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Beniaján, Murcia, Spain. Alejandro visits his uncle's house, that has been taken away by the bank. Once unemployed, he was unable to pay the quotes and his house taken away. However due to a loss of market value on the property, the bank gave order to foreclosure his mum's house as well, in order to fulfill the loan.

A boy on a horse at the El Mediodía farm in Bragado, Buenos Aires Province. The Bragado family has occupied this land since the end of the 19th century. Currently they have over 1800ha of land, which they use to produce corn and soya. They also keep 350 horses for contests and shows, and employ an in-house horse breaker

The surroundings of Totcomana community.

Parvim Megum, 28, with her sonMehedi Hasan, 8, in the house they live in Rangpur's riverside. British NGO Practical Action promoted a project to use governmental land on the riverbed, which comes afloat only during dry season, for low-income families to plant organic pumpkins which they later sell on their own. His parents, Manik and Parvim, comes from farming background, but being extremely poor had to settle in the inundable area on the riberside, which forced them to move over 10 times in the last years. Parvim joined the project in 2012, before she used to rent a piece of land for tobacco, maize and cereal. Since joining the project things got better for the family; currently they both work on the pits, and last year they made 650 pumpkins which gave them 24.000 tk in 6 months. With the money they bought two cows.

Mara Quintieri, 23, relaxes on the pond after a working day at “Naturaleza Viva” organic farm in Guadalupe Norte, Santa Fé province. She went to the farm almost a year before as a volonteer, to learn about organic farming with the idea of eventually having an organic farm of her own somewhere in the country. The farm is run by three of Remo Venica and Irmina Kleimer’s kids and they plant anything that is possible on this environment, but mainly wheat and sunflower, fruit trees, and vegetables. They also produce cheese, yougourt and jams and send their products all over the country.

Albert Guix, as the image of VOLANS band for their album De Prop

A group of shoe-cleaners, most of them from Guatemala, wait for clients and chat around at Parque Miguel Hidalgo in central Tapachula where local residents, recently arrived migrants, street sellers, musicians and comedians share the busy space on a weekend afternoon.

Anwarul Islam, 40, on the riverside in Rangpur. British NGO Practical Action promoted a project to use governmental land on the riverbed, which comes afloat only during dry season, for low-income families to plant organic pumpkins which they later sell on their own. He works together with his wife on their pumpking field, which runs over a 6 months season. Besides the fields, they were also given at cost share a water supplying machine, which Anwarul uses for irrigating the pits 2-3 days a week. The rest of the days he also supplies water to other farmers, such as jutt, tobacco and others, which gives him an extra cash of around 10-12.000 tk over the 6 months of the irrigation season. The rest of the year he uses the machine for rice crops, to separate the grain from the straw.
They used to live by the riverbank, but as the pumpkin project started to roll they were able to afford a house in a better area of the community, a bit further away from the riverbank and thus more safe from floods and erosion. They also were able to afford a drinking water well in their house.