Future Challenges team
Future Challenges team
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Too Little of a Good Thing: Social Justice in the USA
This is a guest post by Daniel Schraad-Tischler and Najim Azahaf, who also work with the Bertelsmann Foundation in Gütersloh, Germany. On Friday, March 2, the Bertelsmann Foundation presented for [...]
BBC African land grabs debate
Land acquisitions in Africa have often been portrayed as a development opportunity or as land grabbing. Here is an aggregated page that displays tweets before, during and after a heated [...]
Wanted: FutureChallengers
Global trends might have worldwide repercussions yet the impact they make varies considerably from region to region. So bringing together individual perspectives on a single platform and showing how they [...]
Quo vadis, Euro?
This is a guest post by Thiess Petersen, who also works with the future challenges team in Gütersloh. Thiess’s research is primarily concerned with questions of globalization and the current [...]
Big World, Big Challenges – Can a Big Network help?
FutureChallenges has been invited by the organizers of the Social Media Week in Hamburg. We are happy to present a session on the influence that social media can have in [...]
More and Better Jobs in South Asia
South Asia, which is home to more than 40 percent of the world’s absolute poor, will contribute nearly 40 percent of the growth in the world’s working age population over [...]
Job creation in Haiti key to development
The creation of jobs in Haiti is being seen as a key element in the recovery of the Caribbean island, two years after it was devastated by an earthquake. Listen [...]
Land Grabs in Ethiopia
It is being dubbed the second scramble for Africa: millions of acres of land are being snapped up by companies from Asia and the Middle East, channel4.com reports.
Climate Change Handbook for Regional Water Planning
Developed cooperatively by DWR, The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Resources Legacy Fund, and The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the Climate Change Handbook for Regional Water Planning provides a framework [...]
