player has won as many titles at a single grand slam tournament. hello welcome to the world and weidman be falls this month and it serves as a reminder for each one of us to step up and take care of our planet better onto this special sure we train the spotlight on how communities of the grassroots are working hard for ecological and social justice. coming to you from mumbai in india over the next 30 minutes i would organization in the morning is creating a market for farmers too so they will introduce a start up in telling gardner is future proofing small farmers with technology and sustainable farming practices and how a group of students are breeding a climate resilient forest in germany. but 1st to

a story that's trying to change the status quo for farmers in india agrarian distress is at its peak in the country if a poor followed is able to jump through the hoops of extreme weather events and lack of robust policies that could drought hoofed a life you've heard she has to think about selling hope rogers not to make a profit for savings but the bid for seeds for the next crop and to feed her family upon a based organization is helping the local farmers tackle this head on. if. there were not i got mad on the 23rd of february 1998 and lost my husband after about a year now that i have a son i used to work on

a farm where i would get about $852.00 bees maybe once or twice a week. the pay was never consistent i could not afford my son's school fees because i had to cover the household expenses but that money had a base of. the life i need to up a toddler leads to be it would have been unimaginable for her just a few years ago a traditional farm from the song i'm in a district of maharashtra making ends meet was difficult. she owns a house can afford her son's education and rides her own bicycle to a factory where she works as a big. the

cooties in crackers produced here are not the average voter i.d.'s. the dough is made using hyper local grains so that's directly from small landholding farmers in the district. the production of prepared and big buy do the women like anita. and natural snacks free from preservatives they find flaws and i did if they're marketed and sold by a startup called. the idea behind the product was that on one hand we had this amazing treasure off in the gin is going to ins 7 which are no longer being commercially grown by the families because there is no one to mine on the other hand we saw this huge trend people are demanding products

which are convenient and i've made from venus and of millet's and greens to be ready by nutrition so what we primarily saw that you know there is a demand and there is a supply there is no nothing in between and that's what we started the band. socially conscious food is how happy to it's like straw describe its production its primary objective is to create a direct and sustainable farm to market supply chain. the 1st step to join forces of the farmer produce a company in the district called the raja which could help bring marginal farmers into the network forward then supply heavy duty with grains and produce. that wasn't just to secure locally grown indigenous groups but also ensuring that

the onus of selling the harvest rested on body roger unhappy too and not on individual farmers. happy to space it's not for farmers between 30 to 50 percent more than the market create for produce. we have developed a network with. a lot of people in the industry for example that associated with the mike through the association of model started associated with the restaurant industry of strain what we do is that the commodity that the north absorbing as a manufacturing company on the contacts to the pharmacy would directly connect them to the industrial park was. apart from eliminating middlemen and ensuring fair prices one of the key objectives of the company has been to bridge the knowledge gap. farmers know always know what they need to grow

what is currently in demand. the. company provides guidance regarding who we should get by doing it season and which crop solution to grow that really helps us in the long run also because they have taken that a sponsor will it be for selling about how to mr you feel more confident about cultivating those particular crops at happy roots and need a miti who are put it to focus more on organic food which is why they give us more than the market price for our supply because of that farmers are happy to improve their seats and since we have paid on time it also helps us. today happy roots has a network of 20000 small holding farmers across 3 states with a special focus

a model. every year they produce 40 dozens of cookies and crackers the big goods are sold in stores all over india. over the next 5 to 6 years the company which is doing more than 100000 farming communities by helping create food supply models that have started the farms and at the consumer. now market economics are fundamentally changing cultures conducted worldwide produce that is in demand gets priority over other fruits vegetables and cereals what this means is a steady loss of biodiversity this is where steve banks coming on next explainer will help you understand how exactly they work. precious bio diversity is disappearing every day. as of now one in 5 of the world's plant species is

threatened with extinction a possible solution seed banks. so what are seed banks and why are they growing in importance. they're basically a cryogenic library for seeds providing a space where seeds are valuable plants and crops can be frozen until they're needed for planting. seeds occupy minimum space a seed bank can help preserve the genetic diversity of plants improve resistance to plant diseases and insects create resistance to drought floods oil spills wildfires and other calamities as well as provide seed material for research on how to improve crop yield nutrition. for example in september 27th teen hurrican maria caused severe damage in puerto rico farmers had lost their crops and

they had no seeds to replant the university of parental rico distributed free seeds from its seed bank to small scale farmers and community gardens jumpstarting new crop production similarly in malaysia rice paddies were almost completely wiped out during the 2004 tsunami how did farmers start over seed bikes on the down side keeping seeds alive for hundreds of years can be a challenge seeds degrade over time and it's difficult to predict how long they will last so see banks need to constantly monitor a seed germination potential or in other words its ability to grow. the global seed vault set in norway's arctic permafrost is one of the world's largest seed banks it has over a 1000000 seeds from all over the globe. almost 50 percent of india's workforce is in gibson agriculture this means use. more than ever to protect their

livelihood and future profit with the help of sustainable practices a new company which means farming in hindi has come up with a solution to reduce the crop by providing farmers with. i took out a loan from the bank for the 2nd time i used it to invest in my crops but the rains have destroyed all of them. their deaths have accumulated so much that i can't breathe i felt that if i died at least then my wife and children would receive some

help from the government so i attempted suicide by drinking pesticide of. india's farmers are suffering from the effects of climate change extreme weather heat waves droughts and floods is destroying crops across the country putting the livelihoods of millions in jeopardy one farmer in every 42 minutes in india that's super disturbing because i think that's the. how do you put it that's the sign off at the hopelessness and. despair and. why would any father warn their kids to come and fight me if this see that their fellow farmers. need that kind of a hopeless and added. a start up from hyderabad is hoping to give the

smallholders a future by providing reliable crop yields despite the uncertain climate the company has developed a cheap fuel a greenhouse. open to feed if you use 50. off water to grow one kilogram of vegetables inside a greenhouse just one liter that's one aspect farmers find a great value with this greenhouse right with less water. apart from the greenhouse katie offers other services farmers in the region can get advice on taking out a loan on choosing the right fertiliser or seeds. the aim is to make harvests more reliable. the yield here is higher with outdoor farming it's very low if this were growing

outdoors the crop would have been destroyed already by the rains. it would have been a total loss. so far the company has set up 50 greenhouses. katie's founder such a drug who had been looking for a way to help india's farmers since he was a teenager. during summers and we were playing cricket in the fields so i saw our to distance. you know a farmer eating something so that person must be like some 70 or you know. you know some similar clothes like what i'm eating with also with a really very close to actually if you want to with the. exactly. one sentence working toward words and which never left he said my stomach doesn't or that my pocket is empty. and his team are working to make the greenhouse available to more farmers. they're currently rolling out the system on $300.00

farms intel and ghana. where hardboard me there look you want to do something about farmers and farming so do it now say wait wait when you 5 we were reached a 1000000 farmers and i just at least 5000000 households you know with the kids you know it's in a box technology. in india most families still make a living primarily from agriculture now katie faces a major challenge lowering the initial costs of the greenhouse even further that will help the company reach more farmers across the country and help make farming for a living more sustainable here in the future. shifting focus now climate change activists have been seeing for us that a 2 degree celsius rise in temperature could change the earth as we know it our team met a group of university students from india studying ecology management in germany

and they're drawing up plans to practically implement all the learning at college that quote like the idea of a climate resilient forest that is capable of withstanding a temperature increase. because students from the university of by right are in the forest checking up on their project. a few days ago they planted thousands of seedlings here in lots of different varieties to increase biodiversity and make the forest more resilient 29 year old nicholas bartha is pursuing a masters in global change ecology and the forest project was his idea. he'd already completed a masters back home in india in environmental science after that he worked with scientists from europe and the united states when i worked with them i realized that there is a world beyond what we do in india so there's also a global international research going around in ecology and sometimes they feel my

knowledge or my capabilities or my skills aren't enough or not compatible to them so i told maybe it for me it's time to upgrade myself and get more international exposure so at the time i decided to be here. has been at the university of buy right since 2016. he's only ever wanted to study environmental science. where i come from if if you heard about the jungle book so the farthest of the jungle book is like about 50 kilometers from me so in 2011 and there were huge story used at the tiger population in india is declining and there were about only 1000 tigers left and i was really surprised because they saw the forest was like 50 kilometers away from me and my state was awarded late the tiger state award in to have like magnum tigers and then we saw the diagrams are declining their population

is decreasing and this was the 1st time i come to know what their nature is in trouble it's. an increasing number of students from all over the world are now coming to germany to get their degree because german universities have been expanding their international study programs. there are courses taught in english which makes the universities attractive for international students including indians. brings universities and companies from various and india together she spends a lot of time travelling between them. sponsible for arranging contacts for research collaboration's and teaching exchanges. we also provide financial support for student exchanges. because of the increase in international study programs and university collaboration's within germany but number of indian students here has more than tripled in the last 9 years to 15000.

he is one of them. she too already has a master's in environmental science from india but wanted to do another masters abroad. i wanted to study more about this communication gap between science and policy so i found this course and. when i was going through their. everything so i found it really fascinating that they are actually invigorating this. there are currently 40 indian students at the university of by right. they benefit from the knowledge they bring with them says i . from the university's international office. to the young. students from india are very well educated so they usually have a very good command of the english language because a lot of education in india is conducted in english.

and another point is that they are very mobile and this is very internationally minded and open for lots of different scenarios in terms of their careers but also of what it means to live abroad. and those photos. netra boundary want to go into research once they finish their masters but they both know that study alone won't save the climate when you read new was about like we lost this species. also disheartening and i would. happier if more and more of these issues come into people's focus and people start talking more about climate change species loss biodiversity. they want to help raise awareness about the climate also in india to that and they

intend to return to their homeland within the next 10 years. now the indian constitution gallantries women citizens equality big nitty and freedom from discrimination the act like the woman employee makes less than the man in india the figure stands at 62 percent of american. activists the systemic and patriarchal biased of the kinds of jobs women ought to do. with some women who are proving to be game changers by doing the jobs that are believed to be solely meant for men. drives a rickshaw taxi. and to really restore. our you know newspaper nearby. everyone calls up are. these 3 women in jail

or have jobs that are almost performed by men in india only 21 percent of women in the country work most of the culture. and he has a small child she would help him she was just 8 when he died of typhoid fever and she took over his business. baro had to support the whole family for 7 sisters and 2 brothers. but it's not the most difficult thing is when he trades to protect the newspapers from getting that i have to look after them as if they were my children and i never let my papers get trashed sometimes street wise men with me and it's extremely annoying but i give as good as i get. despite working borrow has managed to graduate from a private high school administrators that allowed her to come late after she had

sold all the newspapers. but despite that success she still has a lot to contend with. but it's ok it's a challenge to work with my new they're so different some custom to rely on me and there are people who refuse to buy a history of performing of women on principle i also feel terrible event boys make fun of me engineer you are just a street vendor it's like a knife to her. paper only. borrowed love to leave this all behind and become a journalist. dollars dream is that her 3 children go to university she started work at half past 5 and gone to another station her husband was also a station porter until he died of diabetes complications 12 years ago. when

i started working at the station i earned less than a euro a day after why i was earning one or 2 euros a day i used to be extremely shy and hated haggling with my customers many passengers only paid me hof the amount i asked for in those days i used to carry luggage on my head because i didn't have a trolley that was tired. her daughter and 2 sons lived with their father's mother after she. first worked on a farm but then she decided to become a boarder herself because the pays better. said the man my worry all the time i'm plagued by anxiety we lay on any money today what should i do what should i not do i work from early in the morning without eating or sleeping and i still don't earn enough to feed my children. himmler tossing also has

a very hard life when a husband left her 7 years ago for another woman she had to find a job and bring up their son alone she got a driving license and became the 1st female taxi driver in all of jeopardy. khamis fairmount. i found we took added to become a taxi driver but my meal colleagues disapprove they don't want to see women drivers or they do everything they can to bother me. they abuse me hit me make better get treated mark and quite often attack might actually. the male drivers are unhappy with me. they create so many problems for me that i sometimes just don't know what to do and that the yankee part mosquito guy john to my junk. what's more health is poor and she do struggles to make ends meet. and well driving a taxi but now there is

a stiff competition from writing services like. hum would have made a bad guy out of it i take pride in my work the problems i feel sad enough to break the moral of any woman but i have never given up at any moment in my life. and i have accepted all the challenges of being a woman taxi driver that i make is that of a. little thing or enough and gender a 3 strong women trying to make their way in a world still dominated by men. i hope you had many takeaways from today's episode to follow us on social media and make sure to leave a comment about what you thought about today is short we'll see next week. the .

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