they seek shelter. rising. the floods are coming. hello and welcome to the mangers 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 view environment stay tuned ok with me is my charming colleague 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's bringing. to south africa she has. an organization in cameroon teaching people how to use water responsibly. and after 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 her family's animals out to the grazing fields but that's just one job she do today. as a few accessories for her next job as a wildlife conservation insist. 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. well i had one 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 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 anyone 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. well i know my dog i was on the most adventurous we have lions elephants and other dangerous animals and been i do feel anxious as i 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 and 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 drink as.

the consequence is in fact. of creating a commodious whatever disposal areas. are in a very secure environment. because security is assured. 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 germ 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 pass the will 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 from one litter 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 planting it as well for them it's not just a business opportunity promising good returns the plant is also easy to cultivate and 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 an proteins and determines to your

goods and cereals. martin talk from denmark thinks the seed can serve as a nutritional mia one it's own. it also grows well an arid regions of africa. in twenty seventeen the second year of a terrible drought in africa ninety eight great fondness plantings of fifty kilos of seed we brought element out of suitcases all succeeded at growing chia. chia. encouraged by that success toft now raises money to provide seeds to thousands of promise in africa for free. like them. if you're also doing your tell us about. visit our website or send us a tweet. do you've been sharing 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 where the farmers all of a gonna to market their production foster even ones who live in remote areas is the idea working have a look. kerim a small community in northern ghana. farmer joshua tangay used to struggle to sell his approach 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. i have here bob barr eggplant and green bear bear and vegetables. it is dry season over here and i just finished have as done my maize. and rice and i sold it out to santa and the 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 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

had about close to ten thousand farmers for this 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 you. 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 elian sees and will make sure that we take them through all the activities that they need to get high yield or your goal do you realize that most families do a lot of tiling in production and also when they got their greens. libby didn't pay much attention to it didn't care little about where to thaw ate

how to drive ate. 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 agra 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 are 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 their income by about twenty five percent. if i don't said to me what happens far as i want to sell at fair market prices and if i was fair market prices are good with money to be able to tickle your family or to even reinvest a portion of your farm. joshua tangle 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 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 up with. seventy thousand square meters of metal waiting to be scrapped the more than two and a half thousand cars here have been discarded by their home is like this evokes wagon the owner of the passat diesel is here to scrap it. in the aftermath 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. still works perfectly just passed its inspection but of now a least a new car so this one can go to. the junkyard will even pay him something for the

used parts but 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 scrap their old diesel car and buy only a new environmentally friendly a one. components like the engine are removed and later sold well at least they're being weak cycles. so i'm sure to be really pains me because a car like this one it's only got forty seven thousand kilometers on it if 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. karin 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 for one also i promised him i'd look for it here he will each of you say 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 simple history of. 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 junkyard back to the roads of africa where washing cars and other things of course will wish to 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 their water is often was to them necessarily but habits are common in many households ses mark canned the thirty two

year old who wants with the energy or water heart. for what he called people to call it the. bomb uncle job if you're washing your plates and letting the water run that 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 really the association seeks to teach simple ways to save the precious resource. fadden greenwood has asked friends like matter of present 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 the women knowledge the trashmen puddle 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 reserves. because these will 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 sees 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. 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 noise field activities fire 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 is one. model and placed 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 federal tax the opportunity to explain to her the environmental cause behind the fashion statement. because it's still so i received this chart i've learnt a lot about what is behind this logo things that i didn't know before. solstice and going to see. 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 air to the district where fighting his

friends have repaired a well that has changed the lives of the thousands of people who live in this neighborhood. boulevard in 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 screen there is where we used to. make efforts have been made to make the drinking water point attractive for deal believes that with the better planning it should even be possible to optimize water distribution to individual households in the district. of 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 all create a reserve one where we can still water more prominent. drinking water for oil that's the idea of the heart of the war to have the association and the energy or

hopes to soon extend its activities beyond come iran's borders. now with three kids in madagascar fresh stocks have been on the decline for a long time in local coastal waters but in remote 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 i can only remember it's midnight one kilometer off the coast of madagascar. the aqua farmers of temple of they are signing in as they head out to their sea cucumber pens. but 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 glue 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 gram threshold required to send them to market. one one collect two hundred seventy grams to divert the biggest. news of all no 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 are 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 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 experiencing a certain degree of prosperity. what. my dam serafin was one of the first to start farming in two thousand and nine. before the sea cucumber fans i have no way to improve my standard of living. and. setting up my own pen i've earned enough to send my two children to school. so that . and i've been able to buy some noise 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 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. and 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 algate and bacteria and things like that.

this is where they breed the animals to be raised in the bay it. will meet young sea cucumber costs the farmers in temple of a 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 learnt a thing or two i certainly did for now this is fallacious and just be signing off from jo'burg south africa see you next time and empty your bag goes for you to. thankfully sure i'll thanks to all our viewers out there for watching if you have questions all comments or just want to know more about our program then visit our website all the social media platforms are now inside me from lagos nigeria filmic style.

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oh. this is deja vu news live from berlin children trapped in a collapsed building in nigeria the three story block south down in the commercial capital lagos some children have been pulled from the rubble but scores more thought to have been buried. also coming up a debate is underway in britain's parliament ahead of a vote over no deal brags that lawmakers must decide today whether to crash out of the e.u. without a deal it's a scenario prime minister theresa may has tried for true years to avoid just as he was trusted to.