on top of this long running drowns, have led to a wide spread crop failures. around 17000000 people, roughly a 3rd of the population live below the poverty line. annie and ezekiel have got a job to do. armed with charlie, they come through the cities garbage looking for cardboard plastic and anything else they can sell at a recycling plant. here in argentina, cuts on at us named after the spanish word for cardboard, are a common sight. i'm getting your hands dirty, making an honest living. that's what we teach. our kids money was always tight for the couple. and now devastatingly high, inflation means they can barely make ends meet that our most. we work every day and now toys this much, but again, one south full used to be enough to buy food,

but now we need to. it's summer time and scorching hot on the streets of when osiris. but the world cup gave the country a much needed breath of fresh air. the national football team's triumph in december was an excuse for a party that lasted 3 days. ah, argentina has always been so could crazy. but the world cup, when unleashed an unprecedented wave of nationwide euphoria, after the relentless onslaught of bad news, the financial crisis spiraling inflation and the pandemic that was finally something to celebrate and provide encouragement. my family, it was bomb for the soul, wanting forget inflation to get politics. at least now we've got 3 dogs. i can get one over there. it gives us how you get if you fight,

you can win and why fighting? our team fought to you and one just let you go to jonathan media and i don't it doesn't take long to fill up the sack up a little bit ago. yeah, it does. we just got lucky. what so much in one place, a stroke of luck. i'm gonna be similar to what the call conte terry, more than 100 kilos of ext your weight, the sac, the as a jealous, securing on the roof will on and the equivalent of about 15 years. i think we get fueled ito is a poor neighborhood with a high crime rate. it's where diego merit donna grew up. afloat. hero of the people. a boy from the slums who rose to super stardom who made mistakes, but stood unconditional love in his legions of fans. in the well cup final,

when it looked like argentina might be defeated, annie turned to the late great sucking legend and giddy came out of the number to fall. i said, married zona, wherever you are div something's waterfalls and does your hunger hooked your body, whatever. hello, just don't let them full in it. well that's when you go live. you will hope you're brought the sacks of full. that now comes the hard part. soaking out the garbage. they'll be working well into the night. many of argentina's top football as come from poor neighborhoods. the game is an escape from poverty. when darkness fully of crowns gather to watch unofficial football tournaments as quite a bit of cash at stake at the semi legal events known as portray ross. it's how franken and his living through betting that to the idaho, when i used to work and play but iron much better now than with

a normal draw was i got off of one and then the per terror circuit is the cradle of argentinian football. it's way play as cut that teeth and when many a discovered ally, the cunning, the daring. this is where the best player start out was matches on fire. frank, who was once approached by a tenant scout to but didn't have what it takes to go professional. he owns enough, he had to take care of his son and survived a financial crisis. franco is a local legend, but his income isn't secure. very well. we lost that. he screwed us, doesn't matter when he comes, goes and we wanted to win. but this time we didn't know it on the was it will another baking hot day in futile annie and as that yell are exhausted,

they were up separating rubbish until 3 in the morning. but there's no time to rest . they need every pest. so i will, i'm going to have a lot of people don't realize what hard work this is about. they think we're lay about it. they don't see what we do as work, but it is. and now i have to fix this to them. they're about to head for the recycling yon to see how much they can get for that concord. despite the odds, they're up to mistake again that you called me and also some players are still so young, but they are well champions. josie, why shouldn't my dreams come true? he all my life is hard, but i've got a goal, m. c, football. i have children, grandchildren, neighbors, you, anything's possible to see if with a life these days is harder than ever. but as a kellen any aren't the kind to complain. today about 1000000000 people live in africa,

south of the sahara and says the u. n. that numbers set to double by mid century. in a few years, most africans will also live in urban areas. partly because many people in rural areas are moving there in the hope of a better life. the boom is also fueling a housing crisis. today about half of africa's urban population, south of the sahara live in informal settlements. this poses a major challenge for growing cities. as this report from south africa's cape town shows, the township of must have who millennia cape town has 30000 residents spread across nearly 40 hector's. no zuka lee where is sorting through the wreckage of her home. 2 weeks ago, a fire destroyed 178 shacks. here. homes made of corrugated metal on a wooden frame, sol. so i ran out without knowing what the only thing i have left in my pajamas was my neighbor died in the fire. one of her friends filmed the inferno

fires like these are happening more frequently. as the population grows, people are living closer together and heat waves are also more common because of climate change. dozens of homes also burned down recently in cape towns biggest township calisha and not for the 1st time. architects gloria pivots her and her team from the n. t o e k. allow me, our rebuilding the houses in the new ones are affordable and more durable and we're here to implement our sink aluminum structure which is my retarded. i am in flood flood we we one on and to prevent the other player by is this one survive the latest fire without a trace, the sheet metal they're using as thick her. so fire can't spread as easily from home to home. economy is funded through donations, it's already built 3500 of these new models. in the closer language economy means

my home. the n g o wants to help people live in safety and dignity. cedric mays, old corrugated iron hut was replaced a year ago to her long who like to see how things are going. yeah, everything is okay. and her as you can see the place over here by this quoted, this is what you got. yes. 9. very beautiful. oh, it is our shower fund. there. love issues we're here we go. we're come. i live in. oh i conway that is room. yep. a one room place. i one check room. and you know that king must or more like felling down with the wind. come with an overhead. diction ordered the rain gone through dead project time, but now you live in a beautiful place. i guess i can get tickets. forgot. cedric may works as

a catty on a golf course. his employer agreed to help finance the construction cost of around $1000.00 euros together with economy. this kind of co financing is the basis of economies funding model. muslim a difficult we pre finance as much as we can of the bulls and the employee employers meet us half way. and sometimes employees also partake in that in that perhaps the employer can pay up front and in the employees pay back the employer um at a rate that suitable to their relationship and their financial reality. the golf course paid back their interest free loan within a year economies housing initiative as part of the project by at collaboration. it helps employers provide they work is with better homes. urban development advise it . he says, fire resistant homes can quickly improve living conditions and townships in times of climate change. summers are hotter,

the winds are significantly more ferocious horns catcher and always has had heavy winds. but now they're, they're more sustained and more unpredictable and often much more volatile. and even the in migration people are moving from the room and into the cities is pushed by the fact that sustainability and survivability in the rural areas is being profoundly impacted by the changes into our economy. isn't only making homes fire resistant together with the urban think tank from e t h 0. the n t o has replaced an entire informal settlement with 2 story homes. the impalas shock pilot project has already billed more than 70 units. the last ones will be handed over to their new owners to day kept towns deputy maya has arrived. the city council wants to officially honor the new homes and their own. s . thank you. good back. what?

oh, small. la. it's it's, it's really important. what makes the whole next the home it makes the home that he does? are you taking friday between you and your essence, the credible and is currently rebel population? something are just about 4800000 people. the data suggested rules are partial composed to 6000000 people. at the end of this decade, we need to plan differently. we want to be doing for friday, every near to secure partnerships to respond to the housing revenue. i mean, it's a good place to store in an emergency. this st provides access for fire trucks and ambulances, where corrugated iron huts one stood, crammed together. they are now children playing the project also plans to provide solar power for the neighborhood. looking at a 3 megawatts of solar energy production in the kweisi park alone. i and see the potential for i think it's about 2 gigawatts of renewable energy production in

kylie cha. initiatives like empowers shack and e. kyle ami, us still to scarce in south africa where they're desperately need it. people like nausicaa leeway can't wait for years for a safe place to live. the nice thing that won't get. i'm devastated colored wood. that was my 1st fire and i haven't been sleeping well since my neighbors say there's a big fire every summer. it's become normal here. what was the guy punch? in the last 3 years, fires and kate towns, informal settlements, have nearly doubled to 5000 a year in superman lily there worried that if some is keep getting hotter, this is just the beginning. ah, how can we feed a world of 10000000000 people by 2050 equitably unsustainably just under 5000000000 hacked as of land already being used by agriculture. that's around 37

percent of the global land surface by mid century will need to produce about 60 percent more food to ensure that no one goes hungry. in recent decades, modern agricultural methods of lead to greater harvests. but it's been at the expense of the soil, in many regions of the world, large areas of arable land and now under threat. and yet a healthy soil is essential for successful harvests and for a healthy planet. right now, these are living on your body. but don't worry, they're supposed to be there, they're microscopes and the planet is covered in them. and there are tons of them in the soil because they literally make fertilizer for plants. these are some of the only things on earth that can do that. we depend on soil for almost all of the food that we eat. and because 90 percent of the planet's oil could be degraded by

2050 scientists and even agribusiness think microbes could be key to averting of food crisis. so let's take a journey to the invisible world right under our noses and our feet to see what happens to soils when microbes, the out of whack. we can look back to the 1930s in the united states. settlers replace native grasses with farm let and then intensively tilt which killed microbes and degraded soil after a series of droughts. the damage soil was easily picked up by the wind and turn it to so called black blizzards. millions of tons of tops, well, just blew away in what came to be known as the dust bowl. although farming methods have changed, somewhat soil degradation is still a global problem. what we are doing basically is destroying the soil and now and not renewable for what we have been doing so far.

to the navy east. can you soil out at the strike to grow plant. we've been under valuing them and expecting them to stay healthy, but tilling over using chemicals and climate change are harming our soil. this is a problem for growing food, as well as resources for clothing and construction. soil is also key to storing carbon and filtering water. to make so else healthy again, we need to start seeing them as what they are. entire ecosystems, teaming with hidden life, all run by my groups are all this under our feet as top soil where most of the insects and microbes live along with plant roots and small animals. one grim of this can contain millions of micro and a few worms. healthy soil have a diversity of microbes. the most common ones are bacteria and fungus. one of their most important jobs is transforming nutrients. every single nutrients,

thoughtful on the planet, mostly driven by microscope, none of these cycle that really exists in a vacuum. they all into one of those nutrients cycles, as with carbon, plants and animals, i mean mostly carbon. and when they die, they're broken down by micros. no microbes, no d, competition. the microbes use some of the carbon to reproduce, storing it in the soil, and be the rest of it out, sending it back to the atmosphere. another nutrients cycle happens of the nitrogen, which makes most of the air around us and is one of the main nutrients plants used to grow. plants can't get it from the air by themselves, so they partner with microwaves. and we can find evidence of the nutrients cycle by looking at certain plants like these beans, which are considered nitrogen. fixing the beams, create these little root nodules that become home to a certain type of bacteria. in return. they change nitrogen into a form that plants can access microbes, specifically fund guy,

also exchange other nutrients of plants. they have a very fine routes called hifi. the intertwined themselves with the roots at the plant. the fungus is really good at releasing things like spots for the site from flow, which is the plastic. so it does the end exchanges that the plan in return for things like sugar, which the plant can make tricks. there's also some evidence this relationship makes the plant more able to withstand drought and disease in a degraded soil. these new chain cycles aren't working as well as they could be. climate change is one cause of degrading soils with drought and extreme weather, causing them to dry out in a road intensive. agriculture can be another cause as pesticides and are besides kill off beneficial microbes and reduce their activity. the more degraded soil is the more chemicals are needed to grow stuff degrading the soil even further. this whole plot of land was intensively farm for 30 years. and you can really see it in

the soil. it's super sandy, dry and degraded. degraded soils also lose their ability to hold and filter water are more susceptible to erosion and have less of those beneficial microbes, meaning plans don't grow as well. but soil health about more than just our food security boyle community health is actually the foundation of all persistence, but natural and man. if the nation of something crumble, everything else comes tumbling down and agriculture might actually hold the key to making our soils healthy. again, the same plot of land, not so far from the degraded bit years of regenerative agriculture, has brought back a lot of microbial activity. the soil looks completely different. this farm is the best practice example. no chemicals are used and the soil microbes, arthur riving. just look how beautiful these 2 meters are.

know, tell agriculture, leave soil undisturbed, which allows the microbes living inside the clamps to thrive. specifically those fund guy, high feet, which are important for soil structure that can be a kilometer of them and a gram oil. and cover crops planted to leave in the ground, right? micros of carbon to chow, down on, as well as reduce arose and nutrient las unfortunately, this kind of farming just isn't possible everywhere. you can do it from best thinking whartley wants that the goal roommates, the vast amount of areas where the only so great that these nix on the now to recover the soil in due time. here's your microbes come in a larger scale. the most common uses, bio fertilizers, they use like chemical base fertilizer if they contain fund guy or bacteria. soil

divert ation is a big enough threat that bare accompany, known precisely, i would. cultural chemicals is also interested in more countries by the end of this certainly be certainly held to review. the chemical devices to company is also investing in seeds that have been infused with microbes because delivering microbes along with seeds is the most targeted way to apply them. seats can also be planted with a coating of microbes, conservation organizations are using this approach to restore ecosystem. a problem with commercial microbial products is that the microbes are not specifically adapted to environment. non native microbes could find it hard to survive, rendering the process useless. and because these are living organisms, they could cause an imbalance and the micro biome we sees something we'd,

we'd really have to, to taking concentration. especially. we found jain because this brad faster and they are more easy. shinji sank. even bare agrees. just oh, it doesn't necessarily need an automated heat. oh, since soils are different around the world, we would ideally develop microbial products for specific regions. but that will take time and more research. unfortunately, our soil health is an emergency. we are going to movies because we actually cover soils in we see the cheapest way to do recovery because we are covering them while we are maintaining the ged to for large farms. bio fertilizers are a step above chemicals and where possible. agriculture that relies on helping native my groups like on this farm, is the way to go. b o. r a coaches have been tracking down tasty

snacks again. this time in indonesia, ah shimoda on a multicultural port city on the north coast of java has been shaped by european chinese arabic and japanese cultures. and that's reflected in its environment cuisine. one specialty can be found by from tomb lucy. those ticklish, that lumpy is a kind of sweet or see re spring rolled trees. look po version was created, went on to him who said those chinese grandfather and in bernisha grandmother combined their recipes more than 100 years ago. now their grandson runs a snack bar and is sharing the olympia recipe with us. all

the room argue that we washing cook the bamboo shoots into the soft at home dog. and then we bring them here and mix them with trim. does that eggs to make the filling? well, doesn't talk of it all goes into a large walk where it's quickly stirred and fried. then the mixture is spread onto a length of joe. now they have to work quickly. it's very popular with guests. with produce 500 loopy, on weekdays, and twice as many on holidays where i'm a lumpy, are served fresh or friday. the price stays the same with before the corona virus pandemic customers used to line up at the stand and eat

right here. the look p a was served with a save re coconut sauce. today, the lumpy spring rows are only sold impractical to go boxes. yeah, gallagher let i know every time i go to simmering, i have some of these lumpy. it's famous, a legend here on that for now that and that is just a legendary snack with a long tradition. and that so from asset global 3 south and dis make thanks for joining us. we'd love to hear from you say, write to us at global 3000 at d, w dot com and come and find us on face that to d. w global ideas. see you next time and until then take kath ah ah,

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