so it's like me right as a. 50 story. deep very personal tips on boeing's very best. plan every week on d w. hello welcome to the world and why i've been the 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 including is creating

a market for farmers to sell their one produce a start up intel and gonna is future proofing small farmers with technology and sustainable farming practices and how a group of students are breeding the 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 proof to life you've heard she has to think about selling helped produce enough to make a profit or savings to pay for the scenes for the next crop and to feed her family a pony based organization is helping local farmers tackle these head on.

and i got mad on the 23rd of february 1998 and lost my husband after about a year now and 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 up at heart or leads to be it would have been unimaginable for just a few years ago a crystal farm from the sun the marriage district of maharashtra making ends meet was difficult. she owns a house can afford her son's education and writes her own bicycle to

a factory where she works as a big. key . to. the coop using 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 prepared and big buy do the women like anita the healthy and natural snacks free from preservatives they find flaws and i do they are marketed and sold by a startup called. the idea behind the product was

that on one hand we had this amazing treasure of. no longer being commercially gone by the farm was because there is no one to mine on the other hand we saw this huge trend that people are demanding products convenient and made from venus and of millet's and greens to be ready by in nutrition so what we primarily saw that you know there is a demand and there is a supply there is no name in between and that's what we started being. socially conscious food is how happy to describe. its primary objective is to create a direct and sustainable market for supply chain. the 1st step to join forces of the farmer produce

a company in the district called the rajah 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 sending the harvest rested on body roger and how peter and not on individual farmers. pays its. network of farmers between 30 to 50 percent more than the market rate for produce. we have developed a network with. a lot of people in the industry for example dissociated with the micro ruby association off model started associated with the restaurant industry of our strength what we do is that the commodity that we are more and absorbing as

a manufacturing company we pass 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 value that your company provides guidance regarding who we should get by doing that season and which brought solutions that really helps us in the long run also because they have taken that is sponsored realty for selling about how to mr you feel more confident about cultivating those particular crops at happy don't need to meet the who are put it to you focus more on are going to food which is why they give us more than the market price what i will supply because of that farmers are

happy doing with their seats and since we have paid on time it also helps us. today happy to it has a network of 20000 small holding farmers across 3 states with a special focus a montage. every year they produce 40 downs of cookies and crush. the big goods are sold in stores all over india. over the next 5 to 6 years the company richest impact more the. 100000 farming communities by helping korean food supply more status dog performs and the consumer. now market economics are fundamentally changing how i regard to the conductor

worldwide produce that is in demand gets priority over other fruits vegetables fruits and c.v.s. what this means is a steady loss of biodiversity this is where seed banks coming next explainer will help you understand how exactly they work. precious biodiversity is disappearing every day as of now one in 5 of the world plant species is threatened with extinction a possible solution seed banks. so what are seed banks and why are they growing in importance. they are 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 2017 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 the 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 seed banks need to constantly monitor a seed germination potential or in other words its ability to grow. the slow bad

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 new solutions are require more than ever to protect their livelihood and future proof with with the help of sustainable practices a new company called kit which means farming in hindi has come up with a solution to reduce the impact of crop failures by providing farmers with a stable income.

i took out a loan from the bank for the 2nd time i used it to invest in my crafts but the rains have destroyed all of them. and the debts 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. in every 42 minutes in india that's super disturbing because i think that's the. that's the sign off that hopelessness and. despair and.

why would any farmer warn their kids to come in to fight me if this see that their fellow farmers. need that kind of a hopeless and at a. start up from hyderabad is hoping to give these small holders a future by providing reliable crop yields despite the uncertain climate the company has developed a cheap module a greenhouse. open to feed if you was a few feet. 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 write more 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 rain. it would have been a total loss. so far the company has set up 50 greenhouses. kati's found 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 at a distance. you know a farmer heating something so that. you know making some similar it was like what i'm getting with also with the really very close to actually see want

to. exactly. in one sentence what he tore into words and was never left he said my stomach doesn't know 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 in tell i'm gonna. my heart toward me there look you want to do something about farmers and farming for do it do it now say wait wait when you 5 we would have reached or a 1000000 farmers and touched at least 5000000 households you know with the kids you know seeing a boss 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 back like the idea of a climate resilient forest service capable of withstanding a temperature increase. because of the students from the university of buy right there 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 it is also 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 thought we'd be for me it's time to upgrade myself and get more international exposure so that he decided to be here. by fact has been at the university of by right since 2016. he's only ever wanted to study environmental science. so right. where i come from if if you heard about the jungle book so the forest of the jungle book is lake about 50 kilometers from me so in 2011 and there were huge stories did

the tiger population in india is declining and they were about the only 1000 tigers left and i was really surprised because they saw the forest was like 50 kilometers away from me and my steward was awarded late the tiger state award in to have like magnum tigers and then we saw the diagrams are declining the population is decreasing and this was the 1st time i come to know what their nature is in trouble . 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 bavaria and india together she spends a lot of time travelling between them. we responsible 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 the number of indian students here has more than tripled in the last 9 years to 15000. 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 integrating this. there are currently 40 indian students at the university of by right. they benefit from the knowledge they bring with them says.

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. or. other point is that they are very mobile this is very internationally minded and open for lots of different scenarios in terms of their careers but also what it means to live abroad. and those photos. bhandari 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 news about like we lost the species some days ago so it's 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 nifty and freedom from discrimination act like world the women employ makes less than the men in india the figure stands at 62 percent of a mere. act of this the systemic and patriarchal bias 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 soley main.

thing drives a rickshaw taxi. and to really weigh station. or a newspaper nearby. everyone calls up are. these 3 women in jail who have jobs that are almost and dalia performed by men in india. only 21 percent of women in the country work most of them. it was also a newspaper said i mean as a small child she would help him she was just 8 when he died of typhoid fever and she took over his business borrow had to support the whole family her 7 sisters and 2 brothers. but it's not the most difficult thing is when it reads to protect the newspapers from getting where i have to look up. to them as if they were my children and i never let my papers

get trenched sometime street wise men with me and tease me it's extremely annoying but i give as good as i get. the level of order will be able. despite long hours 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 male colleagues who are so different some custom to rely on me and there are people who refuse to die in 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 my heart. a fairly. 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 year. after why i was earning one. 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 live in their father's mother after she has been. 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 japanese. gamester man. i founded a cottage 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 that's my addiction. 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 yankee what most people get john to wear don't go. what's more health is poor and she do struggles to make ends meet. driving a taxi but now there's a stiff competition from writing services like an old home would have made a dog out of it i take pride in my look the problems i face are 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 has been melted away. in the past things are enough and. 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

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