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We have spent decades finding technical solutions for the climate crisis. Yet, emissions have kept rising, and climate policies fall behind the cultural, political and social behaviors, unabling to provide sufficient responses. Our shared aspirations might be bold, yet our...

Have you felt that we have failed to address environmental crises? If so, you may be experiencing anxiety or guilt feelings while you hunt for alternatives to flights for your dream trips. Or perhaps, you have stopped giving such importance...

What happens when Europe’s own development failures mirror the inequalities it critiques elsewhere?Walking through the streets of Albania, whether for a coffee or during an ordinary car ride, one repeatedly encounters small children and teenage girls carrying babies, begging in...

From 2020 to 2024, I worked in Juba, South Sudan, as a property operations manager. My job required close cooperation with local staff, vendors, and clients, and on most days I communicated with between thirty and seventy employees. What struck...

COVID-19 may now feel like a distant memory for many Ugandans following the full reopening of the economy in January 2022, yet its impacts remain visible in the social and economic hardships they exacerbated. In northern Uganda, recent research from...

Review of Egenligen är  Världen Full av Hopp. Trettiosex röster om Det solidariske motståndet mot den globala konservativa nationalisme. Edited by Olle Törnquist, Anna Sundström & Ulf Camesund, Korpen Publishers, Göteborg, Sweden 2025. (Actually, the World is Full of Hope....

November 13th, 2013. A day that changed the course of my life forever- good or bad, that is another interpretation for another day. A young skinny boy, neither full of hope nor despair, arrived at Copenhagen Airport after a long...

When the United Nations adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, it set out 17 ambitious goals to tackle some of the world’s most urgent challenges. Among them, Goal 4 stands out as both simple and transformative: quality education for...

Most Latin American countries are considered democracies with relatively high political freedom. However, this does not mean they all share the same democratic quality. As the European Parliamentary Research Service highlights, Chile ranks among the “most free and democratic countries,”...

In Guatemala’s Zona Reina, Q’eqchi’ peasant women are transforming maize fields into platforms for political participation. This is thanks to the initiative of the NGO PRODESSA to undertake (initiate) agroecology projects. This practice combines ecological, social, cultural and economic principles...

How can a rich forest be protected from illegal logging, while safeguarding the communities who rely on it for survival? Two expert groups from Cambodia and Brazil share how memory, community knowledge and technology can shape sustainability and partnership amid...

The topic of migration has gained increased salience over the past decade, with anti-immigrant parties growing in popularity across the Global North, achieving significant electoral success. These movements have used their increased influence to push for stricter migration policies. Yet,...

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 The Nordic Talks series, funded by the Nordic Council of Ministers, serves as a vital platform for dialogue and knowledge exchange between Nordic and Global South researchers, focusing on practical and policy-oriented solutions to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)....

Anthony Zozimus Sangeda: I work as an Associate Professor, Natural Resources Management, Head of Department, Department of Animal, Aquaculture and Range Sciences (DAARS), Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA), situated in Morogoro, Tanzania. I also work as Deputy Principal for the...

Lars Buur: Thanks for this opening to the Nordic talk: Just give all the money to the poor? - where we have a very interesting panel. Maybe I should present myself first. I'm a professor in political economy of development...

Approximately 1 billion people rely on remittances—money sent by migrants to family and friends back home—to support their livelihoods, according to the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD). The total value of global remittances to low- and middle-income countries was...

The Climate Policy Initiative reported in 2022 that Africa will need $250 billion in climate finance annually until 2030, with UN Secretary-General António Guterres calling at COP29 to transform the continent into a global leader in renewable energy. In Sub-Saharan...

Central Asia is home to over 80 million people but is often overlooked and seen by many as a peripheral region. Central Asian countries also do not feature in classic academic works on authoritarianism around the world. A consortium of...

Integrated pest management and nature-based solutions is an urgent matter to reduce the dangerous use of chemical pesticides in the production of most of our food worldwide. Nepali Professor Sundar Tiwari from Bharatpur, Nepal, dialogues with Danish Erik Jørs, associate...