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Agua ecosistemas y agricultura

This issue of the magazine addresses the problem of water scarcity in small-scale farming in a context of increasing population growth, urbanization, industrialization and exploitation of natural resources.

Water is life, but it is a scarce resource that is distributed unequally. Only 3% of water on Earth is sweet: 2% in a state of ice and 1% liquid. Population growth and economic activities are increasingly demanding good quality water, but its availability is threatened. Climate change significantly affect the hydrological cycles in spatial and temporal distribution. In many parts of the world, competition for water has become a prominent problem. Farmers can not exist if they do not have a secure source of water. However, nowadays many of them have to have struggle because of scarce resource of water.

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