this is day w coming up next as southern africa confronts rising prices will soon shortages and climate change is to blame stephen beardsley will have the top story pressed off a obviously africa update in just a moment i'll be back at the top of the doubt for the. big bang created today's world. 79 a historical trimming good in politics business travelers the big run up evil of the islamic revolution. the business of making its initial flirtation was a strength and states of emergency but sinks into chaos caused the 2nd to 6 percent chance the people of britain steel doors are.

locked in crisis. the start of an era that defines our message today. 19 said a big commitment to small steps december 23rd. food prices and shortages are rising across southern africa. we will hear from the executive director of the world food program about how climate change is playing a role. also on the show what to do with all that electronic waste take a look at the processing plant in cameroon. and the seedless lemon makes its debut in u.s. grocery stores but will it have appeal. this is your business africa report i'm stephen beard's of berlin thanks for joining us

food prices are climbing fast in some of the world's biggest emerging markets and southern africa for example low rainfall and high temperatures are strangling wide stretches of the region and that's threatening millions with hunger the drought has curbed output rising food prices in zambia especially in corn products has pushed inflation there to a 3 year high in zimbabwe monthly food inflation has reached almost 50 percent as supplies wendel the country is experiencing its worst economic crisis in a decade on top of those shortages then there's nigeria where supply problems are also driving up costs the price of imported rice has surged 7.3 percent since august and that was after the government ordered border closures partly to counter a wider spread widespread food smuggling of food cost of nigerian inflation to its highest rate in more than a year now earlier i spoke with world food program executive david beasley i asked

him how bad things could get in southern africa if something doesn't change soon got enough problems with or in conflict in the hunger that result from that when you compound that with climate extremes and the climate is changing for example in the seville region it is a dramatic impact in fact we are seeing over 22000000 people this year alone are displaced because of the climate screams it is going to get worse. you mention war and conflict manmade problems there how much of these problems right now are manmade and how much are out of control of these governments well you've got a combination of factors in fact a perfect storm in the greater seville region him and you have war and conflict we've got about 100 in 50000000 people that are on the brink of starvation around the world and most of this driven by men may conflict whether you're talking about yemen or south sudan or syria or but then when you compound that with climate extremes particularly in areas like this a hill or yemen or somalia or ethiopia it really is

a perfect storm that calls us migration a lot of people to starve to death and we can we have answers on the ground if we get the funding that we need to help people survive during these difficult times and just to clarify is what you're seeing this year in terms of the level of drought is that a big increase or decrease i guess from what you've seen in years past has been a steady increase in these problems or is this something we're suddenly seeing happening. no it is been a it's a combination of different factors the number of cycle owns and hurricanes and droughts and flash flooding is tremendously increasing over the past 2030 years and you look at one country and you'll see the average temperature for that country may not have changed that much for the year but the change of temperature per season and the droughts per season although flash flooding percy's and per season has dramatically changed which impacts individual smallholder farmers and families

out there in fact if we don't come to some some solutions what we're looking at over the next 2530 years 200000000 people will very will be displaced just this year old lone 22000000 people were displaced because of extreme weather and as i said earlier out of 115000000 people on earth that are on the brink of starvation about 95000000 of those are a result of a combination of conflict and weather extremes all right david beasley executive director of the world food program thank you for joining us. it's become a modern scourge electronic waste mountains of old devices batteries and computers are piling up around the world even governments to figure out how to process the way safely that includes small countries like cameroon which just opened a new recycling plant take a look at the n.g.o.s technology takes care of the proper disposal of electronic waste it's cameron's only electronics recycling facility the initiative

process is about 2 tons of waste a month including lots of computers sometimes more than $100.00 component parts are collected during just mantling the metal is reusable and some of the electronic parts as well. augustin canner has been here for 2 years. i really enjoy working at this firm. dots because this is a recycling industry where we work to fight against pollution and to protect the environment so i'm proud to be part of this work. to see. the different components are sorted and stored separately computer circuit boards with their electronic assembly containing metals like copper and iron which are sold to milton shops electric cables can be reused immediately other materials though are a bit more problematic. we have certain types of plastics that come in different

forms we have some batteries that can be dealt with locally so we've started negotiating a deal with foreign partners you know to export these materials overseas for recycling. here a hard drive is being checked and it still works around 20 percent of the devices can be repaired and resold that's great for the environment and for the company too and it makes the technology available to people who normally would not be able to afford it but one of our objectives is to promote the distribution of modern technology that is give people who cannot buy a new device the opportunity to get a cheap recycled one from us from now on one of the former east gets a new life and that's good for everyone and reduces the garbage pile up in the city but there is still lots to do the initiative is hoping for even more government support to be able to go big scale and help manage the toxic waste in cameroon.

the global tariff wars continue with no end in sight and just a few weeks ago markets were celebrating what appeared to be an end to the trade conflict between the u.s. and china but donald trump has changed his tune now the u.s. president is saying he's in no rush to get rid of tariffs. if the end had been in sight it doesn't appear to be any more for weeks speculation that the world's 2 biggest economies could be close to a trade deal had kept investors calm and then came the news that u.s. president donald trump wasn't counting on a pact until after the 2020 election comments that sent markets into a tailspin and left his commerce secretary grappling to explain his possibility that close and to have for i think the point he was trying to make is we need

a proper deal with this. or it's next to. the proper deal details about the stumbling blocks are scanty but intellectual property trade in agricultural products and the role of chinese tech equipment giant huawei have all been enduring themes. there is are there geo political tension after washington pos legislation seeking sanctions in relation to beijing's crackdown on the weaker minority in jinja you worry. if the united states takes actions that undermine china's interests do you think that we'll just let it be and do nothing anyone who makes a wrong move must pay a price. but analysts say the price of an enduring trade conflict between the united states and china could be too much for the global economy to bear. and let's look now at some of the other global business stories making news. a former top

aide to the president has been arrested along with 2 recently. sacked members of the government as part of a corruption investigation the probe is looking into $150000000.00 that has gone missing from the god on state oil company. rwanda has signed a deal with french soccer club paris on germain to show a visit rwanda logo on their banners and shirts how much you want to pay for the 3 year deal has not been disclosed english and english club arsenal already has a similar arrangement with the rwandan government. tesla c.e.o. elon musk has appeared in a california court to face charges of defamation case injuries on a message he posted on twitter in which he appeared to label a british diver who helped rescue 12 boys trapped in a cave in thailand last year a pedophile must said he did not mean the comment to be taken literally and was responding to an insult the tech entrepreneurs offered to create a mini submarine to assist in the rescue had previously been declined for.

well the fruit business might not seem that innovative at 1st glance a woman has always been a woman right and not really readers are always working on new varieties and now they have in fact done something new with a limit to look. this may look like an ordinary lemon but take a closer look and you'll see that something's missing this lemon and the rest of the crop has no seeds seeds are annoying this solves issues problem on those lovely lovers out there that saddam keep his company is the us is biggest grower of fruit and the 1st to bring the seedless lemon to the mass markets in the united states it came to be repaired it was that australian farmer who 1st found this we brought it over to california planted in our orchards and walla we had wonderful status lemons and plenty of them the company's 3 california roaches contain 4000 acres of the

free fruit they're finally ready having been planted in 2015. shoppers might be understandably skeptical of the claim that they're not genetically modified but david karp an expert on all things citric says there inventors somehow found a way they develop these varieties starting about 20 years ago by irradiating but word that's with gamma radiation induced spontaneous mutations they have there you waited $5000.00 or more seedlings and several of them turned out to be just what they were looking for weapons just like all mormons that were highly productive and didn't have seeds everything but the seeds. 2 decades later and here they are the company hopes in a few years that account for a 10th of the lemon sold in the u.s. it's growing efforts are also being matched by south african supply as we hope to

meet the rest of the world's demands between them they could soon secure a significant slice of the global lemon market. all right and that's it from me and the d.w. business team you can of course find out about these and other business stories online at www dot com slash business and you can also check us out on facebook and twitter please take a quick look at the global markets that's coming up next i'm stephen beard and relent let's watch.

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