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this week so let's have a look at what we've prepared for you in this edition of eco africa. we will be hunting down the sick with my maid resistant me see i've done as well even in dry soil. and what should gonna do with the waste from a clever hunter printer in our ground has come up with an eco friendly idea. we start the show with africa's highest mountain range there are glaciers on the slopes of the runs over the mountains in uganda but global warming is threatening the future of the unesco world heritage site now and the district of wants to do something about it by shifting to a 100 percent renewable energy our reporter visited the region to find out more about the ambitious plans. so there are family does not have any electric lights just

a passing lamp an assignment to see the long dark nights. of the family's income a village in southwestern uganda the main source of income is farming. but a fee when i need power back from i send the child to get it we buy some every day because it's hard to get money i buy just a little when it's gone the next day by someone. the family spends around a 1000 ugandan shillings around $25.00 u.s. cents a day for a small amount of paraffin also called kerosene. the water isn't consists of districts which is homes in nearly 700000 people. today sunday and many are making their way to church this cable is part of the national electric grid but he says just 20 percent of the population got recovery and there's nails missa pallets

have to cissy he wants white scale change including debts and date of the paraffin lamps which are known as a door to congo produces the local. so we don't want one creating an agent who is the biggest couple it is there isn't just a little cupboard in missions in the city. coming and going to those every one of the nyssa patted st and everyone knows him he wants to win them over to his big idea by 2022 once all of consists of is supplied by renewable energy. his motivation lies in the snow capped when story mountains which are often shrouded in fog. and well. pushed into working 100 percent over and i do it because i wanted to save the glass. we are told by no means will undermine your resume the people of this small and if you look at the

trend agree to this nor is it a credence disappearing. under the conditions i'm told us it will disappear by printed so to save it and then of a civil war and then when we decided to go under the bus into. the when story mountains provide the very basics of life water to make sure the water does not try up the mayor has come up with this plan to convert the entire districts of pacy c. to renewable energy including schools and hospitals the main source will be so the power just of cuts where is a casus it district natural resource officer he's keen to see the project go ahead . so i. went to places that are going to be able to serve us $9.00. metric ton is of carbon emission but we. knew that if you spread it across the 52 weeks into twenty's that of the population

that has adopted the solar we have about 5000000 metric tons of carbon emissions into the atmosphere and. the district is still a long way from 100 percent renewable energy. nearly 2 thirds of the people of assisi still rely on paraffin lamps i feel you have to say hind leg and i also want a solar panel but i don't have the money. low interest loans or aid programs could help but there also is schultz apply here. we'll close the some projects are still very big. the 200 the 100 percent by 2020 but really do have learned to listen to the implementation through the sofa and hopefully that. we'll buy the 20 foot to. reach 100 percent. as even. alice fills

a lamp with paraffin perhaps family will also have a solar powered lamp and light up in the night. i'm sure you heard about the share bata in africa it's often used for cooking i mean you're up for cosmetics but the wood of the share not trees also high energy fuel material that's what i'm looking across it's frequently made into charcoal resulting in deforestation now one organization wants to come but the problem what are they doing. the group is training women to make it stop quality shared data and battling to get share back to recognized as an organic product it's a live tree is worth more than a dead one then days hope that the felling will stop. deforestation is a huge problem in the. over 100000 hectares of forest are lost each year much of the wood is used to produce charcoal for cooking. we've adopted various measures to

try to reverse this trend but it's true that illegal logging is still taking place in our forests so what i don't see what we n.g.o.s are working together with the state to finally put a stop to this phenomenon in burkina faso is the one you were in a fossil. but trees produce more than just wood these women are collecting the for each of the shade tree ready to turn it into shape after a project used in many cosmetics and creams comment is to bury checks the quality of the fruit he works for a local ngo called c e s it's training the women to produce more and better quality shade but this will allow them to increase their income making their families less likely to cut down the shade trees illegally the ngo has told the women to process the fruit as quickly as possible before it can be attacked by insects or the kernels begin to germinate when you know we used to gather the fruit into

a heap and leave it until we were ready now we boil it up as soon as we've collected it and then put it out to dry in the sun the butter we get now is much better. this store in the capital walk into sells all kinds of goods made from shea butter ranging from baby care products to vaseline and some say butter is an important export product the shop owner is already feeling the impact of the illegal shade tree felling. because i think that the production output has gone down compared to 10 years ago and that's reflected in the price we used to pay 302400 francs for one kilo now we pay double the price because the product has become more rare. and that's pretty. there are fewer trees and. see a lot of protecting the trees is the name of c.a.'s here in the southwest of the country

the n.g.o.s recently installed a modern shea butter production unit here 200 used to be very has been training some of the women from the local village of super gun to. crush english say colonels provides the rule material for the better. the work is physically much easier and the women are able to produce more better the quality is also improved so they've seen their incomes go up significantly. while we're looking at the future of our children school fees and health care for our kids going to. the n.g.o.s hopes that by improving their winnings financial situation this will in turn help to protect shade trees. it isn't part of the families of these women who are chopping down the trees so if we can convince them of the importance of protecting the trees they can in turn help to persuade others and when they see they can earn more from the butter they'll be

more motivated to protect that source of income and. get on. the projects in bikini 1st so count on the women and their families realising that it's in their own best interest to keep the shade trees a life. let's head to germany now this spring has also seen a fart so that's a rain in large parts of the country farmers already warning that the harvest could be severely affected the german startup seed forward is responding to this challenge it is searching for ways to make climate resistant seed in a natural and environmentally sound manner now it really looks as if the stock has come up with some solutions. this looks like an ordinary field but what's growing here is something of a sensation the founders of the startup seed forward have come to see how things are progressing before planting the seeds used here were treated with a special environmentally friendly coating which is currently being tested by an

independent authority so far everything's going to plan on less money than is residency when i pull up a clump more soil sticks to the roots and they're hard to separate. and if you look more closely there are lots of fine roots holding the soil together and connecting the plants. and also big strong roots also considering it's this early in the season that's very exciting. the success in the field is the result of lengthy laboratory experiments for a few years now biologists alcohols a has been working with seed forward to develop natural nutrients and soil bacteria known as biologicals these help the plants to grow better without using chemical substances the scientists have worked with all kinds of seeds ranging from the my like bush to the potato plant. in oregon when they're very difficult.

you can never predict how much active ingredient is contained in a particular substrate the you have to look so the more the plants or microorganisms that you're using it's a bit like natural medicines to come in. it may be easier to treat seeds with chemicals but the biological method produces better results the. plants are green are more stable and have stronger roots. so happy and i didn't expect the differences to be so obvious i thought that inequalities might improve and later the growth rate i expected more of a general tendency and you could get some things have had spectacular results that i never expected. the formula for the seed dressing was developed by young beta not even his business partner yacob postman knows the exact recipe on the basis of their experiments in the laboratory in the greenhouse they launched their 1st product a blue coating that contains organic substances which stimulate the corn to grow better in dry climates. the company has found farmers to plant the new corn seeds.

is one of them this year his soil is once again much to dry he's hoping the new blue corn will cope well with the arid conditions it needs less water than conventional corn seed and requires no special treatment. the blue protective covering biodegrades after 6 to 8 weeks by that time it has already served its purpose. i don't go to the fruit of our it's awful for having a good feeling about it is already worth a lot. and in the end it should produce a greater yield so the investment in the spring will pay off in the fall. both janowicz and your compost one have spent a lot of time in africa it's where they 1st met increasing crop yields under difficult climatic conditions is of great interest to them at the moment their products are best suited to conditions in europe but blue seeds are being tested in

malawi by an aid organization if all goes well forward will begin developing seeds tailored specifically to conditions in regions of africa you cannot possibly contain adapted for local conditions so that it could be stored longer and have more water retention capacity that would involve putting more. of the substance of the seeds that's the only thing we change when we produce it locally exported from exporting. the 2 entrepreneurs say corn is just the beginning they've now set their sights on a number of other crops and they also want to start using biologicals to treat various vegetable seeds their fully organic methods are not only good for the soil the scientists believe they could also help improve food security in extremely dry regions. if you're one of our regular viewers i suspect what you might be thinking about i makes a video oh now knots was a high sense again but i can assure you that there really major concern right

behind it was tito's they broke up was always a sawfish of oxygen and an ideal habitat for the snails that carry the parasites that causes the disease bilharzia what people in the west african country of been in so in the starch into a valuable resource as you'll see in this week's doing your bit. hyacinths pose a huge problem for fishing communities in africa. the aquatic plant can carpet lakes so densely that boats can barely glide across the surface. the international conservation organization rare wants to see the weed turned into a useful resource farmers in africa can learn how when seminars like this one in their name after being collected the plants are left to dry in the sun. then they're mixed with carol dome and water. 2

months later the water hyacinth becomes compost. the resulting organic fertiliser doesn't just help to increase crop yields. well i've been on that since we started using the composite we feel well and healthy. a lot we don't get sick as often as we used to so that this is i tell my whole family they should use this composite as well because chemical fertilizers make you ill. but to deal with some. of the composting initiatives benefits farmers fishermen and the environment. if your plants clogged the lakes which is better for the fish and the fisherman. and the fresh compost saves the farmers money and improve soil quality. over 5000 terms of the water hyacinth have already been converted into garden gold. and how about you. if you are

also doing your bit tell us about it visit our website or send us a tweet hash tag doing your bit. we share your stories. what's a high since all real all round you can make bags and bosco's from them or use them as fertilizers to improve harvest yields another good idea about how to use problem products for positive ends comes from greece give us the lowdown and. indeed in the city of tesla plastic which is being off cycle and getting a whole new life what would have been trash is turned into a public benches and chairs what's more they are using pretty exciting technology to make that the project is called print your city maybe that will give you a clue. plastic recycled into a new form with

a new function. the seeding elements in the greek port city of thessaloniki are part of a project called print your city. plastic waste to stop cycled the furniture from a 3 d. printer. the idea came from the dutch design studio the new rock panel sockets from greece as one of the project's founders the plastic is a mis understood material which is it's not the material that's the problem has to go to about how we use it packaging for example yeah but i have my schematic might only be used for a few seconds but it never degrades i give up but if we use it in some other way later we can change things and improve our lives. this is precisely what kano suckers hopes to achieve with the project. as the guy who designed the furniture to allow people to experience public spaces in a new way with different last years. rather than sitting right they can relax

a bit more if they were sitting in their own living room. this is the feeling we'd like to put across these and bring private living space into public spaces of the fundamental the most. anyone who wishes to participate can suggest designs online or select pieces of furniture from the various templates the ones that are selected most often go into print try to save it i was so happy when i was walking through town one day and saw that a bench i had designed had been printed and then it's there for everyone thank you to the others that you know. as soon as a new design template goes online the amount of recycled plastic needed for the 3 d. printing process is calculated automatically. at the 0 waste or research initiative of the new raw people in fessler need he can find out about recycling and deposit the plastic trash cleaned sorted shredded and melted down.

personally i don't like to just throw things out at all besides i think we ought to have a responsible attitude toward our planet. after all we use its resources year by year. it takes about 70 kilos of plastic and 10 hours to make a park bench from a 3 d. printer. 9 of the colorful seats are given placed around thessaloniki center and more planned for the bench really the idea is to spread them all around the city. the combination of recycling and design is proving a hit with the locals and visitors alike. it's very impressive to see that you can transform waste into something a static in this way you're picking up everyone can enjoy it and sit here with their friends it's a definite gain. nothing negative about it people before. and if the park benches

ever fall apart they'll simply be recycled. oh what a wonderful idea but back to africa now ghana is a country that takes most waste from you there are a number of bright ideas about what could be made from electronic scraps such as used. but guess what we will let you see for yourself. between 200 and a 1000 batteries go into each power tube made by mike. and his team the batteries themselves recycled from old. tests and every one of them can see through google alerts with the old ones. and gets their courage to market them to.

mark. a regular job. at the university of resources. he set up this 2 years ago he designed the housing for the battery on his laptop and recently began using a 3 d. printer for the high precision while once competed the power to be hooked up to uninvite which then an emergency backup generator. and the. power. the power tubes have an operating life of between 2110 years depending on the condition of the batteries then you just repeat them with the used batteries. very practical ways to buy freeze and try to give them a 2nd chance of course the person i am wearing means so we go around scott's in

full and these working circuit and there who are in the system. for most of it mean there's some of them are scraps some of us are. capital accra has a thriving used electronics market but in other cities too such as. any people do a lot of take recycling. market has found suppliers to views bed trees across the country and send the acco from started repairing electronics goods 13 years ago mostly computer as his to has also become an employee used batteries which he now sells to and he still but. to me when i went with what i saw right away that this was a good business opportunity the only scale in time and they're clear about what they want. to try to hold onto a lie in the 21 especially business and no longer gives them to the strength here.

for. 10 power tubes have been sold so far they don't come cheap they can cost between 871500 euros. their customers include both private individuals and public sector institutions such as this health care center if this power outage they just turn on the power tube. we've been using power to for several years now in fact it wasn't being of tremendous benefit because there's a power fluctuation in crimea especially in the 100 so since we started it's us even given as a more powerful. want to go and that's a cost thanks. to my sins in his quest to provide viable solutions to power shortages mark i'm aborting all mistakes the environment into consideration by

crispier and they would see us we keep them well classwork and it's we so recycling them so that they do not go back to pollute the environment. the power to invent and he steam and need more financing in order to increase production finding old batteries will be no problem here. now it's just amazing how these people give those laptop batteries a 2nd live for the sake of the environment that's it for today from your pan african european environment show thank you and see you next week goodbye from lagos nigeria. thanks andy as always it was fun hosting the program with you and if any of you want to find out more go to our website the address will be on your screen in a moment or even better if you have something to say about any of austerities rights what's on our social media platforms now it's goodbye for me to from

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