help feed south africa's booming city. africa want to get jones good to have you with us and was starting with a fall out from the powerful cycling that hit mozambique killing hundreds of people and leaving a trail of destruction across ways of south east africa the damage to mozambique and infrastructure including pylons that carry power to neighboring countries may take weeks this has exacerbated rolling power outages in south africa where state owned utility eskom is struggling to bring faulty generating units back online. cold beer sorry you're out of luck there's been no electricity for hours. thankfully the kitchen has gas burners and there's still some daylight. for this small johannesburg restaurant it's a matter of life and death some days there are numerous power cuts they've already thrown away five hundred euros worth of meat and bags of ice can only function so

long as a stopgap measure oh. please. insert . this for years south africa's power stations have been neglected as a consequence of mismanagement and corruption so the state owned energy company has had to limit output causing power cuts the subject dominates the national press the power outages are having an adverse effect on south africa's already struggling economy. traffic lights are out and mobile phone networks down transmitter masts also need electricity these are the worst cuts in years those who are able to prepare in advance count themselves lucky luckily we've got it you know right we are self-sustaining. when it comes to power but we did something that we didn't budget for but not all businesses can afford to do that and many of them are heading for. dire financial straits. he grows the. drivers out

of the make my. person for that or. just weeks out from the national election the south african government says it's tackling the problem but so far there's no sign of an end to the destruction. now africa is the continent with the fastest growing population and it's also facing the same phenomenon seen in other parts of the world people are leaving the countryside to move to the city so does it make sense to continue growing food in rural areas whether consume us or elsewhere some say no it's time for urban farming instead. why go shopping when you can grow your food yourself turned into a good band he cultivates lashes spinach and herb's on her of rooftop garden she's part of a co-operative that uses the farming technique called aquaponics. proponents say it

produces yields three times as high as conventional agriculture she says the system has many advantages there is no water we stayed here. in new even a drop of water with the system there were too low to put this goes inside the cones break it goes inside and combs the new kid not to go on the floor. and other benefits of the farming method is that it self-sustaining this makes it less susceptible to the changes in the weather and hence more resilient to the effects of climate change members of the co-operative have also begun selling their produce at the local market is vegetable connoisseurs say they can taste the difference. so do we need to rethink agriculture well that's one of the questions currently discussed at the global food summit in munich in southern germany where i'm now joined by. head of the u.n. world food program's innovation accelerator good to have you with us so this summit

i believe focuses on a lot a lot on you to acknowledge in the ugly culture sector how do you support such innovation. we are the world food program looking for startups innovations globally so we're looking for those disruptive startups that can help. feed the next billion on this planet and also anything from anywhere on this planet we can apply in developing countries they can make it their friends towards zero hunger is what we're looking for and we're providing them with funding hands on support but also access to networks that we have over eighty countries across the globe ok well africa of course is sadly still very much associated with hunger but it's also a very young continent how big a role the african startups play in it. so start ups are really have the power to transform the sectors that we are active in

now we see a lot of young entrepreneurial people also in africa that really want to make a difference and they bring the passion of khalid to the table to give you a couple of examples points we had in our program a start up called hello tractor that's tractors that really brings the efficiency of kind of western agriculture to small the farmers in nigeria right now and a couple of other countries or talking about cold helps it's a cold storage start up it actually increases the shelf life of vegetables for instance for people who cannot afford it bridget but also for example using farm drive is an extended from kenya that use alternative credits were integrating people that currently don't have access to credit into the normal financial marketplace and we see that a lot of that happens both on producing food prints boarding food but also how you can actually then consume it ok so there's

a lot of diet dynamics there and just briefly if you want to do you see urban farming eventually becoming equally important then rural farming. so urban farming when you talk about hydroponics or politics growing plants without soil is a very attractive technique hydroponics what you think use is ninety percent less water than traditional agriculture and you don't need choice so you literally can grow it in your home in your back garden in also for poorer families they can actually know produce nutrition that they have access to but they don't have to buy in markets and they can even sell the surplus products so it's definitely one of those areas that could transform the world both investments but also for instance like think about climate change we will have more of these production methods that we need in future ok banhart the head of the u.n. world food program's innovation accelerator thank you so much. and are just some

other global business stories making the news. bias shares have plunged after us profound to that a reach killer the company owns maybe links to cancer the product in question is called round up it was made by monsanto which by acquired for sixty three billion dollars last year the verdict came as a surprise and there are many more lawsuits in the legal pipeline. european union regulators have find a google close to one and a half billion euros for abusing its market dominance the misconduct involved favoring its own price comparison results in searches the take giant says it will now stop the practice in the e.u. it's also about to make it easier for android users to choose a different web browser on their phones. in saudi arabia is hoping to raise twenty billion dollars to promote this area. as a tourist destination the site which last month hosted its first ever hot air balloon festival is famous for its pretty islamic heritage sites promoting tourism

is one way the country is hoping to diversify its economy away from oil. i mean this is from across africa a gathering of the moroccan city of marrakech for a united nations conference on economics top of the agenda is a plan to introduce a free trade area across much of the continent if implemented the said will include forty nine countries and boost intra african trade by an estimated thirty four billion dollars the week long event will also focus on education and digital industries. now that if the delegates don't get lured outside into the sunny weather because morocco gets around three thousand hours of sunshine each year it's a commodity in abundance and in a few years forty percent of the country's energy is expected to come from solar and wind as well as large scale energy producing facilities smaller companies are also working to supply remote rural communities. there's next to nothing in the mountain village of top draft in the high atlas they water no electricity no

telephones and this family's been eagerly awaiting the arrival of solar engineers show wired a robe a of his colleagues the panel is installed on their roof at a cost of a few hundred euros. nearly dinner energy is pretty expensive for us and we don't have much money so we hope this is going to improve our lives when. it's almost ready a cable from the panel is pulled into the living room where she wired i overpay screws in the family's first like. it's a great feeling for me when they can say we finally have light basile to what is there i did there is wonderful in the evenings we could never see anything even if they were cockroaches in the pot now we're happy. the following morning down his installation team set off for was us out is one of the hopes of southern morocco

and is where his small business is based. the twenty eight year old entrepreneur employs four people and his business is booming. but who knew he was as that is the solar energy capital of the world and that's because a new massive power plant or. more were do that. from a distance you can see the high tower of the facility known as nor that's the arabic word for light because morocco has been relying on imports will most all of its energy its countries now counting on such major projects across a huge area seven and a half thousand mirrors surround the tower focusing the sunlight on to it this generates temperatures of more than a thousand degrees. the it all up by the nazis for saddam all we have no fossil fuels in morocco or souls that at the moment at the same time our energy needs a growing. so the ideal solution is renewable sources and i government is committed

to them. but it can't all be high tech i'm cutting edge now the donkey is saddled and it's time to return to the mountains and the next house and his team. now how would you fancy attending a conference devoted entirely to pastries and sweet treats now that's exactly what's just kicked off in the moroccan city of casablanca the international forum brings together professionals from the confectionery industry the aim is to highlight the importance of the cafe and restaurant sector it's also an opportunity for morocco to promote its own unique sweet snacks. yeah me and that is your business brief on africa here on t w thanks for keeping us company.

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