i'm not laughing at the germans because sometimes i am but most and nothing with the. many things deep into the german culture. you don't seem to think this grandmother did you know it's all about who they know i'm rachel join me to meet the gemini monkey jump. hello and welcome to the latest episode of africa this is. coming to you from the fossil park in lagos nigeria and if you ever wanted to know how you can make a difference in the environment. ok with me is my charming calling from south africa for lucia i know there hi everyone my name is felicia industry and i'm

joining you guys from johannesburg this week you can learn about how women in kenya are fighting for elephants and that's not all also coming up. a man who is bringing food to south africa she has. an organization in cameroon teaching people how to use water responsibly. and i've got farming in madagascar and how it's leading to new livelihoods. mama tembo means mother elephant in swahili it's also an affectionate term some border women call each other and they mean it literally some of them track the animals and do what they can to keep corridos free for them to move about that helps keep the elephants safe from harm but also ensures that both humans and animals have enough access to scarce resources like water.

it's early in the morning in some way to come to kenya. tomo is taking have families animals out to the grazing fields but that's just one job. as a fuel sensor is for the next job as a what life. she used to lead over women group popularly known as mama timbales mother of elephants their task is to monitor the movements of the big animals. at five am i do my chores and then get my children ready for school at eight am i pick up my data forms and the g.p.s. and walk to the wildlife corrido we don't just observe elephants but the other animals to. get the elephants are still their primary interest the paki

dams are endangered in kenya alone between the early one nine hundred seventy s. and one thousand nineties their numbers dropped ninety percent but here in the columb a community wildlife conservancy numbers are now increasing one reason is that pack have identified and signposted what life and lifestyle corridos elephants often pass through the area but left alone use the route they can lead to conflicts their mama timbo take note of where animals tend to congregate as well as any trace of illegal settlements or traps set by poachers antelope trucks and animal conservation organization has provided the women with g.p.s. devices and data sheets the fact that antelope came through here is a good sign an elephant is just an umbrella species as a big animal and if an elephant has enough space to survive enough space to whom around. no doubt other small animals will go under

a fence and this is why we it's been elephant and also the data that we have coming from elephant. things are quiet today but that doesn't mean the women aren't on the lookout they want to protect wild animals but they also have to watch out for themselves. i know my dog i want animals adventurous we have lions elephants and other dangerous animals do feel anxious as you walk you can run across and i was at any time and we don't even know what to do to save our lives these are the challenges i don't worry at all it was. another source of worry is porches the conservancy collects the skull of slaughtered animals but they are finding fewer and fewer of them. life has become a little more secure for the majestic beasts sounds to the presence of i'm drawing just. the console is in fact. of

creating a commodious what the disposal areas. in a very secure environment. because security is assured. is a concern. when just patrol. and there they are an entire herd with a drop in porch ng they have become more relaxed in the presence of people. from a journal we have discovered that the elephant is a friend here anymore and this has also helps the community because the animals have now become very social in the quest the wouldn't pass new homes because every time they passed the would be killed but nowadays they pass new homes without any human interference. in the evening and returns to her foster job her family depends on it the small sum she receives for monitoring the

elephants is a welcome extra income but contributing to the protection of the elephants is very widely felt. maybe you've heard of a plant called chia that comes from central and south america now more and more farmers here in south africa have begun pointing at us well for them it's not just a business opportunity promising good returns the plant is also easy to cultivate it seeds are packed with protein and this weeks during office we introduce a man who had a great idea. according to legend the ancient mayans used the seeds as a source of energy. they gave them the name chia meaning strength. today people use chia seeds to on proteins in pitman's to your

goods and cereals. mountain top from denmark thinks the seed can serve as a nutritional meal on its own. it also grows well in our dreams of africa. in twenty seventeen the second year of a terrible drought in africa ninety eight brave farmers planted fifty kilos of seed we brought them in our suit cases all succeeded at growing chia. chia. encouraged by that success tufts now raises money to provide seeds to thousands of promise in africa for free. like them. if you are also doing your tell us about. visit our website.

do you believe. your story. let's stick with farming for the moment while we move north to gonna like other small scale farmers in africa they have a problem marketing their products because they often just don't have the right contacts or enough financial supports in the end that leads to food wastage because it spoils before it can be sold that's how it was until recently but then two young men and i had an idea for digital platform. allows the farmers all over gonna market their products foster even ones who live in remote areas is the idea working have a look. i. can remember is a small community in northern ghana. farmer joshua tangay used to struggle to sell his produce but now he and enough to support his wife and two children thanks to

a digital platform he's able to sell the fruits of his labor on a regular basis and at a fair price. there's my farm about one and half a case i have here bob barr eggplant a green bag and valuables. it is dice is in over here and i just finished have as done my maize so warm and rice and i sold it out to santa and their payment was done right on my my my phone through mobile money. gone as capital acro this is where the digital platform is based that has helped to make joshua's life so much easier. agra center is an agri tech start up that connects rural farmers with big buyers the company takes up to thirty percent commission from those buyers it's in agra centers own interest to get the best possible prices meaning the small holders also profit so far we've heard

about. close to ten thousand farmers probably fell from the platform. before that they were making less money now i would trade has helped them to increase their income tremendously so the farmers they love us that number back in caroming agro center agents are visiting the village they're here to teach the farmers not only how to use the check market prices but also how to maximize their output environment we give liam sees and will make sure that we take them through all the activities that they need to know get high yield or young girl who we realise that most families do a lot of trial and in production and also when they get our green. libby didn't pay much attention to it did care little about where to thought eight

how to drive eight. and because of that they ran into spoilage and they don't get good market. she's the agents create profiles of interested farmers what they farm how much they produce the company was founded in two thousand and sixteen now agro center operates in fifteen communities in four different regions in the nearby town of boulder tangere the start up has an office where the farmers data processed the platform also provides tips on how to farm more effectively. before we didn't know. much of their farming practices that were right for us tanks like our fabulous application. haha that tended. storage and all those things where very difficult for us and more importantly how to have sold out our produce was

a major challenge. this is agro centers regional storage center from here the farmers produce is sold to big food buyers earlier the farmers had to sell their produce to local middlemen often for a third of its real value. the digital platform has helped the farmers to increase that income by about twenty five percent. but. if i don't sell to me what happens far as i want to sell it for a market presence and the farmer's market prices are too good with money to be able to take on their family to even to reinvest a portion in their farm. joshua tangere is not worried that he now depends on a virtual broker for him the benefits are very real. in our next report we take a trip to a german junkyard it might look a bit different from junkyards in nigeria well here it's

a place where people try to recycle as much as possible some german cities in forcing bans on diesel vehicles under government there has been paying a premium on scrapped diesel cause that means that there are some wonderful auto parts to be had let's go with. seventy thousand square metres of metal waiting to be scrapped the more than two and a half thousand cars here have been discarded by their own is like this volkswagen the owner of the passat diesel is here to scrap it. in the aftermath of the v.w. use diesel emissions scandal because secondhand value has dropped to just a thousand euros a scrapping premium will net him around seven thousand. castille works perfectly just past its inspection but often at least a new car so this one can go to. the junkyard will even pay him something for the

used parts but i'll give you one hundred euros enough for a nice meal that's on top of the scrapping premium of up to ten thousand euros that some comic has ground as a discount when drivers scrapped their old diesel car and by only a new environmentally friendly a one. components like the engine are removed and later sold well at least they're being we cycled. through them for and it really pains me because a car like this one it's only got forty seven thousand kilometers on it it's so clean it could still be on the road for years it works perfectly. that's not exactly saving resources. after it's been disassembled in the first workshop the car is taken to the colleague in the next one usable tires are also kept for

every sale. old oil left over fuel cleaning fluid and coolant it's all disposed of. now the cars are placed out in the junkyard for customers in search of parts about five hundred hobby mechanics come here every day for components. carrying maybe new was lucky he found the back door he needed for a b.m.w. in togo. did you go out like this was stolen from my brother. so i promised him i'd look for it here. work. at the junkyard clients pay only twenty to thirty percent of the price for a new part to undermine my couch for today. the same for. a. german drivers only an average of eleven cars in their lifetime them manufacture

is a curse on the environment but the salvage work here helps improve the industry's recycling balance somewhat. at the end of the day it's time for the road worthy white v.w. to be taken apart its then dumped in the yard to be further devoured by the park minus. from the german junk yard back to the roads of africa where washing cars and other things of course will waste a lot of water as our next report will show but two young men started. that tries to raise the awareness of people about the value of water and take a look at this week. oh. in many parts of come iran's capital yonder water is often was to them necessarily bad habits are common in many households ses mark and the thirty two year old who

wants for the energy or water hard. work of ecological tickle tickle tickle. balm control if you're washing your plants and letting the water run the you was doing water so it's a question of being able to wash your plates or clothes in the right ways or telling the children at home to be more careful with water duplicity and really. the association seeks to teach simple ways to save the precious resource. faddle greenwood's has asked friends like mark to represent what i heard out in the field . we are going to our household now we go door to door to raise awareness in the population is even though you should just watch why do you set up the association nearly two years ago every day he walks to encourage people to use water more efficiently. this is rainwater when informs you collect it in basins

yes exactly and this is tap water drinking water this is where we put our major results. because these can be attempts to educate people on how to get water wastage fuddle and his colleagues often become involved in exchanges like these sometimes they go on for hours people are generally receptive to the advice he ses but there are many reasons why seven water isn't easy for people in this neighborhood for example don't even have a regular supply. something we're so happy simply when the water starts flowing because it's not always the case you have to understand. to help with the engine always feels activities fire drill has introduced a line of cloth thing called mr portable three months after the brand was launched it's sold five thousand articles of clothing mr portable is proving popular with

young people thirty percent of profits are earmarked for the associations activities. this is where we produce all our mr portable clothes when a customer places the order we send it directly here one. model and placed her order two days ago via what's up all she had to do was choose the colors and patterns for the t. shirt she wants faddle text the opportunity to explain to her the environmental cause behind the fashion statement. remember since i received this chart i've learnt a lot about what is behind the slow things that i didn't know before. four thousand and six. in addition to raising awareness the what a heart association advocates for access to water for all by promoting the development of water points like in the it to the district where faddle his friends

have repaired a well that has changed the lives of the thousands of people who live in this neighborhood. who are of the low to get water we used to have to go very far to get to the spring there is a river flowing down here and the stream there is where we used to want our. efforts have been made to make the drinking water point attractive for ideal believes that with the better planning it should even be possible to optimize water distribution to individual households in the district. i fear the water flows all day and night there's water all the time i asked myself can we find a way to channel the water that comes out here so far i don't know maybe we could build something to hold it or create a reserve where we can store water more permanently not want to get in the mountains drinking water for all that's the idea of the heart of the water had

association and the energy or hopes to soon extend its activities beyond come iran's borders. now in turkey to madagascar fresh stocks have been on the decline for a long time in local coastal waters but. in the country's south the people there may have found an alternative. the marine animals are very popular with chinese go maize who are willing to pay high prices for them our reporter headed to madagascar to meet local aqua farmers and face the fear challenges on the way going to. its midnight one kilometer off the coast of madagascar. the aqua farmers of temple over there signing in as they head out to their sea cucumber pens. it's only during a full moon or a new moon that the water is shallow enough for the aqua farmers to go and count their stocks and harvest mature specimens during the day the leathery

a kind of germs bury themselves in the sand the farmers have to come out every two weeks because the stocks are vulnerable to disease and theft. and the ngo blue ventures helped the village set up their farms about ten years ago one of its employees way the sea cucumber has to make sure they meet the four hundred gram threshold required to send them to market. one one two hundred seventy. the biggest. good news of all no there are rules safeguarding the hatcheries we work these out with the breeders. for example it's forbidden to enter the pens of other farmers without that consent all fishing is also forbidden except for crayfish you are allowed to catch them because they feed on the sea cucumber has. these rules are designed to protect the sea. was unemployed and of course it was all met him.

before the actual farms were set up overfishing had depleted stocks in the bay of assassins. today this once again a wide variety of fish along with snails and crabs although seventy percent of people in the country live below the poverty line this village is experion. and so you a certain degree of prosperity. what. madame serafin was one of the first to start farming in two thousand and nine. before the sea cucumber farms i had no way to improve my standard of living. by setting up my own pen i've earned enough to send my t. children to school. so that we can. and i've been able to buy some nice and useful things for my house i also have

a herd of goats now. during the day when the sea cucumbers have buried themselves deep in the sand the farmers come out to clean the enclosures. catherine taylor is one of only a small number of scientists who study c q cumbers. it's a pretty special creature. that they're farming here and it's really valuable on the international market and so bringing it into a community like this and a sustainable aquaculture kind of way makes a huge difference for the people here but at the same time it's also an animal that's vital for the ecosystem in this area it's kind of a natural filtration system for the area because it goes along just kind of hoovers up the sand and then it cleans out detritus and micro algae and bacteria and things like that. this is where they breed the animals to be raised in the bay

a temple. would really need xiang sea cucumber costs the farmers in tampa bay sixteen cents after being harvested nine months later it's worth a dollar thirty on average the aquaculture here not only pays off for the farmers but also benefits the entire bay and the other animals that live in. that's all for today i hope you enjoyed the program and maybe learn to thing or two i certainly did for now this is felicia n.t.s.b. signing off from joburg south africa see you next time and empty your bag goes for you too. thanks felicia and thanks to all our viewers out there for watching if you have questions all commons or just want to know more about our program then visit our website all the social media platforms are now outside before lagos nigeria still make style.

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