this is the news from berlin i'm sara kelly welcome to the program german chancellor angela merkel and israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu are holding talks here in berlin it is their first meeting since u.s. president donald trump pulled out of the iran nuclear deal netanyahu is in europe

to push for his policy of a hard line against tehran a previous meetings with merkel have been marred by tension for more on that let's bring in our political correspondent simon young who is joining us here in the studio this afternoon so simon tell us this meeting is set to be dominated really by one topic here and that is iran i think that's right because i think prime minister netanyahu would like to have the support of the european countries particularly germany france and britain he's going on to paris and london later and he wants them to see it his way on iran yes be tough reject the iran nuclear deal that has lifted sanctions on iran in return for a closer inspection of their nuclear program but of course benjamin netanyahu says he doesn't believe that's the way forward and he's got the backing. president trump

but that isn't how the europeans of course see it they still think there's life in this deal and that it does form the best way to put pressure on iran but now with the with the united states with israel against the european position when it comes to the iran nuclear deal how likely is it that we will see some of these european leaders that beginning with german chancellor angela merkel. change their positions perhaps often at compromise well you might think there would be because of course one of the big points here was the trade links between europe and iran and the idea that you know european countries companies are just not going to touch iran when there's a threat of action from the united states because the united states has said you know any companies doing business with iran as far as we see it will be you know subject to penalties and punishments from outside so of course iran is not such a big important market so that would be the reason for thinking there might be

movement but i think no we won't see anything like that. on these visits from s. and yahoo what he might be able to get is some woods of support for a tough line it's not just israel that's concerned for instance about iran's ballistic missile program that is threatening israel we've seen rockets fired from syrian territory into israel you remember netanyahu holding up a piece of one of those rockets he said at the munich security conference earlier this year saying you know this is yours i believe to the iranian minister other topics on the agenda simon including syria you know putting a rise in anti-semitic crime here in germany as well where i think there could be both of those topics as i say the wrongs regional role is easy important because there's a all the western countries continue to see that iran threatens the regions as not just a truce. syria where they have

a military presence but also in german as far as anti semitism in germany you mention that's always a context when israeli and german politicians meet and there has been a rise in anti semitic incidence and rhetoric and we've seen just over the weekend one of the far right if tea party leader is talking about the holocaust as if it were just a footnote to german history that of course runs totally counter to via fishel law and what most people say and i think therefore that shows why german politicians want to act more strongly on anti semitism to give simon young thank you so much let's turn to some other news now and jordan's prime minister lowkey has resigned this following several days of widespread protest which drew thousands of jordanians into the streets demonstrators had called for his ouster over his

government's planned tax increases which were backed by the international monetary fund they are the largest protest to rock the normally stable country in recent years jordan's king has now asked the former world bank economist omar was to form a new government. well it's get a quick check of some other stories that have been making news around the world at least twenty five people have been killed by a volcanic eruption in guatemala the country's squiggle volcano sent a stream of lava into a hero by town and blanketed the area in ash thousands have been evacuated from the affected zone just southwest of guatemala city. dozens of people have died in two boat accidents while trying to cross the mediterranean nine migrants drowned when their boat capsized off the turkey and around fifty bodies have washed up on the beaches following a separate sinking many more are still missing. the battle to defeat the so-called islamic state has been one of the most challenging struggles of recent years the

extremist militia captured swaths of syria and iraq and subjected them to a reign of terror but while driving international condemnation and repulsion the group also proved attractive to some a group of german women who joined islamic state were picked up last year by kurdish forces after the collapse of i.a.s. in the fall of its de facto capital rocka they're being held in the kurds by the kurds in northern syria ahead of their possible return to germany we have their stories. their life under the so-called islamic state from twenty fourteen to twenty seventeen the jihadists imposed their ruthless moral code ics on the city of raka torture beheadings public executions were daily occurrences and here is where attacks around the world were planned and managed. sandra moved to iraq and twenty fifteen she made her way there from munich via turkey since the city was

retaken from the islamic states last fall the thirty three year old has been living in a camp run by the kurdish militia y p g in northern syria what i want to say to my government and it's bring us back. this still goes back just bring us back to germany. for children twenty three square metres of space but things could have been worse there is enough to eat and drink and nonstop cartoons for the kids no war no terror sandra traveled to syria because she wanted to live according to sharia law as a recent convert to islam she didn't feel like sept did in germany nor did her american born husband a friend of hers in iraq i suggested they come she said me coming this year mixed. she sent me videos it was very beautiful q. is how you can if you use windows so yes maybe it's. around thirty five

german women and their children are waiting in northern syria to return home their fates are all very similar. left germany in twenty fourteen friends brought her to iraq via turkey she gave birth to a child and found work in a shopping center. for two years it will send a full time so much and everything. and. yeah and it was everything from you knew the halls is the bedrooms every soon because i know in germany i'm not the life you know and when you go old said you must close every scene because i know she claims she was unaware of any atrocities she says the war and the bombs took their toll and when rocca fell her own life fell apart but islamic scholar marwan abouta doubts the women's ignorance he considers them dangerous. that is hard to believe they arrived in rocca and the modus

operandi of the i.s. was of course not just to welcome people but to question them closely then they had to swear of civility. and only then did they get an apartment or a house which belonged to someone who had previously been expelled for. the german women were picked up by the kurdish militia while fleeing rocka the kurds have no interest in detaining these women longer than necessary that's how many miss. every country has to take responsibility for its citizens to take them back and put them on trial. yes they are returned to germany is just a matter of time and they probably will not face any legal consequences as it will be next to impossible for authorities to prove any wrongdoing once they are back they can expect to live their lives in complete freedom. and the syrian conflict is

proving troublesome for germany's chancellor angela merkel she is facing growing pressure over the way that she opened the nation's borders to around a million by currents back in two thousand and fifteen many of them from syria members of the opposition in the german parliament are preparing to demand a commission of inquiry into the chancellor's handling of events at the time they were images that unsettled many people in germany. at the height of the migrant crisis thousands and thousands of people were making their way across europe many of them heading for germany. but despite the uncertainty the german chancellor remains convinced her country could cope with the influx. if they are quite simply germany is a strong country the scene we have to adopt when approaching this issue is that we have achieved so much and we will manage it we will manage it and when we come up against obstacles we have to overcome them was is when there but according to new

media reports the chancellor was briefed by the former head of germany's ministry for migration of refugees you're going visor on how he thought his office was not coping at all he reportedly told the chancellor. in all its professional experience the new management has never seen a government agency in such a bad state it cannot be explained how in light of the state of affairs it could be assumed that bumf could come close to managing the considerable increase in the number of refugees. for one today and knowledges the leader of merkel's coalition part of the social democrats or s.p.d. the new reports don't reveal anything new yeah i know was we all knew that the agency was not really equipped with the resources to deal with the scale of migration at that time but that's why mr visor was sent there in the first place to sort it out. but other social democrats are not so forgiving of chancellor merkel's handling of the situation. mrs merkel is not the federal president she's the

chancellor and therefore has to oversee the running of the government you can't just say that you'll manage something and then by mismanaging the situation and show that the job can't be done at all. and some opposition parties are also demanding that merkel address the allegations including the far right and the immigration alternative for germany party. so much for maine's unexplained it would be smart just as we and the liberal party have called for to have a commission of inquiry investigate. a commission of inquiry would be seen as damaging for the chancellor and there's still not enough support in parliament to subjected to one. time now for some sports news and as the german national team prepares to defend its world cup title in russia the final twenty three man squad has been announced and very on next meryl has been looking through all of the names saying they have

what it takes and we have to talk about first somebody who got the cut which was a bit surprising a pretty well known forward yes leroy son who i didn't even have a you know in the in the biggest list of people that might even be cut he was incredible player of the season was the young player of the year in the premier league won the title with months to city scored fourteen goals nineteen assists and for me was the first choice to start in the left wing a position let alone be in the squad. as you say you live custom from the twenty three man squad and it's very strange thing for me you could argue that he hasn't been at his best in a germany sure he's played twelve games and has not scored a goal who set up any goals in that time and lived did say it was a very close decision between me and yulia brunt who also hasn't been very good in the germany despite being good for his club team so i think it's a crazy decision sun a has undoubtedly got ability one of the most talented young

players in the world in his position and for me it makes the squad a bit weak he didn't bring it in the off your game now we do have a love defense so now everyone was really watching to see who the goalie was going to be of course has not such a big name yes he hasn't played competitively since september and then on saturday night played against austria let in two goals that you can't really fault him for and his fault by just proving his fitness so i think you know it's more about loyalty that as well he's the captain so probably pick some but on the basis of that the other players made the cut and those pages and not as a big fixtures in the team before if we look at this team overall now do they have what it takes you think to defend their title they certainly do although i would say that leaving sunday out is a reduction in quality i think it is a player that could have added something else he could have on the big stage maybe performed well for germany even though he hasn't previously for germany still go into this tournament as defending champions and with one of the best squads you

have to say that they're one of the five favors for the title x. now sharing your expertise on the soccer pitch we thank you so much for putting it all into perspective last thank you. and with that you're up to date now on news i'm sarah kelly and by then thank you so much for watching have a great day. sees the private sector and profits from such alliances. and do they really help the needy. politics and profit. the business of development ain't. next on c w. would it have been fighting for the case to take you seriously in the world of what appears was coming out women's talk about doug. the female super hero. smart talks smart station a legend increasingly dangerous time for w. for my. book.

more than eight hundred million people around the world are thank you by extreme poverty and hunger. in sub-saharan africa almost a quarter of the population is undernourished in spite of government development aid coming from industrialized countries and. private businesses are now getting more and more involved in the fight against poverty. responsibility has been shifted from the public sphere into the hands of corporations and the market the corporations are the new. saints the new paladins of development in food security you know we just blow the whistle and they will come in and out and save us all.

more and more major western banks and businesses are getting involved in development aid and they're doing so with government support. in twenty fifteen member states of the un general assembly resolved to eliminate extreme poverty and hunger worldwide by twenty thirty with the help of the private sector. but does this new model of development aid work would it really benefit the needy or does it just serve corporate interests. we take

a look at several examples in east africa in kenya zambia and times in the. fall. we're about to visit a business in the kenyan capital nairobi that receive support from frances state development aid agency a.f.p. . its subsidiary proposal and other european development banks back to fund with forty five million euro's it's in turn invested two million euros in the nairobi place business european foods africa. development banks such as profile coke were originally set up to fight hunger and poverty but in this case state development funds mix with private capital and of

being invested with a focus on financial returns. the kenyan company european foods africa sells ready made pizzas made by the german firm dr and imported from germany the business bought modern cold storage rooms with the money from the fund the company owner is a german who lives in nairobi six years ago stefan bell had the idea of selling frozen pizzas from germany in kenya. because you can't take in normally arrives here in a container each container holds roughly twelve thousand pizzas we store several different types here and deliver them to supermarkets and grosses. me out of supermax a good reason then to expand the company we now have to find more locations so we can supply more i was leaving when i was there for. the investor expects stefan

belzer to expand but isn't it a ludicrous idea to support the marketing of frozen fast food with development aid money. more and more consumers in nairobi the switching to ready meals but only affluent customers can afford a doctor at kopete so. you can skip it takes me to drive frozen pizza was definitely very expensive here compared to germany to get a pizza here costs around seven euros eighty in germany i think they retail for two euro's fifty two three euros but. the two million euros in development day money isn't supporting local production but the import of european goods the steel for him of a new investment will be the goal of the fantasy company our investment group is for us to attract the attention of other international companies who might like to

sell their frozen products through us and use our warehouses and distribution chains. fatah along. than it is this is not a local development aid he doesn't support the economy in the individual country he supports businesses in germany or in europe its aid for foreign trade and. i think development aid money is there to fight poverty strengthen state structures and support health care and education but the reality is that more and more supporting foreign trade. european development banks invest expectancy of just fifty two in the northeast of the country a huge oil palm plantation has been set up it measures twenty thousand hectares in total and also features a mill to obtain oil from the fruits the operation is run by zambia's biggest agricultural and food processing company zambia.

thirty five million euros well known to zambia by several development banks in europe including the german investment and development corporation d e g a subsidiary of the k f w development bank zan beef used some of the money to found a subsidiary example. is their project which do is in. palm trees to produce as quickly or from. started in late two thousand and eight. we had our first glance at it in december two thousand and eight. which told us a lot of plans that to be we tried to plant in two thousand and nine. the plantation started off with major problems a consultant had recommended the wrong type of palm tree then it became clear that the soil was too moist for oil palms the company had the water table lowered by one

point two meters high expenditures for all this prepare a tree work were made possible by the learn from d g. why would d.e.g. invest in such a dubious project. in some if. he has been investing in the zombie for years because of the name and zambia is an important business in zambia as agricultural sector. on the contributes to food security and food supplies in the country like you want you know and it generates employment in a marginal region and gives the people there an opportunity to work. at the start of mention are by. zambia from ploy six hundred workers on the oil palm plantation during the harvest but only one hundred forty of them are employed year

round everyone else is a seasonal worker. critics say that for investment sums of such magnitude the gains in development should be significantly higher. than when you ask d.g. about such projects they always say it's a great example of good development aid they never address the criticism they just brush it off. many questions have been posed to the german parliament about d. g.'s role twenty seven organizations submitted a petition calling for d.e.g. to be required to publish information about its involvements and loans. that the basic problem with d.g. is that it's a black box we don't know what it gets up to because it doesn't publish it's not accountable we only find out about a.g. activities through n.g.o.s or journalists through to research on site or through

concerned citizens who go public and that's how we find out that something's gone wrong with the projects that she felt. since the first of january two thousand and fifteen d.e.g. has published its investments and the names of its clients on its website you can find a lot of information there about our investment to join but xampp power doesn't show up on the d.g. website research by the anti hunger n.g.o.s ffion showed that ten million euros flowed into the project the d.g.a. only confirmed that after queries but it's still unclear what environmental and social standards xampp ahmed he is to the loan is also ecologically controversial four hundred and thirty thousand pounds were planted in the swampy area as the farm manager proudly reports. if local

authorities he was nothing we did not stamp in it in him it was just a plan and then i don't think he will we have put trees if you want to break through so then he does the hundred foot if that is just one of it it is quite a number of good that will return to where there were no trees every year in december more trees are planted the idea being to continue until all twenty thousand hectares of full draining the marsh land releases large amounts of carbon dioxide which negatively impacts the climate but the plantation isn't just ecologically questionable event huge palm oil plantations are sponsored with loans from d g there are charges that people have been driven off the land that promises haven't been kept such as building schools and clinics. before the plantation was created there were forty five families living around the lake xampp arm resettled them that's the official term at first the three village elders were reluctant to

talk about it on camera. grainy you know we got on the boat if we reset down with the village chief when sam pong came to discuss whether we would agree to have them here number we agreed in the hope that our situation would improve as a result. he didn't really know. chief copper who officially distributes the land was given a tractor but the population is still waiting for the business to make good on its promises the clinic sampan promised eight years ago the police station the school. after some hesitation the village elders expressed their dissatisfaction. the new school was never built to only have the old state school here you can see

it over there none of the things some pom promised have been built not the school not the clinic not the police station they would like to work with the body station . the plantation manager confirms the plans for a clinic and a school but he won't talk about it on camera. sam beefs management also refuses to grant us an interview the company says it will answer in writing once it has all the facts but that still hasn't happened. what does the lending d.g. have to say. with less far as we know no promises were made the question always is to what extent should a company that pays taxes to the state also invest the dition early in this social infrastructure in the sense of china in fact to invest young. to it the second man effort to talk with the we want to see progress before we die especially us

three. or four. spatially we really we want to see that our children are getting ahead. stefania that we've left something good for them i shall call for more for more obvious. companies aren't required to build clinics and schools but in regions with poor infrastructure that's what they often promise so as to gain access to land sam palm isn't the only farm run by sam beef in the northwest of the country the company has another large farm on ten thousand hectares the village of member is close by a land conflict has been smoldering here for more than a decade fifty families were forced out by the previous as a company. the villagers fought back during their protest march the fence of the plantation was

destroyed. francis come under and a neighbor were arrested and spent ten days in police custody initially they were to be sentenced to five years in prison but the zambian president intervened and they were released however they had to pay a fine of seven thousand euros for the broken fence. however they did the grown food you need to give them for their food for the toad to eat nothing so i think you. angry. well we need to go back to it and there was no worth of fun so if you let your land is given back twice what do you do about it. you know i mean don't you one ward there was a situation in the past where the local populations claimed it had access to this land and was allowed to use it and on that and the small can do often doesn't even

fit in for instance in this. case it was government land it was legal for a zombie for get this farm and this concession some beef farm deforms and so on hard not. the village community except the case to the high court in two thousand and four which decided in its favor. but the company appealed and won. according to the constitution the small farmers are entitled to the land their farming but the government sold it anyway the families are facing ruin. some couldn't cope with the years of waiting for a decision the elders lament that eleven villages have committed suicide since that time. or together with if they do badly really live in. when just lots on potential has those days if it's really true that eleven people committed

suicide then that's really sad but there's enough land in the region and plenty of development opportunities for the land so that these small farmers have other options and they don't have to lay claim to land where the supremes court decided that it's for the company to use was the. justice demand the names of. the villages of member can't just go and use other land. the fertile land is taken up by the plantation and the other surrounding areas of forested it would take a lot of work and money to clear the. development dade intended to combat hunger and poverty has worsened the situation here. in the villages are pinning their hopes in the district administration. we are still negotiating with their fans want them to give up at least part of the land which they do not use so

about proper people can also use that land to grow their crops now if we just saw those people where are they going to go. so we just have a win win situation we are all benefits the assumption there and i'm sure you've heard this term is that public private partnerships are a win when we do a fair because everybody gets something out of it there's you know money and of course a bit of profits but at the same time you get efficiency and you get services and you know everybody wins but in fact there is no evidence of this. on balance the residents of member all are the losers with this investment and in other places too european development banks are issuing loans to those who already have money strengthening the already strong now there's an investment fund that wants to combat hunger and poverty.

the africa agriculture and trade investment fund. for short the german ministry of economic cooperation and development invested the biggest share forty five million euros of taxpayers' money along with twenty million from the k f w development bank and twenty million from dontcha bank the funds worth climbs two hundred twenty five million euros. it invested around nine million euros in the company chhobi agra vision in zambia. one of its farms is located in central zambia and is one of the biggest in the country the fund prospectus advertises that are to raises local incomes and therefore food security. and the money was used to set up

a large soy plantation. but here too the land was not empty some farmers were relocated. the majority of the land was forest it has been cut down. on my right hand side behind it you can see some of the natural natural bush forest that was so these particular fields were cleared from that bush. and to do that to carrots and make it just ready to accept planting you probably talking three thousand dollars a hector. in addition to the cost of clearing there were additional expenses of five thousand three hundred euros for hectare for irrigation facilities pipes electricity cables and roads the business was able to expand the amount of agricultural land that could be irrigated by a factor of seven to have a spray year of possible here in zambia but that can only be realised if the water from the rainy season is captured so it can be used to irrigate the fields in the

dry season. that's why the company has built a large reservoir and a pump station but what about the benefit for the local population how many jobs were created with the nine million euro investment. we run this state with with a workforce of one hundred forty seven and that's all inclusive so in the fields as such we probably you know we've only got a workforce off fifty four who work on the two thousand eight hundred acres so we're very mechanized in relationship to two maybe some other crops like tobacco or something like that we very very make about as low labor import. so i would say that the portion of labor to the costs is is negligible as for us and compared to the cost of herbicide of the cost of fertilizer and the cost of water. thomas duva of the investment funds board of directors is pleased with the success most sundays of these hundred and thirty your hundred forty jobs are really secure it's

a stable business for us and the people are earning money and that's stimulating the local economy as a result of intensive. economy i mean. the soil farm as a jobs engine it's not really a convincing argument when the farm was set up the goal was to create sixteen hundred jobs. will be agood vision is far from the german lenders believe they're raising the incomes of the local population with their investments thereby finding malnourishment in poverty. the are to fund claims to be popular with religious institutions orders and pension funds. they want to invest their pastas pensions in profitable ways but the fund won't reveal the investing institutions citing banking secrecy instead. most other investors are not made public. and the funds location for surveys is

questioned. their fund is based in luxemburg the german government said that quite openly in response to a question from me there's no tax on profits there in times when we're discussing the panama papers that's very interesting you go there because you don't want to pay tax. luxembourg is well known as a tax haven. but the german development minister doesn't see a problem. came nutritional to work there are no middleman structures and money doesn't get lost i owe that to the german taxpayer i would have had to fund is registered in luxembourg. it will. take a look at what kind of model it is and will see if anything needs changing. as. the minister evidently doesn't know the art of investment fund. even though his

ministry put forty five million euros of taxpayers' money into it under his predecessor dick knievel. and another tax haven is involved chhobi aggravation is now part of a company whose official headquarters are in marriages an island in the indian ocean known for its lax tax laws. the first thing you should look at with every investment you make is that the company pays tax locally if it's based in marriage years that won't be the case because it's a tax haven that business is trying to avoid paying tax on the fogger and i can't answer questions about corporate tax whether it's due in zambia on the riches in any details he comes in in the tiny font for. if only a small amount of tax remains in the country zambia will continue to be unable to pay for public services. one particular imbalance is created by the risk

distribution of the hour to fund taxpayers alone by the losses then it's good if the fund makes a profit then the private investors collect the profits of privatized losses are socialized the final savan that's the art of principle and that if. the german state is used here as a risk buffer for a company that wants to become the largest so in my eyes and weak supplier in southern africa deutsche bank also benefits from this. it's a must for tool we know what we're doing at if is a step ahead because it's been around for five years now and it can demonstrate a solid investment portfolio since we have the first loan repayments this year will have new means to make new investments it shows investors that this kind of partnership can work on top of. we taxpayers are paying up front so that the corporations can start making

a profit right away and don't have to wait and i find this absolutely unacceptable . the public private partnership model obscures the fact that the interests of businesses and small farmers are by no means the same is development aid really there to support the biggest businesses in the market agricultural companies that fence off huge areas infringing on local people's land use and rights of way chhobi aggravation is done just that on another farm in western zambia triggering a conflict with the local population. so their people you decide. now this company wants to fence off this area. so these people not have access to this what they sow that's where the conflict is . it's not just access to water that's a problem. access to the nearest clinic is two it's obstructed by

a fence. a few months ago a girl was bitten by a snake two villages wanted to take her to the clinic in somali farm but they weren't allowed in. the division you guys were locked out here at the fence so we went to the gate over there but the guard wouldn't let us in he said no it's late and the clinic was closed and i was sure that that wasn't the case because it was an emergency. the guard remained firm the men had to walk to a clinic further away it took them an hour and a half to walk there it was too long. when they arrived the girl was dying. tomorrow a farm belongs to chill b. aggravation the company that works with the art if in vestment fund legally the company isn't required to let anyone on its property. but don't the investors have

a moral responsibility. as it's minus minus one and i don't know about any death and it's important to understand that the somehow a farm wasn't funded by our to find out our money didn't go there doesn't need to go to him the faucet on some glutinous the sawdust myname flushed and it's also my understanding that this fence was needed to demarcate the property because there had been too much trespassing on a private land that would have harmed the agricultural production. then on to. the villagers say they feel treated like slaves they're suffering under the situation. if you would shoot a more stone or more and why the girl left us just because of this family if there least gave us a small gate then we could get to the clinic faster instead we have to walk around the fence and take the long route to the other clinic. that has severe consequences

for us and so we lost one of our own. stories. this case shows that such public private development projects can in fact make things worse for the poorest of the poor. there is no does that was we know that places that don't have clinics or schools or roads that are built by the state and therefore accessible to all because of this family if they are least gave us a small gate then we could get to the clinic faster instead we have to walk around the fence and take the long route to the other clinic. that has severe consequences for us and so we lost one of our own. stories. this case shows

that such public private development projects can in fact make things worse for the poorest of the poor. does that was we know that places that don't have clinics or schools or roads that are built by the state and therefore accessible to all will not see development as dot com in the trunk in fact in the state is withdrawing more and more from its responsibility. increasingly it's private investors that are taking over the roles of the public sector. zambia for example invites foreign companies to invest in the areas of health infrastructure and energy as well as agriculture. zambian development agency banks on public private partnerships. government

doesn't just offer lands to big agricultural companies it also gives the investors additional tax relief. henry sakaida runs the zambian public private partnership unit. what the biscay. get does incentives. to import plant and emotionally duty free now obvious businessmen that's a bigger cause for several from the point of if you can put up with a tax cuts. and put up a factory and there were five years to do that. and the joy that's free in dividends. but rich profits after you of. i think that is a positive for when you decide to come down here. the companies remain tax free for five years after they've made their first profits. zambia competes for

investors with many other countries but these partnerships between african. states of global corporations are unequal. the beneficiary governments are the only ones who really have to spell out in detail the policy changes that they will make and which of course are suggested to them strongly by the corporations and the donors in order to create an enabling environment for private sector investment. there are smaller businesses that also want to invest in african countries. another project called develop demonstrates that. the three p's stand for public private partnership the german government's program supports medium sized companies that want to do business with developing countries

the german company equal and herbes received one hundred thousand euros for example it's one of fifteen hundred companies that have been supported with relatively small sums. managing director rudolph burner is visiting zanzibar where a spice farmer is showing him his plantation he grows fruit and vegetables free zone news on one hand he also grows nutmeg pepper cinnamon and lemon grass. and sure this is. really all my pick you know little works with twenty five spice farmers in zanzibar really one ali is one of them. he shows us how cinnamon is obtained from the bark of a tree it grows back after harvest.

this is cinnamon without the outer layer of bark that's extremely important because the bark contains bitter substances so when we export this to germany the quality has to be good that is without this great exterior layer well they can be used for cinnamon chips and in the end it's ground down you know to cinnamon powder. brewed off the alert markets the spices and processes them in the sausages that he makes with the produce a group in germany you can only sell the organic spices in germany if they're certified he uses d.g. support to train the farmers in zanzibar so they can. get the organic certification themselves. a consultant travels to zanzibar three times a year he brings the spice farmers microorganisms that provide the foundation for

a special natural fertilizer. it's going we don't use fertilizers and pesticides in organic farming but we can't just do nothing we have to strengthen the plants. we have to stimulate nature in the spirit of homeopathy that gives us healthier crops. for there's a big demand for demeter products in the middle it's an additional opportunity for our farmers here to produce the best possible spices and to obtain a proper price for them. to call it compiles to become. the spice farmers have always worked without artificial fertilizers and pesticides but these biodynamic compost substances are new to them the advantage is they don't have to invest any capital. is

a big difference for me i wasn't familiar with some of the fertilizers but now my new colleagues have told me about them that's real progress i mean to say dia. dragged me away when i got it farming is better and more sustainable than other production methods that also require expensive fertilizers. or kooky. really moving you're going to hear that yeah organic farming only requires what's already available on the plantation with v.w. one hour we will go as in get out. the farmer is climbing the tree to harvest nutmeg it's important that they don't fall to the ground where they will rot you know. before the partnership with rudolph brewer the farmers maybe sell their spices to tourists that's changed because brewer agrees

a guaranteed price with them in advance. god knows what you are going to. before i joined this project my harvest and my earnings were very low. with team like you but now i own twice as much and can lead a much better life for you how i might really going to whimsically. rudolf bruno wants the farmers to dry the spices so they can be exported quality standards are important for storage and sale the spice farmers are bringing in their pepper today so it's more secure content can be measured. this batch isn't as dry as it should be. done i can turn a blind eye but it should be under twelve. for. the

farmers get a good price for the pepper if it's dry enough nine euros per kilogram the farmer is delivering more than one hundred kilograms today for which he earns nine hundred fifty euros. our two days to go to school about the money to pay with school so we get more money when we see our product. yeah so we have the. only the people who have a good income can send their children to school here but in a society where thirty percent are illiterate even that is enormous progress. when a german company is able to pay them a better price because half of the funding for their project comes from the german ministry for economic cooperation and development unlike other projects the principle here is that the farmers remain independent and get to determine for themselves what they grow where and how.

yeah the family of us as of are going to go or if we think. for generations. you think internal reasons and not all food we're seeing you know to develop nicely because. nevertheless rudolph hasn't come to zanzibar as a benefactor he's here is a businessman the developer program only supports german and european businesses with annual turnovers of at least a million euros and with at least ten employees this model only works in agriculture if the farmers produce for export the spice farmers on zanzibar are therefore the exception the vast majority of agricultural businesses produce for the domestic market and don't benefit from such projects.

why not start from the fact that it is indeed the small scale producers who are the main actors and see what they need to do a better job of what they're already doing so i know tentative rees we have in mood examples. when you go to the norm or not to my chinese or central region tanzania. we have organized people we organized these small scale farmers who we organized by our our enjoy all the while they build to their own market now old people when you harvest gold to seal the own produce said this market the range they decided for the prices when you're good at this center are normally known as the bay were these small scale farmers reach was. small scale farmers need access to land. water and to markets. then they can even

supply cities with a population of more than a million. in africa that's still the reality seventy percent of food for the continent's megacities comes from the surrounding areas. but at the moment small farmers can barely live off their earnings. if they organize they can negotiate better prices. with a bit of support they can set up warehouses for potatoes rice and maize. that way they are not forced to sell their produce right after the harvest to the first buyer who comes along. all of this helps them improve their income and feed their families better than big investments in huge farms. it's the corporations and the big trading countries who dominate the food system and hence have the power and they have the power because they are the ones who

established the rules they are the ones who also do the regulation it deck is really stacked in favor of the corporations and against the small scale producers who are actually the ones who feed the world. small scale farmers free three quarters of the people on the planet two thirds of those who go hungry are small and landless farmers hunger usually strikes at the end of the season when the old harvest is used up in the new crops and not yet in sight solutions to remedy this such as the establishment of collectives were neglected in years gone by not least by state development valued. these say european union events in the ever much nation organisations if they wanted to reach solve the problems of poverty in developing countries they need to consult the software they need to come to the poor themselves because they're

organized into the unknown legal. put the money they're. putting small farmers at the center that should be the main task if we are to get closer to the vision of a global society and eradicate hunger and poverty by twenty thirty. if development aid money influence by banks and corporations goes more to agricultural businesses and big farms then it seems unlikely that this crucial go will be reached.

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