rose must health in this country. what do they want to change in this society? full of contrasts. the indian aides stuff. june 5th. i'm d w the a quite a few environmental activities. the realize that's slowing down is one way to leave more sustainably. we'll proceed how simplifying a lives and thinking creatively can reduce our impact on the not through weld. welcome to eco africa. i'm crystal lives in lagos, nigeria, the modem was culture of convenience, has a very damaging effect. what if we do things differently? i am some drug of homes that we know do joining you from the complex right to in

uganda. here is what we have coming up. and inventive use of this, i quote, robust bundle is a new gun. and ations fishing method still use of the cost of denise yet. and an artist who believes that even from the land is the key to include life. but we begin to show in the democratic republic of congo, a country, the fences, multiple environment of china, cheese from the impact of mining deforestation. on the 14 to water pollution, we went to like cube on the border to run to, to meet a young man was trying to clean it up. joseph hydro banga is in a good mood. even though the job he's doing today is not exactly fun. for several years now, he's come out regularly on lake keyboard in use for rogue boat. together

with other members of the green helmets team, he collects the plastic weight. let's go face it out with teen. it was because this is a routine for me now. every week i set aside 4 hours of my free time to clean up, like even the cut them cut blue. don't do much. i cherish this lake. i was born here and grew up here. it's part of who i am today, auntie onto the like you said the most good was people, but it's badly clumped up with plastic. rubbish. also lines the color river which feeds into lake cuba. here in the city of because of environmental experts. you've learned that tom papa has long been monitoring the problem. the garbage is gone, terminating the water, and he's concerned about the impact of the worsting pollution on marine life liquid se counseling not easily disease, surpassing the month. the consequences are enormous,

not only for the human population, but also for the question population. so mid the sick and for rule out there shouldn't be a nursery for fish and a young they should come here to reproduce. don't see, but unfortunately it's a place that's already polluted the mass. so these fish, of course, have to leave the area. yep. on why is it west so slow to believe that the fleet, a citizen, the democratic republic of congo has no functioning waste collection system every day. thousands of tons of plastic waste and up in illegal landfills or strewn about the place of the situation is the pre catastrophic in many parts of the country. locals have recently noticed a significant decline in them. bozza, a saw dean that's native to like cuba. populations will likely continue to dwindle unless the lakes cleaned up. this would have far reaching consequences for those

who live from fishing here. this makes the work of the green helmet activists all the more important. dozens of garbage collectors, comb, the city for plastic bottles and take them to a collection point where a man of off the team pays them accordingly to the amount they've gathered. a bag of garbage such as the equivalent of the trust fund, a one year old guy, the 90 say this work and helps me a lot because when i collect the bottles, i help my family that you know cool from the bottles of then sorted by brand the aim is to best way to the companies that to make them to support the initiative. the plastic that's collected is then used as construction materials. this floating platform produced from bottles was made by the young activists. the plan is to build a much larger project based on their model. t lot tokyo will be an artificial

island over 1200 square meters in size. and 6 in the middle of the lake city see, will implement the new cities to this is where we're going to set up the initiative called de la toe pete, off walk, which will be a hotel complex. it will have 6 guest rooms and a multi purpose whole way conferences can be held to raise awareness of the problem of drastic. but you really did up with the shoals principal at mullin, police helpless teacher. but in order to make that happen, they need to collect 2500000 plastic bottles. that would be a lot of woods, but the green helmet group is nothing if not the 2 event, a fishing tech specialist on school. and especially when it is done using palm leaves, it might not sound as efficient as using nets, but it is an ocean to fishing method, but it's still practiced in to me is, is click on the island. exactly sandra,

where there is no shortage of palm trees. it's called stuff fission, and it's especially environmentally friendly. our reports, i went there to find out how these amazing tradition works and if it can survive in today's well the see is a couple of the 2nd time. today. he's once again heading out to going fishing, using an angel technique found only here on the kind of items of tennessee is east coast. it's called sophia and involves catching fish with the help of palm fronds. almost shortly for lenny i'm, i've always worked at sea. when i was a kid, i went fishing with my dad and the 3 of them. and when i finished my studies and returned home, i automatically went back to fishing was done in the past age. sophia is arranged as a triangular barrier. the palm fronds can be seen in the shot, a waters around the occupy, like

a fishing technique relies on title currents to drive the fish into the traps. unlike fishing troll is the sha fee, a don't com, the marine environment. instead they present a bio diversity. they have an answer, but i think, but i think the problem with the dragnet says that they don't allow anything to escape with the palm branches, fish, find holes to swim through harbor hotel. in fact, there's really that people, it's friend. i mean guinea does is also on board. he's not a fisherman, but an artist. and he's fascinated by this ancient fishing technique. traditionally, it involves the use of date, palm branches for guinea, does they to a part of the kind of islands, cultural heritage in his studio, he creates various products to sell using different parts of the palm. this nadine has by the basis of the care, kenny and shot c. a is a cage that inspired me to create decorative objects for indoors and outdoors. i

tried to retain the original look how was i that he sees himself as an ambassador official here in 2020 unesco, declared it pulse. if humanity is intangible cultural heritage, it's also linked to angel traditions and cultural practices. up on i was using this method as a basis for my project without really knowing how it works. once i learned more, i fell in love with the c panel. but times have changed some now use plastic traps is that cheaper. others have abandoned the practice altogether. is time consuming. and industrial fishing has decimated fish stokes. so the hole in the shelf, you has also plummeted. but some fishermen are actively campaigning to preserve the tradition, especially because it works in harmony with nature. and the palm branches get fish

somewhere to hide and live. it's an ecological method that preserves and respects the environment and we'll have a valid via this fisherman. the lead shot fia will continue just on the test of time. us the fish cool this way or false superior to the catch from industrial fishing. good. what's the sure brought to assure a live? that's why they're considered to be of better quality than those caused by other means. you know, you to put on high quality fish is an important source of income for the occupant of go on an added draw of the tourist to visit the islands. but for allie a couple, sophia fishing is more than a trade. it's positive, good. 10 is unique, cultural identity. that's now at risk of disappearing. was looking at the past. all our ancestors had a shop to. yeah. just keep coming in from the viet when you come in, they would build it up over the summer months. you should the today having a shots here requires significant financial capital and for the, for the money,

the money, unable or unwilling to invest. and so she fishing continues to dwindle, even though it's so sustainable from sufficient or fishing to mode in agriculture all over the world. farm is angry and have been taken to the streets to protest. what are the reasons for their wrong? yeah, and what exactly do they want and what unites them and what goals to climb you'd have to deal with it. let's talk the investigation in euro thomas has been out protesting, seemingly non stop the life of your rep from portugal to not for you to remain in front of the know me. there was so many specific e rules give them and then the and we can no longer produce at low prices. about people obviously. so it's, we want things to change because this business has a passion in fronts. in germany. the demos have focused on the reduction of diesel

subsidies. he's a how can i add these bismark with cultural diesel refund to one cent per liter mentor reimbursement of 25000 years for us to have the most us, if we lose the subsidies? now i really don't know how will make him his meat. thomas in greece is still reading from floods in 2023 and one foster compensation for damage from natural disasters. and hungry and poland. farmers were angry about impulse of cheap grain from ukraine, of the rushes invasion, the waves terrace on ukrainian grain and to produce as a measure of support the government. why didn't talk to us about that. we kind of wasteful to share the power of pilot vomas'. don't you call the diesel subsidies? flood damage is will grain in ports, farmers feel abandoned by the government and from a financial perspective, this might well be true. since the fact that over time in agriculture tends to shrink relative to other sectors of the economy. stuff on the phone,

chrome on telemundo is an agricultural policy economist and a consultant to the world bank and several national governments. and this is true almost everywhere in the world. i can't think of any real exceptions. the european fonts are dying out, decreasing by roughly a search since 2005 still 8700000 people worked in european agriculture in 2020. and that doesn't include seasonal workers. thomas worldwide face higher rates of mental health problems compared to the general public in europe in the us. the foaming population has shown elevated suicide rights being a farmer as not only having the job as a farmer, but really. ready giving, giving all in agricultural, economist marie from my us, our research is the social side of sustainable feed systems. it's a way of life and that's why it's so much not a bubble. small problem as a struggling us, they lose relevance in our economic system, which in many ways, stocks against them. the well across the value chain is not to distribute its

enough fairly mand yvonne even a flex. it's a federal ration. advocates for european farm is and farm workers. anything else and be thoughts manufacturers. a good thing, like the biggest share of the volume, which is produced in the ugly 4 to 6 top and bottom of some sort of on what goods which are like in the bottom of the book. these probably would change. giant supermarket chains have most of negotiating power for prices, european commission, so they found the almost o e u. food chain supply is reported experiencing at least one form of unfair trade practice. we have seen a lot of good deal, miserable prices. how about box to the was when corporations care about nothing and only about price says, you model, you often price us. and then the or international trade deals like to propose you mca sore agreements with less than american countries. pharmacy to increase

t agricultural inputs produced to follow a standards they have been yeah, they were allowing food and that's not made the way we do it had with us all small the price negotiations with supermarket, some manufacturers and not getting well like on this to be so we're asking for all this to be put on the table, the one on for swift, concrete responses, also copy this because the talk it's about frustration is usually the you commission in brussels, which controls another thing from us, present the common agricultural policy o. c. i p for show the system was launched in 1962 to deal with post full feats gas a t in your rep who most 3 quarters of the c a p budget goes to direct payments. the farm is the payments are calculated based solely on how big the form is. the best means the policy rewards industrial firms which tend to be monoculture, corporations, for example, one of your biggest arable farms is accurate cost a romanian serial. producer, you a e invest as voted for ripple,

typically between 2 to 300000000 years. but the phone gets over 10000000 annually and e u subsidies. romania exports a large majority of its grain, meaning the you from these must have fonts is not benefiting the local economy. and most european farms of small aging family farms with less than $500.00 tons of land . you're going to the generation is afraid of help of many eros game. well, we even get the job later on. if the lower is implemented as planned, he's influence us for the full that want complex and a full ready, and to climate goals. europe has loved the plans to become the 1st climate mutual confident by 2050 agriculture is responsible for more than 10 percent of tied to in your greenhouse gas emissions relative to the size or the overall economic importance of the sector. it produces disproportionately a large share of greenhouse gases. the european commissions responded by launching

its own green deal policies to make fruit systems more environmentally sustainable . we can't afford kind of to think about the ext uh, issues of like environmental protection like body diversity, like ethical issues. many of the european farmers protests have targets at a greendale policies such as phasing out diesel subsidies. reducing factor lies are in pesticide use. i'm setting aside land for biodiversity, they say the rules don't compensate them for the income blocks. so that taking too big a share with about and the problem with the policy is that it is a bit, gets a frantic. i'm, if it's meant to be income support, then you should think, you know, we should be targeting smaller firms with low income more and not the big farms because the policy is to reduce the bombings climate to impact. well then, big firm should be getting more payments because

a big farm is affecting the environment on a much larger number of factors. the protests have had some effect. fronts dropped its fuel subsidy costs and the you scrap to plan to reduce pesticides. an e, you trade support for ukraine now contains a measure to prevent too many ukrainian products being sold in east states but it would take move out from us to dress climate change in the long time, such as limiting e legislation to the environmental aspects of agriculture away from farming subsidies, the income support is in the european union, a national policy priority, the social policies or national priorities that shouldn't be coming from brussels. in that case, each member state would support its own pharmacy. it would have more flexibility in shaping subsidies which could support small farms and create incentives and financial support for more logical practices. can seem is,

would also have to change that habits in the you findings. environmental cost isn't fully included in fee pricing. changing that would shift the pressure on low income households. the policy makers are going to have of to find ways of buffering that and distributing the load. but the load has to increase. meanwhile, smaller farm is a hoping for a biggest seats at the table. some of the best ones that are with people who work with the with nature, that's how passionate key to you to people who manage this to 10 offices will the unfortunately, they don't even know what nature is best succeed. that's true. we have probably minutes goes into the set up presented actors or model is um i'd be interested in keeping more or less if that the school it okay then also by differential ones. maybe much shaping quote, the political agenda. if we want farmers to be able to provide all fits sustainably,

it seems that the current system that favors the biggest players will have to be fundamentally reformed. in all next reports, we had 2 fronts to beat a fama was perfectly happy. the only use this old fashion mess, thoughts that most farmers this, these do not have time for those most even have a track to both the police and respecting the environment. it lives from the land that tries completely self sufficient. meet samuel lewis, who has never attended school or taking up a job. he lives in brittany, getting by with almost no money. but we need to cancel the environment. basically, what we need is uh it provided for us by the soil. and if you know how to phone it, you can leave in a beautiful environment to the 7 year old jesus traditional tools to attend to the

3 heck just blocked by using old fashioned ways. he avoids using inorganic from inputs and equipment which from the biosphere, someone gets his various foot supplies from the from vegetables grains and even bread, by rejecting consumer resume, he prefers the cost effectiveness got in and being fully sustained by 8. this document that i think what interests me about spending less time watching for menu . because for me it seems like a cycle of poverty and destruction of my environmental piece to the office, someone on the move. and they want to have time to look after leaving things people, environmental sustainability is key to sign me in. but for him it's even more important to share. he's knowledge with us. he publishes on service books, but teach people how to take care of the environment. someone is leaving his dream, a simple life, and leaving in harmony with nature. and mission is to try and who address the

balance. and just to tell people, particularly younger people, you don't necessarily have to destroy the environment. i'm interested in, cataract. uh, you know, way is as much out taste as a fama on next report features and now the crossover between the odds and the environment. it takes us to uganda. open now to sandra trees. now here and come pull up only 5 percent of guns, which is recycled, and the streets of quite bundling dated august on the zinah island. and now what can you trust is the results. she doesn't even phone to have a key to views for ronda sanders, but people have thrown out the island level kenya is combining a passion for ox. was careful how environments collecting discarded, flip flops is the 1st step to process. she has invented to turn plastic pollution into something useful. uganda,

like many places around the world is listed with hundreds of thousands of plastic slip slopes. this one, this farmer pulls out of his field is about to be given a new creative purpose. newman, there were some i surprised this girl collection and we see her getting our beautiful things will die. so never can. he attends the flip flops into paint, which he uses to make works of art and other objects for the offices. it's a way of coping with the mess. people have been making of the world around them besides the saving of that environment. um we are promoting the culture recycling in our country. so this would be, could be something very interesting if either a to scan actually come on and try it out. as her flip flop collection point never kenya begins to reclaim the original bright colors that's in ties to people to buy

the food with. in the 1st place, scrubbing the flip flops by has leaving them in the sun to dry is a laborious job, but it's crucial for her project. transforming them into art materials. back in the studios, she uses a bell send in machine to reduce the food with to a fine dust, which she collects and mix these with a bind to to make paints. it was such as the reality of described as, flip flops never kenya has been able to create a pallet of both colors with which she express herself. she has also brought in other materials into her artworks such as stripes of discarded vehicle tie is novel, kenya is making a name for herself in the compiler all 12 and internationally with the auction makes from flip flops of slippers as they know locally hot technique is so unique

and there is and that's why i love, i love it because of that text. yeah. and another thing is um, sure. cause of that environment by using the past and t as yeah. instead of binding and, and on filling them my way back to the she turns them into life. never kenya hurts that. how often raise awareness of all effects, a nature and change people's attitudes towards per adults that we no longer have a useful. i'm here to, to save nature. people have mismanaged with a lot and we're here to tell them that this can be interested around and after the functionality that they actually know about, they can maybe do something else on these. this is an ending life and ending life.

besides her paintings, allen never can. you also designs and adult inspection items. uganda and alters this new kid apps all useful her recycled pain. with so many flip flops still to be removed from the environment. she says she could produce house paint as well. i'll premiums idea of making phase by hand and making phase that last. what should all be doing more of that? we hope you feel as expired as we are. by our report this week i have crystal lives in nigeria. a thank you so much for joining us and don't forget to head to an equal off or go online platforms for most stories and, and drop us a line of equal art data view dot com. i am sandra holmes, that we know do the signing of from complex right to in uganda the the,

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