african city is trying a new low carbon and resource officiant way of covering its food needs and agra believes that runs on alternative energy is unfortunately the flagship project in them when this ability of slime it still has some to think problems but the twenty five young farmers who walk there are determined to solve the problems together after one year the enterprise is beginning to take root. elizabeth mccarthy is one of twenty five local people selected to join the politan city the idea is to generate electricity with the group's own solar power plant and recycled organic waste from livestock and use the power to produce low cost food for the local population. and it was to use the. and by ok it was there by ok only feed them with the waste use one week from the chickens go straight to the biochar it's simple for us because we're not going to waste money to pay the electricity from it's called i don't know if you are going to benefit. energy from the state power company is too expensive the municipal government invested the equivalent of three million euros in politan city's

the head of rabobank spoke to what is ahead agra- culture. >> we seen climate change, an emerging asia that wants western dietary supplements as well. we had doom for a long time. why should 2018 be the year when all these factors hit? >> you pointed it out well, i think the mark suffered for years by some of the things you mentioned. i think if you look at the supply and demand, this is our key driver at the end of the day. we see a bit of a tightening in the balance sheets which means we are seeing here and there the demands is growing faster than the spliechl as you pointed out, we need to keep a sharp eye on the weather shots it's not the climate change but the core weather phenomenon. if we look, there is a la thenia chance out there, which has grown over the last couple of weeks to now 75%, which basically means there is a high likelihood over the course of early next year, maybe throughout a longer period next year, we will see an impact on the weather of the production of several of the commodities, regions can be impacted from north america and south america of the grain side

what really astonished me is that on the two hectares worth that i planted agra seed zap sixty one performs the other alternative varieties with the same maturity dates the results are quite impressive. zaps sixty one is up to twenty five percent more expensive than traditional maize for riotous. but scientists back in harare have developed their own new maize for riot he's. base a that since the soil in many parts of zimbabwe is not very fertile maize farmers have to move away from monoculture. if you rotate it with other crops like humans like. speech and peace ground you can reduce pests and diseases and overall improve the sort of fatality for lazarus and his wife patricia it's decision time whether to just hope that next season climate change fall on him from his heart again or to embrace new technologies that come at a price so now let's move to your reads on mt in your neighboring country we have a role model on how to time the waste into something useful yes sharon as you know trash is a big problem in almost all of african countries but we can draw a little comfort from the fact th

days to ease as chicago heavy snowfall has buried cars and blocked roads and parts of the famous i agra falls at the canada u.s. border could freeze over if the cold weather persists well it's not uncommon for temperatures to plunge to minus twenty degrees celsius in parts of north america meteorologists say the length and intensity of the cold night this weather event unusual. and the cold weather has caused three dead sharks to wash up on the beach in massachusetts on the u.s. east coast that learn to white shark cons of a conservancy says the three miles likely became stranded and fell into cold shock while trying to make their way to warmer waters in the south. the impact of climate change is being felt all over the world especially on low lying islands latin america said the sea in human reports from the coastal town of my and that's us. what if his wife had lived by the ocean for nearly sixty years long enough to notice that something is changing especially when they look towards the key in front of them. forty or even thirty years ago during. the key over there and you wouldn't g

on the mining, energy, ict and agra business sectors, my pitch would be if you focus on the regional players, regional investors that have existing operations all around afghanistan, but not in afghanistan, those players are going to be very interested in the marketing play that they have potentially of going into afghanistan now. exactly for the reasons the panel has talked about. cheaper labor, access to these regional transportation grids that maybe they couldn't get going anywhere else, maybe even reduced corruption levels on the passthroughs going through because now they can expedite product out at different ways where they couldn't before, where maybe they had to do a rail to a truck to an airport or something like that. and lastly is for mining, because mining seems to be the cause celebre right now on the investor side. the afghans have huge problems on the mining sector side. part of it is that the government doesn't control most of the country. so as a result you are negotiating transactions where the security of that investment and for these mining investments you have to

i'll talk to walter isaacson, the buy agra fer of albert einstein, steve jobs, benjamin franklin, and now leonardo da vinci about what makes a genius. >> curiosity. a just absolutely random, absolutely playful and passionate curiosity is something that connects ben franklin, steve jobs, lee nonar da vinci, and the cool thing about it is you and i can do that. >> the world wastes one-third of all its food. blue hill chef dan barber will talk to me about ideas to solve this global tragedy. >> it's about the utilization of every part of the plant, every part of the farm. >> plus as artificial intelligence gets more advanced, many people worry that robots and automation will displace their jobs. i'll sit down with two m.i.t. scholars who discuss using a.i., artificial intelligence, to enhance human work. >> we can bring minds and machines together intelligently, they can cancel out each other's mista mistakes. >> finally a neuroscientist talks to me about a threat many of us will face. we'll hear what we can all do to stave off alzheimer's. >> there's been a lot of research to show there

i would sell too, boom chick a pop has the whole hearted buy-in of con dg agra, now in front of the store you mentioned amplify, that's another deal we should get to, not large but this theme we're talking about here, 12 bucks a share. hershey buying this company. they are paying about 14.8 times, 2017 adjusted ebita, when you include run rate synergies of $20 million a year, expected to be generated over the next two years from cost savings and things of that nature. that's a high multiple they have to be happy i would expect overall value is $1.2 billion or so that includes debt we're not talking about a large deal. >> no, but it's -- but it is a significant deal from the point of view that this is -- 1.6 billion, excuse me this company traded at a much higher multiple. it was much higher a few years ago. they've not been -- they had revenue ramped in but no profitability. 28 times earnings coming into this session -- >> people are underpricing that stock a bit. that's where i'm going my thinking is wall street doesn't like a lot of companies that main street has these food companies ar