feel free to post them in the comments section and we will address them in a live q and a bye for now. the the i'm priscilla and san lagos, nigeria, welcome to our new edition of echo, forgot to month, cause deployment disruption. there's no effect of life this week. we're looking at the examples across the continental problems for me to change the many ways that the economies of societies are react to in to today's new reality. and adopt into a show of, by the way, with me becomes more sustainable. here's what's coming up. finding

energy property in somalia with solar power. we met only gen, mind ancient by way. and in downtown how citizen sciences, helping reduce marine plastic pollution. what big data on salt offer does west coast home to one of the what's most expensive shellfish abalone, the close the communities of bell play a key role in meeting the growing global demand for this lock streets, the fluids but not least the local official people clock between the needs to make a living and the leads to protect marine life. in the what is a doing by on south africa's west coast. dive is not on a mission to protect what they call white goals. the world's most highly prized shellfish beasts on tell and could be mistaken for

a muscle. but the perfectly common flushed evidence is in fact to snail with grazing habits, good health, to keep the count equal system in balance. its population is on the brink of extinction. due to poaching and illegal trades with asia, where it is a lucrative delicacy enduring by people are trying to provide alternatives and we are having 2 people on the farm currently in gordon's by the end of diving school training, duping come from us. so davis and then we will take out another to another 2 people from the communities to do diving for us. and it will also help us to come to the approaching process. samuel central unit is the c e o of the, during by abalone from the company stripes to provide the sustainable and legal alternative. growing the snails on land and in the ocean. and f alone snail takes up to 10 use to grow to size before being harvested. and dried for expos.

so the customer loves everyone have a loan safe, especially the farm is the main employer in the small fishing town, with a permanent workforce of 52 people breeding growing and preparing this nails for markets. the company is 35 percent community owned through the building by development trust. the idea is to keep local residents on board with sustainable fishing. if you still form your, we'll share at the end of the day when you'll save will be declared will be, will be smaller. and then i think people stop, stop understanding their bus and those are all as a sale the outside in the community. so they stop protecting also, so she lives now the fate of the other known as closely linked to socio economic inequalities in south africa here and handbook and k,

tell people have been living off the sea for generations, but the government reductions of quotas to protect the remaining stock left small scale fissures, which was close to nothing for just like warren and his colleagues continued going out to catch up alone regardless dangerous. but what can we do when i saw a live system for, you know, families. i a good day, i can get maybe 2000 that in the day. even get on a really for the 1st 2000. yeah. to what about cooking multiple times. i've considered the only thing that's keeping me is that i don't give a shot at them. yeah. we don't thank you we, we don't really know what we just think. why do we think it's going to sustain us, the cultures and just the tiny share of the legal trait. but over the past 17 years, the total value of illegally harvested as a known from south africa was estimated to be 819000000

u. s. dollars. regular one forestman has not to manage to stop the trade that's become increasingly violent and corrupt. came on display us as a journalist and researcher who says other known poaching has reached an all time high. that obviously has somebody come logical impacts. generally, they aren't super well understood because of the climb happy so rapidly and the ecological functioning of abeline wasn't something that had been sort of closely monitored before a marine biologist in south africa would be focusing on the fisheries or of the ecosystem dynamics nova. i think practice such as climate change has impacted the cal ecosystem, making it hard to pinpoint the effects of the declining abalone population. sustainable farming is one way out of the crisis, but so far it is not competing with the booming, illegal markets. customers in asia pay up to $2012.00 more than $200.00 heroes for one single avenue. and so you won't find many local restaurants here

without the known on demand. among the precious few is fine. in cape town, we get an avalon from atlanta today i filled out the west coast. yeah. oh, they farming practices and everything. so sweet is a sandoval, we can get them in life and michelle, we can use the liver and the entails and everything. there's a 0 wasted so we're going to face the avalon intel naturally to my spring out there . mommy's negative. this attached to it. and i think it's sort of jumped to educate to the general public. and i guess as to the most sustainable farming practices that we do have high enjoying that they do that on the doors they avenue and from meet ashton, who provides a glimpse into how important this sustainable solution can be. i have present for

myself i, i love what i'm doing. it saves my life in a lot of ways. you f buttons for it and so you build on things and, and so on. when i, when i get this job, i used to separate myself from them. and now i'm a little guy. i'm a family man. big deal of my, of my family, big deal. my kids hopes are high that the ever known firm will grow and re invest in the community if it can develop that, i think they do it without creat joe. so more people in the community didn't. and so, so we didn't, we didn't know we can go further and the prospect of fishing communities, having more secure livelihoods, should also bring dividends for the afternoon. population. on this report takes us to god the country generates of that green $1100000.00 tons of plastic

waste every year, but less than 10 percent of that is collected a recycled. that's a pretty show configure. but there is hope, a number of prospects organizations coming together to see how they can help make waste management law or efficient of the beach clean up is going to be back breaking work similarly and list and future . well, this is a mission with a difference. these volunteers on from, from beach east of gun capital across and not just collecting old waste. this group called plastic punch have a plan this salting, measuring and pencil, looking all the items as a weapon to find back against the scourge. richmond kennedy kwaku organizes these cleanups often with volunteers from nearby communities. so when volunteers come

around, community members speak to shoes. if you have any issues. if applicant, plastics expect quality plastics. if you are picking up to face you frequently to face this, we are able to separate the reset cloud both from the non reset. so that was because we want to the most states and they'll come in and see that they can be some value from these things. what i've done, finding them, you know what that weighs, what it weighs, such as across call a lagoon had been turned into aquatic waste dumps would only a tiny fraction of the cities trash being properly collected and recycled. besides poisoning deland, the deputies flushed into the ocean, breaking down into micro plastics, getting into the food chain and destroying the classic echo systems. and it's from places like corner like drilled that a big deal of the trash wash is down to problem from beach. with plastic punches working, they see the data collection of form of citizens signs as

a way out of the mess we uh, where does between us hello not, not the solution for the plastic solution minutes because this i funding this high side, they'll be more trust company hired by stuff that's a very good activity to call. it's a relevance visa. and once we have concentrated on today is to understand what the police on what this for you thing, and also which brian this which company itself. what do you think with the data quite whose team can begin the crucial next phase, helping the local authorities to understand the ways flows and figure out how to stop it ending up in the ocean. so with that data, we're able to tell where the waste is coming from and the type of ways that is coming into the show. and then the one is that there is a couple and then the ones that i know we say couple. so this informed as, as the assembly, how to plan for the mondays mental, the waste issue. the citizen science is also a key part of

a much bigger puzzle. ocean conservation is one of the united nations, 17 sustainable development goals. but efforts to come back moraine plastic pollution had been held back by lack of reliable data from from beach and gun. as a microcosm of world wide problem, it's been estimated that we have dumped up to 200000000 tons of trash into the sea . most of its indestructible plastic, some estimates say the rate of increase, good, triple in the coming decades. the human environment programs as the only solution is to fundamentally change how we use plastic to. thanks to groups like plastic bunch done, i became the 1st country to monitor a plastic devry density according to you what guidelines the data. it's loaded onto a u. n. platform containing the world's largest citizen science dataset. and let's a officials of governance,

the technical service study effort. this very useful then when you came in to the beach, they also compiling data that would lift policy, make us appreciate the value of the activity one to also appreciate what we are doing to ourselves in terms of nick for him to be just to, to extend that one, it doesn't think coverage. tar isn't too. um, it's affects aquatic life. being able to present 15 pages is of course also find told a gun, a $1000000000.00 tory sector. meanwhile, full citizens, scientists like richmond and kennedy, quite group the hardware because only just begun once to see that data turns into meaningful change. no, no, we understand the problem to solve it. so we need so new things, we need political will, we need investments, it's a waste management system, is what they need to package and we need and also how when this we are listening to

the science, we are listening to the same and what the results uh given us when we make sense and we need to act to know and for us, and the citizen sciences have claimed the stretch of prime from beach and the trash date. so it has been long. their hope is that if we overly understand what happens to the plastic, we use a discount that we can truly begin to free the oceans of our trash again. now it does involve, we den still, my name is a multi $1000000000.00 industry that leaves a trail of devastation and its weight from deforestation to habitat destruction. i live on human rights abuses. once it can be done responsibly. our fund in mind we had not only is the impact on the environment, kept to a minimum, the workforce is made up of, we met only and the a paid a fast salary. splitting the rock take strength and practice. but to

notes i found us knows what she's doing. drilling, hammering and holding mess of stones. this is everyday life with a female minus and cut away the looking for aqua marine. today, they get lucky. how does uh, hu sheffield, i mean, i like working with shovel hammer and chisel because i realize that ever since i started working with these tools i'm set to and i don't get sick as much as i used to before. i started working here got up and bought a lot out a lot us and a way that we're going to be setting that tongue auction. that was 3 years ago since then. the 49 year old widow has learned a lot about your mining in this mind, especially because it is sustainable. the reading deposits are often deep inside the rocks. but as manager repeat psych when she explains the method to use you as low impact as possible to make it more sustainable with concentration born using

tools and how much then of lasting so that you will in some of these is very large footprints on the environment. and then there is no use of chemicals during domain in process. and um, these minimal useful for time because it's basically taking the, committing rock out of the mother of that. how does it? and then we clean it if necessary, with minimal to me here in no sense and bob with or to is cars and has to be used sparingly. so the woman don't take water from that to good. so river, but sausage from a disuse mind way. rainwater cliques, they also need it for the vegetable garden condo next to the my mom we add to choir, and so we did set up some of the vegetables also go to woods assisting underprivileged families. but i know, do i pull requests like watching it? i'm are you able to show up? and we also provide the elderly with vegetables,

those in the community and who can no longer fend for themselves. but see that forgot to admit, i'm really working in the fields. is another part of condos job. she enjoys dividing her time between gardening and mining, and she likes the fact that only women work here. they are in the equivalent of a $180.00 euros a month. but to the most jobs in the region of the vegetable, some is also sustainable. for example, the women use organic, fertilize a made from catwoman. you and the practice crop rotation to enrich the swell green vegetables such as kill onions and carrots. in the past, the main crop crows you what's tobacco? the climate change means but they are no longer reliable rainy seasons and hovers have suffered more and more people in colorado. i have turned to goals mining here

on the go rizza many legal goals minus a woman's name. i don't see it. i can see that the woman at some bunk was, have comfortable lives. we wanted to join them, but we were told that they would no longer hiring. it's good for them as they no longer have to ask their husbands to give them money for school fees of a necessity, at least via independence. as an african countries mining and zimbabwe is regulated, but controls are irregular. very few mines in africa are sustainable. simple, quick is an exception. so there's a little data available about environmentally friendly and fan monroe mining on the continent. but experts do know it's cost as much as it has to be in a way. and if that once a mine is closed, re nature ration needs to occur as extensively as possible and reserve funds have to be set aside for that. uh, definitely

a mis looked out and get booted to them. all it does is out of dog so it might let none because it's the issue of yeah, that's a challenge even for the small scale jim, my son buckler, co founder patrick's a. don't get regularly on sites of to 5 years, you deposits are rarely found. the mine still isn't financially viable, but he remains optimistic. we're making partnerships with companies that focus on empowering sustainable mining. i mean that's, that's the future. everyone wants to know where the trace evidence to be able to trace where this building is coming from. and mine's like, i was going to be the minds of the future. this is a woman already taking re not to ration measures and planting trees once a month. big printed 1800 c d 's. but many having survived the bananas and papayas have thrived and the woman will soon be harvesting them. the carving not

most sustainable future, not just in the gym mine, but here in the fields to from no guns in probably too close to somalia. we are pretty used to charging out foods wayne at wherever we need to. but imagine live in some way with no electricity. what would you do when by st. rugs out? that's just all of the challenges people face will lock access to energy. it's a big problem for marginalized communities around the world. report a visit that the last bill read. yeah, there's somebody a to see how and then you pull the t affects people's lives and what can be done. so i'll leave you to ask middle somebody's please. especially since she's only drawing water from this well today to show how hard it used to be just to fetch the precious resource for use at home. the

on the i b and the we used to walk more than 3 kilometers from home, looking for water and i was using it and we bring jerry cans to carry it now. so the water was susie and dirty luck on that. on the food wash clothes or the well, the ask me, what are you in a big changes of come to the little village of a by ducks in the 1000 residents of the spinning slot at the gates of somalis copy to look at the issue. finally, we have electricity. it's even solar power, or our wireless charging, our phones used to be a big problem. i know we'd walk a long way to inches 0 to charge them and pay $50.00 us cents. some of the poor couldn't afford that. but now our homes have power 24 hours a day. most people on the peninsula leave from fishing, like milan, the top of the hot g is caught used to spoiling the heat before he could take it to

the marketing. mogadishu, the solar pod freezers has the feast, stay fresh loan. how do you go, then? i don't worry about the 2 fish i caught, and because the solar company tomorrow so brought the freezer where the fish will remain until the driver comes to pick them up. but they have also had a book, i'm sending them to markets and expect to sell them for $30.00. each of those to of the electrification program here would serve as a model for positive changes in the country. on the horn of africa, somalia was long viewed as a field that this is a developing country recovering from the security on the civil war. around with the it somebody is sending and this needs to be exploited. there are

a lot of companies, so money private companies that have already started to invest in solar energy. the company to a muscle is not promoting one of these projects in a, by ducks. and these many groups sort of plant with a 10 kilowatts capacity life of the hot feats it should provide all of the roughly 150 houses, we can increase the t. and she is making sure that the to goes to plant 100 is a trained electrical engineer. the plant provides the village with electricity around the clock, even if the sun is in china during the day that would be tucked into. but there is an give an energy to the coordinate system that we support, the show unofficial to the people and nobody to handle it and do it on the nights. it will supply the village with electricity. that's we have been used, you know, the but the, using the website it's no, it's even easier to get to water. and electric pump draws water from this well on

the mainland to the peninsula, where it's select cindy's water tongue and is distributed to the household. no, the water comes right out the top, the fire estimate ultima, no longer need solution, lift it all the way when she wants to cook for her family of 7. will know that this is a 5 now i can get some rest and have tap water in my home on the palm by solar power used to fetch water and carry in here from far away. now i have clean water to drink. okay. i like on to the next installation, the many good companies for technicians, 1st method skeptic to some doubted where the solar power was as good as conventionally generated electricity. although they was superstitious and see it that the technology called home to this was simply worried about the cold. and that's why when the 1st 2 months, we didn't have one of the people the of the best, we decided that we want to take on his finishing money from the people who would

just take the monthly expenses. but it's $10.00 per month. this family decided to jump on the bandwagon. a lifestyle is being installed and a fast and efficient is new horizons dokie some of the thought asking well in the last 30 years, we didn't know what was going on in the outside world. but after we installed solar power and started watching tv at home, that's changed. the mini grid costs about $70000.00 us dollars international. don't us contribute 60 percent via africa enterprise. the challenge fund, the world bank covers the remaining 40 percent of the loan, the many goodwill ton, a profit quotes are muscle in 2 years time. we look at these training and useful of technicians for the company. such experts of identity needed us to money. a funding aid is increasingly counting on solar energy at sundown, socializing outdoors used to come to an ending up

a duct sum. but thanks to the electricity is towed into many groups, bit feet. there is no lights up to the dock and a lot of us to be to wow, let's look at the now tomorrow. so give us electricity. uninstalled lights on the roads. all of our children and old people are playing and chatting outdoors anyway, but yeah, i don't, we are grateful for them, but we best out or not. this on a project on update ducts is subbing as an example to the region. 300 mill house was nearby and i'll getting the until a public many 1000 from all here i eco, africa of this week. i hope you've enjoyed those stories and they've given you something to think about. well, if you have something to share with us then right, does equal a d, w dot com, we'd love hearing from you for now. it's good bye for me. crystal lens,

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