Roger Peltzer
On January 24, Friedrich Merz gave a keynote speech on his foreign, security and development policy ideas at the Körber Foundation in Hamburg as part of the Global Leader Forum. It was remarkable that he – like the previous governments
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The AA recently published its Africa policy guidelines. Roger Peltzer comments that the guidelines largely reflect the current state of the political debate on Africa. However, one would wish that the relationship with China, the largest competitor in Africa, had
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The destruction of tropical forests in Brazil has had its day as an argument against agriculture and agricultural trade. Agricultural engineer Ingo Melchers, who worked in Brazil for a long time, assesses the EU-Mercosur Agreement from an agronomic and Brazilian
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Dear readers, dear friends, Fernand Ousmarou, 22 years old, a newly qualified cotton farmer from the village of Ngong in northern Cameroon, has recently set up his own business, bought land and is now growing cotton, maize and peanuts. This
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Roger Peltzer comments on the results of the 5th German African Business Summit on December 3, 2024 in Nairobi: How can Germany systematically support economic development in Africa beyond investments by its companies? In the competition for markets and political
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The Federation of German Industries (BDI) and the CDU parliamentary group are united in calling for German industry to receive more support from the BMZ for its investments in the Global South and for development cooperation to be at least partially tied to deliveries in future. Roger Peltzer evaluates these demands and assesses whether and to what extent the deficits diagnosed by the BDI and CDU actually exist.
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Interview with Bernt Hagenlocher, Senior Investment Manager in the Business Support Service Team of DEG Impulse gGmbH, a wholly owned subsidiary of DEG-Deutsche Investitions- und Entwicklungsgesellschaft in Cologne. Can development cooperation (DC) bring about institutional change in Germany’s partner countries?
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Can development cooperation regain public acceptance? Jürgen Zattler, Head of Department at the BMZ until 2023, and Roger Peltzer have published an article on epo.de. Development cooperation (DC) is being criticized. Many people are asking why Germany should spend money
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The “Better Cotton Initiative” (BCI), “Cotton Made in Africa” (CmiA), “GOTS” and “Fairtrade” seals promise consumers of cotton textiles that the cotton used has been produced under strict ecological and social criteria. Is this promise kept? Are the labels comparable?
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Almost 1 billion euros in savings in the BMZ budget, 800 million euros in humanitarian aid savings in the Federal Foreign Office budget: does German development cooperation still have any geopolitical significance at all? Can the BMZ budget grow again
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