there's. africa coming up on the show there's a creek across the land. that's trying to stop the. march towards the capital. nothing grows here anymore he said. if it keeps. the people living on the river. it's great to have you with us on the show. it's changing and the new report from the un details the deepening crisis it's a catastrophe that's not made in africa but it's already hits in the continent michael kamandi sent us this report from nairobi. it's

a widely held belief here in africa that climate change is a problem for the rich it's also a prize in the fridays for future protests barely gained any traction on the continent just about 10 countries participated in the events that tended to be fairly small the irony of course is that it's poor an ordinary africans were most affected by the impact of climate change here in kenya haddad's who are running away from a persistent drought having to bring their livestock all of the way up just to keep them alive and in nigeria more and more people are being forced into the cities as desertification puts pressure on their land the african governments however say that they are trying and you can see that they are wind and solar farms such as this one sprouting all over the continent but the african governments say that they can't do it alone and they need the rest of the world to hold up their end of the bargain. you have mentioned that there's a spreading as average temperatures go up the well doesn't just get hotter droughts

and dust storms also growing more intense our next report. on the edge of the sob as it he huge genes are creeping closer and closer to the cop it's only on me but some people standing in the way children and teenagers leads the fight this is. not far away from me on the bank of the river sander and so forth but the final trip will enable the pupils to understand the phenomenon of desertification but will also see what people can do locally to stop the spread of the desert and to anchor the sander and. the gigantic duno of settler a i think gates of the capital neon man the pupils only want one thing to climb onto the dune as quickly as possible though some of these sand dunes wander up to 20 meters a year depending on the wind their height can reach 30 to 40 metres the pupils are

overwhelmed once they get to the top. wow it's awesome i've never seen anything like this i've never been here before it's so beautiful. yes it may be beautiful but it's a nightmare for humans and animals so you want it you don't want sand there instead bury your homes you have to try to prevent them from shifting. with sand drift fences for example sonny yuba explains what everyone can do to help stop the shifting of the dunes the students are pensive. after seeing this here i'm quite troubled. as you had some point the sand could reach the town. that makes me afraid. there's only send left here nothing grows here anymore it's a real desert. she keeps advancing and reaches the people living on the river now and it'll be all over. so they'll put off. the outing had

a big effect on the pupils they're now motivated over the holidays they're going to environmental camps where they will set up sandra fences and plant trees anything and everything to stop desertification. like you just saw him in that report sonny are you buy is like it's a director of young volunteers for the environment sonny welcome to africa and now the young people in your project seem surprised at the deserts on the out doorstep how did you realise now how dangerous that is so why. won't you have. another one 0. we're going to need new. or well you know i think that he. would be. well again it will most all people. in and i understand you have a project this weekend it's

a lot of festival when the faithful slaughter a sheep so what does that have to do with that's it yeah because we had eyes that we all wanted as most important that every year is like law again or 2000 thomas would loose on the only day of people really and she was so or people in the local or on the on the seats that comes out today that went so much in general or got all on to all sign on things and you forced the news of rude things. and that's why we cited and i'm bent on getting it will is like neat all to celebrate it has been and there was citizenship and there was it in a ship or so that's why you keep on or contrary to leave use the consumption would be the 1st thing is that it was or wounded knee in the leg or is not their

mission or their own religion so people can awaited me or they have. it and also it's. like i kind of elect ok making that if france did it ok also. sounds like a very smart idea sunny are you as i guess if their act of young volunteers for the environment thank you. and there. sunny's for. is just one of his aides have is involved in another one involves a completely new type of stove that runs on the waste people in the jack i use and dad to defy the deficit. and veyron mental protection in action. xenia is learning from

master blacksmith eve rahima mana how to build an oven that works without wood all parts must fit together perfectly so that the oven closes tightly and no heat can escape. abraham amana is building a series he just received an order for 50 ovens from the ngo volunteer how porn on feel normal. through food left this oven is a tool in the fight against desertification because it's not filled with wood but with rice husks the husks can't be used for anything else not even animals eat on. the every day tons of rice husks accumulate in the state rice factory it's waste with no nutritional value everyone who has an oven can get it here for free to use this fuel some of the yuba visit schools to talk about the ovens importance after all trees and bushes hold the desert sand in place so this is about our behavior we

have to change our behavior and our way of using raw materials we have to as you said correctly use clean energy and especially use power sources that allow us to reduce our use of wood. the pupils are allowed to test the oven at home for a week. how big my money boston route tells his family how to use the appliance. when. they don't. know we act and it seems easy to use it produces hardly any smoke and you don't need to use wood anymore that's good i want to try the oven out properly. the new oven costs about $15.00 euros and the in geo also gives credit. and my next guest. your gains from the university of hamburg he's a research are studying the environment across south africa. thanks a lot for your time now your project studies several ecosystems which are mostly

dry but not yet there's that what's happening that. well we study it a transect. to nose in angola and zambia soha. and compassing all the different ecosystems and so we learned that africa is a walton it's also very diverse so we have to distinguish. well in short we reeled desert if you cation as a proper sense as it's expanding in south africa and maybe especially during the last 5 years there was a perfect storm of climate change and intensified land use. those affecting each other wife has a nose and as a venice human activities are expanding we see the forest disappearing. forest. and there are really dramatic changes really calls for action by

politicians forest being cut down river as drying out what concrete effects on people who live in that. well again a wide diversity let me take 2 levels in lusaka have several times where we experienced up to 48 hours power failure per day there was no electricity in the capital and whose city and the reason was a lack of rainfall in weston's arabia and eastern angola many months before and that caused less water and as i'm busy river and finally ends a car riba dam so that the remaining water had to be used for agriculture irrigation to avoid food problems and no more water was allowed to runs through the generator systems to get electricity so you see there is a cascading effect yassar on nexus being very different areas and more important in

the country where people clear forests for charcoal they still believe forests are never ending however from our country relations we would say and 5 to 10 to 20 years the different groups will meet in the middle between 2 roads and then there will be no more forests this will be dramatic this will have to a metric economic impact and again political management of these ecosystems dramatic problems not you know you go nobody for you go refer station has been proposed as one of the ways out of climate crisis briefly as a viable solution. sometimes yes sometimes not a single it's over estimated there's a reason why there are no trees in many areas because the soil is sale and you can't clone trees there as a regions you wouldn't like to feel with trees is

a beautiful africans of venice was older animals shouldn't disappear because of open areas of trees however all the areas that have been de forest during the last decades by human use say should be replanted and there again we need political activity to make it happen ok well noted professor roger again from the south african science service center thank you. that said for now from v.w. news africa you can catch all our stories on our website on facebook in which we leave you with a look at africa's why the beloved seems so it means again a great region. to.

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