The second Issue of the Journal of Adult Education is launched at a time when communities on the African continent and beyond continue to experience difficult, and often extremely harsh, socioeconomic issues. We live in a time of unprecedented climate change which is affecting farmers worldwide and limiting food production. In addition to this, the war in Ukraine has had a devastating impact on supplies and prices globally.

Germany's tenth National Education Report was published on 17 June. The report is jointly compiled every two years by a group of authors from six research institutes and statistical offices, including Prof. Dr. Josef Schrader and Jonathan Kohl from the German Institute for Adult Education.