of course, we say they're about never getting up every weekend on d w the quite a few environmental activities. the realize that slowing down is one way to leave more sustainably. what we're seeing, how simplifying a lives and thinking creatively can reduce our impact on the not through weld. welcome to eco africa. i'm curriculums in lagos, nigeria, the modem was culture of convenience, has a very damaging effect. what if we do things differently? i am sandra holmes, that we know do joining you from compound right to in uganda. here is what we have

coming up and inventive use of risk. i quote robust sandals, a new gun and ation fishing method. still use of the cost of tenicia and an artist who believes that even from the launch is the key to a good life. but we begin to show in the democratic republic of congo, a country that fesses multiple environmental changes from the impact of mining deforestation. on the 14th to water pollution, we went to let cube on the border to run to, to meet a young man who's trying to clean the tough. joseph federal bank isn't a good move, even though the job he's doing today is not exactly fun. for several years now, he's come out regularly on lake cable in use the rogue boat.

together with other members of the green helmets team. he collects plastic weight. let's go face it up with teen. it was because this is a routine for me now. every week i set aside 4 hours of my free time to clean up, like even the cut them got blue. don't do more. i cherish this lake. i was born here and grew up as it's part of who i am today on g onto greg. yes, they do most good, but it's badly clogged up with plastic. rubbish also lines the color with that, which feeds into like cube who here in the city of because of environmental expert . you've learned that tom papa has long been monitoring the problem. the garbage is contaminating the water and he's concerned about the impact of the worsting pollution on marine life liquid se counseling on is a disease. so,

so the much, the consequences are enormous, not telling you for the human population. we'll see that, but also for the quite things population. so mid ah, sick and go up late. this should be a nursery for fish, and a young patient comes here to reproduce. don't see, but unfortunately it's a place that's already polluted here. so these fish, of course, have to leave the area. yeah. problem. why is it possible to believe that the fleet, a citizen, the democratic republic of congo has no functioning waste collection system every day? thousands of tons of plastic waste and up in illegal landfills or strewn about the place. the situation is equally catastrophic in many parts of the country. locals have recently noticed a significant decline. you know, some bozza, a saw dean that's native to like cuba. populations will likely continue to dwindle unless the lakes cleaned up. this would have far reaching consequences for those

who live from fishing here. this makes the work of the green helmet activists all the more important. dozens of garbage collectors, comb, the city for plastic bottles and take them to a collection point where advantage off the team pays them accordingly to the amount they've gathered. a bag of garbage such as the equivalent of the trust fund a one year old. because the 90 say this work and helps me a lot because when i collect the bottles, i help my family that younger who just of the bottles of then sorted by brand. the aim is to best way to the companies that to make them to support the initiative. the plastic that's collected is then used as construction material. this floating platform produced from bottles was made by the young activists. the plan is to build a much larger project based on their model. t laptop. you will be an artificial

island over 1200 square meters in size. and 6 in the middle of the lake city see, will implement the new cities a to this is where we're going to set up the initiative called de la toe pete, off walk, which will be a hotel complex. it will have 6 guest rooms and a multi purpose whole conferences can be held to raise awareness of the problem of plastic. but usually the police fuels press the button on the police helpless teacher. but in order to make that happen, they need to collect 2500000 plastic bottles. that would be a lot of wood. but the green helmet group is nothing if not due to event facing, take specials on school. and especially when it is done using palm leaves, it might not sound as efficient as using nights, but it is an ocean to fishing method, but it's still practiced in to me is, is kick on the island. exactly sandra,

where there is no shortage of palm trees. it's called stuff the fishing and it's especially environmentally friendly. our reporter went back to find out how these amazing tradition works and if it can survive in today's well the see is alika board 2nd time. today he's once again heading out to going fishing, using an angel technique found only here on the kind of items often busy as east coast. it's coach sophia and involves coaching fish. with the help of palm fronds. i'm sure the i've always worked at sea when i was a kid. i went fishing with my dad. and when i finished my studies and returned home, i automatically went back to fishing. each fi a is arranged as a triangular barrier. the palm fronds can be seen in the shadowy waters around the

archipelago. the fishing technique relies on titled comments to drive the fish into the traps. unlike fishing troll is the shot fia don't. com, the marine environment. instead, they present a bio diversity. they have an active, but i think, but i think the problem with a dragnet says that they don't allow anything to escape with the palm branches, fish find holes to swim through. however, hotel and doctors you need people as friend. i mean guinea does is also on board. he's not a fisherman, but an artist. and he's fascinated by this ancient fishing technique. traditionally, it involves the use of date, poem bronx, his thinking, he does, they to a part of the kind of islands, cultural heritage in his studio. he creates various products to sell using different parts of the palm. this little thing that he has, by the basis of the care, kenny and shaw c. a is

a cage that inspired me to create decorative objects for indoors and outdoors. i tried to retain the original look how was i that he sees himself as an ambassador official off here in 2020 unesco, declared it pulse. if you mind at ease intangible cultural heritage. it's also linked to angel traditions and cultural practices. up on i was using this method as a basis for my project without really knowing how it works. once i learned more, i fell in love with the c panel. but times have changed. some now use plastic traps is the cheapest. others of abandon the practice altogether is time consuming. and industrial fishing has decimated fish stokes. so the whole in the shelf you as also plummeted. but some fishermen are actively campaigning to preserve the tradition, especially because it works in harmony with nature. and the palm branches get fish

somewhere to hide and live. it's an ecological method that preserves and respects the environmental health via this fisherman. the lead shot fia will continue just on the test of time as the fish cool this way a far superior to the catch from industrial fishing. with what's the sure brought to assure a live that's why they're considered to be of better quality than those caused by other means. you know, if you were on high quality fish is an important source of income for the archipelago on an added tool for, to raise to visit the islands. but for allie, a couple, sophia fishing is more than a trade. it's positive good can, is unique cultural identity that's now at risk of disappearing. well, let's look at the past all our ancestors how to shop to obviously if government, if the view came in, they would build it up over the summer months. it shouldn't them. but today, having a shot see a requires significant financial capital and for the money that many

unable or unwilling to invest. and so she fishing continues to dwindle, even though it's so sustainable from fishing, or fishing to mode in agriculture all over the world. farm is angry and have been taken to the streets to protest. what are the reasons for their rhonda and what exactly do they want and what unites them? and what those the climate have to do with it. let's talk the investigation in euro thomas has been out protesting, seemingly non stop the life of your rep from portugal to not for you to write mania from. the know me. there was so many specific e rules give them and then the and we can no longer produce at low prices. and so if you called you about people, obviously, so it's, we want things to change because this business has a passion in france and germany,

the demo's have focused on the reduction of diesel subsidies. the outcome of these bismark with cultural diesel refund to one cent per liter meant to reimbursement of 25000 years for us to have the most best. if we lose the subsidies now i really don't know how will make ends meet. thomas in greece is still reading from floods in 2023 and one foster compensation for damage from natural disasters. and hungry and poland. farms were angry about impulse of cheap grain from ukraine, of the rushes invasion, the wave terrace on ukrainian grain and projects as a measure of support. the purpose of the government. why didn't talk to us about that. we came to wasteful to share the power of pilots vomas'. i posted the new car . the diesel subsidies flood damage is will grain and pause farmers feel abandoned by that governments. and from a financial perspective, this might well be true. it's just a fact that over time agriculture tends to shrink,

revel looked into other sectors and economy stuff on the phone. crum on telemundo is an agricultural policy economist and a consultant to the world bank and several national governments. and this is true, almost everywhere in the world. i can't think of any real exceptions in europe and fonts are dying out, decreasing by roughly a search since 2005 still 8700000 people worked in european agriculture in 2020. and that doesn't include seasonal workers, thomas worldwide face higher rates of mental health problems compared to the general public in europe in the us. the foaming population has shown elevated suicide rights. being of hallmark smoke only having the job as a file, but really. ready are giving, giving, haul in agriculture, and economist marie from my us a research just the social side of sustainable feed systems. it's a way of life and the flight of so much, not a bubble. small farm is a struggling us. they lose relevance in our economic system. which in many ways,

stocks against them the well across the value chain is not distributed enough fairly amanda yvonne, even though flux, it's a federation of a case for european farm is conform walker's anything else and the thoughts manufacturers get things like the biggest share off the volume, which is produced in the marketing for some sector and bottom of some sort of on what goods which are like in the bottom of the book, this probably would change giant supermarket chains, how most of negotiating power. if a price is european commission survey found the almost o e u food chain supply is reported, experiencing at least one form of august, trade practice be a student. i love of the miserable prices have all boxed to the list or corporations, care about nothing and only about price says, you model, you often price us. then the international trade deals like the proposed e, you, mack, us, or agreement with less than american countries. thomas say to increase cheap

agricultural impulse produced follow a standards, for example, they have been yeah, they were allowing food and that's not made the way we do it had with us all small the price negotiations, but supermarket some manufacturers and an upcoming. well that going to be sure is we're asking for all this to be put on the table. and for swift, concrete responses, both pop be there because the talk, it's about frustration is usually the e u commission in brussels, which controls another thing from us, present, become an agricultural policy o. c p. for shots, the system was launched in 1962 to deal with post full food scarcity in europe. almost 3 quarters of a c p budget goes to direct payments. the farm is the payments are calculated based solely on how big the form is. the best means the policy rewards industrial firms which tend to be monoculture, corporations, for example, one of your biggest arable farms is awkward cost or remaining and serial producer

you a. e. invest as voltage for ripple, typically between 2 to 300000000 years. for the phone gets over 10000000 annually and use subsidies. romania exports and large majority of its grain, meaning the you from these must have fonts is not benefiting the local economy. and most european farms of small aging family farms with less than $500.00 tons of land you're going to the generation is afraid of enough of many eros going well. we even got the job later on. if the lowers implemented as planned, influence us for the full that weren't complex enough already and to climate goals . europe has loved the plans to become the fast climate mutual confident by 2050 agriculture is responsible for more than 10 percent of tied to in your greenhouse gas emissions relative to the size or the overall economic importance of the sector . it produces a disproportionately large share of greenhouse gases. the european commissions

responded by launching its own green deal policies to make fruit systems more environmentally sustainable. we can't afford kind of to think about the ext uh, issues like environmental protects some like bio diversity like ethical issues. many of the europeans farmers protests of targets at each greendale policies such as phasing out diesel subsidies, reducing factor lies room pesticide use, and such as sidelines for bio diversity. they say the rules don't compensate them for the income blocks. so that taking too big a share with about an the problem with the policy is that it is a bit skits of fronting from. if it's meant to be income support, then you should think, you know, we should be targeting smaller firms with low income, more and not the big farms. but if the policy is to reduce bombings, time is impact. well then, big firm should be getting more payments because

a big farm is affecting the environment on a much larger number of factors. the protests have had some effect from dropped to its fuel subsidy costs and the you scrap to plan to reduce pesticides. and you trade support for ukraine now contains a measure to prevent too many ukrainian products being sold in the states but it would take me to, to help farmers to dress climate change in the long term such as limiting e legislation to the environmental aspects of agriculture away from farming subsidies, the income support is in the european union, a national policy priority, the social policies or national priorities that shouldn't be coming from brussels. in that case, each member state would support its own pharmacy. it would have more flexibility and shaping subsidies which could support small farms and create incentives and financial support for more logical practices. can seem is,

would also have to change that habits in the u findings. environmental cost isn't fully included and fee pricing changing that would shift the pressure on low income households. the policy makers are going to have to find ways of buffering that and distributing the load, but the load has to increase. meanwhile, smaller farm is a hoping for a big, a c t's at the table. some of the, the best under the way people, one of the was make to that. so a passion, the key to you to people who manage this attend offices will the unfortunately, they don't even know what makes her as a bus succeed, then that's true. we have probably minutes pools in to the side of presented its actors. the corner model is um i'd be interested in keeping mobile is that that the school is also by differential ones for very much shaping called the political agenda. if we want farmers to be able to provide allstate sustainably,

it seems that the current system that favors the biggest players will have to be fundamentally reformed. in all next reports, we had 2 fronts to beat a fama was perfectly happy. the only use this old fashion mess, thoughts that most farmers this, these do not have time for those most even have a tractor. both the police and respecting the environment that lives from the land at tries completely self sufficient. meet samuel lewis, who was never attended school or taking up a job. he lives in brittany, getting by with almost no money, but we need to cancel the enviroment basically. oh, well, we need is uh a provided for us by the soil. and if we know how to foam it, beacon leaving the beautiful environment,

a good 37 year old uses traditional tools to attend to the 3 heck just blocked by using old fashioned ways. he avoids using, you know, gunning from inputs and equipment which from the biosphere. some, when he gets his various food supplies from the, from vegetables grains and even bread. by rejecting consumer resume, he prefers cost effectiveness got in and being fully sustained bite, eat this document the same. what interests me about spending less time watching for menu. because for me it seems like a cycle of poverty and destruction of my environment. these folks, the office, someone on the, on the moon and they wants to have time to look up the leaving things. people. environmental sustainability is key to sign in. but for him it's even more important to share his knowledge with us. he publishes themselves books, but teach people how to take out the environment. someone is leaving his dream, a simple life, and living in harmony with nature. and mission is to try and who address to

balance. and just to tell people, particularly younger people, you don't necessarily have to disclose with i'm and i'm interested in cataract. uh, in a way is as much a taste also pharma on next report features. and now the crossover between us and the environment. it takes us to uganda over now to sandra. i think it creates no income pull out only is 5 percent of god's age is recycled, and the streets of quite bundling dated august on the zinah island. and now what can you trust is the results. shes even phone to have a key to views for randa sanders, but people have thrown out island level can yet is combining a passion for ox. was careful her environment, collecting, discarded, flip flops is the 1st step to process. she has invented to turn plastic pollution

into something useful. uganda like many places around the world is listed with hundreds of thousands of plastic flip flops. this one, this farmer pulls out of his field is about to be given a new creative purpose, name name. it was somebody surprised this girl collection and we see her guessing our beautiful things look, i should never kenya tends to flip flops into paint, which she uses to make works of arts and other objects for the offices. it's a way of coping with the mess. people have been making of the world around them besides the saving of that environment. um and we are promoting that cultural recycling in our country. so this would be, could be something very interesting if either i can actually come on and try it out as her flip flop collection points now. but can, you begins to reclaim the original bright colors that's entice people to buy the

food with in the 1st place. scrubbing the flip flops. why has leaving them in the sun to dry is a laborious job, but it's crucial for her project. transforming them into art materials. back in the studios, she uses a bell sending machine to reduce the food with to a fine dust, which she collects and mix these with a bind to to make paints. with such as a variety of dislodges, flip flops never kenya has been able to create the pallets of both colors with which she express herself. she has also brought in other materials into her artworks such as stripes of discarded vehicle tie is novel, kenya is making a name for himself in the compiler all 12 and internationally with the auction makes from flip flops of slippers as they know locally hot technique is so unique

and there is and that's why i laugh, i love it because of that text. yeah. and um, another thing is um, sure, cause of that environment. so by using the past and t as instead of binding and, and, and, and filling them my way back to that, that she turns them into life. never kenya hopes that how aust can raise awareness of all effects a nature and change people's attitudes towards per adults that we no longer have a useful to, to save nature. people have mismanaged with a lot, and we're here to tell them that and this can be created around and after the functionality that they actually know about, they can maybe do something else on these. this is an ending life on ending life.

besides her paintings, allen never can you also designs and adult inspection items. the uganda and office is located at more useful, higher recycled pages with so many flip flops. still to be removed from the environment. she says she could produce house things as well. i'll premiums idea of making things by hand and making phase that last we should all be doing more of that. we hope you feel as aspired as we are by our report this week. i have chris a lives in nigeria. thank you so much for joining us. and don't forget to head to an equal offer go online platforms for most stories and, and drop us a line of eco on data, the dot com. i am sandra holmes, that we know do the signing of from complex right to in uganda. the,

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