and david census and slint towards the people shaping public opinion. the key word here is the word fate. where are the right medical battle lines being drawn? the propaganda war for ukraine? russia's warring crane one years since the invasion began. to take a look back and into the future in slow rain in february on d w. i think it may not affect all our lives in the same way, but there is no doubt about it. we are living in the digital age,

while some of force might find out overwhelming at times. the fact is new technology as also enabled science on industry to come up with some truly amazing innovations. welcome to this new edition of eco africa. i am crease elapse, and i am sandra trina, you, you make a very good point, crease, and of course, here on the shore, we take special interest in those and development, the make a world cleaner onto greener. we've got a few good examples of that on today's program. so here's a quick look at what is coming up shortly. hightail that ease helping forests recover in ivory coast biodegradable packaging. med from seaweeds and reminders and next generation of environmentalists. the climate crisis is forcing us to rethink how we do just about every think,

even traditional practices like forming as once seemingly abundant resources dwindle. there is an i gen, need to grow crops more efficiently and sustainably. our foss report comes from right here in uganda. ah, aaron, kia gar carefully inspects the fruits of his label for decades. he and his family have been green coffee in central uganda's v. weird district. it hasn't made him rich, where he's been able to support his family. now climate change is making business even more difficult said dim, wiser by long or got busy knuckle because in the past. so greg, coffee, you see you would help pests a long dry spell zante r t. we got real addicts, but to tie longing collateral, young i was, you have you are you these days. so at,

during the some predictable serve, you know, it could be and when it's totally agree, i mean, often face longer dry spells out away the co items on the walk. i knew the coffee industry is one of uganda's most important economic sectors. the african country exports over 250000 toms annually, making one of the world's top st. coffee produces 99 percent of it is group on small farms like ellen key august, some 5000000 uganda as depend on the coffee harvest either directly or indirectly. but changes in the climate are making things harder for iran. kiara researchers and government officials are also alarmed because rise in temperatures are increasing the amount of pests and diseases that destroy crops. an insect which is not very serious at some point, can become detrimental just because one or 2 degrees of a cell just increased as or by cutting thrace or due to the climate change. that

means, if, let's say that it from egg to egg hedging. if it is taken 7 days, the normal temperature was one degrees centigrade is my take 4 days that miss the like the life cycle of those insect that insect that are affecting, you will increase by 2 or 3 phones with his coffee crop under threat. one solution aaron, cal guys train is planted more cheese it bunker ged in wine. in the open, in a day the coffee is exposed to excess heat. give you honest quality is not as good as when it has grown under a tree shape. it's about noon. you had to seek out planting trees were better harvests is a concept known as our grew forestry. it's agriculture that harnesses the symbiotic relationship between trees, crops, and animals around keel guys taking part in the robust program. it is being tested on 50 plots of land to determine how the coffee harvest can be protected from

climate change. the e u has wandered the project with 4500000 euros to the because african way of farming system, wherever you go in african soil farmers use diversified cropping system. you see 3, you see chicken, you see very, very diverse. so now we are bringing that sam traditional farming system with a designed approach so that the farmers are benefiting more from each. according to the french development organization, c rad 50000 coffee farmers will benefit from the robust program by 2025. in addition to their work in the field, robust provide scientific support, while co operating with each research and development programs, as well as various uganda institutions. on our hulu, palm world got all the portion we wanted to promote the scientific training of many students within the framework of the project. you said novel could, which is why we recruited many thesis, your ph,

d and m s. c. students will help us implement the project in the field. i met on the report i sort of and the students together with scientists from the institutions will organize and run a whole network. with his older daughter uses a symbiotic relationship between trees and coffee plans to improve soil quality and strengthening resistance is one. another is ensuring that the plans are better suited to future climates by breeding new springs of the real buffy right. at uganda, national coffee research institute, cuttings of these new streams that are being given to farmers for cultivation. when the breeding section does that improvement improvement to differentiates resistance to disease is yield and so on. those materials have to have enough numbers so that you have a with them to find mass. specifically for that robust project,

they are trying to develop that drug tracy stant varieties. the robust program is still in its infancy. if it proves effective over the next 4 years, so i braced enough hopes that he can set a new president for sustainable coffee farming around the world. deposit for this day. the potential is enormous and it's not meant to stay within the borders of uganda. and it's meant to be known, and it will be very, i would say, ducks an open access for everybody. so this means that initially will concern all the countries, or for example, in africa label that grow robust coffee, fuller, and is quite vast because it's starting uganda and ends in west africa. escrows'll include dubois and the clothes on afterwards too. so this program will be open to everyone should package so there are 2 more. it will be some time before the project reduce the scientific results. but some farmers already reporting the

positive impact that 3 she has all the crops, the animals on by arrow key august family, also reaping the benefits. they seem to enjoy the trees just as much as the coffee plants are grow. forestry may be making gains, but it can be practised without healthy woodlands. unfortunately, millions of hector has a forest are still being destroyed. every single year. ivory coast is one country that has been devastated by deforestation, but all is not lost. digital technology could very well serve the day i'll tell ya, coffee was hoping to become a lawyer. but after completing his studies, he decided to become a farmer instead. well, in 2016, he launched his company shown p. f. war against the advice of his parents. and devoted his time to growing fees to the business. digital technology has always

been at the forefront of his work with buckle. he uses apps to get advice on optimal farming methods. new service right now, he's getting some tips for his rice field and a good. this is april said speaker lateral. these tools have played a key role in his career choice live. often he sees himself is more of an agricultural entrepreneur or agree printer than a farmer. or this is up to gus or e advocacy nicholson. with these apps and with the internet, we're able to find solutions to the problems we encounter and that has been a huge plus for us. so the new generation of our group procures sojourn as you never saw, a da group winner. agriculture is a leading sector in ivory coast representing nearly a 3rd of g d. p. but global warming and deforestation are weighing on the environment. good digital technology revolutionized the sector, flew, saw the company invest eve is convinced that cam and is trying to preserve the countries remaining forests with precision agriculture. one they want to make

a clear distinction between protected forest and farm land with the help of drones . fara bit it could have fallen our heads by accident. i the photos taken by the drone, show the farmers, exactly what belongs to them, and what belongs to the forest. whether not allowed to fell trees. b. u last, he has, his man knows he owns one, hector, if he won't go beyond that and encroach on the forest to back in the village. the footage is analyzed and clearly shows the boundaries between the forest and the fields. rhythm lazy, you can work anywhere in this area, but you can't enter here given a city of what this is a small revolution. previously, he would have had to walk around his field with gps to obtain this data, barley clerical, and grab her work that would normally take us 2 or 3 hours. yeah. now only takes us

one hour, so that's really good. you know, don't take liberal so far, few people in ivory coast have access to such data. while almost every one has a cell phone today, less than half the population has internet access. it's often too expensive, especially for farmers felter. ja coffee is trying to popularize the use of apps among farmers. what did you mean longer difficult because he explains the wide scope of opportunities that the internet presents through for very markers of it. but he knows a lot has to change to achieve real success, to data jack l content holding christie, electability or mutual were what is unfortunate that it would be good if we could have free internet zones in the villages where people could get wireless access and get on line that would be really good said there was,

this is so little single digitalization is hope to solve another big problem for farmers access to new markets in the cities. marilla kinda runs a juice bar in up at john. she buys her free to the market, but there are always problems with deliveries. the new online platform that brings producers and buyers together could save her from these constant disruptions. i got an order for the suppliers, give us dates when the items will be available and then due to logistics problems, they're not available in abidjan. the up could also help farmers to sell their produce more effectively by consolidating information about crop yields from across the country. you go up renewable, there could be a shortage of bananas in the north of i re coast for example, and over production in the south. so our idea is to allow farmers in the south

where there's an over production to be able to sell their products in the north, you yup. community it will take time for the virtual market to function. well, nationwide was off with a great cultural entrepreneur val tell ya, coffee doesn't want to wait that long while he organizes training for young people long. we want to help the country move forward with digital agriculture volt above loss. also young people on social media, see others like them who went to school and got diplomas or whatever, then returned to the countryside to say to this loud that feeds people. i think that will create jobs are factored operability. he hopes to create a real community of networks, organic farmers across the country, or just shoot her foot grown organically, either certainly a healthy option. the people who spend their walking day on the goal often rely on a quick fix when they get hungry. but as we know,

most of knocks and fast food with a healthy or not a wrapped in plastic or sobbed in styrofoam containers, which by the way, we'll never ever decompose. hold a minute sondra, you're talking about the past and the presence. now let's take a look into the future. we're about to get a taste of things to come. i, u. k. base start up has created some amazing and mouth watering. packaging materials. here is this weeks doing your bits ha, pizza boxes, single use cups and other packaging waste spill out of trash bins in many cities. each year. a 180 kilograms of packaging waste or produced per capita in europe. hello. one remedy with a loss of potential comes from the ocean sea wheat. the plant like algae,

which can grow up to 60 meters, is common along coasts the world over. it's the material, the u. k. based start up not plot chose to make sustainable packaging. just how they do it is a company secret, but they've even developed a revolutionary way to encapsulate liquids in an edible bubble. just imagine all those single use cops and sporting events. all parties could be replaced with something that's convenient, compact and sustainable. because allergies are among the fastest growing organisms on the planets someone has seen that we are using the lab grows up to a meter for they to some very, very renewable resource. it doesn't require any fresh water or felt lasers. so unlike any form of agriculture, we don't have to add anything as humans. it doesn't compete with foot crops. and lastly, it's very biodegradable. the possibilities seem endless. see,

weed can be used for clean, single use packaging. or as dissolving liquids soaked, dispenses, and much more. it was for these innovative ideas that not flowers presented the 2022 earth shop prize in the category build a waste free wells are oh and how about you? if you are also doing your bit, tell us about it, visit our website, or send us or tweet. past ag doing your bit. we share your stories. just imagine life without single use plastic buckles, box cutlery or package it. it would change our word completely. take reverse, for example, a lot of people depend on their waters for agricultural, as well as domestic use,

but many and now chronically polluted. which as devastating consequences for biodiversity in communities living along the banks. limits in the damage can be both difficult and tedious. as we'll see in our next report from south africa piles of washed up heavy rains, it's a common sight, densely populated areas along the hen, up to river. this spot is just a few meters from them visa, township, home, to more than half a 1000000 people. our children, me around here and buy food that is sold just makes 2 very very and then that food is contaminated. everyone is getting sick of which is not conducive environment for us. now it's not safe representatives from the south african and you fresh take stock of the devastation. their mission is to restore

the hen ups river. and it's around in wetlands with the help of volunteers. just a few kilometers, feel other sorts of the for the theater for fountain water, city, crystal clear. but i think her to be from luther. if we don't pick up the 1st, no one's going to pick it up with effectively, no waste collection system here in south africa. second largest township local simply dumped their garbage on the already existing piles residency. the river has become a communal rubbish. been that the place does it is not cool, is not good at all. no 3. you know, so our, i think we need, does, few people is gonna community they would like to know and eggs. no. yeah. when you change it out today, the team from fresh wants to inspect one of the little traps for have been installed on the rivers up a course. the engine has invented its own traps. they are constructed from thick

wire cables woven through nets and filled with recycle polystyrene. the contraption is anchored on either side of the river, mostly cut to styrofoam in the floods, and also it's as sediment trip to am, to slow the water down. so sediments out a lot of sandia and that sand also serves as a whom for beneficial organisms. it prevents further erosion to the source of the hang ups river, a situated east of janice bird. after leaving the urban areas behind, it meanders through fields and valleys until it eventually joins the limpopo river system. it later ends up in the indian ocean. this intricate system of waterways supports millions of people in both south africa and 3 neighboring countries. this river is an important source of drinking water. it's also vital for agricultural

crops. farmers like your hands, steinberg, a very concerned sometimes the reverie was totally black because of the sewage is very bad for ours. we've worried about the phosphor in the water. we're going through the ground though you could crotch and i don't think it's a healthy forward ground. it's also not the office for people. and that's not all large amounts of raw sewage, just spilling into the helps water samples. are tested for equal i bacteria to assess fecal contamination. near the river source equal i, concentration has been measured at a 100000 times above the accepted limit. so fresh is now pushing to get the river landscape officially declared and nature conservation area as protected by diversity corridor meandering through the most urbanized areas on the

continent. it will help to revitalize south africa's industrial heartland on earth day. a group from fresh set out to demonstrate to the authorities, the potential of a cleaner river system. the returns the little trap on a mission to remove 60 tons of wastes from this spot. in one day, 15 volunteers from the local community were paid 20 euros each plus lunch for their efforts. bit by bit, the waste was carried off to a collection point to be transported to a nearby landfill. it's beautiful the river leaving. i think the hallway plant is looking much better. we think we can, we can restore this place. it's, i went lent 80. so if it gets polluted and i knew indirectly or killing or cellphones work because we, this water won't be able to sustain lash and sustains. so we dependable to this war consisting another example of how when i did together these

significant actions of individuals can create huge problems. if i toss one plastic bottle into a river, it may not seem like much. but what happens when hundreds or millions of people do it? it becomes overwhelming. so chill crease, that is why it is so important to help our kids learn to take responsibility for their local environment. from an early age in ronda, an expansive program has been launched. that encourages youngsters to take an active interest in nature, and it's preservation ah good. these youths belong to an environmental club. we teaches them about wild animals in the hopes they will help protect species, diversity and port peaceful coexistence between people and their fellow creatures

who are protect the environment surrounding you. but as the, when you find in many more in the community, you can advocate for it. don't keep the animals don't this tub or cut the trees. always think that when you are protecting the environment, trees, animals, you are protecting your sales of love at amune. good national hon. that is a treasure true for biological diversity. the 1068 plant species have been counted here and many of these grasses and trees and found in any of the forests or parks in rwanda. but is not just the greenery that's unique. the park is home to 322 species of birds and making it a great spot for bird watching buckhead school. they learn more about what they've seen. this project is part of the rwandan government initiative will hold up a little bit in the you guys, you,

the members did amendment glove where the future of this country would you lose that? teaching you educating you. in the hovering you taking the theory, tulsa, that is the promise. over the future the pupils take their mission seriously. they're assuming sponsibility for the environment, my preserving is plants and animals, lumber co amended and these environmental clubs is to be right on the front line for environmental protection. now, when the one that it's on acceptable for people who am their varman to be left to their own devices on one day they must be shown the right way of reporter to the authorities. if they refuse to change your attitude, aka about that, it requires that you with more than $400.00 people per square kilometer rwanda's, population density is very high. so folks keep encroaching on nature. so on

weekends, school groups visit villages to spread their message. careful, wild animals don't set traps or chopped down cheese. often they propose a treat. villagers can receive farm animals in exchange for giving up hunting. when i dig among, i used to hunt antelope and eat them with my family, with but through this awareness andy opportunities offer to awesome. i've stopped coaching since we've been given domestic animals. this no need to hunt in the park . i couldn't just 7 for through and as 30 districts take part in the environmental club pro. do that, but that couldn't change you to make up some 2 thirds of the country's population. so that help is key to preserve the species diversity of what a terrific project. i'm afraid that's all we have time for to day. thanks for joining us on eco africa, and do be sure to come again next week until then. it's good bye for me,

chris lamps, looking forward to seeing you again next time, crease and bad goals for you to a deal is in the meantime. as you know, you can or is chicken with us on all our social media platforms. i am sandra reno video bob by and take care. ah, with ah, ah, with

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