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Water

Switzerland has longstanding experience in transboundary water management. This is the focus of the Blue Peace initiative.

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Biodiversity

Through intensive dialogue between local communities and policy-makers and application of the IUCN Green List standard benchmarked to Other Effective Conservation Measures (OECMs), the International Union for…

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Water

There are dozens of tools to keep tabs on the safety and quantity of water flowing to communities around the world. Satellites can remotely monitor the flow of water. Simple chemical tests can reveal water quality.…

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Biodiversity

Hunger and malnutrition are widespread in many parts of Africa and Asia. An international joint project which also involves Swiss Development Cooperation (SDC) seeks to improve the situation of people at local level with…

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Gender

A new strategy for a feminist development policy was presented by German Federal Development Minister Svenja Schulze in Berlin on the 1st of March. The strategy is aimed at guaranteeing women the same rights and access…

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Germany is stepping up the support it provides to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in preserving its tropical forest. The Congo rainforest is the second largest in the world; it is rich in biodiversity and…

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Agriculture

Switzerland and Ghana have signed a climate protection project to offset the CO2 emissions of the federal administration. This is the first climate protection project in the world to be implemented abroad within the…

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Forestry

The German Federal Government is launching new projects on forest conservation and reforestation in Brazil and contributing another 93 million euros to the Fundo Floresta – a fund which can provide money for forest…

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Innovation

The topic reduction of post-harvest losses was introduced using two hybrid, interactive formats at events in India and Côte d'Ivoire at the end of 2022. At CII Agro Tech India 2022, the Indo-German Chamber of Commerce…

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The Senegalese non-governmental organisation Enda Pronat has initiated a multi-stakeholder partnership which is to promote an agroecological turnaround in Senegal. The NGO is supported by the German World Peace Service,…

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