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finding hope how guatemala is trying to turn the tide on its migration crisis. at the end of 2021 in one, in 5 refugees world wide, came from south and central america. the exit is, is caused by political crisis, a lack of food collapsing, health care systems, and also corruption, and rising, crying their desire destination, the usa and canada, where they're often less than welcome our report from guatemala, looks at initiatives that are hoping to give people a brighter future in their own country. oh, oh, oh, the u. s. border is about 2300 kilometers away. and our fire cock racks would

nothing more than to just keep on riding and leave the hardship of life in guatemala behind her. like half the population of the country he works in agriculture. extreme weather is increasing the frequency of droughts and floods. farmers are anxious about the future. ah, look at this measly corn calm with they're supposed to be much bigger. ah, these days the harvest is barely enough to even feed his own family with a recent hurricane that havoc in the wake. the damage will have lost in consequences. need you have to dig deep to even find any soil. hello mila. ah! what is it? that's why nothing grows properly any more. but on the hurricane dropped a thick layer of sand on the field so well. o climate change

corruption, violence. he and millions of others in guatemala despair for the countries future. a study shows that $1.00 and $6.00 guatemalans emigrate to the us. marcus easter mer as a social worker. he works with young people, encouraging them to create change. he runs the central key data, which translates as the stay he has center. he teaches classes to help young people find jobs and success in their own country were thought either a new lady up there earlier say would amend the quando been m of the younger generation were better trained. they could find work in their own unity school one year or even start their own business. oh my god, feel. e boggled used to holland tools had thought skills and potential colorful to strengthen their communities is heroin. and the country le bon lang again. luck on

one yet, but i fair could i say this, they buys that many young people struggled to even get to a training center on a regular basis. they often have to travel long distances and infrastructure is lacking. that's why easter may i send the teachers into the community. this young man trained as a welder and got a job with his small business live labarte, pick one on me. i have no idea where might be able to lead a better life in the u. l. than the from left a little can. but what's the point and if your family, your friends and your home i here is more that are young or not very little. but if that is in the home in the central queue that is thriving and the project is now expanding its co founded by the guatemalan government and the u. s. and it's one of many projects designed to encourage the younger generation to remain in the country . it's appears to be working

but despite these initiatives, growing numbers of people that turning to crime, villanueva's considered the most dangerous place in the country. gangs control the city which is riddled with corruption. any one who resists must fear for their life . like one sandeval. he was the government, santi corruption, prosecutor until july 2021. but his investigations into former officials, presidents and business leaders, lead to his dismissal. he now lives in exile in washington, d. c. i o lithia, better than on apple and power are taking advantage of a population that starving my life. one is going to let me look at a population that can barely survive the resource of labor. they know corruption creates the conditions like that. make it impossible for them to earn a living chaos high. are not up wealth. have these by central methods? yeah. hub lake schools are only open full hours a day. aid organization. last week,

international is trying to help. blossoming knows that teenagers here experienced violence every day. it's workers try to give them hope and teach them that there are alternatives to leaving the country. to day they're making a list of the things that connect them to their home land. and the things they hope to find in the us that's when like, if love you, when we hear guatemala, we think of violence, hunger, danger, and gang silly things. we fear that that's why so many people wants a fleet of the u. s. okay, because they're hoping for a good income education, a nice home and money to send home to their family. la garza were among the li, narrow. so for me, larry, the yeah. the organization hopes to offer teens an alternative to the pan diaz, the teenage gangs. they work to instill values like education, confidence, and non violence. i finance seal and convinced that it's worth it. that's what really fast and just look at the smiling faces and the dreams they hated it though

as the different viewpoint, addison family in. so to look to see all of that in a place where i never know if i'll make it back alive. when i step out, fight. see generally jeriso some of those he well is good, be them. if we didn't, even if we speak different languages, we're basically all the same. we are human beings. many of us have no prospects. all we want is a chance, you know, a bodily valley back to her fine. he's enjoying his evening at home with his wife and 5 daughters. but his oldest daughter is missing. she was smuggled into the u. s. a child with an uncertain future. thousands of kilometers away from her family. for many families in guatemala, it's just a part of life. the rhythm of and when my daughter left, i was sad. well, because i wanted to go myself. yeah. okay. but i couldn't afford it or not, maybe some day i'll still get my chance number that i in his family hope that their

daughter will one day be allowed to work in the u. s. so that she can send the family money. until then he, like many guatemalans will continue the struggle to make ends meet our planet is home to a wide variety of plants which have adapted to very different environments of the 400000 species. in total, we actually eat just a tiny fraction and half of our food intake is covered by just 3 crocks, corn, rice and wheat. and the range of plant on our fields is continuing to shrink according to you and estimates in the last century alone. the world lost 75 percent of its crop diversity. a major reason is the industrialization of agriculture. more than half the global seed market is controlled by just

a handful corporations and they decide what's grown in our fields and what ends up on our plates. a $1000000000.00 industry of the cost of plant diversity for thousands of years. farmers freely bred, preserved, and shared seats. but then i got a culture radically changed. in the 20th century, farmers get new machines, chemicals, and lots me seats. and big companies stepped in. these major players dominate the market to be one of them had a special role in shaping modern agriculture, especially in the u. s. now owned by german, one to national buyer. one funded was one of the giants of the business to turn seats into property and farmers into submissive customers to understand how they did it. it's important to know the history during the vietnam war, one santa was one of the largest suppliers of the notorious edge and orange for the u. s. military. 50000000 li. the result is definitely herbicide was sprayed to fuel

trees and tropical foliage that provided cover for the fighters. not only do this areas remain contaminated, millions have been poisoned by the chemical next month hunter turned their attention to peace, time with keening. developing to blockbuster heb site roundup. it. hit shells in the 970 s and became the company's key. profit driver ah, run down kills the root kills we'd round up, kills thanks to the main component cliff a said, but it ended up killing so well that it also killed farmer's crops. so they could only sprayed before planting seats after the harvest. but what if they received that couldn't tolerate the round up that's home and found who stepped into the see business in 1996. they rolled up round up ready div receipts that were genetically modified to be immune to gleeful sate. who wouldn't buy into that? it was like magic. you talk to farmers at that number. marco elmore is an

environmental historian at the higher state university to spend a decades working on this book about monsanto. weeds almost immediately began developing resistance to round up and you kind of have this cycle in this genetically engineered scene system now over using a chemical, which by the way, it's very profitable for the company that selling and 100 did something else that change the culture forever, they patented the technology behind the seats. this meant they could dictate the way farm us use them. one sample created a system that they controlled by 2008 months. hunter had bought 50 international seed firms. the market power of mon fonda and similar companies was growing more and more today. 90 percent of corn upland cotton employed being from the u. s. a. produce with patent and seats on font ot. and the buyer is the biggest supplier.

the big promise behind genetically engineered crops like those from an santo, higher yield for farmers. but in 2016, the national academy of sciences published a 600 page dozier on the effects of g cross from the us. scientists found little evidence that such crops actually lead to higher yields. what has been going on is the use of monsanto's post to child cliff, a site to move youth hair beside globally. this to maps of the us showed the amount of round up being sprayed on the dark of the colors, the more is being used. meanwhile, what's been going down is the variety of foods on our plates. there are over 50000 edible plans in the world, but we mostly rely on just 15 corn wheat and the rise of the major hits, the modern cri cultural system created. this is aisha for awful companies owning this. you get to choose what pharmacy girl and how and that determines what we eat,

planting the same varieties also makes crops mobile noble to draw in disease. the climate crisis is only making it worse, but it's a different story with traditional see if you want to look for something that rate hash mighty conditions, especially now that on climate change, you can always go back to the scene that i've been elected. this is the medical den, she's a plan geneticist at the international crops research institute of the same airy, tropics, the more different seats we plant, the higher the chances of winding the ones to the canada up to extreme weather. for example, in just one region and south east india, find his discovered almost 400 varieties of neglected crops species. and one of them were 6 traditional local rights varieties. the deal better with drought, salty soil and flooding strength compared to commercial turn into. luckily, even when traditional seats are gone from the field, they're not always gone gone. we have them in places like peace,

more than $1700.00 c banks around the world for the untapped potential of traditional feats. probably the most famous you bank point is the course looking one is this one in norway. it stores over a 1000000 cit samples from across the world and the chill permafrost conditions make sure this little fellows are preserved for centuries. the system works like a bank that report, for example, brazil has thousands of seeds on here. some of the seeds were rescued only because indigenous communities and traditional farmers kept them. they were, we go all for has drastically changed if the large corporations who have benefited at the expense of everyone else. farmers have got hooked on chemicals and last ownership of the seats and consumers miss out on so many flavors and new transfer. so it's time to ask herself how come to grow for better this time. so everyone me more to is an increasingly scarce commodity in many parts of india. devaney c,

miss guessing shorter, she plays longer and trouts more frequent. so much of india now faces a water crisis, but it's not any climate change that's to blame. many lakes and rivers are badly polluted, but help is at hand from local, clean up operations. here's what it looked like before the clean up and after. and it happened in less than 2 hours in that i would we have had $25.00 to $30.00 doug, and i don't know if he is who have booked, but that's gotta be blocking to make a positive contribution to society. i'm with you. the hard part is organizing it money undone is the founder of the n. g o coco lakeland, the by the gobbler might its volunteers have been distorting what a body's across glimmered thought for the past 5 years. and this is how they do it . so the issues in charge of getting all volunteers to arrive at the scene

a lot of the gum disease. dig, mom often wear gloves for the day and time in brooklyn. it's money, gardens job to divide them up into various groups. hello, hello. you are all their reading globulin. yeah, i'm just regular. i'm to distribute supplies. i heard about the housing language and gopi isn't out of documenting the process group at the very last minute come closer, agony no longer. it all started in 2017 when coin metal was facing of severe shout money. camden was determined to revive one of the city's driest water bodies barrel . when he produced down the call, it hadn't had steven water from any yeah, a lot of them i decided to clean the panel by removing plastics and with an vis a visa, normal flare decline. we began cleaning activities on the 12th of february, 2017 maniac. in the 1st week, 50 shoreline, been the better, but in the weeks after 400 people showed a lot of in just a moment, we finished eating the tank or it bought the day and we don't have

a financial or political back. good luck. we had volunteers who were ready to work for this. now what i was hoping, melinda, anna mcclendon at it. and so we decided to clean up various water bodies every sunday. so far we have been working for 249 consecutive sundays, either very care no day with dom we're the army, gordon, and i don't like from us. the organization has restored for large leaks, 9 small ponds and more. but if you ask money london, which project was hottest? he'll insist on taking you there before he tells you the story behind it. ah, either a lacrosse spread across 90 acres, the velo tank is one of claim with those oldest. it's fed by the no luge river for 15 years and remain dry because of 3 major problems that are on the bay. there were lots that in this account here under canada, water hunted them a lot. i need people hadn't crossed on 4 and a half of the 6 and a half kilometer long on it. on either side of the river banks and garbage had been

dominant into the jack dams, to which this dang receives the water. these were the 3 problems metamora brittany, limited in 2017 money, camden and his team began cleaning the tank and it's checked dance. they also played a role in convincing 2 and a half 1000 families, settled along the river's banks, to relocate to state housing. and then for the 1st time in 17 years, the velo dang was full. ah, village is 2 kilometers, only once laughed at reliable water sauce. but just a few months after the reservation was completed, locals noticed an increase in ground water levels because of illinois tank could now retain the water it received back in the you only have armed if it dream file. if it didn't, i was he would and farm border boring since days, water in the tank for the past 4 years. there's been water in our valve. american

museum wouldn't bump out the water for farming ross. i wonder what i asked to buy 200 to 200 liters of water every day. mamma, when it's much better now because i cannot get water when i, when i'm, when he did at home on my savings having cleans as a result, loa, and one of the jungles able to hone in water again. it's not only people who have benefited from it and from the ground water regenerating itself, this dank, has now also become a habitat for various species. that's because volunteers when beyond just cleaning the tank, they planted over 10000 cheese of native varieties using the milwaukee method, a japanese afforestation technique. this chip of forest protects the water in the tank. it's also attracted dozens of bird and butterflies species to develop dank, and the green zone surrounding it. at a northern, a spread joy i had when i saw the dang fill up the water in 2018, we used to water. these plants brought over laurie id shortly after that. we used

buckets to transfer the water from the tongue. it put ne, long suddenly to find warranty of the n. d. o reaches out to schools and colleges. yet it's most powerful tool has been social media. by sharing, it's what's up link and post and clean updates. it succeed in bringing many young people together who wish to be a part of the process. gopi is the perfect example. he joined when he was just a student to day he pitches in with his skills as a jones cinematographer then we need to particular need, we do it for this and, and so did before the cleaning after the cleaning, and after the watergate, keystone restored on reed and bridge entered 2 companies looking to find organizations. at the same time, we saw it to the government officials. this helps us get access to see as add opportunities and allows us to continue our work with government approval. in order to look is under the one that is selected. and instead of us approaching people

about this, they are becoming a read on good. oh, there is a young boy in peers with us. if you ask him, what do you want to be when you grow up? he says, like you, i'll go up long trees and save lakes now. but what will you do for food? he replied, i'll go home and if we are see such positive changes amongst children or when it is organization to live and learn their fix or use, let me out. but here it will get their hands dirty. the field, this is my home, i'll keep it clean, it is more effective. the protection of water bodies requires more than restoration, increasing encroachment waste, dumping effluent discharge, and lack of proper maintenance by civic bodies or just some of the major problems. if you are near a relative letters to people who drive you well, but there are so many dirties of dive here. nobody raises questions because unlike the villager, nobody drinks this warrior not according to government to suspend the girls of repeats to revive licks eloquent,

but had it made efforts to make ready water consumable new people would begin to get healthy. not critical monica, none has succeeded in uniting people who care about water. now he has his sights set on restoring them no yellow river, which is the backbone of modern, reclaim little this river that passes to 4 districts and feeds $25.00 tanks is under threat going. but also the itself is on the banks of the nor levelland illinois. but we don't drink from it in this. did we dig water, bonnie: bonnie or ali or really alan, that the number of days the water flows through this river is decreasing each day law and we want to increase it and that's what we are now working. good witness are then i may say it again. i am waiting on you to with warranty organizations. like money condoms, hope spread awareness about the urgent need to save local water bodies. da may not . who has over 200000 tanks and other irrigation sources, but less than 90000 of them are in use. it will take

a collective effort from the government and citizens to save water for future generations. mm. this way can we tuck into a tasty snack from tunisia? ah, ah, in the very north of africa lies present. the denisia port city has been an important maritime and trading center for more than 3 millennia. to fortify themselves between meals, residents here like to eat not lobby and they get it here with my name's hassan, said any, i'm 22 and i've been working here with my uncle promised 12 years with his their

loved lobby as forget topped in different ways and freshly prepared, ah, by tell ingredients are the what chile paste theresa and chic piece. soaked in water the night before they cooked in the morning. customers then choose additional toppings such as spices, cooked vegetables, garlic, sardines on it and to no, ah, demand is huge. sardine prepares one le blobby after another. what makes the sandwich so popular with me about the vehicle?

i like the taste. how spicy it is as an uncheck. these are good for you from america. i just like how it asians groping. it's not as unhealthy as other sandwiches that contained an oils and not so fried ingredients that are fresh. i feel this one is better for you than other sandwiches from a lot of prices between $1.00 and $1.00 and a half dina's fairly 50 euro cents. it's affordable to lep lobby has a long tradition in des, out duty who it began in the 19 seventy's sabrina, sabrina acres. several unit lab lobby started to appear in small roving carts like this one, and met with great success here in the desert and admitted. mm hm. i'm gonna go to a but i will give people to your like it and buy it frequently or work at that. it was you can be areas that are rear ones out of to this type of sandwiches, different than in other regions. that lobby is unique to preserve china. i wouldn't

even look clean, limited the limited sam hassan sardine supplies, visits, residents with fresh le lobby every day from 5 am onwards. and that's all from us this week. thanks for watching and do write to us global 3000 at d, w dot com or on facebook d w global ideas. ah ah, with ah .

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