cunningham, or some are making a muslim so much different culture between here and there still jelly g for empathy. ah, some of this i think it was worth it for me to come to germany. shove my got my license to work as a swimming instructor and and now i teach children and adults to swim is what's your story take part, share it on info, migrant dot net ah ah, a we all need foods to leave, but millions of people also produce foods to make a living. here in africa, i recall. gotcha. is still the most important economic activity i think provides

employment to up to 2 thirds of the continents population. welcome to echo africa. i'm crease a lamps. and i am sandra to interview they on these special edition of our program . we are focusing on rethinking agriculture, and we'll learn about how we can fund more sustainably and keep the world fed. here is a quick look at what is coming up. we see how a former in germany is combating to wait agriculture. we're also he about a fruit not asked for the black good of side for us. and we learn how tiny helpless or what you, tomas, a pesky plant in south africa. we start today shall, righty in uganda. here in the country we produce a wide range of agriculture products like con, sweet potatoes,

so gum coffee and tea to name just a few. but just how those quotes are farmed, can have a big effect on the health of the foil, as well as the harvest. as we'll see, you know, foss story with these farmers have never looked so closely at earth water as anybody minuchi and rich do. i have always regarded these worms as dangerous. i would not have them in my garden younger when i see them. i get rid of them or call her she. what was in one you saw was a yell. but these worms plan in fulton rule. they all to compose plant debris with their excrement. they enriched the soil to pass on this knowledge, the biologists and fond of an angio for sustainable land use. alita ben decade gives regular training courses like this one this morning. ah,

we are learning about vamp composting. how can we try to amend our soils using ready with loss they are capable of producing for us those soil amendments. the likes of one casting st. fertilizer cannot also be obtained from greenways. the liquid is then simply added to water useful aggregation. it's a very cheap and environmentally friendly fertilizer. and as training sessions are, leads have been dec explains how elements of nature work in symbiosis. each plant and animal has an important role to play. we'll look at the food forest system. we have the shot once. then you could see we have the total once, and then we have the under story plants. that means that each one is contributing to each other, where we have the, the natural hedgerow of the vet, eva. it collects and also acts as

a habitant for small essex that could contribute to beneficial effects that would deter, or that could reduce the population of they didn't get as pests. the farmers need to know how even minor human interventions can upset nature's balance. experts believe it can, we connect the systems and make them more vulnerable to climate extremes. bio diversity in the fields is also better for humans. studies by units up, for example, showed that small farmers with few cropped varieties in the fields often suffer from poor nutrition. sciences from uganda has confirmed us in african context. you realize that also in the region. yeah. in total people eat what they produce. a deposit is producing one bus and 5 it. but on that 5 acres, what else is there? do you have the legends that you have been on the same farm?

do you have animals on the same farm? you have lentils on this and you have vegetables on them. if you don't about diversity, we don't about diversity when the fun, which is actually supposed to translate into day vested on the plate. and there's a diversity in the market. on the course, farmers learn why it's important to leave trees in the fields or to plant new ones . farmer rubica ruby has implemented this idea and planted jack fruit trees among his vegetable crops. amy tina utica into court. and that is why do you have any of the trees? because now crops which grow well and shaylee? marsh, this tree is windbreaker. yeah, i will use all the plans, all sorts of her medicine to treat my family. illness like office at that gauge were like she was going to be that that was sunk into ali to been decades rained around 200 farmers in the last 3 years. she has also founded a savings group,

offering micro credit to members. psalms can even trade to produce in the community . they are set and people may not be interested into funding. but using such avenues, it becomes something that can spark off someone is attention towards farming and then also towards being environmental cautious. alita ben j. k is convinced on biodiversity and fields is better for everyone, both of people's home and for nature. whoa want, uninspiring example, modern agriculture. annex report comes from europe. you may never part of the curb tree, but it is an undemanding plant and also goes in the joint regions. the fruit is edie board, but not old farmers know what they're good for. in cyprus, i young man is following in his grandfather's footsteps and hobb. if the fit was as

met in 2 different products, and it turns out that keeping all traditions alive is definitely worth while. every year thiel finance crystal helps out with the harvest. his family taught him everything he knows about the care of tree. the ponds are ground into a powder that's a popular substitute for coco. it's used as a sweetener to and also as a natural adhesive through snow is studying finance. so he knows a lot about markets for decades. karen prices have been low, $0.35 per kilo a the middle her pure. it doesn't matter because of the war and ukraine. the price of a kilo of cara reached 85 cents this year and is expected to reach one euro per kilos. dies, anyone who harvested care of this year will have an enormous income because you don't spend money on growing care of you just harvested from trees and transported

to mills heidelberg when guns cupcakes will are cultivating caraballo, panama, 0 expenses and, and it's profitable not got. i don't get of those. carol trees have been cultivated on cyprus for some 3000 years. many local families with their roots on the island own karen plantations, like george potty. he's the way that this said, please here. which is why nearly elf up our true correct us. we are plant that by my grandfather. we'll go buck more than 100 t as a call. once the ponds have been harvested, the farmer takes them to the mill in the coastal town of vicki. for centuries, karen ponce known locally as black gold, where one of cyprus is main exports in the last century. cypress was the world's 3rd largest karen, producer. these days karen cultivation is no longer as lucrative as it once was,

but many families have kept up the tradition. i am the last guy that i shot my chuck, the other job. they are not, sir. oh, they don't mind about the i got your crops because they don't pay. but now karen is making a comeback. demand has risen in recent years, not least because the flower from the pod is increasingly used in vague and cuisine, as well as various diets. the plant is versatile and can be used in its entirety from the fruit to the seeds in an o. utah in the south of the island, karen products are ubiquitous and a stable at the local market. the government has become more aware of their value to the agriculture minister plans to boost karen production on the island level, middle about inability. she might be d as in zebra. louis william cara production

is very important for cyprus, because it doesn't mean much insecticide. fertilizer and water isn't at all yet. lovingly, whoops, give reading the miguel. this is important in terms of climate change. need someone to call me soon as possible. just wanted to go over the appleton. it's also important because you can create a huge range of products from the cara p up. but i'd be not a body shop was more care um can be found in products such as candy syrup and bank goods. and it could, once again become apprised, export and of demand continues to grow. more care of trees will be planted, reviving care and cultivation would be an investment in sustainable farming. it was profitable in the past and could be possible in the future thing in europe and talking about an ecosystem that is a climate wonder pit lawns are absolutely amazing based or incent amounts of coupling india soil. by the way,

the biggest midland in africa is in the dear sea. it is the size of england and wells combined and stores almost $20000000.00 tons of counseling. well, the problem is sandra. we are destroying pit lance, at a crazy rate. and mostly just to extract resources or plant crops. but that releases enormous amount of c o 2. the thing is there is no need. we can do both save one of the most effective carbon storage systems in the world and fund them at the same time. let's take a look. ah, good to find out how that supposed to work. we came here a farm in germany's east. all of this used to be conventional so dry farmland, but in 2015 it got turned back into pete lance wet, farmland. and this is sebastian pitney, the guy who's in charge of it all. he re where it is 107 hector's completely pity,

mainly grows mash crosses to sell us horse feed. but operating in the wet new need wealth, special equipment. it's a former snow chair that used to groom ski runs, it had to be completely rebuilt. we kept mostly, the chains had to be completely replaced out of an a mountain. you had these aluminum bars which are quite aggressive, allowing you to drive up the mountain natural father. we want to work as gently as possible on the ground. so we installed wide steel struts instead of why the starting the alpha to keep his fields wet pitifully needed to completely close down his drainage system that runs through his fields. the solution was quite simple. we barricaded the gates with wood, easy and effective, plus, extremely helpful in dry somers. in the, on the viet tom, in years like we're having now with this drought,

is this water here is worth it's weight in gold. this phosphor see it. so if we retain the water here over a large area, then everyone benefits from n lafond via because in the end the water moves around to the that is also an important function of the bogs. the thing is all, not only carbon storage, but also as a water reservoir, quote, quote you quote of spite on one of us was australia. despite the enormous re wedding efforts, the water level here varies a lot from 50 centimeters above ground to 60 centimeters below. during dry summers, this can still lead to c o 2 emissions in pete lens. but how did pete lance trap carbon in the 1st place? can we just took this out of the ground? and you just grip this piece of earth and squeeze it against the orange water going all that and that's basically what makes

caitlin's. so climate friendly the water because below me are thousands of tons of that plant. but because people are wet, they don't decompose the microorganisms who usually do that, don't have enough oxygen to take care of that. so the carbon remains in the soil. and when all this dries up, the plants suddenly decompose much faster. and the oxygen in the air attaches to the carbon in the soil. and you get c o 2. and the scale is mind blowing between 5 and 10 percent of all men made greenhouse gas emissions come from damaged pete plans. this new approach of combining agriculture with people and meadows is called polluted culture. and this also has advantages in terms of productivity. loiter in this way. i ensure that the degradation of my peet land is as close to 0

as possible. meaning i still have an area on which i can continue farming. my line off auto is in the other advantage is water attention. there is mean, even in the dry isd years if i can still get a decent harvest inflation wall. one of the fountain cup and hay isn't the only thing you can produce on pete lens. alternatives include common read, and bull rush, which is also grown in these talks here at the university of glass vase, where scientists try to find out everything about growing stuff in wetlands. here they scan roots and measure every millimeter of plant growth with these funky machines. they have x ray vision, but wouldn't it be better environmentally if we'd give pete lens completely back to nature and not found them the long? well, as long as routes are being produced and the more wedding this new peach should

build up again as mystic most and good thing is the water level. this. if the mores where much it's good for the climate, whether we then farm it or not, it's just a question of what we want to do with it. fog of us when viewed and so you don't need to revert completely to nature to reap benefits from the peak lands. a you case study looked at the climate effects of different water levels in pate lands, raising the water level in degraded pete lens world wide by a few centimeters, would already reduce emissions by 65 percent. that represents 1.3 percent of global c o. 2 emissions sebastian pity also owns 35 water buffaloes. they mature slowly, but every once in a while, he's lot of them and sells the meat. he's been doing this for a fair while now. doesn't pay off compared to intensive conventional farming although i and from a purely financial perspective, no. oh,

but when i think of it as an investment, the future then yes. because all i mean showing that the land was to be productive in 20 or 30 years time. either john not to watch off little la hartley. but compared to the revenues of intensive crop farming, the current cost of re wedding pete lens and buying new machinery, most farmers will be better off financially if they stick with intensive families. away to make polluted culture more profitable would be that government stop paying for the climate benefits that re whetted pete loans provide this could help get more farmers interested in the idea of polluted culture. and it's environmental benefits. something quite helpful when you know that 300000 square kilometers of crop land need re wedding globally. that's the size of italy stain on the topic of rethinking agriculture. our next report comes from an area of

ivory coast, also struggling with severe. also, some farmers there and are banding together to protect their fields from winged and unpredictable weather conditions. here is the seeks doing your bits ha. oh, how can we protect fields that are exposed to both drought and heavy rain in nose, in ivory coast? farmers used to simple methods the small stone walls that building across their fields retain water, the walls stay run parallel, but snake back and forth. they use a level not to check whether the ground is even but to find out which way the land is sloping. the stones are then laid said that they will catch the water

runoff. sat paramedic fair to the dealers that allows us to fertilize the soil because the compost takes put his shot and the ditches. we have already dug. if you can fill up with water, easy to set up li ah, they have all say planted trees to act. as wind breaks. they are regularly pruned to keep them in check, lays out of grown up lack did that, my dear, per to the trees. we planted help to shield the soil from the wind. the small walls we are building to distribute to run off as do did a silly loss so that the water doesn't wash away the soil and create deep channels, which would make the land useless in the long run to sell a lot there. so ah, the farmers and al feeling more connected to they realize they can only protect their fields together. and how about you? if you are also doing your bill, tell us about it, visit our website, or send us a tweak hash tag doing your bit. we

share your stories in today's mode and interconnected world agriculture. as a big business must the force have probably eaten food that our grandparents never even heard of or had the opportunity to taste. but as a sheep proved use and goods around the world, sometimes other plants and animals go along for the ride. and in some cases, that can cause huge problems in their new homes. as we'll see in our next report from south africa. ah, a green mass where open water should dean for decades. the problematic to base port down in northern south africa has been growing exponentially. the lake is overgrown with water hyacinth, a plant from south america. now clogging bodies of water throughout africa,

the invasive plant grows extremely fast. the ecological consequences are dramatic. combat. the plant has been difficult despite intense research. high is one of the world's morris to and problematic aquatic leads. it's been presence. 8 on how to pass, but damn, since the 1970s. and it's a massive problem. and they've tried to remove it manually do herbicide applications. but it's still a massive problem with m. and because it can cover up to 40 percent of the damn survey researchers in south africa have been trying to control the invasive planned for years well sealed off from the environment. scientists are looking for the water hyacinth natural enemies. and they've made a big find that's only 4 millimeters in size. the inconspicuous water hyacinth

plant hopper is also a native of south america. the insect reproduced just as rapidly as the water hyacinth. and the little guys have a big appetite. one of the major concerns we haven't, biological control is that in sick that me release could feed another plant species . so we mitigate that in this facility by testing this candidate insert on various plants species including native species and crop plants. and we need to do this testing to make sure that the insects that we released odd will be co host specific . this testing is very thorough and sometimes can take years. it's important for this because once it is, is roneesh. we can't get them back. the tests were the water hyacinth plant hopper are finally complete. the bugs are now being collected and packed for transport together with a leaf of their favorite food. they're on their way to the hot to be a sport dam. rosalie smith, of the center for biological control,

sees to it herself that the insects reached their destination. the denser the water hyacinth scro, the better it is for their little enemy. they can multiply here quickly. o approach with releasing the plan top is is using them as a green her beside sir as many as releases as possible early in the summer. and that allows their populations to build a quickie. and that also just allow same to damage the. * plants as soon as possible, so that the plans die and expand their growth over the damn water high is since form dense mats that drift across the lake. when they collide, their underwater routes become entangled and block out any light. gradually, a huge dense carpet of plans forms. they can completely over gro bay areas,

which is not only an ecological problem, but in economic one too many people at the damn live from tourism. each year columns of workers remove the plants from the water with long rakes. it's a slow and laborious process that only works on smaller waters in huge areas like this though, the tiny helpers have to step in. the traces of their work can be seen on the water hyacinths leaves. holes and brown areas testify to the success of the organic pest control. the nibbled on and dead plans dropped to the ground and slowly decompose under water. you can also see them from space. within 2 years, the growth on the dam has decreased from 40 to just 5 percent. this is a thought to we, we did frequence inundate of releases of the plans hopper am. and we know they're here in high numbers because they dump around as i pick up of plans and what they

damage look like is they caused their leaves to become brown. the leaves also, i'm recall on themselves. and so the plans in the sites is heavily damaged and that's basically what we would like for the rest of her to be as put them in the evening light. the success of the operation can be seen particularly well. swarms of plant hoppers fly over the water hyacinths. nevertheless, the plant will probably never really disappear. it spreads too quickly. even so large open water areas have re emerged on the heart of baseboard dams since their introduction. this promising result could lead to the plant hopper is being used on other infested waters, rethinking agriculture, and how to use in nature or plants in a different way is something that affects everyone around the planet. i hope you

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