The introduction ends by the following question: Who is responsible for the deteriorating health of farmers, and the pollution of their rural environment, which made them susceptible to many serious diseases? And how can the institutions of civil society contribute to the formulation and adoption of several policies, in order to improve the health of farmers?

by Connie Berry
http://www.sierraclub.ca/national/programs/health-environment/food-agriculture/campaign.shtml?x=558#fair
Canadians love coffee because it winds us up in the morning, while wine can help us wind down at the end of the day.  Both these centuries-old beverages persist as accessible luxuries in our culture.  
But wine has a much higher perceived value than coffee.   Let’s try to figure out why by looking at a range of factors that one might take into account to assess value.   Which beverage comes out ahead? 

The United Nations has deemed 2003 the International Year of Fresh Water. Last March the World Water Forum was held in Japan to remind the World of an increasingly developing crisis. Half of the world’s population is living in unsafe sanitary conditions without access to clean water. A report, drawn up by the World Commission on Water for the 21st Century, estimates that three billion of the world’s most deprived people live without access to proper sanitation. One billion of them have no access to safe water at all.