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At D+C/E+Z, we are proud of our international network of authors. It is particularly important to us to be a platform for voices from the global south. Some authors contribute on a regular basis, others don't. Here you can find information about the people behind the contributions.

Lea Diehl

lea.diehl@posteo.de

last contributed to D+C/E+Z in winter 2018/2019 as a freelance author.

All articles of Lea Diehl

Global warming
Lea Diehl
Sabine Balk
Sabine Balk

IPCC special report and Climate Change Conference

IPCC special report published ahead of the UN climate change conference in Poland in December

Global warming
Lea Diehl

A Herculean task

Climate experts call for global warming to be limited to 1.5 degrees Celsius by 2100

Migration
Lea Diehl

Shared standards

What the global migration agreement is worth remains to be seen in everyday life

Climate change
Lea Diehl

A vicious circle at Lake Chad

A new study examines how conflict and climate change are related in the Lake Chad Basin

Climate change
Lea Diehl
Janani Vivekananda

Lack of trust

In the Lake Chad region, young people blame the older generation for problems – and the other way round

Global governance
Lea Diehl

Managing refugees and migration

German think tank calls for coherent global framework to manage changing migration patterns

Ecology
Lea Diehl

Unsustainable business

FAO assesses state of world fisheries

AIIB
Lea Diehl

Lacking standards

Civil-society organisations complain that AIIB does not take account of human-rights violations

Land ownership
Lea Diehl

Casting light on land deals

Land Matrix Initiative makes data available to global public

Land ownership
Lea Diehl

Fighting for livelihoods

Land grabbing affects those people worst who need land most desperately

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Imran Mukhtar
Pakistan’s rural infrastructure is inadequate
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Whose development?

Poverty Reduction

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

Africa must move on from subsistence farming
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

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.

Annexation as a political goal
Living between hope and helplessness
Fundamentally different fundamentalists
How indigenous spirituality matters
Soviet-era borders cause trouble today