available online course you can share and discuss on w. africa's facebook page and other social media platforms crime fighter 2 mean you know. what secrets lie behind these walls. discover new adventures in 360 degree. and explore fascinating world heritage sites. t.w. world heritage $360.00 get the maps now. when people hear the word bank they usually think of money but today we want to talk about a different kind of bank one for things like beans bananas and barley hear what's being stored and save our seeds the right cheese adapted to the changing climate

welcome to this new edition of equal africa i'm never tideway and i'm not alone sunder to be in uganda is with me what can you tell us about seed ranch sandra it is a nice to see you too near to well i know that in western uganda farmers helped him up with a seed bank to enable them to grow healthy and nutritional crops for their communities more on that in a moment but 1st a look at what else is in the program. took a look at the plant in ethiopia other generates electricity while eliminating west and we will also hear how humble by making something a little plainer in kenya's capital nairobi. we started the program right here in uganda around 10 years ago james and a few other farmers used a few bags of beans and a but then a seed start up capital to set up the need to see it back on to the course of tas

proved fruitful yields in the region's green harvest have risen up by 50 percent and a big fuck to meet success is that the initiative banks sharing anyone wanting to use the seeds he's given some training to. join with is explaining how to catch banana weevils. she's giving a training session to women farmers in western uganda. over what is sort of. the by no evils. here she demonstrates another method put parts of a dead banana tree stump in front of the tree you're trying to protect and the weevils will be drawn to that instead. because it could destroy.

the spring. so. my. joy has been trained by the organisation alliance biodiversity the n.g.o.s supports food security projects with evidence based research especially for crops like bananas and beans some traditional bean varieties can no longer grow here the farmers say it's because of climate change the ngo has helped them to set up their own cooperative and develop a seed bank which now has more than 60 varieties of bean in stock. our farm. from here the. farm he. has. to have he or she has. the national seed bank of uganda provided

the initial investment of seeds scientists made them available to the ngo. the researchers have given the farmers improved seeds of being varieties. the cross-breeding to create these new strands can take several years as scientists gloria tino explains it's defined. these may be. read as can access those materials and improve on them. or even so those traditional hold. traits. that we need for. the national seed bank estimates that every year uganda is losing around 10 percent of its biodiversity in plants that are important for agriculture and attrition like beans peanuts and wild rice.

so if we. get very yes sure we each of those crops. have would have nothing because we won't be able to use that materials to engage in the challenges that you have in the production systems in the country which has meant to look after these resources is use a country that is in trouble for the future for joining has in the meantime set up our own seed bank for 4 years she's been setting aside part of her harvest proceeds she's employed a number of women to help with the seed selection process she not only pays them but also passes on her beam growing knowledge they get money from these. from these community. the idea of starting up community seed banks is catching on join with has also

found interested listeners in the neighboring district of shima a total of 8 cooperatives in uganda have now joined the initiative. while small adjustments got off to bring about big changes but sometimes it really does take massive investment if you're just spent a 1000000 sitting up apostasia od its capital cautious dumpsite but is using the west there to generate power the garbage is incinerated to heat water and produce steam which drives tell the plant no supplies a quarter of the city's households with electricity sounds like 2 problems solved at once. these mounds of trash valuable the reuse to produce energy for disabled. this incineration plant called repeat is the 1st of its kind in africa it produces electricity for his capital city.

every day at around 2000 tons of garbage delivered here 2 thirds of that is burned . first the waste is stored at the bunker for 5 days to release moisture then it is burned at a temperature between $8850.00 degrees celsius. chemist seen take. has been working here since the opening of the plant. and. after that you will be hit as i was up so i will create the steam. that i want. electricity. the filters of the incinerators am made to be your standards so that

is little pollution is possible leaks into the air. that makes it more eco friendly then open burning off waste on landfills which is still common in african countries the plant was built on parts of the former question dumpsite at the outskirts of the city. the director elim a year who says that cautious served for about 50 years to discard the waste of this. his administration has transformed the dump site into a manageable landfill if this keeps away fires in bed order through waste treatment and guess venting there are a number of course this is never accepted by this was to analogy because they are not a valid source out of the force to which climate with which one this facility will be disposed on the land. the repeat incineration plant was

constructed and funded by an international consortium and the ethiopian government it provides electricity to around 25 percent of households in a the suburb. that is. local positive 25 may go but it is contributing for. cleaning the city it is contributing for. energy to the system so it will serve us a movie or other cities to. cleaning the city. of course called fire power plants or guess facilities are more efficient in making electricity then this incineration plant. but this west energy system is not only generating electricity it is also saving land space preventing the release of toxic chemicals into groundwater and reduce. the release of many things into that most fear. not life

that's pretty impressive but unfortunately not all countries here in africa have the means to do things like lot but that doesn't mean the other creative ideas for processing. indeed sandra for instance in god or one innovator is transforming plastic waste. material to produce a fashionable footwear here's this week's doing your bit. fancy a pair of these slick looking sandals they're another step forward in the fight for the environment mccaffrey who came up with an idea to transform plastic waste into a leather like material he wanted cleaner streets in ghana's capital and going with start up help from the world bank he has a team collecting plastic and. residents can collect cash for bringing him the

materials themselves. we created as a process around the whole thing and we wanted to engage people so we we encourage home offices and if you graph to separate the waste and. then bring it to us you wait. for. the plastic is shredded heated up and then pressed into sheet. the new material is easy to work with. but carefully cut set the pattern for sandals and takes the pieces to somebody who throws them together. for an out of the orders have been filled from home. but the end of a serious hoping to see his shoes in the shops soon. and how about you if you're also doing your bit tell us about it visit our website or send us. tweet. after doing your bit.

we share your stories. nigeria has a many rivers lakes and. a long coastline but. being devastated by vast amounts of plastic waste it is destroying habited and killing animals and equipment to something urgently needs to be done and there are people who are rising to the charlot eco probably one of those it's a non-governmental in lagos that is committed to climbing plastic from the ocean and the shores. with its impressive skyline and expensive yachts the lagoon in lagos is a picture of luxury and charm but only at 1st glance a closer look reveals the darker sides the lagoon is a cesspool of plastic waste a group of environmental activists called eco pro is fighting against it they've

been collecting trash here since 2019 to protect the environment and the people who live here if you can watch it over. and over we are looking at how we can really look at. the end of our street with the flooding of the temple with. the activists out once a week so clean up the lagoon it's estimated that $12000.00 metric tons of waste from here every day. work has paid to rent the boats with no money so the onus give them a lower rate to help out here but on the boards cost about $30000.00 well because we settle for they should ship with the. discounts why the big boards with a 1000 naira because all the relationships that we haue with them pro also receives help from a private waste disposal company which claims waste from the lagoon full free

plastic is a recyclable material but much of it still ends up in landfill recycling exist here but its rhythm entry is really just a dump site. we have pickers who go to the dump site and they then individually take out the things which have to have a lot of value i mean we were literally throwing away money big city pick them out take them they sell them off to the different people doing the recycling up to 100 workers help with the clean ups on a regular basis the activists want to post more public awareness about the environment to help change people's behavior if only people can imbibe of culture where by drinking you play on your back that way you can find the traffic on. a pro has also started to collect gone based on beaches sometimes they're able to recruit extra ball and says spontaneously. when i just got.

on so i did. my fox smaller run because much. like. an estimated 450000 metric tons of trash dropped in the lagoon and on the beaches every year. the activists hope the government in lagos will step in soon to do more than it's doing now and that way the will see it will be cleared every day. albatross mongul largest seabirds and they are one of the most threatened families of birds on earth albatrosses feed on squids fish and kriol so it's not surprising that they tracked it's a large fishing vessels that troll the oceans and while the barjatya may be too good to resist the boats are actually more of a curse and a blessing so these majestic creatures this come down.

with a wind span of up to 3 and a half meters the wondering how the trust may be the most majestic sea bird in the southern hemisphere and one of its most endangered species. here in the french causing island is an archipelago in the southern ocean only why miss king sent his team to quit the birds with transmittance since last autumn they've been tracking the flight of the albatrosses minus cage has been fascinated with the sea birds ever since he was a boy. albatross is flights of 70 to 80 kilometers an hour over stormy seas without flapping their wings they use the winds to get around but it's true there's something majestic can fantastic about the flight of the albatross

when you go to the sea every owner followed just dreams of catching a glimpse of one. such encounters are increasingly rare because the number of wandering albatrosses has shrunk dramatically in recent years. research's estimates that there are only some $25000.00 left worldwide albatrosses often follow boats in search of food. first always saw one i was on the boat taking those over to the cross at islands the bird just kind of know where the sea was choppy and we saw the arbitrageurs roche the boat pass over it's a fly alongside the vessel is observe those and then vanished again into the sea. the birds mainly follow fishing boats unfortunately many fisherman cast kilometer long lines equipped with dozens of hawks while trying to take the bait albatross is often swallowed the hooks and die a painful death the boats the usually unlicensed and don't send out the required

automatic identification signals they also don't employ safety measures like weighted lines which can be immediately pulled down far below the water's surface marine biologists are concerned. about is not a problem with international waters is their rights free zone and international organizations don't have the legal instruments to force these boats to stop their own authorised fishing or. so on he why miss cations his colleagues launched their ocean sentinel research project to find another way of combating illegal fishing they've now fitted $170.00 birds with radar transmitters which can even track down boats that aren't sending out the required signal. this here is a transmitter you know it has a g.p.s. on turner which allows it to locate the exact spot where the radar was detected. the another one

a transmits the data directly to us via satellite. the scientists compared the data gathered by the birds with that from authorized fishing boats they found that around 30 percent of the vessels out at sea lacked permits the researches say there are indications some of the boats saw sailing under chinese and spanish lacks an accusation that spain's director general of sustainable fisheries categorically rejects the best is that we are all very nice and whatever your students that were flying the flag. saying are welcome sure we want sure we all of them and all seem all that we are not a were also there are cities but the ornithologists trust their research best certain that data could help to stop illegal fishing and save albatrosses in the process. just as in many other parts of the world traffic is

a major problem in africa's megacities some people need up to 3 oz just to get to work never mind all the small delivery trucks that are frequently stuck in traffic jams and it's not just the time wasted is it near to taking as capital nairobi its population has doubled over the last 20 years and the increase in traffic is terrible in terms of company emissions and quality but that's just one reason eco minded intrapreneur was us making the switch to electro mobility. it's still early when leroy miner heads into the public stricken districts of nairobi to deliver fresh produce. the word gets around on a solar powered cargo each bike. pulled back we turn on saturday we can do a good 50 kilometer and even on

a collar like my son i thought maybe it would but the child. taking you up to a 100 or so that you feel the next spring when you're signing. the bike to reach a speed of 40 kilometers an hour even when it's carrying a heavy load the solar panel on the reef protects leroy's from the brain and the battery keeps charging even in this kind of. leave only works for a local company cool kwanza to cooler. it supplies pre-prepared staple foods to street food vendors in mostly impoverished neighborhoods we want to be sustainable that's the board and driver but also we want to be economically sustainable so that we are able to produce products that are affordable for our customers who are poor in order to do that we find it more efficient to use green energy the sort of bikes that we use we don't pay any fuel for them and they are able to carry more cargo compared to buy the electric cargo bike was developed by the startups only recycles

sustainable mobility is wonderful because it's one that's good for them by. especially in kenya and in africa where our population will grow muscly over the next 20 to 30 years so the environmental case is a very strong case that we always have to make. the number of vehicles driving on gasoline or diesel is on the rise in african cities worsening at pollution an increase in carbon emissions. the united nations environment program you know is therefore promoting electrum a billet in africa in kenya the biggest emission when it comes to climate change is to drive. and the biggest polluter when it comes to health is the transport sector and within the transport sector all dirty motorcycles are one of the biggest polluters so we want to replace them completely with 0 emissions electric motor cycles like this one. in kenya some 80 percent of the electricity in the country

derives from renewables such as solar and wind power and geothermal energy ideal conditions for emo bulleting. and yet there are just $300.00 electric motor pads on the busy streets of the canyon capital the main obstacle to email the in kenya is inadequate infrastructure until college arrives the battery range is too limited plus there are hardly any charging stations. for electric cars to be mainstream people say we need tides as we need for this but for this to be established we need electric cars so there must be there must be that group of people that's really to take the foster risk. there is demand for electric vehicles in conservation areas for example and wildlife such as for i was north of my right. this long produce a used to be got stripped and it's been retrofitted with

a super quiet electric engine a major advantage here in the savannah. what i like about it is the silence when you're driving. close to the world i mean with no one. here so they don't have to stop kind of person are new rules. and. you can stop. you know without starting unlike the other vehicle which is just the safari jeep was converted by swedish company. the company has set up shop in kenya with 40 employees and installs electric engines and cause a mind to bikes and soon buses to. going forward we will go more and more towards towards many fracturing of a deeper and deeper level which means that we can make you can get into the actual

central hub for electric vehicles of this region and we can move away from importing these vehicles. for the time being at least electric vehicles remain something of a niche markets and can. a lot of ground will have to be covered before they go mainstream. and be at quality in nairobi in 3. that is certainly an interesting approach and it is good to know that the electric bikes a walk in the rain to maybe the idea will catch on in other african countries as well maybe here in uganda as well welcome to the end of this week's equal africa we've glad you could join us and of course we hope you've been able to pick up a few ideas and insights you can use wherever you live i am sandra tree no you're saying bye here in kampala the capital over uganda so long for now sandra and goodbye to you dear viewers out there see you again next week until the end you can

stay in touch with us and keep up with the latest development on our social media channels for now i'm no time we signing up from the fashion park in lagos nigeria.

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