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tv   World Stories  Deutsche Welle  October 21, 2020 2:45pm-3:01pm CEST

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flea. you know. when we caught fish we used to take them either 11 kilometers south to her more 16 kilometers north to busan. it was quite a long drive and the fish would sometimes go bad and start to smell. now that we have electricity around the clock we have a freezer people come to us to buy fish and we save on time and travel costs. 100 kilometers to the north is marseilles. it's a popular tourist destination the hotels here rely mostly on diesel generators for electricity. but that's not the case at the martha schachter a large where people come from all over the world to dive the owners here have invested in solar power but the system only provides electricity joining the day when it's dark the hotel still uses
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a diesel generator. still the partial switch to solar hasn't just been environmentally beneficial it's also been an advantage on an economic level. for many. for. the price of fossil fuels has risen a lot over the past 8 years that's. right now the cost of producing $1.00 kilowatt using the generator is the equivalent of 12 euro cents. on the other hand across from the solar plant is only 8 year old. i mean 1.65 as a result we've been able to recoup our outlays in less than 5 years before. the aim is to switch to 100 percent clean energy as soon as possible. the many great and solar station was built and is maintained by the carm solar company itself the
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electricity to the hotel. jamaal opt out cause there is the on site maintenance technician karm solar has a policy of training local people wherever it builds a facility. and if you know what. i mean when i started it was a manual labor. digging holes plank cables carrying stuff around i knew nothing about solar power. slowly i started learning and thanks to kind solar i got trained by their engineers. he checks the solar panels every day it's important to clean them regularly because a lot of sound blows around here for local technicians karm solar is grids present opportunities for career progression. i know in charge of 3 solar grids and nasa. karm solar mostly sets up facilities for big clients and companies but it also serves smaller ones like this better when settlement they
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recently received 2 solar panels from donors. jamal is visiting to explain how the many great works. harm solar also works with the government on large on grid power plants. another sign that solar power has a bright future in egypt. during the print tourist attractions and cultural centers all over the world 'd have been offering walls so allow the sights and bays to be explored from some wildlife parks in south africa to the same approach and even though some are now reopening for did so far as i still wildly popular especially those. big cats here's this week's.
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i. want to see what the lions do all day. is rangers bring south africa's wildlife into your home the rangers record what they observe in the money he made your reserve and post the videos online for free the idea came about when the reserve closed due to covert 19 a really great way of. bringing the bush and the animals. to people in their homes down they couldn't go anyway and we thought it's a fantastic idea to bring these virtual safaris to 2 people the on the beat virtual safaris are a roaring success and are watched by people around the world. in july 2020 the videos were getting between 3 and 4000000 viewers. the virtual safaris proved so popular that they continued even after restrictions were lifted along with beautiful footage they provide lots of information.
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and. found out more about. all types of. consuello says the virtual safaris teach the importance of wildlife while also encouraging people to support the reserves. how about you if you're doing your bit tell us about it visit our website or send us a tweet. hash tag doing your bit. we share your story. digital technologies opening up new possibilities on the pandemic has only serves to celebrate that for us in kenya cutting edge technologies helping pharmacy improve the crop yield and
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cope with the facts of climate change. that is right near a start up in nairobi is using state lights to provide farmers with forecasts on the harvests and also reliable data on the way the but it's not only state lights that are keeping watch on the farmer's fields. why some month most risky money flies are drawn over his clients from africa has talked to some us about crop yields here are often. these technology could change that the draw is coming or a cop says the light that's reflected off the plant's investment meant and so reveals information which they netted humans i cannot see. we fly closely over the probes. the thing about image later on down alive and we can see if the corpse as to why this is important with
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a drone you can actually see. 2 weeks before you can see to the naked eye the farmer make the right decision in time before the crop has a loss most risky money founded the company in terre africa in 2016 together with the find he startup is one of 12 across africa currently receiving guidance from the german government program for start ups he skype's regularly with the german saudis provide up for sustainable development g.i. said their initiative supports touch ups in the agriculture and food sector into such for investors up until now most of their funding has come from the since. this small business has also set up a demo system clients can use it to lawn how to use the technology decent some issues the temperature you media. variously as a special develop by this touch up then transmits the data feel of charge to a cellphone it's dato but is increasingly vital to the families asking it to be
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suffering the effects of climate change seasons and weather patterns a shift in harvests a decrease in tara 6 to officer missions to these problems so long to africa and based agriculture technology company relabel farmers adapt to climate change i don't consider yield through prevention a good culture through climate smart inputs and through conservation culture. this soil census data is combined with additional information regional level focus and images from satellites which can quickly captcha large areas of land from outer space the images come from the sentinel to set lights. these in the sky are part of europe's up observation pain because. every 5 days they send a new image. this specialist at the startup then turned the data into valuable information for local farmers big acknowledge he can
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evaluate a plants growth and highlight potential problem areas it's even possible to estimate how high a crop yield will be he would see is performing well consistently you know that they can actually make adjustments on the farm to safeguard their yield now we look at the soil moisture analysis. so for this it is blue where this well is good so why should distribution yellow or green red is less red west or red when it's absolutely dry so what that tells us is the education lines here are not working. he'll mean why everything is going to plan. that kenya has been using the interior of africans for about a year out of a table's a flourishing she can also 40 percent more progress than before to hotels and local markets $200.00 farmers already use the op your oath appreciates its user friendly
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set up. and like before when you were depending a lot on. me to take on if i'm not able to be here then after depend on their luck as sometimes they don't do the scouting properly they don't give me the correct information so these has been like my 2nd eyes and giving me information to cannot even see for example there with her. husband able to improve her crop yields in her awnings but in turn around needs to send a lot of data to use a smart phones are luck of coverage in rural areas on the grid that the farmers have to purchase from mobile service providers can be obstacles for some especially small enough businesses. that is all from us today we had a lot of fun hosting the show hope you enjoyed watching for now it is a good bye for me sandra to nobody here in company uganda i'm from in the outside when lagos see you next week in the marines are do be sure to stay in touch on
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social media so long and see you again very soon. little. girl. if.
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fascinating. and play a. lot confrontational and stern played 5 adventures. one goal. the preservation of our planet but it's not just of issue of martin treason saying can't isn't it more. because this danger surat unauthorized struggle realize that there's a radically different way of living it's rather play for china starts november 6th on t.w. .
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place. blame. blame. is the unit. fly from her land security forces in nigeria allegedly opened fire on protesters in the country's biggest city. t.w. crew reports sounds of shooting in the nighttime late those witnesses say that people were killed that's after a curfew was.

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