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Your food - Their Water Crisis? Peruvian asparagus industry causes lack of water and labour rights abuses: what can Swedish companies and consumers do? Passed

Thursday November 15, 2018 13:30 - 14:00 Globala scenen

Speakers: Georg Andrén , Malena Wåhlin

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.

Organizer

Diakonia, Swedwatch

Tags

Etniska minoriteter
Konflikt
Mänskliga rättigheter
Naturresurser
Ojämlikhet
Trakasserier
Urfolk

Form

Miniseminarium

Prioriterade målgrupper

Gymnasieelever
Studenter vid högskola/universitet
Civilsamhälle
Tjänstepersoner vid kommun
Tjänstepersoner vid landsting/region
Tjänstepersoner vid statliga myndigheter/departement
Förtroendevalda
Näringsliv
Media

Language

Svenska

Sign language interpretation

Nej/No

Lecturers

Georg Andrén Speaker

Diakonias generalsekreterare

Malena Wåhlin Speaker

Researcher at Swedwatch