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Why Moroccan hash growers rarely reap big rewards; how onion prices affect Indian voters; a Brazilian day care centre mixes toddlers and pensioners; and France's only Gypsy mayor

Morocco's Rif region is often marginalised - and it is a hotspot for cannabis farms and the hash-processing industry, as Emir Nader discovers. Pascale Harter introduces this and other stories of community and cultivation from around the world.

As India's immense election season comes to an end, Ritula Shah talks to an onion wholesaler in Lucknow to find out what the price of alliums has to do with the electoral chances of Narendra Modi's BJP.

Ana Terra Athayde visits a centre in Rio de Janeiro where the under-5s and the over-60s look after each other - and bring joy to each others' lives. It's almost next door to the notorious City of God neighbourhood and sometimes you have to dodge gunfire, but there's no mistaking the love inside.

And Chris Bockman finds out what plans France's only elected mayor from a Gypsy background, Michel Soules, has in mind for his community in Berriac, near Carcassonne. Can he clean up an area blighted by crime, grime and low expectations?

(Photo: Marijuana grows in a field in the Rif valley, Morocco. Credit: 麻豆社 2019)

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Sun 19 May 2019 16:06GMT

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