the me, 45 minutes on d. w. in the eye of climate change, africa mega. what's the story with here? what do you have for their future? w dot com, african megacity multimedia insight. click enter. the me this is c w 's, africa on the program today, the future of farming on the continent. zimbabwe is reaping a bumper maze. harvest off the years of the spacing drought, but with predictions of more unreliable rainfall is this harvest sustainable. meanwhile, in some form is i'll get to yield fund for harvest because on the will have been destroying this cross, we'll show you how

a mobile phone app is helping them to beat the past. and the story behind the abandoned farm land. it can route, they are part of the reason food crisis pass skyrocketed in the country. also on the program, a historic acknowledgement, germany has for many recognized that it committed genocide during the colonial era occupation of namibia. german troops killed 80000 people in the southern african country in response to an anti colonial uprising at people in the eastern states that he might have been seeing their homes. they are fearful of mount volcano on the news. hello, i'm christine wanda. it's good to have your company. climate change is increasingly posing a to agriculture developments in africa. the destruction caused by floods and the

devastation by drought across the continent really demonstrates the threat posed by the end, predictable with the patent. now this year, some bubble is expecting its biggest harvest off. mays in 20 years assigned that the country could be ending its cycle of food deficit due to successive drought, and a troubled land reform program undertaken in the early 2 thousands. now official data shows the country will harvest about $2700000.00 metric tons of the staple grain. this would be almost 200 percent higher than last year. now the diabetes africa went to some bub with national land west province from d. w. 's corresponded privilege was running center. this report 44 year old jane. she is a rural farmer from a shannon in width. she is sorting part of the green, have it. this year, she finally bought

a bumper crop. jane in her family has suffered from continuous drugs for the past 5 years. the case is similar to many families. of course, as in bob, we will often survive on food aid, but good rains in 2021 insured enough food. my little who, the past few years we extremely difficult it was we was, well, we had no food traction guide food was ok and it was difficult to feed the family 5 in eating survival things in this season because of the rain. well, we had a good have is, and they have more than we were eating normal meals. zimbabwe fixing to get us said plus over 820000 tons of grain creeping is made out from last year. this is the highest you'd since the year 2000. when zimbabwe embark on

the conservation land reform, the land reforms lead to the collapse of the above with agriculture economy and spot large scale food shortage. to this day, agencies still feed more than half of the country's population. zimbabwe has been fortunate to get a big harvest at a time when other than african countries like and walla, in my god. i gripped with this a via drought. they sell it now is money. the post the have is last is like here where this pharma is, the harvesting, they expected to boost the national grain reserved by delivering to the national silos. part of zimbabwe agricultural recovery plan is to invest in broad resistance funding methods. this may have played a role in the 2021 good have is coming from 2 consecutive years of jobs. it's been

a very rough, 2 years. and we've learned from our mistakes, and we now know that climate change is indeed a real, real issue. and that we need to mitigate against that change. and then it is time to do that. in the middle, the family is optimistic that for the months i had, they will not leave one empty stomach. and to further our conversation now about the future of farming, we've invited mandolin palmer from some bobby onto the program. he is an agra food specialist. welcome to the w. news africa. amanda. let's begin by talking about the harvest ins and bob, when it's looking very impressive, but is it sustainable? no, thanks a lot. i think that's a very good question. it is, and it isn't. it's sustainable in the sense that if you look at how we got this,

how's this year? it was really as a result of a combination of things coming together to, to create the conditions possible for, for such as this. i think 1st of all the climate conditions where near perfect if you look at the rain for map across and they realize that a big chunk of because actually got above average rain for this year. and the rain was nicely spread across the growing season for the crops. secondly, i think government actually did a good job in ensuring that farmers got most of the inputs on time such as the seed and fertilize. and as a result, if you combine, you know, proper axis 3 inputs, good agricultural, gra, climatic conditions. i think you can always have a descent, harvest even in difficult years. but why i'm saying that it might not be

sustainable is there is no guarantee that this coming rainy season is going to be as good as the previous one. and also whether men will actually be able to repeat what they're able to do last year. okay, and that really brings me to my next question because isn't always government seems to have accepted that the rates will fail more and more often as they had in the previous years. what do you think about the plan put forward by this involving government to invest and so chord, drought resistant farming methods? well, i think, to be quite honest, if there's one thing that work very well this, this passes in, it was exactly that. this one would into a program which is really what people would call you know, climate must culture. all kinds of vision funding approach with very we're looking at this is that to speaks in preparation for these interviews,

because i was able to change over to 1000000 households on how to grow. i would think unity crops using this from, with a method where you, you basically have minimum so you've got, you know, better what are the change in strategies, et cetera. and that's him to a very well. and i think that's the way to go, because from the looks of things, climate change is here, and we need to, to adapt. and this was a month looking at the continent as a whole. many rural communities live with terrible poverty and often hunger. how can this, this new style of forming as you've been describing, provide a pop out of poverty and for food security for, for the region? well, i think it's not a silver bullet. let's start there that this approach to, to funding with conservation agriculture or climate month agriculture all. what

isn't bargains? copeland woods though it is not a silver bullet. i think what it does though, is that it gives from the fighting tons to be able to grow enough food for themselves. but we do know that what we actually need to be doing is to be growing food for food markets across the continent. and if you look at the latest data from the african development bank, what's happening is that our food import bill is actually increasing and not going down and used to be that a 1000000000. if she has a goal, i've had, you know, numbers that are approaching close at 200. so, so what we need to do is to completely re enable africa food production capacity to meet the needs of, of africans. and i think it requires more than just basic, you know, household food security. it requires interventions on the research side when the

input provisions side on the mechanization and also and how much of and okay, so, so manager, it's talk about how technology, specifically mobile phones can play a role in all of this? well, i think, i mean, that's something i'm personally very excited about because in the work that i do, we have seen real value in how you know, mobile technology, digital technologies can actually be very transformative. almost the same view that digital is the great equalizer. if we look at what we've been able to achieve with digital technology and financial services with, you know, tools like in the past and others, i believe the next frontier has been to be how do we digitally enable agriculture? my estimate is that the bulk of small go 5 months across the continents do have access to mobile phones. now. now we need to see that mobile phone as

a source of information as a source of advisory, as a source of, you know, business transactions. so we need to build the next, you know, chapter of african agriculture, around more about technology and try to enable, you know, agriculture from a digital perspective. i think the tools that day one seems to be missing though is how do we to rate the tools and make them work in their way that actually deliver the chain that you want to see. all right, that is man's land coma talking to us there. we appreciate your time and insight mind, but thank you. it's a pleasure and i'm exploits shows how smart phones can be transformative for fun. this maze is a staple crop across much of eastern in southern africa, and it's not just climate change that's causing problems. now, this big christa to that you see behind me the fall on the word, it's actually the caterpillar often mouth native to the united states. but it's not

stayed there. the pace is spreading around. the world ruining harvest, like in here in southern africa, in 2017, but one projects in gun it is helping form is to fight back against the hungry caterpillars with the smartphone f like b farmer in our midst report from a shanty land. now of course, when i call it, he takes up the next story. 7 hector's of me is on this small holding in ganeth assurance origin. these men are working with farm or now most of our house. he struggled to secure a bumper, have it, though he's been on his farm for 25 years. it is the 41 year old's only source of livelihood when one of one of our major problems has been the full army worms. they've been devastating in a bundle. well, they simply destroyed across by one or should we haven't been able to detect early enough in order to tell them what or novel isn't the bundle affected badly?

it's been making it difficult for us to grow enough here on the farm when i 1st live on my medical form. i had some fast head about an innovation called the car for a i up in 2019 using the mobile phone. he can detect very early on which areas of the mid foods have been infested. the up compares his crops with an online d, b, and provides pharmacy with animated video in the local dialect, detailing steps to be taken to control the pass. call foundation is behind the tech solution. led by software developer must a 5 year old to be developed based on meeting our son on his farms to talk more about the technology the year old hack explains why this innovation is crucial

for pharmacy, like our son is always out. it's ology has helped in the fight against honda monetary sheen, by driving about 40 to 50 percent growth yield in in crops for farmers and the insane brings them money as well as foods to keep for the rest of the year to feed the families. i'll have some half fits to fin, sucks of me up from just 5 the year before we says the technology is a game changer in control in the past when forming, you know, ways that you want to buy this technology has helped me to detect the past really quickly and i was able to get help one on the go straight the farm and control them wasn't. is our new brand. so this innovation has been significant and increasing our yields as anew in india or hack. and his team are not

only thinking of farmers in ghana, but also want to save millions across africa. the plan is to expand lot african countries cleanable farm is to be able to diagnose crops early enough seem a lot of money on pesticides and intended to feed the families and contribute to the growth of the african economy and growth in some fields, giving you more money in his pocket onto the hope of an even better have es this season high to can really now where the global hand in the plays the western african country experiences moderate levels of hunger. but here conflicts is the main reason for food insecurity. farming has been greatly disrupted in the countries far north region where the army is fighting against a broken insurgency and the width we, english speaking services are trying to create a break away space. now, corresponding, blasi, on reports from cameras and go phone west,

few language and her husband can only plan the crops around your home for nearly 30 years. the 2 of them have depended on social agriculture for their livelihood. after high, if you see your husband retired from his job, i said from driver. but since 2017, when conflict broke out here in the uncle for region of cameroon, they have not been able to access the fields. farmers across the region, blame separate is malicious. some time ago been soldiers of target in them. daddy, daddy, the separatist tried to make us pay a fee so we can access our own fields. that's made us afraid of forces to abandon them. there's no one farming them anymore. sometimes the set partitions forces down on the ground and beat us while demanding money. good morning. the area where few and i used to grow our food crops, has not been completely abandoned. is b like these for thousands of farmers in the

region. we're fighting between the army and english speaking, so if it is malicious, half force, many fleet fuel and a horse by used to produce enough food for themselves. some left over to sell, but no depend on food, eat week, doesn't come regularly. the couple is having a hard time, plunging enough meat for the next harvest. leafless most of these farm is quite small song compared to my previous fields. there's nothing much i can grow here from what i used to farm enough to feed my children and the rest of the family is too small. it doesn't help me much. even do me. no, not to it is not just the promise. well, because you must to swing to your old plan to come to the market to buy food for several times a week. she has been doing so since she was 14 in the last few years, a family of this drug and each week to find enough money to buy food for the

household. since the conflict began, the cost of food has sold at the market. prices have gone up to 3 times what they used to be. things like vegetables cook, i am, and plantations are among the most expensive at the market. planted food security was already been checked by climate change. i know it seems the green conflict in west central africa, i was only was in the situation you went forecast for just off the debt to 1000000 people may not have enough to eat in the coming months. ah, germany has for the 1st time acknowledge that it committed genocide during its colonial rule in what is now in namibia in southern africa, german troops massacre tens of thousands of little and none of people between 19041908. now more than 100 years later, it has reached a deal with the government of namibia on how to atone for the atrocities. this

small plaque in berlin's nikon district remains the only visible memorial in germany of the violence committed in namibia. now foreign minutes, the high co mass has announced germany will finally recognize the atrocities as genocide. 1.1000000000 euros will be given to support development in namibia focused on herrera nama communities. between 19041908 german imperial forces in what was then known as german south. west africa violently suppressed uprisings by the nama and herrera ethnic groups, and forced them into the, does it tens of thousands of herrera and nama was shot, stopped, and tortured to death by german troops. it is estimated that 3 quarters of the herrera and half of the nama people were wiped out herero nama groups, have consistently demanded an official apology, and financial reparations from the german government. for what historians consider the 20th century is 1st genocide. now germany,

namibia has negotiated the reconciliation deal as a government level, but even before it was struck some because his descendants rejected that approach. last year, the w news africa has told me were logical oste, one activist here in berlin. what they were asking for apology, legal permission, annually validation our main points, 3 points which were the money from the german government. because we cannot reconcile late. if somebody didn't apologize, the other thing is that the english agents between the 2 governments, but the real representative of the numbers and behavior was excluded from these negotiations. this makes things difficult and be w, news. africa will be bringing you more on that story as it develops the for more than a decade, backlash, chicago led

h a hottest insurgency in north eastern. i area a conflict that has killed more than 40000 and displaced around 2000000 more now to nigeria. now, excuse me, nigeria, media report say the prominent leader of the book or islamic militant group has been seriously wounded or possibly killed in a clash with the rival group. he's known for his antics in propaganda videos, often taunting local in western governments. now i will check who has been reported dead but not for the 1st time. in the past, the nigerian military repeatedly claimed to have killed him only for a video or audio message to emerge with a militant leader mocking the allegations. this time though, the confrontation of paste have been with a rival militant group, allied to the so called islamic state. chicago was thought to be either in his forties or fifties. he gained global net ariah to after his group kidnapped more

than 200 school girls in 2014. but his campaign of violence began years before in span northeast in nigeria. what i do, but check out death, is not a victory that the nigerian military can claim his fighters could yet rejoin their rivals to form a stronger threat against the nigerian states in a conflict that appears to have no end in sight. the, the massive can it erection, in the east of the democratic republic of congo has brought deep fear and uncertainty to go with off to shocks. hitting the city premise added to the damage caused by the rivers of lava that flowed from the nearby mountains. it's africa's most active volcano doesn't side, 5000 were left homeless with dozens of children separated from the families as residents fled for their lives. more than once. this is all that left of the

sounds. it was why these home there's nothing to salvage. everything crushed by the mass of molten rock that flowed from the volcano just outside town. did the modem on them, i told my wife the volcano erupting. the 1st task was to take the children and some clothes for the cold and get the baby dressed for and off we went. we had to take the children to put them in our bag and had out palm leaves on the phone. the little mountain near a gone go, has not been vis active in nearly 2 decades. and there was no immediate warning of when the flood of fire would come. rivers of lava consumed land and buildings in their path, regardless of people's efforts to save their homes,

the residents dreamed out of goma in search of safety. in the chaos. some parents lost track of their children, but begun as i have been here since saturday. i have not seen my child who was separated from me when the volcano erupted. search everywhere, their organizations like the red cross that take care of missing children. but my daughter was not one of those found. the mother of ultimately said that most of them people are still coming to terms with the aftermath, including a water shortage forcing residents to go to the nearby lake keyboard for water. but the seismic activity has not died down its still being felt and seen, prompting the authorities to issue and evacuation warning over fears of renewed

danger. now take a look at this. that's been due a quarter from barcelona at the dock. there's 2021 in salem bush, south africa, doing a front flip. that's 100 feet long. but if you pull that was returning seen from the side, here it is again from the bike is ideas. now the jump goes down as the longest term to did francis ever lad. i want to handle bars and he is the extreme mountain bike to measuring out his record. 7 in use and $38.00 centimeters to be exact. but i believe if we do the yeah, it's very so 30 meters guys. incredible. and that's it

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