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Beneficiaries of India’s MGNREGA, the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act.

Social protection

How social-protection systems matter in the climate crisis

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by Stefan Beierl
Ugandan vegetable framer: women do most of agricultural work in Africa.

UNCCD

Ecosystems and other land-related resources must be secured

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by Chimezie Anajama
The platform Amitruck links truck drivers and their vehicles with customers

Amitruck

Uber for trucks

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by Sabine Balk
Sabine Balk
Oven production at PowerStove in Nigeria.

Financing

“We consider impact with every investment”

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by Thomas Festerling
by Sabine Balk
Sabine Balk
Textile Partnership Members' Meeting in 2016 with the then Federal Development Minister Gerd Müller (second from right).

Supply chains

Multi-stakeholder initiative held back by industry lobbies

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by Gisela Burckhardt
Bags bearing the Green Button label.

Human rights

Sustainability certifications: stricter criteria needed

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by Gisela Burckhardt
Cotton picker in a field in Sindh.

Labour rights

Dangerous cotton harvest

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by Imran Mukhtar
The shores of Lake Tanganyika are increasingly unsafe.

Global heating

Lake Tanganyika: levees needed

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by Mireille Kanyange
Across Africa, river blindness makes affected persons dependent on other people’s support: visually impaired man in Cote d’Ivoire.

Blind in Benin

In Benin, the blind struggle to fend for themselves

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by Karim Okanla
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