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In Bhutan, national development is guided by the philosophy of Gross National Happiness. Leaders from across policy, investment and food system innovation met there in the beginning of September to shape a collective…

A new study shows that the economies of donor countries benefit to a greater extent from development cooperation than previously recognised. This is particularly interesting at a time when budgets for development…

Presenting its Annual Report, Deutsche Welthungerhilfe criticised the German Federal Government’s international cooperation budget cuts. And it pointed to ways how hunger can be tackled despite tighter financing…

Various new alliances were presented at the Hamburg Sustainability Conference (HSC). One of them is the South-North-Commission on Global Development.

With their Kompass 2026, Terre des Hommes and Welthungerhilfe are putting the German Government’s development policy to the test.

Ocean

At the Our Ocean Conference in Mombasa, Kenya, new commitments totalling 6.4 billion US dollars were made to ocean conservation, sustainable fisheries and maritime security.

Nutrition

At World Nutrition Day 2026, on the 28th May, FAO Director-General Qu Dongyu called for effective collaboration to ensure that basic, nutritious, healthy, and functional foods are available and accessible for those who…

Environment organisation representatives and members of government bodies and academic institutions met in Bonn/Germany this spring to discuss progress made with the Rio Conventions and what future developments could…

The German government’s recently presented budget framework resolution threatens further cuts to development cooperation and humanitarian aid. Numerous German NGOs warn that this will undo hard-won progress and result in…

Desertification

At their recent meeting, held in Paris from 23 to 24 April, Environment Ministers at the Group of Seven (G7) formally recognised desertification, land degradation and drought as systemic global challenges and security…

Food security

Unless the Strait of Hormuz is opened soon for the transport of critical agricultural inputs, a dangerous spike in food price inflation later this year could trigger a cascade of effects similar to the aftermath of the…

Innovation

How can AI support smallholder farmers? New user testing of FarmerChat in India and Kenya reveals what works, what builds trust and where challenges remain.

Soils

The Soil Values Program and the Regional Hub for Fertilizer and Soil Health for West Africa and the Sahel have announced a formal partnership. They have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to coordinate soil…

The German Institute for Development Evaluation (DEval) has conducted a synthesis study examining the effectiveness of development cooperation in promoting food security, and has concluded that knowledge transfer and…

A bare, eroded area in the middle of a forest.
Land degradation

At the World Economic Forum 2026 in Davos, Switzerland, the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) officially launched the Business4Land (B4L) Champions’ Council, a high-level coalition of global…