Agriculture uses large amounts of water and energy to produce food. Sustainable food production requires greater attention to the interrelated nature of our global resource system. In support of food security and sustainable agriculture, the Food…

Enhancing the universal relevance of SDGs

Communicating the SDGs is now key, not only for their survival during the negotiations in the General Assembly next year, but also for their effective implementation.

Income inequality features prominently in the debate on the design of the post-2015 development agenda. Yet, so far, states have confined themselves to window-dressing, failing to come up with far-reaching proposals to deal with the issue.

The first meeting of the Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation (GPEDC) failed to meet the expectation of starting a new era of equality between traditional and new donors. 

While the European Commission has all the potential to play a significant role in development cooperation, the EU member states lack the political will and courage to do so.

Since their adoption in 2000, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have been the most successful global anti-poverty push in history. They have helped in achieving tremendous progress, including halving extreme poverty, improving the lives of 2…

2014 will be an important milestone year for adapting the policy field of development cooperation to a post-2015 context.

The post-MDG agenda should be based on an alternative theory of development, leading to a simple framework of only three complementary goals: reducing global inequalities, abandoning growth, and enhancing trust.

Safeguarding biodiversity and ecosystem services is essential to meet the basic needs of the poor. But how to integrate them in the post-2015 development agenda?