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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 from south africa she has. an organization in cameroon teaching people how to use water responsibly. and farming in madagascar and how it's moving 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 to do today. as a few accessories for her 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 of have identified and signposted what life and livestock corridos elephants often pass through the area but left alone use the route they can lead to conflates the mama temple 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 it's 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. well now my dog a wild animals adventurous we have lions elephants and other dangerous animals and been i do feel anxious as i walk you can run across animals at any time and we don't even know what to do to save our lives these are the challenges and don't worry at all if you have. 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 thanks to the presence of drink as.

the consequence is in fact. of creating a commodious what the disposal areas. are in a very secure environment. because security is assured. is a concern. troll when just patrol. and there they are an entire herd with a drop in portraying they have become more relaxed in the presence of people. 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 cause 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 how fast a job a family depends on it the small sum she receives from one liter in 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 is it to cultivate it seeds are packed with protein and this week's doing a bit 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 earn proteins in britain means to

your goods and cereals. martin toughed from denmark thinks the seed can serve as a nutritional meal on its own. it also grows well in our dreams of africa. to two from the sea in twenty seventeen the second year of a terrible drought in africa ninety eight for a pharmacy planted fifty kilos of seed we brought them in our suitcases all succeeded at growing chia. chia. encouraged by that success toughed now raises money to provide seeds to thousands of farmers in africa for free. if you're doing your job you tell us about. our website or send us a tweet. 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 through young men and i had an idea for digital platform. allows the farmers all of a gonna to market their products fast even ones who live in remote areas is the idea working let's have a look. i. can remember is a small community in northern ghana. farmer joshua tangay used to struggle to sell his progeny useful but now he earns 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 it gets. hard here bob barr eggplant a green bag and valuables. it is dice is in order here and i just finished have as done my maize. and rice and i sold it out to santa and their payment was done right on my my my phone through mobile money. garners capital acra 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 startup 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 treat it 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 app to 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 oh yeah. we realise that most families do a lot of trial and in production and also when they go to our greens. libby didn't pay much attention to rate their care little about where to store it

how to drive eight. and because of that they did a run 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 startup 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 the farming practices that were right before us tanks like alf atlas application. haha that stand in. 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. if i don't sell to me what happens far as i want to sell at fair market presence and the farmer is a fair market price is too good with money to be able to tickle your family to even reinvest a portion in your farm. joshua tangere is not worried that he now depends on a virtual broker for him the benefits of 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 and forcing bans on diesel vehicles under government has been paying a premium on scrapped diesel cause that means that there are some wonderful auto parts to be had let's go over that. 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 owners 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 on net him around seven thousand. still works perfectly just past its inspection but often at least a new car so this one can go. with. 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 one. components like the engine are removed and later sold well but least they're being weak cycled. through culture and be 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 it's not complete and. 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. car in maybe new was lucky he found the back door he needed for a b.m.w. in togo. go out like this was stolen from my brother for on also i promised him i'd look for it here. is he going to 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 super. bowl of. german drivers only an average of eleven cars in their lifetime their 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 good german junkyard back to the roads of africa where washing cars and other things of course will wished 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 take a look at this week. oh. in many parts of come iran's capital young water is often was to them necessarily bad habits are common in many households ses mark canned the thirty two year old

who works for the energy or water heart. for the record flood waters off cape cod called. bomb control if you're washing your plates and letting the water run that you're wasting 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 in greenwood has asked friends like mark to represent what i heard out in the field. we are going to our households now we go door to door to raise awareness in the population within the national trust me federal set up the association nearly two years ago every day he walks to encourage people to use water more efficiently. this is rain water we need forms you collect it in basins yes exactly and this is

tap water drinking water this is where we put our major reserves. because in the attempts to educate people on how to get water where stage faddle 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 the people in this neighborhood for example don't even have a regular supply. of them you're so happy simply when the water starts flowing because it's not always the case you have to understand. to help with the energy always feels activities five bill has introduced a line of cloth thing called mr portable three months after the brand was launched it 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 plugs when a customer places the order we send it directly here one. model i'm blessed her order two days ago via what's up all she had to do was choose the color and patterns for the t. shirt she wants for adult text the opportunity to explain to her the environmental cause behind the fashion statement. you remember because you can still say i received this shark's i've learnt a lot about what is behind this logo things that i didn't know before. through go through the sequences. in addition to raising awareness the water heart association advocates for access to water for all by promoting the developmental water points like in the air 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 brought in low to get water will still have to go very far to get to the spring there is a river flowing down here and the screen there is where we used to fish water. big efforts have been made to make the drinking water point a truck to have for deal 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 one where we can store water more prominent. drinking water for all that's the idea of the heart of the water had to association and the energy all

hopes to soon extend its activities beyond come iran's borders. now in turkey it's a lot of gusto for stocks have been on the decline for a long time in local coastal waters but in. the country so 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 eco farmers and face the fear challenges on the way. it's 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 who were its employees weigh the sea cucumber to make sure they meet the four hundred grams. threshold required to send them to market. one one hundred seventy. there are rules safeguarding the hatcheries we work this 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're allowed to catch them because they feed on the sea cucumber as. these rules are designed to protect the sea.

before the aqua farms were set up over fishing 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 experiencing a certain degree of prosperity. what. madame serafin was one of the first to start farming in two thousand and nine. before the c.q. come to france i had no way to improve my standard of living. by setting up my own pen i've earned enough to send my two children to school as he said. and i've been able to buy some nice unusual things for my house i also have

a herd of goats now. feed. 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 sea cucumber as. it's a pretty special creature it's a scabbard 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 and bacteria and things like that. this is where they breed the animals to be raised in the big.

young sea cucumber costs the farmers and 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 it. 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 to. thanks felicia and thanks to all our viewers out there for watching if you have questions or comments or just want to know more about our program and then visit our website although it's not enough social media platforms are now its i phone lagos nigeria still next guy.

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