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a growing scale global trade doesn't always make sense. in today's world goods and services are traded between countries and continents on an unprecedented scale as globalization is credited with boosting economic growth free trade is a big honor for the corporations and benefits millions of people around the world but the price for that prosperity you say critics is paid by the poor and nowhere is that gulf more visible than in africa. 54 percent of the continent's workforce relies on the agricultural sector but cheap and often subsidized goods brought in from asia and europe as swamping domestic markets causing prices to plummet. over 120000 tons of tomato products enter ghana annually that's a $95.00 fold increase since imports began in 1996 and that boom is taking its toll on local producers. tomatoes

they could be goners red to gold the soil is ideal and they've been cultivated in the country for decades yet ghana's tomato factories now stand empty and farmers are opting to leave the country. there are many reasons unstable power grid unsuitable tomato varieties and the global trade policy it's only china and other countries are dumping canada and processed tomatoes on ghana. benedicto a free for is a tomato farmer in 12 in the middle of one of garner's mayme tomato production regions but many day laborers looking to be hired during the harvest season attest to widespread unemployment even at the busiest time of year some while to find was . nearly half of garner's population lives from agriculture

a robust tomato growing industry would boost growth in rural areas nowhere is this industry more likely to flourish than here in the country's fragile middle belt why a few but now the factories are no longer buying locally grown produce farmers are becoming increasingly worried. benedict it grows tomatoes on the head tear of land if you believe. that the law. and asked that then as well unions would be also tunes who we have to buy water every day when it doesn't rain or. a tank of water cost $120.00 c.d.'s 20 euros and that's not even enough for the whole farnaby asked for but we have to buy water every day for about a month and a half until the rain comes if we have a lot of problems which makes it hard to. survive in this country and i am intimate

now my. crops grow in abundance here before most could cultivate even more land and employ more workers yeah but they lack funds if they want to buy seed and fertilizer and pay for irrigation water they need to take out loans. benedictus husband has gone to italy hoping to earn money to help support the family to pay for the children's school fees and also says they can invest in a house and a well to irrigate that crops. need to hear but it took them down a whole year my husband can earn more there than in ghana the city. he sends money every month. for me and our 2 children may i approach. he reminds me of my pal and. free trade is the principle that opens the african market to exports after independence african

countries introduced customs duties in order to protect domestic farmers and emerging industries but now these restrictions are being lifted despite the fact that most african nations still struggle to compete on the international market garner came under international pressure when it tried to increase import tariffs on tomato products to 40 percent that now at 10 percent and containers full of cut price tomatoes continue to arrive in the country. and. now that the factories are closed farmers such as benedikt to have to sell their produce to the market queens we sell it on in the cities. there's a surplus of projects during the harvest season so the farmers have to sell at rock bottom prices. is the amazon master or 320 cities they offered 270 and said other. these are getting even less at this price i wander in anything

out of the. tomatoes out of food staple in ghana they account for 40 percent of spending on vegetables middle class canadians like that's a motos cammed gonna couldn't eat at least a portion of it's demand itself but the canned tomatoes here on the market are not domestic ones come out of china some of it's even some of this has been some of the street i'll be very happy if we have a company here in town that we could use a lot of bases canidae is that of people going to cuba what's good and frank and serious spend most of my work day when big money to that kind of help the country to become an. economist corbett no 2 is familiar with the problem and as an academic he can speak

more freely than the gun and government which has to take into account international investors. so this one child was. touching her son for a matter of. about 70 percent spot. media mob because. shamelessness across the aisle plus going to iraq was your a while back. and paul told stick on food from the us and us could run out of the african roots on a fortune which is. sort of how the shows their response times if you try to change positive feel by. making.

3 traditional about this trial are. about smith and the song some time for the pontiff are called those of the prophet had both. the new sense of man. on the surface globalization seems to be bringing people closer together but some of us are more in the cauldron of us we visited 8 countries in asia and europe to see the conditions people actually walk under and found differences but also similarities on the social justice front. the latest episode in our series work places. 8000 people work at this site in central java. and she's one of the people in charge michelle joe cross

a patrol took over the textile company 10 years ago when her father died she had no previous experience in the field that nearest was in. that debt situations because of the 98 crisis so bad by my local for it was still in the. like a bat that situation so it means that we couldn't pay to. install wind bands we call it category 5 in smoke liquid it was challenging and then but it also set the course of my journey. at the age of just 25 the young woman suddenly found herself heading a sizeable company and she had to implement some major changes. now there are only a few really old machines left at the factory for example in its di works joe close a patrol took out loans and invested in modern technology the machines have made production much more efficient they save electricity. and make life much easier on

staff as well the boss has also just started using thread made from sustainable sources. and this thread is made from wood near the city of porto in portugal it's also used to sew products for a german startup co-founder team makes clothes out of a material called tensile the wood based fibers breathe well and they make a material that's quite durable this is not throwaway fashion in the movies and. you can make a really cool fabric out of this it's extremely soft and that's why we decided on wood as a source we're working with the raw material that grows here and is also being processed here in europe. the wood is sourced from sustainably managed forests the 1st step in turning wood into yarn is to put it through a chipper. blended with. the resulting mixture is then spun into

thread. this process saves up to 1000 liters of water per t. shirt for the team at wild sustainability is part of the corporate image raw materials production and transport routes are all in and from europe not asia like most clothing manufacturers that further reduces its carbon footprint. michelle. would also like to go down a sustainable route she has plans to gradually increase production at dan leary's with wood based yarn every year at the moment just one to 2 percent of the company's clothes are made this way but the yarns even being used for the traditional clothing that's so popular in indonesia it's usually made out of silk or cotton so the change is a breakthrough albeit on a small scale for now. i'm feel it's actually showing us more shine which actually in. it's like more i think the marketplace and it's.

sad how we can be more sustainable i being. partly responsible happening. climate change and all the ways that. at least from my part how can i be more sustainable. the business woman has also changed the way the company produces cotton all the factories cotton waste is now recycled and reprocessed into products like baskets or furniture the cycling is done by older members of the community as well as people from the region with disabilities for many the extra income is very welcome. in europe and his team maintain good working conditions for stuff. in doing so is it here regulations. these

stipulate that as a rule employees shouldn't work more than 8 hours a day. breaks must be guaranteed and sick leave with pay as well. the young company is distancing itself from the sector's conventionally cheap mentality and i am of clothing from wild costs at least $30.00 euros and that's ridiculous of course it's more expensive because we're producing in portugal within the e.u. for sure it's more expensive to use sustainable materials but direct sales via our website mean we can offer the close i don't reasonable rate so people can still afford to buy them. from. portugal used to be the cheapest place to produce clothes in europe then competitors from asia and eastern europe sent the industry into a tailspin portugal struggle to hold its own but through investment and innovations in products. technical textiles that are for example fire resistant or smartphone

compatible the sector was able to recover it now accounts for 10 percent of portugal's exports and 19 percent of all jobs in manufacturing. employ he said leary's work a 40 hour week with paid overtime and health insurance this is unusual in indonesia michelle joe cross a patrol wants to motivate her stuff her new incentives are focused on further training opportunities for promotion and workforce wellbeing employees who have been working here for 20 years have observed many changes in that time. 35 year old nami has been working here for 7 years she works in quality control. that if it isn't allowed. to put it on the company has supported me but i don't want to let that it funded my university course all of that not thinking

big on that one little say out of the wages here it damn levees are better than those paid by similar companies. that not add to. the money for i started working here i worked somewhere else and that's how i know people but enable the feel of the. chains. that the people are. that there is how we do things. in our global snack this time from uganda. kampala capital of uganda the country's rich soil produces almost anything the heart or the stomach to. hires and its street food is unparalleled among other

delicacies the roadside stands here serve up uganda's unofficial national dish the rolex a timeless tree. a rolex will fill you up longer than other males you can order rice or more toking which is mush planting but that won't satisfy your hunger for more than 4 or 5 hours but a rolex will opt for even longer. a rolex is basically an omelet rolled into patty patty was introduced to east africa by indian immigrants in the mid 19th century it's a kind of unleavened flatbread cooked i'm a skillet in the oil. price no more care what makes this quick snack all day long from 5 in the morning to 10 at night but what's the best time for

a rolex we're going to talk about what's in it does not i'm but any time you feel like you have money to buy in you feel like you're hungry you can by. pfizer stand is an insider's tip in the neighborhood. let's look. at the heart of the rolex is the omelet usually cooked with tomato onion cabbage and chili peppers one of these snacks costs $1500.00 ugandan shillings around $0.40 so earns about 11 euro's a day with the snacks so much more on the weekends. once it's browned and sizzling the omelet is rolled between 2 chip patties then it's ready to eat. think about it no i don't know stand this cleaner or better than this one. so why do i don't why that

i want to know it's simply the best neck shop in this entire neighborhood and i was single. and that's a special treat on valentine's day so offers his customers a heart shaped rolex. a romantic snack to go. dolls might not seem like the most inviting creatures but they've had a lot of bad press over the years in fact they have more reason to be afraid of os than vice versa. the reptilian predators are themselves hunted in many parts of the world. they also fall victim to human made pollution in the rivers they inhabit i have seen in belize. reporter can't you do another visit if the area around the capital i met with people committed to protecting the animals.

for a small crocodile has been kept as a pet for the past 3 years and has clearly grown used to its creature comforts. this is from a lot of chickens. keeping a crocodile in your garden pond is illegal in belize reptiles that have been confiscated by the author to use are put into the care of marissa tears and her in geo research coalition school 66 where i tell people i study crocodiles what comes to mind are dangerous paths birman man eaters monsters and all this stands for all dramatize ation that you see. as well as the media. for mercer 10 years and her fellow conservationists every crocodile deserves protection with the help of a local vet she gives this more or less crocodile a check up before taking the specimen to its new home this year such

a good fat boy. originally from the us has been fascinated by large predators since she was a child. her doctoral thesis focused on crocodiles. today and she's effectively belize's chief lobbyist for the reptiles. are all day trying throughout the country with the crocodile and the back. whether this crocodile will ever be fit for reintroduction to the wild still remains to be seen. crocodiles are part of life in the rivers and lagoons of belize but most people want as little contact as possible with them not surprising given the largely negative headlines i'm not one of that harmed by croaker lives because . i love my feet and my hands so that's to the end of this for me. you know want there on. my path your feet that. where with the end you're out

there. but peaceful coexistence with the animals is possible as mr taylor's is eager to communicate whenever she can today she's bringing that message to a podcast people that are protecting one species that the world think it's dangerous and it's. not our mission is to assist educate the protection of conservation programs in their habitat. and when she's not out fighting for greater awareness she dedicated herself to individual crocodiles in need of help. the coalition small team also get outside support among their partners is the national zoo. the vets here see to those animals that require intensive medical treatment. one of them more acute cases is a tragic one. evidently somebody trying to chop this crocodile style off for some

people in belize a delicacy. luke was able to escape with his tail half severed he was found by chance by the crocodile research coalition while out on an excursion how luke escapes from someone chopping at his tail we will never know but he has an important story to tell. the tale has yet to grow back together properly if the vets decide they have to undertake to remain in the zoo as a warning that crocodile hunting has to stop. and illegal hunting is far from the only danger faced by crocodiles. 'd urban expansion is also a problem in many areas the new river near the town of orange war in the north of the country has become toxic and indeed lethal for the reptiles. there is something in the water that has been causing. that

and when you conducted the new crops everything. had turned to mush these crocodile have been slowly dying for months. what's killing them is probably waste water discharge by the sugarcane factories lining the river. murray said thérèse and her team head out to check on the crocodile populations healthy at night when their active. craft. some baby crocs are small enough to be plucked out of the water by hand. examinations only take 5 minutes long enough for the specimen to have various measurements and samples taken and its skin analyzed.

30. skins are. this young animal at least seems to be in great health but will not remain the case in addition to moralise crocodiles belize is also home to a 2nd species the fall large american crocodile across the country both species live an increasingly restrictive unpolluted have retired so currently both species are protected by law however there is no conservation and national action plan to all this that we are collecting it is to help the government to then create the most appropriate action plan. croc is right here. 2 months expedition is not a very fruitful one the cim haven't spotted many crocodiles. now he is

now he went way way back another day another task marissa 10 is visiting one of the larger crocodiles being tended to by her organization. gillie also used to be kept as a pet and is now to tame to ever be returned to the wild. they would state yearly. uses a few basic commands for the purposes of training and gaining gillies respect target their ego good target even if gilly seems relatively harmless marissa says crocodiles belong in the wild and many of the specimens she sees need help to survive there this is where education is so important because education provides the knowledge the knowledge to be able to co-exist with these animals because we can co-exist with these animals indigenous cultures have been coexisting with these animals for thousands and thousands of years.

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