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a wide variety of different regions. i am sandra 3, no video here in comp la uganda. on the here is a michael. thanks, sandra. that rides plantations always sees an asian forest. are just some of the reaches on the african continents that are reporters are going to take us. do i have chris alone in lagos, nigeria, and this is watson. today's program. how on the waste is taneesha is been revived after daycare. so we want to use why c goals are pain solution, known environmental is and how village residents in common room use go real clubs to protect the rain forest, offers the green, then you turn yellow. and if you're not careful, they go brow. i'm talking about bananas, the popular nutritious fruits has been farmed in africa for 4500 years. but

a majority of the have as not end up in europe. 300000 tons of them are exported annually from ivory coast alone, making it africa as the guest exporter. conventional production methods use a lot of pesticides, but some farmers are turning over a new leaf. ah, growing bananas requires meticulous work to prevent the spread of what is known as seger androids. stephanie cronan removes the flora remains from each fruit by hand . conventional farmers spray their plants with fungus aid to combat diseases. but conan refuses to do that. the bananas grown on her plantation in not on ivory coast at organic melissa to demand for our product. and we sell every thing we produce was conventional plantation. and there are several around here produce in large

quantities as well. but they sometimes have a problem to selling the harvest. but green bananas in this region is challenging. the land here suffers from drought and is that if occasion farming is impossible, without irrigation. and only perfect fruit is good enough for export. whatever fails to make the grid common sense to our factory that produces dried organic bananas which are sold at local several over. do you remember who do fall? it is true that running and organic law is very live intensive. but at the same time, it allows you to produce a lot of well avoiding practices that tom, our hell, or cause solve depletion and visit if occasion this, we think that if everyone share the same vision we could cope with the effects of climate change and go to one alarm for jordan and brought it to multiple movies.

what, what? but so far, only 5 percent of bananas in ivory caused are grown organically. whether organic or conventional production. cultivating bananas is not without its challenges. natural offshoots of banana plants can be infected with diseases. the only way to prevent that from happening is to propagate the plants with cuttings. french company company of frontier and its local subsidiary, or parrot a laboratory for these buffers. he up, cottons, had taken from the healthiest plants and used to grow shoots, also known as pulse. ross green with when a banana so confusing, we remove them, mary stem that is to see the hottest. after 4 weeks, the tissue cultures, we have lakin and grown a little rich after father growth struck the shoots are subdivided, are these shoots are intended for both conventional and organic plantations in

order to get the highest yield possible with ecological cultivation methods. the company has set up test tools. here, scientists try out natural pers repellents based on chile, pepper, or cinnamon. they also make literal barriers from blue that prevent effects from reaching the fruits double in the course. you don't bar in as the trials of 1st conducted in a limited area, but we test different solutions. and depending on the results, we then try them out in larger areas. last by that, every stuff on the top, all of the issue, they don't you for us. the company aims to gradually increase the share over ganeth bananas. but a major problem remains. most producers around the world grow the cavendish banana . a variety that travels will antis, good by the plants are clones. since they're all genetically identical, they are very susceptible to diseases and pests. cultivating other varieties will

be of benefit. likely consumers need ways to defend themselves, and one of the most effective ways when they go organic is to chose hydro varieties . and this is via organic crohn's can help because the products won't have to be negotiated along the value chain of well. and hopefully there will be, wholesalers will embrace the idea of having different types of bananas this by the logistical challenges on so far, the cavendish variety accounts for 9 to one percent of all bananas exported to western countries. most of those are still produced conventionally, but would demand for organic fruit raising in europe. the potential to grow that market share is enormous. though the international banana market is almost completely dominated by carbon, the bananas, the carbon this is under threat by fungus. if this genetically identical, banana trees are hit by disease, it would mean the end of the entire species,

which would mutually affect the whole african market. but is very right, greece, and it already happened a once in 1960. that was when a fungus called the panama disease, almost wiped out the grow michelle, but in a production after that, it disappeared from the markets. with this in mind, we have a look at why via the velocity is so incredibly important for the plants and also the humans. the earth produces a rich variety of plants adapted to wide ranging habitats around the globe. there are around $400000.00 species known to science. less than 10 percent are edible corn, rice, and wheat account for more than half the global food supply. ever since humans began adopting a sedentary lifestyle,

they have collected seeds to plant. the 1st crops were cultivated over 10000 years ago by farmers and mesopotamia. now modern day iraq and turkey. some 200000 varieties of wheat alone have developed from that early stock. having a wide range of crops and genetic diversity within each variety helps to secure our food supply loo, the greater the diversity, the smaller the risk of wheat or some other stable being wiped out worldwide by a single pest or disease. that's why c, banks are so important, ice, the oldest is in st. petersburg and dates back to 18. 94. to day the seed bank and god has labor. germany boasts one of the world's most diverse collections. many of the seeds stored here are found nowhere else. this overseas, the large seed archives have now been established all over the world. ah,

they each collect various seeds and plants from different regions. many are then stored at the global seed vault on the norwegian island of spits berrigan. but out in the fields, the trend as towards less diversity. during the 20th century alone, an estimated 75 percent of crop diversity was lost. according to the u. ends. food and agriculture organization, the reasons are many and varied. the industrialization of agriculture meant crops suddenly had to fulfill different requirements. they have to produce a high yield all ripen at the same time, and not suffer damage when being harvested by heavy machinery. our modern, globalized trade network means fruit and vegetables. now need to stay fresh while being transported over long distances. very few varieties can live up to those

demands. the range of produce in our supermarkets is deceiving, the tomatoes and cucumbers may look different, but genetically they're very similar. this genetic poverty is not without risk. in the 1970s, for example, a virus destroyed one quarter of the rice harvest across the whole of asia. it was only through cross breeding the rice, with a wild variety that the crop became resistant to the virus. thus rescuing the world single most important food stable for thousands of years. farmers have collected their own seeds and swapped them amongst themselves to improve their harvest and develop new varieties when. but in recent decades, a steadily declining number of seed companies has been selling and increasingly limited range of sorts. 95 percent of cabbage varieties, for example,

have already disappeared. the companies designed their own crops and secure them with the patent. they supply 2 thirds of the global market. often farmers are unable to collect seeds and are required to buy certain fertilizers and pesticides . but a growing number of people worldwide are seeking to reverse this trend by increasing crop diversity and distributing seeds without patents. a nonprofit organization in austria called osha nor, or noah's ark, collect seeds of old endangered varieties it prop against the scenes, and then passes them on to a supermarket chain which sells both the seeds and their produce. we hear a lot of these days about how reviving old farming practices on growing a great a diversity of corpse is crucial to ensuring food security in the future. it is a lesson people in a remote a was his community intern easier,

have taken to the hot after exhausting want seemed like an endless supply of water then. now finding ways to both conserve and get more from the resources out of a disposal. oh oh, these nate bombs are legendary. they grow outside nesta and the waste town and southern tunisia and produce famously good quality fruit there, pollinated by hand to ensure high yields. for centuries, natural springs provided an abundance of water which helped the palm trees flourish . this oasis is known as the basket because a chain like a basket, a basket of fruit equal that it used to have $152.00 sources of that provided to $700.00 leaders per 2nd clone it popsicle. and because walter was plentiful, the plantations were expanded. that is, until the springs dried up about 20 years ago. now groundwater has to be pumped up

from a depth of 100 meters, but 3 tally widely runs an eco tourism lodge in the thought together with engineers, architects and artists. he's trying to keep the oasis alive to do that. his focusing on sustainability, m. o thick um and basically we're doing a lot of experimenting offer you wanted to proceed. we're looking for a new direction or a new orientation. fortunate asian cuisine and pathetic and perhaps we'll start a trend. it said, of course, for a new way of eating in these regions north and you know, the vegetables used in the hotel kitchens come from permaculture gardens and oasis . they grow in mixed cultivation under fruit trees, which in turn are shaded by the huge date poems in this way. the plants protect one another from the heat. ah, another company and laughter is also committed to sustainability. american

entrepreneur kevin clee makes a low calorie sweeteners from imperfect dates that would otherwise be discarded. the product is in demand clay now employees 9 people. so here, here at our facility and after we are buying up some of the reject dates that are being sorted and are being thrown out generally to feed camels or other animals. and we are drying them out and grinding them into a powder that is very nutritious and can be used as a sugar substitute. and exporting that in an effort to preserve the remote wages for generations to come. entrepreneurs and left are striking a balance between the old and in you, as well as showing that it's possible to run a thriving business even when using resource a sparingly. ah, from to media we follow the path of meaning. migratory birds are the hip north to southern spain, each year around $5000000000.00 bards fly between africa and europe. that's

a lot of air traffic. sandra, the journey is logan dangerous. and once they've landed, they'll see that a lot has changed in their european refuge for one thing. there's a lot of plastic in the landfills, which are often feeding grounds for the birds. waterproof clothing is a must hear andy green and victor martin, nor biologist. i got your fellow there looking for seagulls in a lagoon called 20 to pierre dra. it's located between malakai and civilian spain. as a local kindergartener at o. f. that and i've been fond of them in the meantime. with yes, as years by you learn to appreciate these animal law society gives them a bad rap, but their intelligence surprises us again and again, e bella, that her bremen mcclendon and that get all.