farms in lagos. here in africa effects of the climate crisis have never been more apparent and the farming sector is inevitably hardest hit if you have your 4 years of the farmers plant what are supposed to be high yield crops every year but the land is so props that be barely have anything to harvest. in germany if european researches are learning how to boost biodiversity and revive . right is back on withstand the drop by a mental for a. biologist. is showing 3 visitors around the fields of the live in its institute of plant genetics and crop plant research in central germany. so you think the 3 of the seed bank of the ethiopian biodiversity institute in ad is the largest of its kind in africa they want to find out what their colleagues in germany are doing to improve the quality of crop seeds. the market likes the hands on part of the process here she's learning things she hopes to implement back home she's manager of the seed bank and i just. don't know what tomorrow can bring so we always want

>> no. >> any farm. >> no. >> you need a farm operating loan the operate every year.nd then you sell your livestock and you pay it off and you do it again next year. and i'm going to tell you, farming is a white man's game. and the top ten banks in the united states, they're guilty by not lending money to black farmers the way that they length it to white farmers. >> between 1910 and 1997, black farmers lost about 90% of the lands they own. whereas white farmers lost about 2%. no, it wasn't because white farmers were 88% better at farming. internal studies at the usda found authorities routinely discriminated against black farmers. >> the government, they investigated this up in my local county office, it took 387 days to process a black farmer's loan application. >> 387 days. >> on average. >> so you missed a whole year planning. >> bingo. >> how long does it take a white farmer's application? >> 30 days. >> that's where the problem is. if i can't get it there, i can't get it anywhere. >> that's the united states department of agriculture. the last plantation. >> and

farming is a white man's game. the top ten banks in the united states, they're guilty by not lending money to black farmers the way that they lend to white farmers. >> that's true. >> between 1910 and 1997 black farmers lost about 90% of the land that they own, whereas white farmers lost about 2%. and no, it wasn't because white farmers were 88% better at farming. internal studies at the usda found that the usda authorities had routinely discriminated against african-american farmers. >> the government couldn't have treated us worse than the dirt on the ground we're sitting on. investigated themselves in my local county office. it took 387 days to process a black farmer's loan application. >> 387 days. >> 387 days on average. >> so you miss a whole -- >> a whole year. >> planting. >> bingo. >> and how long does it take to process a white farmer's? >> 30 days. >> 30? >> less than 30 days. that's where the problem is. and if i can't get it there i can't get it anywhere. >> that's it. >> that's the united states depar

a farm and it's not easy work and it's. very rarely see the owners of these facilities living outside. l.c. herring lives near one of these farms called k. fellows concentrated animal feeding operations. this playfield right here so we'll open up the windows only sat this is a bathroom window room next door was my brother's being home and it went to this amazing it is a kitchen window so we don't. want to set things in this way for you if you fold them back here. to have to suffer my little house way back here straight back but you can see them from here. if you see them from the mail route which. is prescreening and musician so that means we were shelling the stuff when everything is in la if you know how to a studio and the antibiotics the ammonia everything is in. you know in in the in the cold is being released into our atmosphere so we can open a way as we don't open the doors you know we pretty much a prisoner i won't hold it when you do try to go to his friend you have to tell you grass because he's going to congratu

taylor farms also declined to go on camera.hey'd worked hard to maintain the food supply wle putting in place panded health and safety protocols for their employees. ♪ in the end, all but a handful of the roughly 250 workers returned to their shift that day. >> woman 1: >> altan: we reached out to the head of the association that well other large gwerms, as california. how familiar are you with what happened at taylor farms, or at tanimu & antle? >> um, you know, taylor, i'mt. not-- i'm tanimura, um, you know, i knowed what they repoo, to the media based on their statement. so i'm not, i don't know, like, what goes on within, you know, a company. weon't have intel in each and every case as to what exactly happened and why and how, or what didn employer do in their reaction. but where these come up and we learn about themand at the end of day, we almost always learn, like, that a company where there is an issue, that an issue ourselves to engage them. >> altan: valadez said his association issued early safety protols and is part

a farm and it's not easy work and it's. very rarely see the owners of these facilities living on site. l c herring lives near one of these farms called k. flows concentrated animal feeding operations. display feels right here so me open up the windows on the sat this is a bathroom window room next door was my brother's bring home a blender this way is a kitchen window so we don't open these binders and i want to send things in this way for you if you fold them back here. to to soften my mother's house way back in the street that you can see them from here. if you see them from the mail route where the queen is prescreening and musician are all so that means real in telling me stuff when everything is alive you know how place to you are in the antibiotics the ammonia everything this in. you know in in we were in loco is being released into our atmosphere so we can open our way as we don't open the doors you know we pretty much a prisoner i won't hold it when you do try to go out for his friend you have to hold your breath be

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there on egg farms there on chicken farms you name it. global targets at the same impoverished villages in thailand as a loon farms. and this recruit just the same illegally high registration fees the buddha there's a set cap on how much you're supposed to pay for work abroad so in this case for farm work in the u.s. the workers should not be paying more than $60000.00 baht that is. current c. . but in fact would have ended up happening the workers who are taught that they had to pay $900000.00 baht and they ended up having to. their lands and their homes. and had to. take money from loan sharks borrow money to massive exorbitant debt and and pay high interest sign it signed up with global horizons in 2004. to agree with you and. now what. do you mean by that are you legion the american. you're not going to be on one soul in gippsland by doing all my shit i'm right i'm not my meal i'd like to just one on one thing the god of the macwhich long here but here i'm really. sorry it's mortgaged his home his fields and his father's land to pay t

there are farms there on chicken farms you name it. targeted the same impoverished villages in thailand as a loon farms. and this route is the same. registration for. the buddha there's a set cap on how much you're supposed to pay for work abroad so in this case for farm work in the u.s. the workers should not be paying more than $60000.00 baht that is. currency. but in fact would have ended up happening the workers were taught that they had to pay 900000 baht and they ended up having to mortgage their lands and their homes. and they had to. take money from loan sharks borrow money to massive x. orbit and debt and and pay high interest. samet signed up with global horizons in 2004. to agree on a lot from long. well what do you mean by that are you leaving the american. you're not going to be on one soul in gippsland by going from i'll see if i'm right i'm not miami last night he just when i'm. talking to him here i'm really. sorry it's mortgaged his home his fields and his father's land to pay the recruiter's fees but the american drea

in general if you have a few pigs on a farm. their waste is an asset it's something you can spread on your fields it's a fantastic fertilizer you have a complete nutrients like 0. but when you have 10000 or 20000 hogs in a small facility their waste is a huge liability. $160.00 there was less than $10000000000.00 animals killed per year. today there's over 70000000000 and. the trajectory of meta fiction continues there will be $120000000000.00 killed for food by 2050. industrialized our corporations affectively command about a 3rd of the world's arable that includes the majority of the world's course grain production the biggest course grain maize and huge source of oil so it's principally so even in the world you know and so there are these huge flows of grain and oil seed monocultures through what i call islands of concentrated. solely cultivation is having a massive impact on industrial farming. china's hunger for meat is causing more and more slowly to be planted for use as animal feed. china as a country consumes twice as m

there are farms there on chicken farms you name it. targeted the same impoverished villages in thailand as aloon farms. and this route just the same. registration for. the buddha there's a set cap on how much you're supposed to pay for work abroad so in this case for farm work in the u.s. the workers should not be paying more than $60000.00 baht that is. current c. . but in fact would have ended up happening the workers who are taught that they had to pay $900000.00 baht and they ended up having to mortgage their lands and their homes. and had to. take money from loan sharks borrow money to massive x. orbit and debt and and pay high interest. signed up with legal horizons in 2000 and. 2. but he had. mortgaged his home his fields and his father's land to pay the recruits. but the american dream turned sour very quickly. how much. i don't care how i. say it. my name and i. know what. the meaning. meaning on the whole. many of. my neighbors now many of those i wish i. could have. gone behind and go about. this is the man who owned and ope

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cultivation is having a massive impact on industrial farming. china's hunger for meat is causing more and more sawing to be planted for use as animal feed. china as a country consumes twice as much as the united states but each person is only consuming half as much as americans so what are the chinese able to fully and really at the american diet it's hard to say where that meat would come from already china is increasing its imports of pork it's increasing its imports of soybeans that are fed to livestock whether it's the pork the chicken before that or the farm fish their corporate a lot more soybean in their diet so the chinese government well aware of the dangers of famine having lived through the chinese famine where official records so some 36000000 people died they wanted to make sure that they could secure their food supply of homes if the chinese try to like americans what will happen to the amazon rain forest. where where will we find the land to grow that much for it to grow that much grain there's just not any end to frontiers and wa

farms andog of their grain service over here. [applause] we want to talk about -- basically what we are here to talk about today is the usmca agreement that was, i guess, implemented here july 1. i must plead a little ignorance on it. ithad to really read up on myself and i am so confused. there are some questions some folks on the panel have here. i would like to open it up for anyone who has questions they would like to ask the vice president. vice pres. pence: maybe i will make a few comments. orwould like to thank you f inviting me. [applause] thank you so much. thank you for welcoming us to morningstar dairy. i feel right at home. i'm a small town guy from southern indiana. dairyld we didn't have cattle when we were growing up, but we had 100 head of cattle. it is great to be on this wonderful farm. i want to congratulate you for your success. i want to thank all of the great farmers that are gathered around here. i look forward to hearing from you. first and foremost, let me say thank you. a challenging time in the life of

benefiting from the products that came from the farm we knew the farm we knew the farmer we knew what we wanted to go by we could watch it grow as we drove by that stuff is all of us over the past 25 maybe 30 years that stuff has been doing doing the ability to see the farmer and to get on the farm that experience has been going away what's happened i did say in the next 50 years we were going to have a problem but you're right it has this whole pandemic if you want to call it that the virus has short circuited the time clock so we are now living in when i futuristically said it was going to happen around the year 20 but remember there was some from xavier nevins in the year 24 top. ever tell me i got it right 25 to 25 yet so right now we see going to the supermarket that there isn't beef there isn't pork there isn't chicken there on vegetables it is you go into any even the upscale supermarkets and the islands are empty the shelves are big there and so he was a way to measure what's going on and what is good about this holland is that many people have now started to realize that they

another german food production facility over 170 workers tested positive at the very end vegetable farm and still the latest cluster of its kind in germany raising questions about conditions for farm workers often migrant laborers also coming up a diplomatic standoff the stars and stripes are lowered as the u.s. is forced to vacate its consulate in the chinese city of chengdu is a retaliation for the shutdown of the chinese diplomatic mission in houston texas last week. thank you so much for your company everyone well officials in germany are scrambling to contain a corona virus outbreak at a farm in the country south it's the latest in a string of covert eruptions linked to food production in germany 174 workers on the very informed tested positive over the weekend. around 3000 people live in the bavarian town of manning and many are now waiting for corona virus tests a farm is under quarantine after 174 migrant workers tested positive for covert 19 . officials are trying to find out how they became infected and if the virus has spread outside the farm there are strict guidelines for b

farms. the food and drug administration polices shrimp imports. $5500000000.00 pounds of seafood is imported into the united states every year and much of it ends up in a cold storage facility like this one in southern california but only a tiny fraction of all of that seafood is actually inspected so we've come here today to find out exactly how the f.d.a. does. emily morrison is a veteran f.d.a. inspector collected one subsample out of 15 random boxes and now i'm in the process of bagging them. put them in coolers. and ship it to the lab a computer system red flags imports believed to pose the greatest risk based on country of origin and the company's past history of violations seafood by nature is a high risk commodity dance elise has inspections at the ports of los angeles so there are many boxes here and there or packed full what percentage of the sample gets chosen to be taken to the lab so reviews of electronic transmissions we utilize things like foreign inspection domestic inspectio

this song ends up on the other side of the world in chinese pig farms and european ones. in. china has announced plans to consummate consumption in huff by 2030. not long ago a swine fever outbreak killed vast numbers of pigs in china. but in the long term production is likely to rise again. china's rising middle class is unlikely to lose its taste for meat. i think a lot they have a microchip in their ears called an ear tag yet you. know no i mean you know we monitor them are constantly using a computer or an i pad. industrial farming is growing ever more efficient thanks to soybean feed and the use of high tech. industrialised meat production leads to rock bottom prices. and. narrative the world must double its food production by 2050 as we move from 7000000000 people today to 9 to 10000000000 people central to that is rising livestock production and consumption that is this inevitable force in the world agriculture and that is something that i think needs to be fundamentally be stabilized. it's not inevitable that human beings will continue consuming more and more animal f

we farm to cotton -- we farm to farmed corn -- we cotton. he created a large piece of the farm. we had berries and all of that. made from the we sale of fruit and vegetables is what he used to farm the cotton, corn. what was the nature of the town in those days? james: when i was born, there were a lot of folks there. it has never been an incorporated town. it was just a village. when i grew up, two or 300 kids maybe. what happened is most of the migrated,up with me, took off, went to detroit, dallas, texas, houston, texas, all of those places, looking for work. we were the only black farm group in willis phil -- willisville. all the other kids worked on , and that was hard, because they were not allowed to go to school. they came to school maybe around thanksgiving, but by march they had to come back to work. a lot of them did not have the opportunity i had to go to school from grade one through high school. interviewer: how did your father manage the farm without all that extra help that would have been there if he had not sent you to school? enough,ll of us was big the older

so i was raised on the farm during the '70s and '8s and my father lives on the farm today. they're northeast of red oak, north of standon and whatnot they went through in the '80s was very dulk with the farm economy coming down around them and really having to make ends meet in such a constrained environment so my dad started a separate business help started working with heavy equipment, doing dirt work for other farmers around the area. my mother, once my brother was in school, took on a job, part-time job in town. so they found other ways to bring income in to support the farm, support us kids, and we made it through. but those times are challenging. you never know when the next flood is going to come through and destroy your crops, if there's there's going to be a drought or tornado. all of those natural events that can impact the farm economy, and so you drive through, you be as resellent as you and can like i said, the sense of community and helping your neighbors. i share one story in the book where it wasn't a natural disaster but there was a farmer that had been inj

i was raised on the farm during the 70s and 80s. they are northeast of red oaks, north of stanton and what they went through was very difficult with the farm economy coming down around them, having to make ends meet in such a constrained environment, my dad started a separate business working with heavy equipment, doing dirt work for other farmers around the area. when my brother was in school my mother took on a job, part-time job in town. they found other ways to bring income into support the farm and we made it through but those times are challenging, you never know when the next flood is going to destroy your crop. if there's going to be a drought, if there's going to be a tornado, all those natural events that can impact the farm economy so you drive through, be as resilient as you can and the sense of community and helping your neighbors, i share one story in the book where it wasn't a natural disaster but there was a farmer that had been injured by a cow, a freak accident, the cow pushed against him and knocked him into the f

coming up more coal in 1000 cases a german food production sites this time it's a very in vegetable farm where over 170 workers test positive this latest cluster in germany again raises questions about conditions for my labor in the country and a diplomatic standoff the stars and stripes are lowered as the u.s. is forced to vacate his consulate in the chinese city if chandu it's in retaliation for the shutdown of the chinese diplomatic mission in houston last week. elaine hawkins good to be a with you always start in the u.s. where the body of the late civil rights campaigner john lewis as arrived at the capitol in washington escorted by police his motorcade made a symbolic jury. down black lives matter boulevard before arriving at the capitol where he's due to lie in state on makers and the public will get a chance to pay their respects to the icon following an invitation only ceremony held in his honor representative lewis was widely admired for his champing of civil rights for everyone who died of cancer earlier this month at the age of 80. 3 we want to take you to washington to our c

and a growth industry we look at sweden's intricate farming operation within city walls . it also means they don't need pesticides so you can eat the project straight off the wall. welcome to the program mature fire caused a significant damage at its the town's nuclear facility its atomic energy organization says the blaze could slow development of centrifuges used to enrich uranium but iran's planning to update the facility with more advanced equipment as the reports. what exactly happened at the natanz nuclear facility last week it's a question people in iran and around the world have been asking since a fire was reported at iran's main uranium enrichment facility on thursday a fire incident like this at the centerpiece of the country's nuclear program is easily a cause for global concern but iranian leaders downplay the incident latest satellite imagery however seems to show the scale of the damage whatever the cause is bigger than initial reports seemed to suggest on sunday the spokesman of the atomic energy organization of iran confirmed the seriousness of the matter

one particular farm.ublic health england, are all working on extra guidance for the food production industry, but the advice remains the same for all communities. social distancing and good hygiene are the best ways of combating the disease and preventing its spread. the farm say the site remains closed and their priority remains the welfare of the workforce and community to ensure the spread of the virus is controlled. joan cummins, bbc news. scotland's first minister, nicola sturgeon, has refused to rule out imposing quarantine measures on visitors from england. she told the bbc that any restrictions would be based on risk, not politics. scotland has been recording a lower rate of covid infections than england. the government is spending more than £700 million on new border controls — and staff — in england, scotland and wales, as part of preparations for the end of the brexit transition period in january. ministers say measures for northern ireland will be announced later this month. labour says the go

we asked the farm operator but he doesn't want to speak to us. he refused every request for an interview. in april 2020 germany's coronavirus lockdown was inforce streets were empty the borders were closed and planes were grounded nevertheless berlin and bucharest agreed to make an exception to address the massive shortage of agricultural workers in germany. tens of thousands of harvest workers came aboard charter flights from romania to germany mariano was on one of them today she regrets it. i went back home with almost no money and i was sick. and i had to pay more than $100.00 euros for a doctor and antibiotics. and the job she just took her commission she didn't help at all. and mariana's case the broker wasn't a company just a private individual she charged $300.00 euros for mariano's travel costs and $150.00 as a fee. that's a double violation of the law job brokers in romania aren't allowed to charge commissions to check this we call a romanian company with online offers of good jobs in german farming we ask about one job in here that it

during the 70's and 80's and my father still lives on that farm today. they are northeast of red oak, north of staten and what they went through in the 80's was very difficult with the farm economy coming down around them and really having to make ends meet in such a constraint environment so my dad started a separate business and started working heavy equipment doing dirt work for other farmers around the area. my mother, they found other ways to bring income in and we made it through. those times are challenging. you never know what will come through and destroy your crop, if there's going to be a drought, if there's going to be tornado, all of the natural impacts the farm economy. you are resilient as you can and as i said sense of community in helping your neighbors. i share one story in the book where it wasn't a natural disaster but there was a farmer that had been injured by a cow. it was a freak accident. the cow pushed up against them and knocked him into the fence and he was hospitalized and he died from his injuries and it was harvest time and

like these women who use bamboo poles to build their oyster farm. if bamboo that is grown domestically is sold and used within the country and its carbon footprint could be kept considerably. in 2018 the government provided $2000000.00 to the bamboo industry to help it grow . the farm a store in mumbai itself and fairly sourced product as awareness of the issues grow so does demand definitely the. use of green products yes the problem is a little bit about the price but i think if we need to understand that it is better and better for our. health. the flat. sales i'd be cool have risen by 20 percent in decent months. its founders hope that more initiatives like this will find support and acceptance. that it always has to be a cooperative environment specially no country like india where we feel that companies as well as individuals as well as the government have. to bring about change. sourced locally and ethically bamboo could carve a much bigger nice for itself in a carbon neutral future. a modern society is geared for more and more consumption an

diplomat who was stationed in chengdu and the outbreak on the farm in southern germany a 170 my field workers tested positive for coke at 19 our field workers risking their lives to put vegetables on our tables. i'm good to have you with us and we start tonight with a solemn tribute to a civil rights pioneer lawmakers friends and family have been on a ring the late kong. john lewis inside the u.s. capitol building and invitation only ceremony has been held on or little inside the rotunda of the capitol he is the 1st african-american congressman to lie in state in the words on representative lewis was widely admired for his champion of civil rights for everyone he died of cancer earlier this month at the age of 80. w's in his poll has been speaking to african-americans about what the congressman meant to them. a culture of coffee is a 100 percent black owned business its mission is to bring all kinds of people to gather as tributes to john lewis coming from across the country customers here share their thoughts about how the civil rights activist has affected their lives. john lewis as

half the world's seafood supply is being farmed. it's not happening in the u.u.s. it's happenining in ananother couountry under probay less strtrenuous enviroronmental c conditions,s,d meananwhile, we e don't t have t happenening in thehe u.s. becace of all our regulationons. schubel: aquaculture referers to grgrowing seafafood in watater.e problem within freshwater, which is where most of it comes now, well, freshwater is going to be under serious pressure as we go farther into this century because of climate change, so we need to be lookining to the oce. we don't have a single fish farm anywhwhere in the u united statn federal w waters. at the present time, thehere are two a applicas for permits--onene off san diego and one o off long isisland, new york. in an area the size of lake michigan, we could produce an amount of seafood equivalent to the total global wild catch. [film advance clicks] man: this facility was built to groow juvenilele white seaea bao then relelease back out i into e wild to replenish the wild stock. but what we realizized over time is, if w

the global movement in urban farming could play a vital role in preventing food crises. as covert 19 exposes weaknesses in the supply chain that have left people hungry everywhere from zimbabwe to the us the climate crisis the epidemic ongoing right now has shown us how vulnerable we are in the cities we become very passive consumers we want to turn that around and where people start producing in the spaces that are otherwise empty those spaces are buildings can be used for food production this farms so-called food brain is available on subscription so any start ups can have their own environment controlled from here it could make vertical farming a growth industry that puts more food within easy reach at a time when it's most needed paul reese al-jazeera stock. this is a theory these are the top stories israel is immediately closing all bars nightclubs gyms and event halls after the surge in new corona virus infections prime minister benjamin netanyahu says reimposing restrictions is necessary to avoid a wider locked on more than 30000 people in the country have now bee

the global movement in urban farming could play a vital role in preventing food crises. as covert 19 exposes weaknesses in the supply chain that of left people hungry everywhere from zimbabwe to the u.s. the climate crisis the epidemic ongoing right now has shown us how vulnerable we are in the cities we become very passive consumers we want to turn that around and where people start producing in the spaces that are otherwise empty both spaces below our buildings can be used for food production this farms so-called food brain is available on subscription so any start ups can have their own environment controlled from here it could make vertical farming a growth industry that puts more food within easy reach at a time when it's most needed paul reese al-jazeera stock has. over and this is al-jazeera and these are the headlines india has overtaken russia to become the 3rd whilst head country from the coronavirus pandemic and supporting a 25000 new cases every day nearly 700000 factions now confounds nationwide is a big problem has more from the capital new delhi. we get an

migrant farm workers they do the work that locals won't they accept wages locals never would and this year in the middle of a pandemic they face a harvest of hazards like never before in southern germany almost 200 migrant workers on one farm have tested positive for covert 19 a world viral hotspot in a country suddenly caught in corona creek is the pandemic catching up with germany i brink off in berlin this is the day. we keep warning and we keep being proven right corona is not over the death even if you haven't enough just we had 480 coronavirus tests and 167 positive results soon and tested to. offense has been erected to frank fountain says it nobody can leave humans with all its content. we have to ask ourselves how we want to increase our chances of getting through this pandemic well when to get something to drink even if germany seems stable compared to other countries which we should be under no illusions that kind of tuition corona is sneaking its way back in and with all its strength our government on the must. also coming up tonight the late us congressman john lewis will

farming. health.1986, the united states and the marshall islands entered into the compact of free association. the deal allows the marshallees to live, study, work, and pay taxes in the united states. though, they are not granted american citizenship. a few traded the ocean waves for the freshwater lakes of northwest arkansas, and jobs at tyson foods. many more followed. english. spanish. marsha marshallese. >> how long have you been working here? and why springdale? what made you come here? springde what made you come here? >> a lot of us come from places in the marshall islands that, perhaps, we never had a job. and it's an island life. think about it. >> melissa founded the arkansas coalition of marshallese. >> in the marshall islands, there aren't clocks. >> we don't have any clocks. come on. the clock is the sun. you just look and, oh, it's noon. >> melissa and i are having lunch at joe joe's. a recently opened market that specializes in marshallese food. >> look, it's gorgeous. >> without places