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and you know what this time all voices. on the 77 percent talk about the stock market. from quality to flash from housing boom boom time this is where it was. welcome to the 77 percent. this weekend d.w. . whether it's the global pandemic apply make change some of the problems we're facing to be seem so shrewd that finding solutions at an individual level feels almost few tied but why we might not be good to solve all the world's problems
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there are things that we can do to help protect our planet this week we introduce you to the people and project we're making this happen hello welcome to eco india i'm sunk that i'm coming to you from my neighborhood in mumbai now 70 percent of fruit india still depends on agriculture as the main source of livelihood for us we've got all from the information on best practices in farming and this brought you to move results but a development organization is using the fall wolf because knowledge to empower small farmers in the heart and help lift them out of poverty. then you're going to look at it from farmer to filmmaker it's an unusual career jump but beyond that her medical man made. his latest film focuses on how to protect eggplant crops from pests. you have
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a very healthy plan for keep using nimoy every 7 to 10 days to keep pests away many of. whom are began to see that film could be a great tool for spreading information in his community farmers in bihar in north east india have struggled to cope with changing conditions as a result of climate change kumar felt there was a lack of information generally on how to deal with crop diseases and better fluctuations we've got. to do. these are might be might. not easy to spot in the new year because. you have to keep a close watch. you can recognise the year. i was trained by digital green funded by the bill and melinda gates foundation and us among others if uses information and communication technology to increase the productivity of smallholder farmers at that bidding of information was disseminated to the
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community through the chart paper to the plaques and through those some other men will but when their. attention came into existence. then we have started with this. that and the purpose of that like it will be read in the information delivered a long time at the community saw the farmer sort any other business that is memorize the information the humus is delivered a long time and they can adopt they can use their technology for a longer time. the global development organization focuses on small and marginal farmers who own less than 2 hectares of land and who account for around 86 percent of all farmers across india many of them grapple with serial poverty and in less than 4 euros a day digital green is supported by a state run organization known as. the training program is aimed at helping farm.
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this is the problem in the past was that if your farm was infested the best you had to 1st to spend money on tackling the best would invariably destroy your crops that again was an additional loss but if you're just planted up your field and there was on time your ratings you would have lost money once again not that all these expenses are farmers are easily earning 25 to 30 percent more. when the benefits. that's an estimate but kamar believes his work is having an impact because based around $1500.00 rupees just under 18 year olds for his work he gets extra for each film showing for spreading the word. that the party 5 year old is responsible for the content of each film. he works together with the digital green team to develop storyboards and set up screenings in the villages.
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today after community meeting local women have gathered to learn about a new crop disease. according to oxfam india figures 85 percent of rural women in india walk in agriculture and so they make up the majority of the digital green audience. making the economic crap in my field is infested with pests and i'm unable to get a good price for it in the market is there a way to save our crops from these pests. that. we recommend the use of crabs for this drug. that has a ph it would attract the best and when they come close they get. good. screening is followed by a disc. this discussion amongst fellow farmers is helpful in many ways it gives
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people the reassurance that if a certain proctors has been successful in a particular place it is likely to work here as well it builds confidence in people yvonne farm implements a practice of the stand before all this helps in creating better practices. so far digital green has produced over 5000 videos viewed by millions of people across piles of villages in india and her memory is not the only one spreading the information. the team hopes that by treating more people like him other farmers will have the chance to adapt to the climate changing conditions to. now we all know that we used as a big problem for our planet globally we produce around 2000000000 metric tons of municipal solid waste every year it's an issue in india too but the good news is
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that solutions big and small are being implemented to tackle it head on we caught up with an environmental organization in delhi which is working on different ways of reducing waste. mountains of trash are among new delhi's biggest problems. half the cities with ends up in landfills like this one in east delhi. as they bake in the north indian sun hughes entered the docks and seep into the ground. but. only around a quarter of an india as we asked is formally process. for a large part of the rubbish that's left india's informal sector of waste because step in. one such community lives in south delhi where they collect
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trash and preserve things that they can use resell. they get little recognition from the government but they form an integral part of the city's waste management system. earlier having let them know who's going to collect it if not us now we don't take no responsibility for their own waste especially not the people who live in big houses if we didn't collect it it would highlight in the street and stink so badly no one would want to go out signed if we stopped collecting it for today everything wrong. it's estimated there are between one and a half and 4000000 waste because in india. they live on the margins of society with almost no access to education basic sanitation or state benefits. nearby environmentalists the melinda runs an organization called switch.
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a few years into being a nonprofit jogger the idea to collect some of the abundant garbage in delhi and up cycle it i'll give it a 2nd life with higher value. this commercial our most which is called green the map. trash the pink has no life or no future and that's what really happens for a child walks on right now. a lot of things that we actually up cycle for example a lot of tire in india is actually burnt by. actually meet interesting wallets out of argos tires and to tetra pak it's been congesting our landfills for a long long time plastic is similarly so we're told it can be actually bring in innovation design and utility and and make some interesting products. lustrum green the map. and more now i recently migrants to new delhi. today
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they are visiting southern a 2nd hand market to buy materials for an order they received. at this market you can get anything you need no matter what it is. everything you need to make a bag from in a tire tubes for example like fittings buckles zippers thread you can get everything here. moved to delhi after school when he couldn't find a reason to stay in his village and. his uncle had found a job a green them up and brought into space in the harsh life of a typical migrant which normally means menial labor and. green the employees mostly migrants like to work with with just to give them a 2nd chance at a good life. lots of boys from my village have ended up working in factories or on construction sites where they have to carry around the cement used
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to build high rises. their jobs are a lot more back breaking my work is great. i'm proud that i'm helping to reduce garbage making something useful from it instead of throwing it away. you know it is. proceeds from green them up going to switch as environmental projects planting trees to clean the air and advocating for green policies. job believes that the onus argument relies on the government really produces almost 10000 metric tons of garbage north of 10000 metric tons of garbage. it's also not my responsibility or our responsibility or community response to really. manage i'll be the state's responsibility so it's very very important to really not pick up the aspects of governance from this management governance is the job of the government
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to me to hold them responsible for about. the landfill in eastern delhi we go higher than the. inspiring people to rethink the concept of garbage is a good 1st step to keep india from sinking we need to own waste. a drill a lawn more or a big suitcase but things you need every now and again so if you buy a new one even though you might only ever use it once platforms designed to allow people to share with their neighbors are becoming the trend in cities like the emotionally economically practical but also beneficial for the environment. unflinchingly been drafter has clearly done this many times before he's putting together his bike trailer says. you can lend it to a neighbor for free of course that's nothing out of the ordinary for him he regularly lends out his belongings. garden equipment tools
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a child's mattress firstly fence. neighbors these things so. they won't have to buy them. i don't see this as being anti consumerist it's about sustainability these things are used so rarely if you use something a lot then buying something makes increasing sense and. the 2 men got to know each other by and. platform more than 1600000 users are connected to people living in their city maybe. people use it to lend and borrow stuff to swap information or to offer help. we have over $50000.00 entries linked to lending and borrowing and the range of items is huge from a group to a car seat to a bike trailer to a letter to a hand so many different things. when we.
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also offer services english tutoring guitar lessons. all these things and more are exchanged. with the start up was set up in berlin in 2015. free of charge for users the company funds itself via donations and small ads placed by companies in the respective neighborhoods. even some local authorities use the platform to communicate with residents in a particular area. people have different reasons for using the platform. often tend. people increasingly live in smaller apartments they don't want to gather too much clutter and many people simply want to give something back to their community we believe that if you give it makes them very happy. and it strengthen social bonds when we borrow something from someone we come into closer contact with those we live right next door to. me.
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by contrast. never meets any of his customers. he offers high quality tools for one euro 50 an hour you can preserve them by an ad. tool bot is built around the classic business model of the sharing economy where companies money by renting items out for a particular period of time. such as money used to play a role held big your record collection was and you need to go own card to get anywhere and if you had a lot of books in your shelves you possessed a lot of knowledge today we have with the pedia carsharing there's netflix and spotify what you have isn't important anymore it's having access to things that's crucial and that's why the status of the role of belongings is different today.
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anya shunts is one of his customers she's a dancer who travels around the world for her work for small household tasks she borrows what she needs from tool bought an electric drill and this instance even though she could buy one if she wanted she managed to borrow use and return the tool at an hour. when you're 50 is a lot less than the president and i can always come here and borrow it again. that means i can get it as often as i needed to. is launching a crowd investment campaign to help him grow his business he believes his model could also work with other items and on an international basis. we have limited budgets and the amount of c o 2 we emit is limited to if we won people in emerging and developing economies to enjoy the prosperity that they deserve then we have to achieve this prosperity in
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a 0 carbon and eco friendly manner. the consultancy company believes that sharing economy revenues will have grown to $335000000000.00 by 2025 a forecast that predates the coronavirus pandemic. despite social distancing the lock down actually. and his neighbors closer together in many ways redecorated the apartment of a neighbor who was killed and helped out with on jumps all that for free. but almost 20000 species of bees in the world but best decides and predators have. to bring for many years now in germany there's a growing community. who are doing their best to keep the ball anita alive and bossy. and. the morning more dead bees can be found lying in
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front of these hives the pride and joy of amateur beekeeper flits clown. where to be he's normally live for 6 weeks but his are falling victim to a parasite brought into europe from asia. their furrow mites destroy the bees nervous system to a point where they lose their sense of orientation that means they're unable to carry out their tasks anymore they even lose their ability to fly that's why the viral mind is a very very dangerous to be. very. it's one of around 100000 amateur beekeepers in germany he and his wife took up the hobby 5 years ago in berlin. the number of black people has has risen in recent years and in lots of german cities including the capital there are many different b. colonies living within an area of only a few square kilometers. that makes for
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a certain density but not be as they are now are able to cope. starving of it all with the problem. to make sure the bees do cope the amateur a.p. arrests are helped by a veterinarian at berlin's free university. dr benedict pilot check gives regular courses on amateur beekeeping. plywood he also instructs must be key to his at the university. clearance learn all about the different types of be there are more than $560.00 species in germany alone most of them wild . wild and solitary bees spend their lives alone they don't live in colonies so they're exposed to different dangers. the holy moly reserve the infamous parasite the burrow might not solitary be. instead solitary be. the problem of nesting
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sites monocultures don't provide. we really need more smaller fields and we need chemical free fields. studies from europe and the us show that monocultures and pesticides are the main threats to be survival. with not a single chemical in tow biologist caught in the herd and the rate of flowers in residential areas in. the project is funded by germany's environment ministry. wild beasts only feed on flowers the more diverse the garden the more bees that can thrive here. we don't have enough spaces for flowers in the countryside and in cities that we have to help them out it's not about honeybees vs wild it's equally bad for all insects. without bees nature is missing one of its most vital
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polonaises they are responsible for the propagation of hundreds of thousands of plants. carriage more people in the countryside and the cities to get. dried leaves is a common practice in many parts of india it's easier and cheaper than disposing them as waste but the smoke really. bad for our health but also affects the involvement we live in a. our next report from before the shores how many resident is doing her bit to put an end to this practice in her city. it is the dry season in india away from the monsoon rains which give new life. dried fallen leaves are everywhere you look.
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if you want to take a photograph. a large fraction of the generated. and because they are easier and cheaper to burn rather than send to a landfill. exactly what happens. is on a mission to end this practice she decided that she no longer wanted to gun leaves on her property. as a lie in the bill of one day while that was my 1st question and then i realized months they think people not belong is not selfish and we have a little light on. the all done to avoid the simple idea. and by profession. it's that connects people who have drive
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those dried leaves like. them and use the resulting mixture as a sword. started using after she read about it in the local newspaper. scientists has been awarded using standard oil which often needs to be transported from its place of origin and used in a stead. i was really impressed with. my fellow like to paul or the 3 r.'s if you do so. and. if you the brainsick what. do we. do those work is completely voluntary she receives no outside funding in the right conditions dried
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leaves be composed they can be mixed with other by waste and then as for the lies of a new plans the municipality of benefits from the book she does. that's if we said there was shit on. me we need to degenerate 2100 every people their mother with whom they were to collect this and transport it for 70 kilometers to the landfill is a big downside we are unable to make more than one trip because of the traffic. lights i leverage us a lot but. i like the idea never about that that you know that's our way and then we have there are some in our community who need the space and if you could make them to those who have it that's what's truly marvelous and that's the board and he would just ask people you know when i saw the large i may have been up one of our team by here. with what she has learned from brownlee the older also
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started. which translates to living there for me i'm learning as part of the initiative she brings together the citizens of over the weekend to clean the mood of the surface of which is covered with water hyacinth a week which could destroy the marine ecosystem if left unchecked oh it is a closed system so there is no concept of always so what their pollution we get here is going to remain here for a while and so we have to be careful what we would if you know the what. a dedicated and one mentalist sees herself as the calculus for geena green and believes the brown leaves and give the not only the big. i hope you enjoyed to this show and had many takeaways from it each one of 5 has
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