no place anywhere in the world where things were invented such a quick succession of. the renaissance. starts april twenty second d. w. . 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 i'm male tag we're here in lagos nigeria are you ready for new episodes here's

what's coming up on the show. to start something looking up muscle that's 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 them most densely populated countries in africa and that can trigger conflicts over resources when they declare it to be a national parks in many ways isn't worried 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 conservation. it's home to this range of species including some that are considered to be in danger of extinction such as the golden monkey. there's not any other place you find these monkeys apart from southwest of one that we find a different species of monkeys but in of o'connell's only you find only god 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 at. each group of visitors is allowed to spend one hour of surfing down. the in the paxton's forest and like to eat bum believes in shoots the trouble is

people illegally come into the path of. the monkey 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 bomb 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 park. one that is a 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 no of education zone has already been stripped. the pharmacy of new

caesar just a few hundred meters from the conservation area. most people who live near the pack use it would be a stroll just feel free to have established protections on around the park in which the residents are allowed to obtain and limited amount of food for the past and humans but only from certain species of tree b. is also a feedback process whereby residents share with the authorities their needs and wishes. each district all sik does all these local people who have the park this seat and city priorities would like to water like schools like different infrastructure like public clinics so they set their priorities and we 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 a lot of money in one many families and extra money as porters for tourists. and. this is one of the new numbers holding agency we have big can meet and make and he crashed trying 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 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 bond. causes unique device pyramid after months of testing on

troubleshooting 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 enough asos capital water to cool. his prototype is designed for up to six hundred plants two hundred fish and two hundred bags poultry production is located on the top level. of the fish meat waste from the birds it falls directly into the tanks at the bottom of the pyramid the water the fish swim in also nourishes plants

like tomatoes or letters. the device runs on solar energy no chemicals have to be added to the system. the achree pyramid doesn't require large amounts of fresh water since its design limits evaporation dramatically. the system doesn't depend on the climate over quality of the local soil. electrical hydroponic agriculture is one way for us to adapt to the phenomenon of climate change because we can no longer rely on brain another problem is that much of the soil in burkina faso is depleted. the ag prepare him 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 ah so.

you know like that. if you're doing your job you tell us about. visit our website or send us a tweet. cash to do your bit we share your story. many farmers in africa still employ. one frequent problem is that how about that enforcing changes in the weather on the harvest can anything be done about it. that's a good question auntie but if for 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 karl-heinz appreciate just how useful it

can be for smallville to farm and. there are no grains remaining or the greens and you can also see that we don't have bridges this is pretty. pretty sensitive especially for the african market just because my cereals are still often fresh the way they were in germany fifty or sixty years ago which means a lot is wasted if you can use this waste to far less. for those two and no fruit enough to come from a. coherent grew up on a farm and has spent much of his working life making machinery for post harvest processing of crops based days he spends a lot of time in africa being there reminds him of his childhood. probably mine i paid for my first. working on the fiance. never forgotten it because. we're going to follow you and was not always the case

well there foggy reason is. godfrey moran 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 enthusiastic him self and that helps. i have done this project. is the service guys from tanzania who came here so we had our drawings and our pads and we have put together within three weeks. also makes a smaller drive 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 to try to if you

don't prepare and dry the grain properly it goes mostly not eating food that's my only unspoiled makes you sick of being. a real problem any other illness is a little 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 lost spoilage smallholders rarely have the technical means to drive a crow they leave their names 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 the 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 and got it right or 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. each try it comes with key spare parts to it use the likelihood that if it breaks it remains out of service for any length of time waiting for replacement components means costly downtime misting time it's a race so the trees to build one meaning you should have become become service guys because it's pods karl-heinz business started small and has grown and grown he says many farmers could aim to do the same. he now owns four facilities in germany and eastern europe. where 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 sell or 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. oh. tatiana for my regular visits to the garbage dumps around to keep. every year give us a handful of seeds thousands of tons of waste it comes from restaurants and factory farms.

previous to make that a surge of food is dumped in south africa every year this has significant ecological impact because all that food has. compounded water and energy and from a climate change perspective in the landfill it emits harmful greenhouse gases both meat 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 come 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 instead of plowing it back into the ground lizette kloppers farm is the collection point. seven million farmers bring their excess programs here.

as you can see if you should see the quality it is not thrown away food it's nice export quality that just deliver. these same mean anything even if this is at the mall on the spot to 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 and pm 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. aid handouts are not going to put us on a sustainable chick tree we need to look at the whole system and we need to think

that leave 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. so that they are both environments and economically sustainable. another example and 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 and yet the township now has forty five food gardens where members plant fresh vegetables for the community those in need can come and collect for free the garden project has been running since twenty fifteen dollars would instead of giving people the members get a share of the harvest skills to give all of the real mission is thought of in a good book as there was some type of culture to create food gardens in a good book community with a purpose in the community to make food produce over to the bowls but we soon

realise that it's will not be enough to address the food security problem and they 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 a cold storage room for. a nation that has 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 he reaches those who need it most. of 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. yes. from the south of the continent we had back up to the north the 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 right z. they nisha to be setting up simple solar pa systems but the country wants to set an example in the region and he's also trying to implement solar energy 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 mirrors and the clean energy comes from a steady reliable source the sun would shine at least three thousand dollars

a year in morocco. the drive into the atlas mountains takes us hours for technician joe would be journeys like this one into far flung villages are part of the job and yet they're still something special because the work he does in installing solar panels changes people's lives. to what he thought wonderful to see how real the family is when they get electrical i think of it all the time i think. it's just really nice. the mountain village of todd has no running water no electricity and no telephones mohamed ben saeed family can hardly wait for it and his colleague to arrive and install a solar panel on their rooftop. they look on eagerly as the work gets underway. and the 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. me 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. 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 come runs the battery cables into. the house and

screws in the light bulb well for long. it's an exciting moment for the entire family for the first time ever the house has artificial light and. already this is the break i could never see at night sometimes called straight jackets into couldn't part with so happy now. we're told to show you can't imagine what a great feeling it is to see how people feel and by the most in. this evening into the rocks the lights are on for the first time for the ben sight 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 sorrow and is known as the doorway to the

desert. this is where jo reed small business is based morocco gets some three thousand hours of sunshine every year twenty eight year old job has four employees and she says business is booming. and that's partly because morocco is 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 know what is out is the world capital solar energy because of this new large power plant. nor does it. even from far away you can see the plants main towers it's been names nor which in arabic life. until recently local relied on imported fuel for almost all of its energy needs now the country is changing that developing projects like this one there are 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 eats up to more than one family's degrees celcius. the moroccan manager of the project tariq or coworkers is meeting with monk especially now from the german development bank k.s. gallagher in germany has lent more than eight hundred million euros to the project the biggest single contributor to the rocco couldn't have financed the project alone it's gone up but the new book. has no fossil fuels was sold at the mall did it pass the same time all energy needs so you have a single. that is the reason our government is backing renewables. was unusual 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 but don't he is being loaded up and and his team are heading off to the next town. although morocco has expanded its electricity grid immensely in recent years some villages are simply too remote to reach and which is why these solar technicians are sorely needed. last night and his wife speak of the hardships they experienced last december that's one reason why they to find out you don't want a like truck bombings like that then again they can we used to just use candles when it's stormy outside you think it will blow you know right away. well you know we don't have anything here life is a very difficult. and.

tells us that moments like these are the reason he does well because he says the long tracks out of town that's 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 here . 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 the q. and a into our show by checking out the content on our website on our social media platforms from the whole eco africa team thanks for joining us goodbye from lagos.

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