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Advancing Sustainable Development through Education in India

As defined by the Brundtland Commission, "Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs". Read on

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Lighting Scenario in Rural India - Dark Nights in Bihar

Bihar is a state in eastern India. It is the twelfth largest state in terms of geographical size and third largest by population. 85% of the population lives in rural villages. Official statistics show that kerosene is the only source of lighting for about 89% of the rural households in Bihar. Read on

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Bitter truth: Biodiversity and the business of food

In this year of biodiversity, stop and think of how it touches our daily lives – in fact our bodies and our self. We rarely make the connection between biodiversity of plants and animals, which we celebrate in the wild and our culture of food and lifestyles. But it is important to make the linkage – as disappearance of biodiversity in the world affects our bodies. Read on

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Social Entrepreneurship in India – Changing the life of the poor

India has the world's second largest labour force of 516.3 million people and although over the past decade, hourly wage rates in India have more than doubled, the latest World Bank report states that approximately 350 million people in India currently live below the poverty line. Social entrepreneurs can help alleviate these issue by helping those less fortunate towards a worthwhile life. Read on

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What is "Fair Trade"?

Fair Trade is an organized social movement and market-based approach that aims to help producers in developing countries to obtain better trading conditions and promote sustainability. Read on

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Microfinance

Providing the entrepreneurial poor with credit to help them overcome poverty was the underlying motive when Muhammad Yunus, the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, founded the Grameen Bank in 1976. As the bank itself states, the word microcredit is today employed in many different contexts by many different actors and thus means “everything to everybody” . Read on

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The Right Livelihood Award - The Alternative Nobel Prize

In 1980, the journalist and professional philatelist Jakob von Uexkull felt that the Nobel Prize categories were too narrow in scope and too concentrated on the interests of the industrialised countries to be an adequate answer to the challenges now facing humanity. Read on

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The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are eight goals to be achieved by 2015 that respond to the world's main development challenges. The MDGs are drawn from the actions and targets contained in the Millennium Declaration that was adopted by 189 nations-and signed by 147 heads of state and governments during the UN Millennium Summit in September 2000. Read on

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Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) – The societal responsibility of companies

The voluntary compliance of social and ecological responsibility of companies is called Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). Read on

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Land and Conflict

Up to one quarter of the world’s population is estimated to be landless. Since decades, peasants and indigenous people all around the Globe fight for their land-right. Although most people spend a large part of their lives in places where food is produced, they rarely own their own land. Read on