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Water issues get more international attention than soil issues – irrigated Peruvian smallholding.

Land tenure

Conflict prone

Jamaica has made  the WHO’s Water Safety Plan part of its national regulations, protecting drinking waters as well as natural resources: Shaw waterfalls in Ocho Rios.

Infrastructure

Safe supply

Managing migration
In Africa,  many grand parents become surrogate parents, raising grandchildren  whose parents died of AIDS.

Demographic change

Specific health problems

While diplomats discussed climate matters in Qatar’s capital, Typhoon Bopha hit the Philippines.  According to media reports, more than 700 people were killed: a banana plantation after the storm.

Media response

Merely 15 %

Peruvian Mangos on sale at a German supermarket.

Tropical fruit

Untapped potential

Social and economic success: Decentralised water kiosks in Kenya.

Empowerment

A social benefit

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