Stories on digital transformation

Climate change, biodiversity loss, the pandemic and the war in Ukraine – food security is under pressure worldwide. GIZ expert Diana Diekjürgen explains the role that digitalisation could play for food security in the future.

In the fertile valley of the Senegal River farmers grow rice on vast swathes of land. The foodstuff is part of every meal in the West African country of Senegal. While farmers use traditional methods and tools, they also rely on digital tools to compete in the market.

akzente is transitioning to become a purely online publication - it’s the logical step given that most of our readers already get their information largely online. Over the last few decades we have evolved continuously, ensuring that we were always in tune with changing times. GIZ Press Spokesperson Ute Schaeffer and Jörg Schindler, who was responsible for the magazine in the late 1990s, talk here about akzente as it was and is.

Vaccines need to be kept cold for them to be effective. A pilot project in Malawi is demonstrating how that can work using digital tools and solar power even in remote african villages.

Born out of the coronavirus crisis, the Team Europe concept now serves as a blueprint for EU-wide development cooperation.