subscribe. to. the we could all of august pandemic has taught us to appreciate all things local who could produce was local trade those local food and home essential oils india's prime minister in the interim or d. has even the country to take the vocal about the local pledge this week we

introduce you to the people and projects what empowering recruit businesses to not only stand tall but also helping the involvement in the process hello welcome to equal india. coming to you from my neighborhood in mumbai the un very few ji agency has warned that climate change is already forcing of rapidly increasing number of people to leave their homes in such a situation supporting the locals to adapt to these consequences would help to slow down the process in india as apple state for the some apple follows up already working on a collaborative model to support each other and mitigate the effects of climate change. it's been 35 years since by don't sing it on us started doing apples in him middle

of secluded village tucked away in the mountainous state of. apples were introduced to india by the british in the late eighties hundreds. have now taken over several slopes and this is a good logically fragile region. over the past 10 years follows like donna have started to witness some of the harshest effects of climate change. my ancestral orchard was planted by my paternal grandfather i've also put hard work into caring for these apple trees until 10 years ago i was able to harvest 600 cartons of apples now as a result of climate change and the experiencing some hail storms and during the flowering season of it even gets cold out of season as a result our apple harvest has declined a lot of apples on the main cash crop in crush me and him much

of the and with that our kind but the other day an expensive fruit in india and families have a tough time to the to being means that autos are often scattered and remote which makes the access to a direct market difficult. many also own small farms and count afford to invest in efficient packing materials or transportation. i mean one of the biggest disadvantages in the supply chain between farmers and consumers is that it is controlled by several middlemen who eat into the income. but rather one to the community and him to stand together rather than individually navigate an already unpredictable market. he brought from neighboring villages together with the help of a local trust them by somebody. under

the project as it is called small farmers are now joined owners of an end to end production system that includes collection procurement sorting grading packing transporting and marketing their produce. this. business is and producers are from 2 different worlds and have to deal with different problems. for the producer access to market is an issue not just in india look around the world and on the other hand the market needs our ideas to bring. so they can benefit from each other if they come together it's a win win situation. grants and investments run the system which now includes access to a fully automatic controlled atmosphere called storage that holds apples for up to

a year. non-local storage means apples can only be kept for 3 months but with oxygen and an increase carbon dioxide concentration level these apples will last longer they've also begun making and marketing other products from the fruit together to produce weakest. as the farmers on profits they begin paying back investors and the economic all of ship of the company gets transferred to the farmers. with diameters hope that the entire business will be 100 percent farm owned. since the after project was introduced some farmers have doubled the income. will. be used to team picks up the farmers and it does all the

arrangement but it. won't go through given a good price by them you know accordance with that is market rate and all of this while sitting at home we were able to send our children to better schools and they were definitely changed. the apple project has reached 7000 farmers across 90 villages in the traditional upper growing regions of the indian himalayas. together they now call on 43 percent of the venture slowly empowering an agrarian community that doesn't always get its do . called mining continues to destroy small towns and settlements in many parts of the world people were forced to leave their homes because the bigger the big holes were dug and what happened after the miners moved away most of the time nothing in brandenburg a biologist has found

a way to bring the lost back to life. one step closer to extinction opencast mines in germany the 7 issues here in the east extract in brown coal in 2023 for decades the digging in on demand secure energy supplies and jobs but it's also a dirty business. main contributor to c u 2 missions and a blow to the landscape now blank and ripped off its by diversity and vegetation and homes christina blache grew up in a village that was destroyed to make way for the shuttles. as it's been for one day i went to school with my brother in the morning everything was normal and then when we came back in the afternoon and walked to our house at the end of the village they had already removed all the windows and doors of the houses demolition started on that day and for me it was very eerie and it was as if dead eyes were

looking back at me and it still feels like it was only today. losing her home and seeing nature vanish left a mark on her life today the biologist is giving the region's deserted landscape a new face i bringing back local flora dr the green heart this medal in the midst of the open mind is the core of a 1200 hectare big area for conservation giving regional and sconce meditation like fielkow weed a home. for a quick as a boat innes i could cry when i'm here it just warms my heart because it is so beautiful 90 percent of the vegetation here are on the red list of threatened species with the spirit of a ship a safe haven for the wild and wreck the green heart was the 1st part of the open mind to be restored in 2009 it's a team effort between the local coal company and coyotes with the know how about

wild plants ecologist from all over the world visit to learn about this project. 3 back before i now see post mining landscapes as an opportunity for nature huge spaces that are slowly reserved for nature with out settlements. in the future this concept will be applied to many more space is one example so the parks they're usually embedded in fields with only a little plant variety but here especially blended combination of regional flowers blossom and focus you know cracks that's an important pillar for her business close to the open mind she and her team grow wild and raffle hours for regional and e.u. conservation projects and it's also here on the company's farm where they're pretty use the sea mixes unlike cultivated plants the seed of wild ones are ripe for harvesting at different times and they are harvested by hand

a tough job. for the greater nap we the fields need to be checked every day to not miss the moment before the wind carries away all the sea. but if. it's learning by doing and lucrative depending on size and harvesting technique seats can cost from 352-1600 euros per kilo by the end of the year collapse into group will have sold tons of the valuable goods the business that one started with 2 employees in 2011 today keeps 25 scientists and workers busy conservation role now requires that only regional seeds are used in such restoration projects and his company is one of the 1st to offer these thoughts also making expert analysis rescuing fracking plants or relocating ons so nothing gets lost its clients that being that every little thing in nature on this planet in this universe is somehow

interconnected we belong together also humans belong to this and if i lose a part of it then i lose part of the whole thing and a bit of myself this is where my personal motivation comes from. and that's also why christina katz wants to go further. asked the baron lands around the open mind nearby are getting greener and the business is growing she's offering her knowledge abroad where there are still many open minds and spaces that could be revived with threatened regional plants next on the list for blossoming landscapes and by diversity could be australia. more and more people from google areas are moving to the cities across the world we hope to find work they don't earn enough money for themselves and their families but many a time they struggle to make ends meet an entrepreneur in mumbai is hoping artisans

gain access to the global. good place so that they can get a better price for their products and ensure a secure future. the heart of me is a means of finding at least it's asia's 2nd largest covering 2 square kilometers and the situated only a few minutes from mumbai is financial district it is also mumbai is largest manufacturing center. is a hive of activity here porters with roots in the state of gujarat who work and live alongside the surly embroiders from whatever the government makers and plastic recyclers crossed paths with metalsmiths capital makers and planners in all there are more than 10000 skilled craftsmen here. it was this energy that drew entrepreneur make. it 2 years ago this is a very close knit and if you give them a cause the liberty and access to grow the whole country will grow. up

does idea was to raise the heart of the market out of relative obscurity by setting up an online marketplace bed artisans can advertise their workshops on products now they can reach clients far beyond our reach the potential is huge as part of these workshops sell goods worth over $16000000000.00 rupees or about $800000000.00 euros each year. every little need is like a mini factory where you have. different workshops producing different things and it's so self-sufficient. because they're not educated the oysters are not bored i believe by peaking by a launching a website for them and. putting their products and their will online for the larger market to see i am sort of giving them a wise. ones are cons workshop meets leather goods and specializes in

wallets before starting to send its product on the market dot com it had sales of about 230000 euros a year but me toward the workshop could do better especially if it's rich from animal hides to plant. agreed and now this company only uses artificial leather made from recycled paper it doesn't care is easy to work with and it's washable. we will do this eco friendly material to various trade fairs so that corporates can order in bulk and the whole idea is again to move toward sustainability. each product is photographed and uploaded to the website at the beginning make just 5 artisans on the market dot com now it showcases more than $300.00 bookshops ads

between 10 and 25 percent of the craftsman's prices depending on but this it is worth it and that their incomes have increased by 20 to 40 percent thanks to direct access to a much broader market. when muhammad 1st came to the harvey he had to leave his family behind and father would be hard. by 11 my family used to live in the village but now they live here with the kids go to school i can now afford the fees and the rent earlier i could do. a lot of the small walk shops and heard of we have signed up to make sport of it's of in when d.d. has a much larger him to enhance the health ancestor animal development of the entire community. now we all have to invest in our planet it's up to us to protect our climate and the environment that we live in to

invest and value and in.