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The World Food Programme and the International Center for Biosaline Agriculture launched the MURUNA project in Iraq, exploring collaborative pathways for water resource management and climate-smart agriculture, providing scalable solutions for food security in arid regions of the Global South.
Saudi Minister of Economy and Planning Alibrahim presents ten years of reform achievements at UN forum, revealing how developing countries can transform national visions into measurable progress on Sustainable Development Goals through institutional self-assessment.
The African Union's Kampala Declaration commits to transforming agri-food systems, but historical experience shows that youth participation often remains superficial. This article analyzes from a governance perspective why granting young people actual decision-making power and accountability is the key to success or failure.
The United Nations has declared 2026-2035 as the Fourth Industrial Development Decade for Africa (IDDA IV). This article analyzes the opportunities and structural challenges facing Africa's industrialization from the perspectives of global development governance, ESG synergy, climate finance, and regional integration, and explores new paradigms of international cooperation.
The United Nations has declared 2026-2035 as the Fourth Industrial Development Decade for Africa, emphasizing the key role of industrialization in Africa's sustainable transformation and global prosperity, and calling for international support.
The latest World Bank study shows that female farmers in sub-Saharan Africa are 7% to 77% less productive than their male counterparts, resulting in billions of dollars in economic losses each year. Closing this gap would not only enhance food security but also significantly reduce poverty and promote inclusive growth.
World Bank research shows that female farmers in sub-Saharan Africa are 7% to 77% less productive than male farmers. Closing this gap could unlock billions of dollars in economic benefits and significantly boost poverty reduction, food security, and inclusive growth.
A global development analysis based on the latest research in Nature Water, exploring how to balance equity and efficiency in transboundary water resource systems through the Atkinson welfare function, using the Zambezi River basin as an example to reveal the path of achieving great equity through small sacrifices and its implications for sustainable development, ESG, and international cooperation.
FAO releases the most comprehensive dataset on women in agrifood systems to date, revealing structural gender inequality from five dimensions, providing precise governance tools for policy intervention, ESG investment, and sustainable development goals.
Based on the latest research in Nature Communications, analyze how subnational human development inequalities amplify climate-related disaster risks, and explore their profound impacts on global development, ESG investment, and climate governance.
Kenya called for a significant increase in climate-smart agricultural investments at the Global Business Summit on Climate Change, pointing out that climate shocks have become a reality and that the vulnerability of African agriculture will impact the global food system. The article analyzes the climate finance gap, the urgency of adaptation measures, and Africa's potential in global food security.
Based on a new study of 84 years of US poverty data, analyze the policy and non-policy factors behind the significant decline in poverty, and explore its implications for global development, ESG governance, and sustainable development.
A regional war does not only alter geopolitics; it also redefines the risk boundaries of the global development model through the chains of energy, fertilizers, food, shipping, and financing.
At the Global Poverty Reduction and Development Forum held in Beijing, Liberia called on the international community to shift from short-term aid to long-term investment, reflecting the global poverty reduction agenda’s shift from project-oriented approaches to system building, from governance by averages to prioritizing vulnerable groups, and also highlighting how climate, debt, food security, and employment issues are reshaping global development cooperation.
Liberia’s Minister of Agriculture called in Beijing for global poverty governance to shift from short-term aid to long-term investment, reflecting the Global South’s new demands for development financing, resilient systems, agricultural transformation, and measurable results.
The LEGO Foundation is investing US$97 million in children’s education in conflict-affected areas. On the surface, this is a charitable donation, but in fact it reflects an increasingly important shift in the global development agenda: in environments where war, displacement, and prolonged fragility coexist, education is no longer merely a tool for “returning to normal”; it is infrastructure for sustaining social resilience, children’s well-being, and future human capital.