extravagant gentler. hosts really know their stuff. with me and stephanie. hardy and chats with situations from 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 there z. yes we're here in lagos nigeria are you ready for new episodes here's what's coming up on the show. the start of the book enough muscle that combining. with vegetable farming. a woman from south africa who's fighting against food waste and how 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 declared to be national parks in many ways and 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 damn placidyl clunes in fact heads tourists around the volcanoes national park it covers a hundred and sixty square kilometers and it's the oldest conservation. it's home to this range of species including some that are considered to be in danger of extinction such as thing called in monkey. there's not any other place you find these monkeys apart from southwest of wanda we find a different species of monkeys but in of o'connell's only you find. in marquees so that's why tubby twenty the monkeys many people. don't know about it with their. these monkeys are not shy and don't seem to mind being stared at. each group of

visitors is allowed to spend one hour of surfing down. they leave in the passions forest and like to eat bumble leaves and shoots the trouble is people illegally come into the paddock. to make sure the monkeys have attacked and the main source of food. so that's why we have a planted some outside the park for the local community we have those a bum a 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. run that is the mess to densely populated country in mainland africa and population growth remains high. because. every inch of arable land is snapped up for farming including mountainsides fields

and grazing land stretch a great up to the age of the pack the mountain forests you know of education zone has already been stripped. the former soviet to caesar just a few hundred meters from the conservation area. most people who live near the pack use it would be a stroll to your thirty's have established a protection zone around the path in which the residents are allowed to obtain and limited amount of food for the passing of the new moves but only from certain species of tree there is also a feedback process whereby residents share with the authorities their 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 infrastructure. like 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 man goes towards community projects last year that amounted to more than six hundred sixty thousand dollars which is an act of money in one many families and extra money as porters for tourists. this is one of the new religions we have they can meet and make education. to reach to involving local people in caring for the national path 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 we were 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 innovation our young entrepreneur has brought to book in our fossil karen do on bach. as you need. 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 plants production with aquaculture and poultry farming. the circular system was designed by kevin in book enough asos capital one got to go. his prototype is designed for up to six hundred plants two hundred fish and two hundred packs of. reproduction 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. the actually pyramid doesn't require large amounts of fresh water since its design limits evaporation dramatically. from. 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 there's another problem is that much of the soil in burkina faso is depleted. the agri param it can be easily installed in courtyards because it takes up little space kevin to amber

hopes to set up at least two hundred more of the devices in book enough are so. you know like now. if you're also doing a european tell us about. visit our website or send us a tweet. hash tag doing your bit we share your stories. many farmers in africa still employ ancient methods of cultivation one frequent problem is a how about 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 dry the grain you've grown directly on the phils sometimes a harvest could be saved that might otherwise be a total loss one company in germany is providing the rights to and techniques to do

it. it's just it's a very simple piece of equipment. and carline skills appreciate just how useful it can be for small the pharmacist. there are no greens remaining or the greens and you can also see that. we don't have breakages that's disputed enough to come in produce it especially for the african market because most cereals are still often fresh the way they were in germany fifty or sixty years ago which means a lot is wasted if you use this waste far less. for those to and nor for it enough to come from a. cold heintz grew up on a farm and has spent much of his working life making machinery for post-harvest processing of crops bees 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. i'm smart after working on the few younger people have a wonderful meal but i never forgotten it because we were going through which was not always the case there for good reason this. godfrey morongo is from zimbabwe he wants to help secure the harvest in his home country and elsewhere in africa with the help of modern technology. mobile giants 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're put together within three weeks. also makes

a smaller dry it can be used directly in the field to prepare a crop for storage a farmer could buy one or a service provider could go from farm to farm with it. if you don't prepare and drive the grain properly it goes moldy and eating food that some early and spoiled makes you sick of the. many other illnesses and the congo. it's estimated that up to twenty percent of cereals and forty percent of fruits and vegetables in sub-saharan africa including here in ghana a lost to spoilage smallholders rarely have the technical means to drive a crow they leave their maize to dry slowly in the fields as it does so it's a sceptical to pest some fungus what's more the feel to 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 bought

as a kit with detailed assembly instructions provided the components are screwed together no soldiering is required which makes it much easier if need be service technicians are available to help. by 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 new . 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 to be one meaning you should have become the company's service guys because it's parts karlheinz business started small and has grown and grown he says many farmers could aim to do the same.

pheno unschooled to sell it in germany and eastern europe. but he hopes that 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 sell or eat estimates say a third of all food worldwide and are being dumped on the list of food waste as are north america australia and new zealand with europe not far behind generally in sub-saharan africa very little food is wasted but there's one big exception south africa. oh. tatiana perform on regular visits to the garbage dumps around to keep.

every year give us a handful of seeds thousands of tons which to it comes from restaurants or factory farms. three 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 climate change perspective in the landfill it emits harmful greenhouse. yes this both me 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 bollman is coming to visit one of his projects which she believes could provide a model for the rest of the country. has managed to persuade farmers to donate

their few surplus consisted of plowing it back into the ground lizette kloppers farm is the collection point. seven million farmers bring their access programs here. as you can see if you should see the quality not thrown away food it's a nice export quality that they just deliver. these seeing me anything even if this is at the mall on the spot to something though that 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 town ships 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 i'm not going to put us on a sustainable chick tree we need to look at the whole system and we need to look that that leaves us for a 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 a small hole the farm is so that they are both environmentally and economically sustainable. another example an a.v.m. park 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 the township now has forty five food gardens where members plant fresh vegetables for the limited community those in need can come and collect for free the garden project has been running since twenty fifteen dollars would instead of getting paid on their members get a share of the high risk pools of people who get sick of that rudeness it is

thought of as i whistled at the culture to create gods and i did paul community with the purpose to lead the community to buy food produce our own vegetables but we soon realise that it's will not be enough to address the food security problem and i can talk. 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 donate 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 shops cold storage room. and this notice given me great hope for the future that we will no longer have the absurd situation of wasting a third of 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 feed is eaten and i did eat reaches those who need it most. 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. when 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 very reliable source the sun would shine said least three thousand oh yeah. the drive into the atlas mountains take says hours for technician. the journeys like this one into far flung villages are 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 wonderful to see how real the family when they get electric thank you for the time yes 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. this summer 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. it doesn't take long to install our technology it's 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 power is expensive and we don't have

much money. but we hope this panel will improve our lives. the moment of truth has almost become invalid runs the battery cables into the house and screws in the light bulb well first off. it's an exciting moment for the entire family for the first time ever the host has artificial light and. this is the rate i could never see at night sometimes the whole crowd just crash into couldn't part with so happy no. you can't imagine what a great feeling it is to see people you know. and i imagine it. this evening and ted throughout the lights are on for the first time for the ben saeed family it's a dream come true. the next morning joe wood and his colleague make their way home

they're heading to the city of was in 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 get 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. what is really what is out is the world in capital so let energy me because of this new large power plant. in order to get. even from far away you can see the plant's main tower it's been names nor which in arabic means white. and so recently the bunker 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 vast field the mirrors reflect the sunlight focusing it on to the top of the tower which heats up to more than one thousand degrees celcius. the moroccan manager of the project tariq what poll workers he is meeting with mark especially now from the german development bank k.f. gallagher germany has lent more than eight hundred million euros to the project the biggest single contributor morocco couldn't have financed the project alone it's gone up but the new chief was. was no fossil fuels did at the mall did it because the same time our energy needs so you have a single. reason our government is backing renewables. and if you will move up. 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 john wood and his team are heading off to the next time. although morocco has expanded at select tricity gretta mentally in 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 to find what you don't want a lecture like it's a good thing again they can we used to just use candles when it's still me out sun to make it right in langley. no you don't have anything on here life's

a very difficult. job tells us that moments like these are the reason he does well because he says the long tracks out of town are worth it 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 zee also sign of for now from here but don't forget that you can always queue one 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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