Global Dialogue on Water Tenure aims to make a difference

Save the Himalayan springs

Many springs in the Hindu Kush Himalayan region are drying up. Preventing degradation is crucial, and local communities need to be involved

Poverty Reduction

The first UN Sustainable Development Goal is to end poverty in all its forms everywhere.

Hope is a resource

Zimbabwe’s malnutrition crisis worsens under El Niño drought

Rethink conditions for lending to African countries

Better development financing for Africa

Burundi’s struggling tourism: Parks and reserves under threat

Gender Equality

In order to achieve gender equality, it is necessary to empower women and girls.

Hope is a resource

NGO documents worsening plight of Afghan women

Improving female entrepreneurs’ self-esteem

Kenyan military ordered to end HIV discrimination in recruitment

A cookbook reveals the connection of diet and tradition

Governance

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

Annexation as a political goal

Living between hope and helplessness

Fundamentally different fundamentalists

How indigenous spirituality matters

Soviet-era borders cause trouble today

Sustainability

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