Swedish food retailers source asparagus and other vegetables from Peru. These are popular products among Swedish consumers. While the agro exporting companies in Peru use 90 per cent of the groundwater, local population has access to water at best a couple of hours a day and at worst only once every two or three weeks. According to new research conducted by Diakonia and Swedwatch, lack of water causes diarrhea and other diseases to spread, small-scale farmers to leave their lands and sometimes violent conflicts to occur. 

Please join us at the launch of a new Diakonia- Swedwatch report, to watch a short documentary from Peru and discuss the roles and responsibilities of different stakeholders.