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Trade

In early March, the German Federal Government adopted a draft “Law on Corporate Due Diligence in Supply Chains”. The so-called due diligence law creates legal certainty for business and strengthens human rights…

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Livestock

DLG Eurotier 2021 was held as a digital platform in mid-February. This was the first time it was organised in a digital format. Over 41,000 participants from 128 countries joined the online events and visited the digital…

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Governance

A study commissioned by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, titled “The Role of Open Data in Fighting Land Corruption: Evidence, Opportunities and Challenges”, of January 2021 has arrived…

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Who do farmers in rural Nepal turn to for advice and services such as agricultural inputs, machinery or loans? The answer, if they are given a choice, is not one single entity, but a variety of actors, depending on the…

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Plant breeding

How to feed the world in times of pandemics and climate change was the topic of this year’s Global Forum for Food and Agriculture – GFFA. The Expert Panel of Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)…

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Organic farming

Results from long-term comparative farming systems research of the Swiss Research Institute of Organic Agriculture FiBL and its partners in Kenya, India, and Bolivia reveal that profitability and productivity of organic…

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Agribusiness

The Covid-19 pandemic had a considerable impact on global supply chains and the provision of food, especially in the countries of the Global South. At the GFFA 2021, a panel of experts discussed the challenges which…

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Agriculture

Wild tea that grows in Laos’ rugged landscape is harvested by smallholder farmers. Swiss Development Cooperation (SDC) is assisting them to strengthen their organisational capacities and agroecological knowledge, thereby…

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Women

Women in rural areas are triggering great changes every day despite many obstacles. As part of the special “ONEWORLD No Hunger” initiative of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ),…

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Health

The COVID-19 pandemic is having a widespread and severe impact on some of the world’s poorest people, according to international research conducted by the Alliance2015, of which Helvetas is one partner. The study…

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