SDG 12: Responsible Consumption and Production

Natural resources should be used in a sustainable and efficient way, waste should be prevented or recycled, and food losses should be reduced. Companies should minimise their social and environmental risks.

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Nature’s bounty

Why drones are joining chickens and bees in boosting biodiversity. A visit to the Núñez family farm in the Dominican Republic.

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Portrait photo of Marike de Peña, Director of Banelino

Interview

‘Biodiverse farms will be better prepared for climate change.‘

An interview about business and biodiversity in the Dominican Republic with Marike de Peña, Director of the Banelino organic cooperative in the north of the country.

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Agenda 2030

Nothing less than the ‘transformation of our world’ is at the centre of the 2030 Agenda. Economic progress worldwide should be in harmony with social justice and the protection of natural resources.

Since its adoption by the United Nations General Assembly in 2015, the 2030 Agenda, together with the Paris Climate Agreement, has been the guiding principle of German development cooperation and the overarching framework to which GIZ aligns its work.

The 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations

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