extravagant. posts really know their stuff. with me and stephanie. hardy and checked with sition from all around the world. groups every week doubling. hello and welcome to a new edition of eco africa my name is but my friends call me z. and i'm coming to you from johannesburg and south africa if you want to find out what a national park into for the people who live in it stay tuned and of course to meet

my lovely colleague in nigeria hi this is the yes i'm now tag me here in lagos nigeria are you ready for new episodes here's what's coming up on the show. i'll start something looking up muscle dot com lining up with vegetable farming. a woman from south africa who's fighting against food waste. now solar energy changing rival farmers in the mountains of morocco. now rwanda is of the most densely populated countries in africa and that can trigger conflicts over resources when entire areas are declared to be national parks and many residents worry about their livelihoods the solution is to involve them more in wildlife protection one example the endangered mountain gorillas in the wonders volcanoes national park the tourism they generate can benefit the local community as well as the environment.

we value every dance. tents tourists around the volcanoes national park it covers a hundred and sixty square kilometers and it's the oldest consumption in africa. it's home to a range of species including some that are considered to be in danger of extinction such as thing called in. this law or any other place you find these monkeys apart from southwest of wonder where you find a different species of monkeys but in of o'connell's only you find only caught in mind. so that's why the hobbit went to the monkeys many people. don't know about you can have it with you there. these monkeys are not shy and don't seem to mind being stared that. each group of visitors is allowed to spend one hour of surfing

down. they leave in the past tense forest and like to eat bum believes and shoots the trouble is people illegally come into the passage. to make sure the month of habitat and the main source of food. so that's why we have a planted outside a park for the local community we have those a bumper project also not only being being used for one across but also for protection of the sawyer of erosion control in general that was one way to avoid those people who are targeting the trees in the park. and wonder if the mess to densely populated country in mainland africa and population growth remains high. because. every inch of arable land is now tapped for farming including mountainsides fields and grazing land stretch

a great up to the age of the pack the mountain forests you know of egypt ations on has already been stripped. the for must of new season just a few hundred metres from the conservation area. most people believe the pack used would be a stall feel free to have established the protections on iran the path in which the residents are allowed to obtain and limited amount of food could be a question and humans but only from certain species of tree it is also a feedback process whereby residents share with the authorities the needs and wishes. each district all six all these local people who park the seat and city priorities what they need like water like schools like different frustrated. public clinics so they said their priority that would give them money

in order to make sure that today. what they need. ten percent of the money the pac makes goes towards community projects last year that amounted to more than six hundred sixty thousand dollars which is a lot of money in one day many families and extra money as porters for tourists. and. this is one of the new plans will be legends we have big can meet and make you trust to reach involving local people in caring for the national park appears to be kamal the idea is that if it also benefits them they are more likely to help conserve it it is already the case that fewer trees have been cut down so things are looking up for the golden monkeys as well. chicken fish and salad three distinct species all growing and breeding in perfect harmony in

a small space that's an innovation our young entrepreneur has brought to book in our fossil karen do on bond. causes you need the vice pyramid after months of testing on troubles he's finally been able to turn his ideas into a system that works like others out there is doing his bit for the environment. the agri pyramid is a hydroponic device that combines plant production with aquaculture and poultry farming. the circular system was designed by kevin in book you know fossils capital we're going to call. his prototype is designed for up to six hundred plants two hundred fish and two hundred birds poultry production is located on the top level. the fish eat waste from the birds it falls directly

into the tanks at the bottom of the pyramid the water the fish swim and also nourishes plants like tomatoes or lettuce. the device runs on solar energy no chemicals have to be added to the system. preparing it doesn't require large amounts of fresh water since its design limits evaporation dramatically. of. the system doesn't depend on the climate over quality of the local soil. electric hydroponic agriculture is one way for us to adapt to the phenomenon of climate change because we can no longer rely on brain because just another problem is that much of the soil in burkina faso has depleted. the agri pyramid can be easily installed in courtyards because it takes up little space. kevin hopes to set up at

least two hundred more of the devices in book enough gas so. you know like that. if you're doing your job you tell us about. visit our website or send us a tweet. cash doing your bit we share your story. many farmers in africa still employ. one frequent problem is a habit that on forcing changes in the weather on the harvest can anything be done about it. that's a good question auntie but if you are instance you could drive the grain you've grown directly on the fields sometimes a harvest could be saved that might otherwise be a total loss one company in germany is providing the right tools and techniques to

do it. it's a very simple piece of equipment. and. appreciate just how useful it can be for smallville to farm and. there are no grains remaining over the grains and you can also see that we don't have breakage is this is pretty healthy enough to produce it especially for the african market just because my cereals are still often fresh the way they were fifty or sixty years ago which means a lot is wasted if you can use this waste to far less fuel for those two and no food enough that comes from a. karl-heinz claude grew up on a farm and has spent much of his working life making machinery for post-harvest processing of crops these days he spends a lot of time in africa being there reminds him of his childhood. probably more and

i paid for my first bike with the money. because i'm smart after working on the fiance we've got a wonderful meal but i never forgotten it because we were going to follow you and i wasn't always the case there for a good reason this. godfrey morongo is from zimbabwe he wants to help secure harvests in his home country and elsewhere in africa with the help of modern technology. mobile dryers like this one can prevent cereal crops from spoiling. morongo is setting up a network of technicians able to service the equipment across africa. he's a technology if you see asked himself and that helps. i've done this project to where. the service goes wrong turns on you know we came here so we had our drawings and our parts and we'll put this up together within three weeks. also makes a smaller trial it can be used directly in the field to prepare

a crop for storage a farmer could buy one or a service provider it could go from farm to farm with it. just keep track of it if you don't prepare and dry the grain properly it goes mostly and eating food that's my only unspoiled makes you sick of them and get diarrhea many other illnesses and to be conquered. it's estimated that up to twenty percent of cereals and forty percent of fruits and vegetables in sub-saharan africa including here in a last spoilage smallholders rarely have the technical means to drive a crow they leave their nays to dry slowly in the fields as it does so it's a sceptical to pest some fungus what's more the fields are occupied and the next sowing of seeds has to wait canopus only sold a few dry is in africa so far but wants to sell more equipment can also be porters

the kit with detailed assembly instructions provided the components are screwed together no soldiering is required which makes it much easier if need be serviced technicians are available to help. fight the customer can put the machine together with his own staff or in the process they all learn how it works so it's useful training to hear that each try it comes with key spare parts to achieve the likelihood that if it breaks it remains out of service for. length of time waiting for replacement components means costly downtime misting time it's a race so that's raised should be one meaning you should have become a big company since these guys become punts karl-heinz fizzing is started small and has grown and grown he says many farmers could aim to do the same. you know in school facilities in germany and eastern europe. he hopes to the next

one in africa. hopefully that initiative will be helpful for african farmers to make the most of what they grow but in other parts of the world farmers have the opposite problem they produce more than they can eat estimates say a third of all food will die and are being dumped on the list of food waste as our north america australia and new zealand with europe are not far behind generally in sub-saharan africa very little food is wasted but there is one big exception south africa the told. touch on the front form on regular visits to the garbage dumps around to keep.

every year give us a chance to see thousands of tonnes wished it comes from restaurants tractors local farms which. really is to make that a surge of food is dumped in south africa every year this has significant ecological impacts because all that food has compounded water and energy and from a train a change perspective in the landfill it emits harmful greenhouse. yes there's both neat thing and carbon dioxide. producing russia has years looking at ways of reducing food waste here in the western. he works for the regional department of agriculture from bahman it's come to visit one of his projects which he believes could provide a model for the rest of the country. has managed to persuade farmers to donate their few surplus instead of plowing it back into the ground lizette kloppers farm

is the collection point. seven million farmers bring their access programs here. you know as you can see if you should see the quality not thrown away food it's nice export quality that they just deliver. these same me anything even if they sit at the mall on the spot do something though that's not good enough they want to deliver the based so yes they want to give up some time several tons of food arrive here in a single day it's a government sponsored vehicles then transported to soup kitchens in nearby townships like a theme park which is home to twenty thousand people. poverty is right here as our gang violence and drug crime and it's often the children who suffer most. most people in the township live from state benefits the soup kitchens may be

a lifesaver for some but they're still not the ideal solution long term. handouts are not going to put us on a sustainable chick tree we need to look at the whole system and we need to put that leave us for change to tip the system into a positive states. for looking at issue of farming both on a commercial level how better farming practices can be implemented but also for small hole the foremost so that they are both environmentally and economically sustainable. another example or maybe in part shows just. what small farming can do that a few years ago some of the residents teamed up with the department of agriculture to begin a growing their own food yet the township now has forty five food gardens where members plant fresh vegetables for the beginning of may those in need can come and collect for free the garden project has been running since twenty fifteen dollars would instead of getting paid to their members get a share of the harvest those people who get sick of that who wish to start it in

a good book as they were sent up the fog of a culture to create food gods and i could pour community who have to purpose to live in the community to back down food and produce own vegetables but we should realize that it's will not be enough to address the food security problem and they can park. major food retailers are now joining the initiative to instead of disposing of food that is past its sell by date the retail chain woolworths donates it to charitable organizations that work with the poor. all the food is still within the use by date and to ensure it remains refrigerated at all times woolworths issues it directly from the shop's cold storage room. and this notice given me great hope for the future there will no longer have the absurd situation of wasting a third to see all the environmental and time it impacts that go along with that and actually work together through the value chain to ensure that all edible fee is

eaten and i did eat reaches those who need it the most. today the unsold food is going to a homeless shelter in cape town it's a practice that could work for the whole of south africa in a country where twelve million people regularly go hungry at least a part of the surplus food could be put to good use. from the south of the continent we had back up to the north and next report council morocco. wayne initiative is bringing light to remote villages in the atlas mountains a single bottle in places like that can change the lives of entire families and in this project it's being done in a sustainable way that's why they need to be setting up simple solar pa systems but the country wants to set an example in the region and he's also trying. on a wider scale to do it morrocco has build one of the biggest solar power plants

that uses and the rate of seven thousand five hundred. clean energy comes they're the reliable source the sun would shine said least three thousand oh yeah. the drive into the atlas mountains takes us hours for technician. the journeys like this one into far flung villages part of the job and yet there's still something special because the work he does in installing solar panels changes people's lives . to work to see how real the family when they get electric for the first time. it's just really nice. the mountain village of todd has no running water no electricity and no telephones mohammad saeed family can hardly wait for his colleague to arrive and install

a solar panel on their rooftop. they look on eagerly as the work gets underway to look at the solar panel will cost the family a few hundred euros that's a lot of money here it's a pretty quick job the technology is relatively simple but maintenance and the batteries longevity are still problematic the system has to be wired up in a somewhat unorthodox way but nevertheless it works joad connects the module to the battery and it starts charging. feet up the mess it doesn't take long to install our technology is the time consuming part is getting to these villages so if i see . the farmer's entire livelihood lies in these fields suffer on. just one gram of the red spice can earn him up to a euro then saves family has financed their solar powered system with a crop. top solar panel is expensive and we don't have

much money. but we hope this panel will improve our lives. that. the moment of truth has almost become invalid runs the battery cables into the house and screws in the light bulb well first. it's an exciting moment for the entire family for the first time ever the house has artificial light and. already this is the great thing i could never see at night sometimes coltrane just crashed into couldn't part with so happy no. digital you can't imagine not a great feeling it is to see people you know. and they marched in. this evening and had droughts the lights are on for the first time for the pencil you family it's a to remove come true. the next morning joe wood and his colleague make their way

home they're heading to the city of was and the south of morocco. it's strategically placed on the edge of the sun haro and is known as the doorway to the desert. this is where joe wood small business is based morocco gets some three thousand hours of sunshine every year twenty eight year old job has four employees and he says business is booming. and that's partly because morocco his government has been investing in sustainable energy for years and was assad is now home to one of the world's largest solar power plants. or do you mean what is out is the world in capital solar energy because of this new large power plant. in order to get. even from far away you can see the plants main tower that's been names nor which in arabic means life. until recently local

relied on imported fuel for almost all of its energy needs now the country is changing that by developing projects like this one there is some seven and a half thousand mirrors surrounding the tower and a fast feel the mirrors reflect the sunlight focusing it on to the top of the tower which eats up to more than one family some degrees celsius. the moroccan manager of the project tariq vertical workers is meeting with marcos fresh you know from the german development bank k.f. gallagher in germany is once more than eight hundred million euros for the projects of the biggest single contributor to the rocco couldn't have financed the project alone it's gone up but then you see for supermodel. it was no fossil fuels did at the mall did it pass the same time our energy needs i have a single. that is the reason our government is banking renewables to do the bulk of it was an issue of lobbying. in just a few years more than forty percent of morocco's electricity will be generated from

the sun and wind there are plans to build five large plants like this one meaning the country could soon be a global leader for solar power. from the high tech energy projects back to the mountains a donkey is being loaded up and and his team are heading off to the next tom. although morocco has expanded at select tricity gretta mentally and recent years some villages are simply too remote to reach them which is why these solar technicians are sorely needed. last night bella and his wife speak of the hardships they experienced last december that's one reason why they too finding a balance of electrocutions. again they can we used to just use candles when it's stormy out sunny doesn't make it right of langley. no you don't have anything on

here life's a very difficult. tells us that moments like these are the reason he does well because he says the long tracks out of town are worth a every time. morocco is often referred to as the place where the sun sets but the sun is certainly rising on the energy revolution taking place in. time to wrap things up on today's show and to say goodbye from here in johannesburg south africa but would love to see you again next week thank you z. also sign of for now from here but don't forget that you can always be sure went into our show by checking out the content on our website on our social media platforms from the hole in co africa team thanks for joining us goodbye from lagos

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