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welcome. i'm sandra tree. nobody else. i'm happy to help you with us. so fresh episode of equal africa. hi, sandra. hi, everyone. i am present lives in legal side to area and together with my lovely co host of happy to bring get to they show states in because we have some exciting stories for you coming up. why block chain this blaine, the green rolling comes the vision in some get awesome. and could be made more play me frankly. and how of fungus can you can help to get read off the basic plans list. that's all in some, via today, a country that depends very much on the culture, forest and wide life. these results has been lost at a rapid pace from us facing rates, difficulties in diversified the crops,

and adapted to hoshal weather conditions. now one of the most pressing challenges the facing is also a lot of access to affordable loans to try out different things with venture till the sucker to explore potential solutions as well to be some far as subsidies with the digital world starts helping the suckers some guys, using technology to benefit farmers in nature. this is the team behind putting a phone opposite to naples from us to both save money and chronicling with the at small groups of families create the so called savings of members of a circle agree a fixed amount which they then each deposit every month. members can then either draw news from this money pool or earn interest on the savings. many farmers here face considerable challenges. they need money to fund solutions. in zambia,

almost $300000.00 hector is a far as i did every year for chaco timber, and cultural. my colleague and i x and email that way, i like to say discussing number talk to us between vague about the time. so those are some form of a drought and most people couldn't from. and so they just looked at to, you know, cutting down of trees. if they didn't cut down trees to mix alcohol, then once they also thing to do that. okay. how about keeping the teams suggested small hold is produced, rule honey, which they would then buy package and we sell in supermarkets, gm, economic assemble on his team provide free b, keeping workshops grants in the farm as an alternative to talk or production. the bees bring of the benefits to for the we, for example, cost for the nation, the fluids, the in the product to of what if you are growing in your, from without the food to trees that you of good with that to him,

it towards the way that they had, it's amaze, a sunflower i knew you'd said benefit you to both of you. philip zulu is a small scale meas, former, he has diversified in to be keeping them fish farming, making him fall as venerable to dropped half of his farm. land is no indigenous forest ideal for beast. so far h, b has the expensive for 20 heis zulu, needed the equivalent of $500.00 units and the amount which you would now be able to go through the pulling savings. so many farmers don't have bank accounts. it's easier for zillow because he doesn't tax and he has to produce, i know often governmental collateral and he's getting it on from the people that just stays within the community. and they know him. yeah. so, and that's where you and the interest rate. there's no that's easy and so the reason getting the loan because it's kind of to in the savings circle,

farmers can agree on the own interest rates. these are typically about 5 to 10 percent, which is a far cry from the 15 to 100 percent interest often demanded by informal money lenders. jenny cutnam can someone whose team hope the platform will empower farmers to invest in bigger collaborates the future. if a platform, you know, like these, you know, it's given an opportunity for families once they put their money together. maybe they will might say 10. so can i'm going to enjoy bowl into an integration where they just having the, if from where they produce different, but i to, for that and then from, that's become so, so, you know, it's a stable income for them which action, but that's been, they, me to get face of claimants address phillips who is eager to trial the system with the new app coming is in a test fees until the end of 2023 farmers hope it will enable them to diversify and expand this small holdings of the village of bunting systems. london mobile,

i think it would be helpful because people to see them money in a situation people can borrow without the the, the signing of the contract. the agreements as long as your balance is tiring. the pulling up is built with block chain technology. a digital system that allows people to transfer money without the need for traditional banks. all transactions on the platform i recorded. she, i need to know because some of these studies mostly involved in the business. she says a generation is embracing new technologies to solve urgent issues. things um, you may have seen really the graphs warranty, good nation, right? when you're growing up, you know, those i had to forest me on my place and you go there and there's nothing anymore. so this is something that we're passionate about and it's something that we also pacing up with changes from to advocate c. 2 and social enterprises just like we

are doing publish should be available for farmers in 2024. in the meantime, janica non custodial is working with 2000 be keepers. the stotts up has already sold sexy tons of honey in supermarkets for sweet, sweet, and tough on this. i'm project based on forest at the same time. so let's talk about the health of plants now. well, often can because i use to get rid of diseases and to get better yields. no, such a great idea for the environment because just like that, it can be buckley damaged. well, the other ways on the age of king is only surviving punch of tropical rain, forest. a phone go wait for an is being developed. and the seems to be a set of the odd vibratory and a role model for other countries to help in, in natural ways. these flowers grow well and can you to well in fact,

strike go purple, which we might be pretty, but it's devastating to crumbs. it viruses and dry soil and poses a serious threat to harvests as agronomist adults can boil, explain if that part of the take when i know it's kind of caused some damage to a planted pass in, in the phone. as you can see, this move, it is planted by the time you have seen, i've tried to imagine the destruction you've already done because the, say the cds on the ground. the parasitic plant attaches itself to the roots of crops and then extract nutrients from them. a good key so knows the problem all too well, which we'd regularly decimate. so mace and milledgeville way. oh hi, ongoing measure to some, well, we've been struggling with the problem of which we for many years what we call it crops, but the yields the no good school follow when we trying to stop it spreading by

sweeping. i'm dep ray and the animal waste. human and distributing it in the field, but it doesn't make any difference with google mouth and sees and i've gone to the whole lake open. i will go forward to so that from this i only harvested one bag of ways that came to me. but that doesn't even leave enough for me to rebuild them. does the monday would you, michael now? but us and kenyon scientists have identified a fungus that kills the parasite. it's highly effective, even in tiny amounts, such as might fit on a tooth pick. this discovery lead to the toothpick of project dorcas kimball. he manages the projects, toothpick company, for a team of scientists produce the fungus that kills to strike a plot. or how does the, within the research on the bile controls and struggle we use industry say i'm looks as far as this phone goes as isolated from my wilton's trego. it and

h was growing to make the mound control. so initial non is contrary to what we do in this knob is multiply the song us as much as we can. so that is can quantity if i to a must that's can solve the farmers in great capacities for the last 5 years. ken boy has traveled to villages in western kenya to introduce farmers to the product it costs about. so to year rose to treat a one acre field until now farmers have been uprooting the destructive plot to prevent its seats from spreading further. because once they're in the soil, they stay there for years. chemical pesticides haven't proved effective and farmers are left with field harvests. that's why the tooth pick project is supported by a number of n g o's focused on food security. daddy's brittany effect of climate change. the i've is one me before it was a warming, and we a seems dried,

got also moving into some width as owns and to also some for the region. if that these experienced in the high production, 80 ascending means the food in security also is except it becomes much more kenya isn't the only country with a strike, a problem. according to the u. n, a 14 african nations are infested with the weed. this makes the project all the more important is successful. it could be introduced in other countries to so don't because can boy is working with ag farm. us to help produce more fun, go in up to them. they can show it to that's can be produced. that's our laboratory is not enough to solve from mazda elk grove, this event, counties, we all find anything. and so that is the reason why we were in gauging we let you know clump or do stuff and they really never opened had class pretty put the final product. production itself is relatively straightforward. the phone goes just needs to grow 20 key. those of rice are cooked and a small amount of fungus is added,

then left for $3.00 to $5.00 days to incubate. the resulting for to key low as a function, rich dries are enough for one, a couple of crop land. the research has found at that farm as needed to treat the fields for 2 years. that's full crops, owings that was enough to banish the strike. and restore crop yields for small hold is especially, it's a relatively easy remedy that the farmers can apply for themselves. was really interesting, so listen up. i've been beaten by these annoying lead to box way so many times in my life you to full of life. but auction most controls can also be good willing to box. yes. you have right here, a small they are believed to have killed alexander the great and they help the us. when independents from the british mosquitoes have shape the human history. they

are the world's deadliest animal, viruses and power sites. they carry still kill hundreds of thousands of people every single year. that's why scientists are developing technology that could completely wipe out certain mosquito species. but critics argue there extinction could just be the beginning that other species could follow destabilizing entire eco systems. so just because we could kill off an entire speech, these should we mosquitoes kill more people every year than all other animals combined. some 700000 annually. it's actually the parasites and viruses hitching a ride from the yellow fever and west nile to the most deadly. larry has been that the, the killer, you know, across our existence from, from a how many ancestral evolution all the way to present data. unfortunately,

malaria is responsible for around 80 percent of mosquito related deaths. and almost all of those are children under the age of 5, mostly living in africa. the majority of mosquitoes don't carry this legal power side. most of the more than 3500 different types are in fact harmless. own the anomalies mosquitoes can carry malaria. nowadays, the disease is transmitted predominantly in tropical and sub tropical parts of the world for more than a century. now, scientists have been trying to come up with ways of destroying the anomalies mosquito live besides insect decides they've had varying degrees of success. so over the last 2 decades, scientists have turned to a new method of reducing mosquito number's genetic modification, the ability to trust with disease. he's an inference by him. i'm a member of the genetic traits we should be able to lead to like them them. they

might be able to develop most people do enough trust me to malaria. andrea chris sante and his team are genetically modifying and also these can be a mosquitoes. the species that transmits above area in africa only female mosquitoes are able to buy humans and transmit malaria, the needs of proteins in our blood to make eggs, we focus on jewels that are able to compare and we'll scale that we were able to manipulate these genes and generate the most senior mosquito have mail traits into a lot by edits a gene they used to. chris berg, a relatively new technology that is used to modify dna. as a result, even the female aux spring of the modified mosquito were born with mouth parts that could not peer skin rendering them unable to feed from.