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African road systems tend to be poor: truck in Tanzania in 2010.

Humanitarian logistics

Making aid more effective

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by Helmut Baumgarten
by Hendrik Blome
Biggest wind farm in Cape Verde.

Energy transition

The windy islands

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On average, a village household in Myanmar spends about 20 hours a month collecting fire wood.

Sustainable Development Goals

The global dimension

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by Tetsuro Yoshida
by Noriko Shimizu
Wind farm in Morocco: the government wants to boost the share of renewables in the country’s energy mix to 42% by 2020.

Review essay

Germany is not alone

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by Achim Neumann
GIZ household ­survey in Burkina Faso about the use of improved cookers.

Market analysis

Measuring sustainability

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by Marlis Kees
Almost all rural households have electric power in Vietnam, but supply still tends to be unreliable.

Renewables

Rural network must improve

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by Do Thi Bich Ngoc
Smuggled petrol is sold on the highway between Cotonou and Porto Novo.

West Africa

Insufficient fire wood

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by Karim Okanla
Rally against higher fuel prices in Jakarta last year.

Subsidies

Counter-productive policy

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by Anthony J. Jude
After the civil war in Burundi, most of the rebels surrendered their weapons to the military.

Burundi

The acid test

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by Gesine Ames
by Jean-Marie Vianney ­Kavumbagu
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