>> welcome t to global 3000. in colombia the indigenous misak people have set t up a scschool to protect up their traditions and their natural environment. in india a village community plants 111 trees whenever a baby girl is born, a custom that benefit society and the planet. but first to new zealand where sheep farmers are fed up with being blamed for climate change. the corona outbreak has reduced travel and industrial production and resulted in a

dip in carbon emissions. inin that sense e it is improg the health of the planet but the environmental impact o of ananimal agriculture remains massive. in 2016,6, global greeeenhouses emissions totaled 51 gigatons, of which more than 7 gigatons were caused by meat and da iry. global greenhouse gas emissions had to be reduced to 13 gigatons by 2050. but if the meat and dairy industry continues on its path, its annual emissions are expected to exceed 10.5 gigatons with devastating impact on the climate. in new zealand, sheep farmers are coming under increasing public and political pressure. [bleating] >> sheep as far as the eye can see, and what looks like boundless freedom for randall aspinall.

he's the fourth generation of sheep farmers on new zealand's south island. farmers have always been valued in new zeaealand. they are t the backbone e of e country's ececonomy. >> now i i think most t people still do a appreciate fafarmerd appreciate s sheep farmersrs d see e it as being g part ofa national idedentity. but there is also a fairir bit more chatterer around someme antiti-farming sentiment. >> climate change is shaking up this rural paradise. sheeeep and cows a are major producerers of methanene. they g generate one e third ofl greeeenhouse gas emimissions iw zealaland. suddenly, fafarmers are sesees enenvironmental sisinners. randall cacan see growining mimisunderstandiding between pe in the citity and in thehe cou. >> so, whehen i grow up p there were most t people in ththe cis knewew had cousinsns that had aa farm o or had friendnds that ha farm.. so, , most people e probably st holidadays on farms,s, schol

holidays andnd that. whereas ththat's very muchch ae population i is growing anands probably u urbanized morore, ts gone away.y. > he includeses new zealans cecenter-left government in th. for examample, sheep and cows wading throuough rivers anad possibly f fouling the w water doesn't fit t with new zeaealas clean image,e, so many fararms now have to o build fenceses ag the waterwayays on their p prop. farmers s have become e a polil pawnwn, says randallll. >> so, in terms of how to actually run a c country, theye been in oppoposition foror nine years, so o in terms of f how y acactually run a a country, hoo actually runun a business,s, ho actuallyly get things s chang, there isis maybe not a a lot of expeperience in ththere. and so, it s sort of feelsls e there's s a lot of stutuff beg done. >> the aspinalls' farm is located near one of the main hiking trails in mount aspiring national park.

it's a unesco world heritage site. randall's wife allison sells ice cream and esespresso froma food truck herere. ththe family arere trying to e intoto a better ececonomic posi. >> farming i is becoming, , te are morere constraraints environmentally and with legislation and things. so we're just looking at other ways to earn alternative income and this is just a really small start towards that. >> lamb from the breathtaking mountain regions of new zealand is a major export. the government wants to cut methane emissions from livestock by 10% by 2030. otherwise farmers will face penalties. but how is this supppposed to happen, , randall asksks as he de-worms hisis sheep. new zealaland farmers s are aly producining in an ecolologicay sustainanable way thatat woule hard to fifind anywhere elelsn the world.d.

>> the focusus has gone ofof producuction a littltle bit. pepeople are notot trying to rs many sheep a as they can a ano as w well as they y can and at momore quality a and there is e a bit t more work onon eatig quality y of the productct. and i guess s people are j just trtrying to be a a bit more ae on s some of that t environmel ststuff and someme of the wele stufuff. anand then just t trying to pre a more consisistent and a a ber product fofor the marketet. > this afternoon, the aspinalllls are takingng a brk frfrom the sheep. the e family, inclcluding g gr, are haviving a day outut on tr own farm.. ththis is a playayground of or 2,2,000 hectareses for the twowo children. it even has a waterfall with a natural l pool. this is hohow johnny andnd jose grgrowing up. tytypical new zez. the next n natural wondeder is nevever far away..

> it is just t nice being bg in nature, i it just giveses u titime to think k and just e y things and s slow down thehe pa lilittle bit andnd it's nice tt be rushingng around. >> i meaean, you get a a wee t blasé or used t to it every nw anand then but y you do just hg said that t every now anand tn you u just look araround and gh you'u're actually y that's a py cool placece to be livining and working anand we are preretty,l very privilegeged to be ablelo get out and d enjoy it. >> it's s not all rolllling sp pasturures and gameses of frie in the n natural pool.l. for r this new zeaealand farmg family, ththere are manyny new challenges.. but t with views l like thi, everyone c can see why t thy choose this s life. ♪ >> in our global ideas series we go to the andeses in south america. in colombia, our reporter met

the indigenonous misak people determined to protect their cultltural identitity and theirr tradadition of natature conservationon. >> when the misak indigenous people have important matters to discuss, , they always sisiy the e fire. fofor 27-year-olold nestor it'e momost importantnt place in thte hohome. > our placentnta is cast io the firere after ourur birt. it's the rituaual which joinins to the earth.. if we all leleave for the e ci, rather thahan staying g here, e will be nono one who protects this area. and ththen our beleliefs, or language, the entire misak culture will be lost. >> nestor wants to do something to prevent t that. togethther with his s friends m the e village, he'e's a membef the "asociacacion jardin bototo las delicicias".

that's an association designed to keep local horticultural traditions alive. everything in the garden is planted d in circles - -- the s are roround, too. here, they cultivate plants that their ancestors also used: aloe vera,a, quinoa and many others. every plant here h has its own special purpose. >> whehen women are e menstrua, we t take the seededs of rue --- this helps us against the e co. this is a a cold plant.. that's w why we use itit to tae a fevever. and this s is canna. it helpsps for stomachch aches. we also o make an ointntment h itit to treat ararthritis, foror example.e. >> the m medicinal usese of cannnnabis, which h is being legalilized in more e and more countrieies, has a lonong tradn

among the e misak peoplele - th they don't't use it as a a narc. ththe members ofof the associan also want to p pass on theirir botanical l knowledge to childn in the v village to teach the youngeger generationon what properties t the plants hahaved whwhy it is impoportant for thte misak to culultivate themm thememselves. >> o our theater g group is cad ""the magigical tree", and ourr plplay is about t how we are destroroying our envnvironment. it's abobout how important it s toto protect our a animals, ourr plants, , our food. > some of thehe children py mimisak people f fighting agat environmnmental destruruction.

>> herere you can sesee some symbols. this is a belelt symb. it standnds for the momoon. and here is s the spiral.. it statands for the e path thae misasak tread. >> the groroup was set u up at 15 yearsrs ago. in the past t nestor used d to peperform himselelf, but now h e directs the children. >> looook! an armadidillo. i'm going g to kill it a and l it. >> g gradually, alall of the ps and animals s are killed b bye children, who are playing the role of modedern-day indivivid. >> don't c cut me down!! >> a afterwards, t the associan memembers meet i in the communs hut. they come e together on n a rer

babasis, to sit t around the e and talk abobout old tradidits but also a about new devevelops in the comommunity. the misak k manage 70 hehectarf land. . a vast area.a. most of itit is beyond t their settlement a and consists s of prisistine jungle.e. theyey are determimined to pret deforestatation. > a lot of cocommunities arae dedestroyed by t transnationalal compmpanies and alalso the expansion n of industriall agriculture. >> t the land arouound the mik commmmunity has already been cleared. nature has been by devastated by large-scale cattle-farming, and also by gold, silver and coal mining. many indigenous communities s n the cacauca valley are still suffering from the fall-out of

the colombian conflict -- the decades-long war between the gogovernment, paparamilitary gs and commununist guerillalas f. drug c cartels add t to the ten. one ththird of colomombia is indigenous territory. deadly violence is widespread. in novovember 2019 t there wer9 homimicides in onene week alo. >> indigenous leaders have been murdered, there are threats. they're usining violence t to d people out o of their commununi. >> a school in the regioion of jambmbaló. irirne conda is s visiting, aa rerepresentativeve of the auautonomous indndigenous universisity. >> it t brings togetether studs fromom various eththnic groupo bolster ththeir cultures and jn forces to improve their communitities. learning takakes place i in sl groups.

> the seminarar participantns didiscuss what t they can do t o tackle thehe threats theheir commununities face.. sosolidarity andnd cooperationon betwtween the indigegenous grs is crucial. >> h how can we mamake our communitieies stronger s so the can't be forceced out. if we don'n't have a strtrategy then we'll lose evererything ad that will l be it. >> back k in the misakak terri. at the momenent the situation s calm. but whwhile the threreat posey armed groups has r receded, environmnmental destructction a grgrowing problelem. ththe children's's play is alt ovover. and it h has an happy . a misak brinings new seedsds r plants and b breathes new w le intoto the animalsls. ththe people arere given a sed chchance. this time, t the plants anad animals s have a messasage for huhumanity.

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>> bye-byeye. ththank you for r visiting me.e. i'm happy.y. and d you are welclcome againd agagain. this isis like your h. >> in india, women arere respsponsible for r the familyd household, a and play key y rs education n and farming.g. but t it remains a a staunchly patriaiarchal societety. families still value sons over daughters and sex-seselective abortions are widespread. the result is a gender imimbalance -- t the country i s missining 60 millionon wome. one village is bucking the trend. >> a grandmother wields a pickaxe. sosar rajput is planting the first tree for her baby granddaughter. all of the families here follow the same ritual: there are 111 trees for each newborn girl.

>> when i was born, my mother and father were very unhappy that i was a girl. today, we're p planting trees because we're happy when a girl is born. if my parents had experienced this, i'm surere they would've been proud of me, too. >> a lot has changed in the village of piplantri, thanks to this man. shyam sunder paliwal came up with the tree planting idea 13 years ago.o. baback then, he was s mayor. totoday, when proud parents introduce him to their newborn girl, he can barely believe that things haven't always been like this. but 13 years ago, girls were still regarded as inferior -- as worthless children. >> it continued into adulthood. it used to be ththat women weren't allowed to leave the house alone. they had to hide behind the curtains. that w was men's doi. they were afraid something would happen to the e women. but this has changed dramatically. >> and it's not just thanks to the trtrees:

now, parents pledge to not marry off their daughters before their 18th birthday. they're also required to educate their daughters. in return, the village community opens a savings account for each girl. >> when my granddaughter was born, it was as if the goddess lakshmi's good fortune had entered our home. now, we deposit 150 euros into a savings account. and shyam sunder gives us twice that amount. with this, the little one can later pay for her education. of course, we also plant the trees, too. >> s shyam sunder's idea for te trees and the education fund has a very personal motive. 13 years ago, his own daughter died. he doesn't like talking about the exact circumstances. afterwards, the businessman fell into a deep depression. he thought a lot about how girls in india are often harrassed and disadvantaged. he had a monument put up in his daughter's honor. but it wasn't enough. he wanted to do something more.

>> then, i planted a tree as a memorial and as a way of coping with my grief. but i soon realized that one tree wasn't enough. that's why we started this program: 111 trees for each girl. it has to be as many as that. this area had become a total wasteland -- and now, you can see the result. >> the region around piplantri is full of marble quarries. this is how it used to look. 13 years and 350-thoususand nw trees later, a dense forest now surrounds the village. it's a blessing for the microclimate in the hot summer, and the village of 5000 is now more prosperous because the forest is cultivated. locals see the boom as directly connected to the support for the girls. things are changing. now, there are just as many girls as boys in the classroom. tenth-grader komal parlival explains why it often looks

rather different in the rest of india. >> boys get an education, girls often don't. ththey're seen as a burden.. that's also why y so many femas are aborted or killed right after they're born. that's led to there being far fewer girls than boys. >> 13 years ago, komal's mother was one of the first people to plant trees for her daughter. even though komal was already two years old at the time, her mother wanted to take part. when komal goes into the woods today, she knows that some of the trees bear her name. it's a great feeling. >> the trees give us wood and bear fruit. we plant them because they're useful. in a sense, because our mothers planted them, we see them as our brothers.

>> shyam sunder is now famous in india. politicians anand ente university classes come to him to hear how he succeeded in improving living conditions for girls and the entire village with the many trees -- and with little money. ♪ since he appeared as a guest in a celebrity special of india's version of 'who wants to be a millionaire', ththe whe country knknows him. >> i never would've thought that it'd become such a big thing. people are coming here from everywhere non-stop. a lot of them come to get ideas and want to do the same thing. it's great. >> when it all gets to be too much for him, he withdraws to the forest. this is the tree that started it all. the tree that he planted for

his deceased daughter. shyam sunder says that at least her death had a positive effect. his daughter would certainly have been proud of her father. ♪ >> this week our worldwide search for tasty snacks takes us to iceland. ♪ >> the icelandic landscapes are spectacular, and you don't even have to leave town to enjoy them. even from the center of reykjavik there are breathtaking views of the surrounding mountains. of course, it tends to be pretty cold for most of the year. but svarta kaffid is a small restaurant where you can warm up and enjoy the local speciality, soup in a bread bowl. >> iceland is the perfect place for soups. yesterday it was raining, it was a typical soup day. now it's just cold, so it's alalso soup day, but not that

much. >> the chef's name is unpronounceable for anyone who doesn't speak icelandic, so everyone calls him siggi. his restaurant is a small family business that first opened in 2003 with the same concept it still has today. >> we have two kinds of soup. we always change them. one veggie and one meat soup. today we have a mushroom soup, both of them are cream based, so mushroom soup and the other one is a hungarian meat soup. what makes it hungarian is more like paprika, cumin, onion in it and mixixed vegetables. >> freshly made every morning, the soups are served in a bowl made of bread. >> this is o our choice. it's outside a little bit hard so that the soup doesn't go out. so we just cut it, inside, and

soup goes inside. >> the dish costs around 14 euros, fairly cheap by icelandic standards. and one reason why this little café is so popular with both locals and vistors. he serves about 600 soups a day. >> they enjoyed and that makes me happy. it is one of the reasons i'm still here. ♪ ♪ >> that is all from global 3000 this time. please do drop us a line with your feedback. you can reach is a global 3000 and dw.com or on facebook dw

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narrator: the heart o of many large cities lies in their historic neighborhoods, but across the world, the cultural vitality of these neighborhoods is threatened by the forces of gentrification and crumbling structures. hear from the people of boyle heights in los angeles and the old quarter in hanoi, vietnam, aas they work k to improve andnd preserve their communities.