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Economy and ecology

The Global South doesn't need a new agricultural model

With the worsening food shortage worldwide, this week’s UN Food Systems Summit has to deliver more than refinancing rotten agricultural projects

By Jayati Ghosh

Pxfuel

Economy and ecology

Agricultural workers are left out of Europe's Green Deal

Extreme weather events create dangerous conditions for farmworkers. Europe's political institutions need to include them in a just transition

By Kristjan Bragason

Reuters

Economy and ecology

A new Washington Consensus

Five years ago, the G20 launched the 'Compact with Africa'. It turned out to be just another iteration of neoliberal imperialism

By Martin Tsounkeu

Reuters

Economy and ecology

Making CO2 pricing socially just

The EU's planned increase in CO2 prices will have a financial impact on individuals and companies. Who deserves compensation?

By Thieß Petersen

Reuters

Economy and ecology

Apocalypse or cooperation?

The perfect storm of Covid-19 and climate change will create more instability. But international cooperation can still avert the worst-case scenario

By Jayati Ghosh

Economy and ecology

Towards global progressiveness

In the 1970s, Global South countries wanted a ‘new international economic order’. Now, we need a new agenda for progressives in the 21st century

By Branko Milanović

Reuters

Economy and ecology

To tackle today's crises, we need transformative realism

Neither gradualism nor moral activism will solve today's major crises — from Covid-19 to climate breakdown. Instead, we need a broad social coalition

By Marc Saxer

Reuters

Economy and ecology

It’s not all about care

There has been a macroeconomic blindspot in feminist narratives of the pandemic. This unwittingly limits the scope of critique

By Brigitte Young

Reuters

Economy and ecology

South Africa's never-ending crisis

The violence in South Africa is the result of decades of economic hardship and institutional failure. The government must abandon its austerity agenda

By Busi Sibeko

Reuters

Economy and ecology

We live in the era of system change

Our current way of doing politics has reached its limits: considering the tectonic societal shifts of our era, a transformative approach is necessary

By Markus Engels