trying to some contractors. and investigative documentary goes to italy and china and looks behind the glamorous facades of fashion houses. luxury. starts no membership d.-w. . did you know that one can serve the end tell you how that song dominates with the help of drones we didn't know either but now we do and what was show you how it is done welcome to another edition of equal off make up i am song that you know they're coming to from kampala here in uganda. hello sandra and hello everybody thank you for joining us our today show i'm now outside we have the fossil park in

lagos nigeria and today's program will pay a visit to continue walking but that story and don't technology revolutionizing farming and i want to talk to visit a company that is trying to tackle the country's mountains of trash finally with over to germany to look at the business of bees and how important they are. i hope that what's your appetite for what's coming up on the program now let's head 1st to cote d'ivoire just one of many countries across africa where salt degradation and extreme weather conditions mean have us are declining so it's all the more importance to make the best use of resources and optimize farming practices and to abacha kareem and his drawings they help the young are gonna miss to watch over unimproved crops out in the field and i've always believed that the technology can help to lead his country into a mall bountiful future. oh. these

tomato plantation is money time no thanks from $1.00 cause by theodore over an area the size of a small full feature east to be born in point c.t. . the drone idea was knowledge of a local startup said to me of about. he wants to use the new surveillance technology to make traditional farming move productive and move sustainable and. sent by example let's say a plot of land has an irrigation problem on one of its 5 fact is that something you can't make out with your own eyes but a drone can identify the area in question and that makes it easier to resolve the problem and at the same time increase your year that will be when you know that you're and i mean really look after us. thing off the draw news is it's coming read to create digital aerial mops these are entangling to a computer dumb on the ground to take to larry to use or other issues on

plantations it's part of a new i.t. assisted form of farming called position agriculture it's everything. it's visited it means that we can use the technology to determine exactly where plants are being afflicted by a disease and instead of treating an entire passage of land we can focus on the specific area actually affected. my theory and he's here and show. me that's also good for the environment fewer pesticides mean healthier soil on less pollution on plantations. from a fungus and what began walking together with the startup about a year ago in addition to the environmental aspect he also sees another crucial advantage for his country's agricultural industry. then.

we have a lot of land and a lot of options for expanding off our land but it's physically demanding market and very tricky to implement which has put a lot of people off farming but this technology is extremely efficient and it can also tend to young people back to farming. if. much of the deforestation is done to provide space for huge new plantations ivory cost is the biggest cocoa producer in africa according to figures from the wild bank over the last half a century ivory cost has lost around 80 percent of its forests. or it buys of course that we are fighting the 1st session a lot of farmers think they need to 20 and i thought in order to ensure a big car vest but we showed them how they can get similar with $100.00 or just $5000.00 square metres

a little later the 2nd drawing is ready to take to the skies it has almost 10 liters of liquid best to say than board which will be applied exactly where it is needed. deploying drones also prevents damage to the plants roots from the heavy farming machines normally used. i can do with one drawn you can spray 2 hecht is then under 12 minutes with conventional means you'd need an entire day to cover one or 2 hectares. he now has a dozen strong team of prominent stuff out on 40 customers already using their phones digital solution although attracting a plentiful wasn't easy at fast. enough you know if you're going to hear the farming sector has been around for a long time i want when new technologies are introduced it takes our word for people to be convinced of the benefits with a cost of being

a major fatah money timing from seed to harvest cost between food and $8000.00 euros which for many farmers initially seems a big but to the startups clinton now extending 2000000 senate gun that drones will be touching down father a food too. let's stick with agriculture for the moment another major danger for food production where have all the bees got any answers so i'll go well near to experts say a number of things pose a threat to the these usurped in many parts of the world among them one of cultures pesticides on the climate crisis without these pollinators farmers will suffer along with entire ecosystems some enterprising us in germany has come up with some clever ideas on how to keep bees buzzing.

a company that aims to get bees to where they're needed and from one of the truth i was it wasn't easy to win people over we were total strangers walking up to be keepers saying we want to be many were skeptical. but it soon caught on one beekeeper has let neil's gabber take 100 of his hives to this auction in northern germany to pollinate apple trees gather lands out beehives to farmers throughout germany it's his contribution to the fight to stop economies collapsing whenever farmers need bees to pollinate their crops they can go to his website an algorithm that matches each farmer's need with the available hives this option owner ordered $100.00 hives the bees only show up if the conditions are right the feeling. has just sides are an issue which has to be addressed openly. so that means we've agreed to only use products that don't harm be. things which don't harm beneficial

creatures and we've shifted some tasks to the evening hours so we don't hamper the bees activities and been focused the population suffer from urban encroachment epidemics on agricultural monocultures so innocent. kryten initiative companies like b hero are developing technological solutions to help ease the market of dependency of bees is huge we're talking about $100.00 of of billions of dollars so that was genetically. change in order to not be dependent on people the nation actually can grow better if we put the bees in the field so saw is also a very interesting market for us peace get agitated when they keep it as make their presence felt so it's a good idea to leave them in peace for days on end but that too can be risky if the

queen the whole colony can die. this is our product it has sensors inside. multiple sensors and we just put it inside her in the main kong and it just we put it inside and it monitors their hive 247 then we take this there are we are loaded to the to the cloud and then to our algorithms and we are able to understand what's going on in the hive. but be hero will still need to develop the rescue system further before it's fully ready to go. unlike neil's gabber the german businessman has already found his niche. be sharing services cost fruit farmer griselda is down $6000.00 euros a quarter of which goes to the company.

we're very fortunate that our land is quite some way away from other orchards. so we decided to try out this pollination service. and i must say it's going very well with the travelling be spent 2 weeks here after that their work is complete and they can return home. with. the sharing harnesses the resources of small scale beekeepers across germany to maintain and promote key services to farming and it's important work without there being no pollination and no biodiversity. in many operative countries that are experiencing the economy well woman populations. of the nation west money is almost gone into a metal ongoing problem the amount of stuff produced this is ability to recycle republics or even properly disposed of but lucky for all of us this is plenty of

people ready to take the challenge to the top of the company africa's local recycling used busing began it is making a profit recycling salty and reselling west to asia and europe. this printing press runs almost nonstop silly death freak son of africa is one of the busiest printing houses in moment the capital of togo. but what about the paper waste the printing has used to just dump it somewhere where waste collectors would come by ok surely and charge to take it away. now it's the other way around the african global recycling company regularly picks up the old paper and even pays for us. it was embarrassing to see the waste pile up in our prince shop collects it now and gives us money for it and that money goes towards paying

for ink and other things it helps a lot. for children liberty added facility in low made african global recycling receives about $350.00 tons of waste a month from businesses schools and government offices. the paper is weighed and those who produce the waste. get one or one and a half the euro cents per kilo it may not sound like much but it all adds up. fine to a.g.r. in 2013 after working in recycling in europe. his vision goes far beyond just recycling. waste is a great opportunity for development on the african continent corporate informal market there's also a social aspect because we offer employment to people who didn't complete their

schooling or learn a trade we train them for. life shaping is a private school in may 1 of 40 schools where a.t.r. has installed recycling bins for metal paper and plastic the pupils have been taught to separate the trash. let's see the plastic and the paper will be transformed into new things that's why we put it here and the bins so it can all be recycled for. soup he says. the school's collaboration with the recycling company brings in money which it can spend on say teaching materials. it's also a way of teaching the kids to take care of the environment with sorting trash is like a game for the kids that's the main motivation for them especially for the little ones so. when the bins are full the school calls the company and a team comes to collect the trash. the children evidently find the whole process

interesting and thus has a ripple effect because. the kids talk about it at home and help make the parents more aware of the issues. once a parent told me they had started to recycle at home to another parent called me and asked if we could come in collect their old magazines and newspapers. a.g.r. source and cleans the waste to collect and sells a lot of it to money factories in europe. they transform paper into cardboard and glass into a new bottle for example. 80 or 90 percent of my recycled african waste to europe because it's well sorted and fulfills international standards. so for european recyclers my materials are as good as or maybe even better than those collected on their continent.

sorted cleaned and pocked the waste is ready to be transported overseas it's raw material for new and useful objects. these wicks doing a bit also deals with plastic in this case plus the collection john and you can't which means often child is convinced that all of us can do all the it took me all street forests and what a waste of rubbish a recent project initiative by the german environmental activists is in cooperation with 2 schools on the tiles on an island off. zanzibar an island off the coast of ten's and has a beautiful beaches and a major problem with plastic trash.

but kids from 2 schools are now collecting old plastic bottles the project was started by the ngo. an organization that was founded by mcqueen and michelle schmidt from germany. to the fair with these huge amounts of custom of it scared me of affected by the kids it's shocking why didn't the kids find them if they're right. shows that when you hear action it's actually pays you keep. the kids also tell their friends and families that plastic spoils the environment. the recycling company pays the school's $0.08 a kilo for the plastic. and i don't think

i'm lying hussein by and i think collecting plastic is a good project but that it brings in money to pay for new school books that are not but the rundown that. can supports clean up projects in over 30 countries. 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. on monkeys are closest on the relatives but are under threats in many places in africa so protected areas are needed to help these primates of life one of the

biggest song turris he's in uganda can you tell us more about that. yes sandra kibali national park has on the specially high density of primates 13 different species that's the park one of uganda most important tourist attractions we joined a tour there i will bring it to you. you have to head deep into the forests here if you want to catch a glimpse of key bally national parks for the most inhabitants such as the red color boss monkey. no where would you find a higher density of primates than here in western uganda it both starting species in all not including humans. but where are the chimpanzees chimp trackin is one of the pox most popular attractions up here we have a cure for this but nest the chimpanzees build each night is the 1st sign of their presence so far and making the mists is really very poignant on befitting the

presses because these are one way of avoiding the enemies. or predators and also continuous for human beings what role can we continue in bird feeds on our beds overnight but you keep changing this after more than an hour of tracking the group discovers the chimpanzees or rather the chimps discover them. and they call out to notify the are that. was. was. for this group of having to eat animals it's not deferred contact with tourists. was still they could be dangerous so visitors have to follow the rules like maintaining a distance of at least 8 meters. or.

chimpanzees eat on sand termites but also fruits and even meet. they are fairly safe because the local people benefit from their being protected. 20 percent of the pac entry and other fees goes to the local community. and residents get controlled access to the forest. grasses. vo come for seedlings from the bucks for specific trees species we're coming right through the money. given. and the must be. given and given. they're going to for this. once. this is end the leader of the chimpanzee troupe.

their mother when you were young. first because. they speak in a man with a $150.00 tracking fee tourists an important source of income for the national pap and when after their talk they understand the trade to species better they are more likely to take a stand for their protection. it was a great experience this gives it looks like us they relax in the trees like we do at the beaches at home they help forward their living from it is which was a great experience to know i do know that the other thing is i liked how they put in it they kept making funny noises to communicate to themselves. he bali's 1450 chimpanzees are uganda's largest population of this endangered species the closest living relative of humankind and with

us. when it comes to coffee experts say it has enormous potential for growth in africa many countries on the continent already exported all over the world and global demand is boring more than big recently jumped on the coffee bandwagon and eve all goes well the region around mount grown goza could soon be enjoying widespread reforestation and employment opportunities for the locals all threads to the humble coffee. and a bit about inclusion of sorts through the coffee beans laid out on racks to dry in the sun hadn't clean has been growing coffee for 4 years on the upper slopes of mount go to goes a. little game but over. the

reason why i like green coffee is because. the money enabled me to buy all sorts of things for my family like cooking oil school books for the children and other household. in the last decades of the tropical rain forest at mongolian gosa has been cut down by local farmers who wanted to grow crops most of the local wildlife was also poached matthew jordan works for the garden goes the national park encourages local farmers to plant coffee trees together with indigenous trees in order to stop deforestation and bring life back to the park this is made of hardwood trees planted alongside the coffee trees and what that does it provides its shade about 60 percent 6040 percent shade for the coffee and that creates this really high quality coffee big beans delicious delicious coffee beans

20 years ago goes a national park was derelict as a result of the country's devastating civil war rebel forces use the park as a base for their guerrilla war against the government even recent years have seen sporadic fighting but this summer the 2 sides signed a peace agreement now the government the pocket ministration and an ngo can focus on efforts to revive the park jordan thinks that the projects need for farmers will give rebels motivation to give up their weapons what we've seen is that hope is really transformative and people are really believing it and they've got. they keep coming back to us that's why they keep promoting it and we see that every year we're on boarding more and more foreign folk read about and cleaner the coffee has been a blessing the newly reforested plantation school also persuade many young people to stay in the region strengthening the coffee industry. because she don't

love my kids or have the prospect of going coffin any minute i know because of a source of hope like a. packet of ministration is planted over 300000 coffee and indigenous trees hundreds of thousands more sought to follow over the next few years the climate at mandarin both is perfect for shade grown coffee with the reforestation program mozambique might even become a major coffee producer like ethiopia or kenya. that's all for a coffee go this week i hope you found the show helpful i'm in from a tip thanks for watching i'm bob i from the fossil park now it's a win lagos nigeria so they'll be sure to join us once again next week for another edition of eco off ika environment magazine or visit our website on social media platforms until then i am son getting a little son in go from compiler here in uganda. oh oh.

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