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Gender equality

How a transgender tobacco farmer in Zimbabwe is fighting for dignity

In a country where queer people face exclusion, formal agriculture offers rare stability. Yet significant risks remain.

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by Lungelo Ndhlovu

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Herding goats in Ngoiroro, Rift Valley, Kenya.

Food security

Struggling smallholders

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by Dagmar Milerova Praskova
Begging in Freetown.

Lack of social safety net

From valuable to vulnerable

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by Fidelis Adele
By the end of 2012, about 30 % of South Africans were dependent on some kind of social grant: old man in Langa township, Cape Town.

Social protection

The South African social contract

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by Henning Melber
Mothers and children at a health centre in Uganda.

Public Health

“Mental health issues are totally underrated in Africa”

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by Speciosa Wandira-Kazibwe
BU: Family businesses need access to financial services: a Ghanaian taylor.

Post-2015 agenda

“New spirit”

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by Eva-Maria Verfürth
Infrastructure matters – rural regions without access to the railway have not benefited from Zambia’s recent economic growth.

Africa

Not quite on track

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by Lewis Mwape

Namibia

Corrections

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by Claudia Haarmann
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by Herbert Jauch
iHub Nairobi is the model for other African technology centres and business incubators.

Technology

African innovation hubs

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by Eva-Maria Verfürth
Advocates for the guaranteed basic income say that it will result in higher levels of school attendance.

Poverty reduction

Lessons from failure

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by Rigmar Osterkamp
“More than 60 % of the land deals concern countries that suffer poverty and hunger.” Smallholders depend on their land: farmers in Cameroon.

Land grabbing

Damaging investments

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by Sandra Abild