the effect with conventional phosphate fertilizer and as a reference we use a control pot with no fertilizer and here you can see how similar the plants look like they're bigger and greener than the unfertilized ones. when you get to do that however was merely the first phase after all farming doesn't just take place and greenhouses. we did field tests with silent maize and winter wheat here and hohenheim and with projects partners in spain under different climatic conditions in both cases the recycled manure worked just as well in practice as mineral fertilizers. so it could just be a matter of time until livestock farmers take to recycling liquid manure. that's fifty five and the method is not yet profitable in terms of the product of him but bearing in mind how much money farmers spend on disposing of liquid new or it is an investment that will pay off. both parties stand to benefit lower costs less foul smelling slurry on the fields and fewer nitrates and other harmful substances in the soil and groundwater. time to sit back and daydream about a tropical vacation our viewer question this

recycling fertilizer why manure has become a valuable resource. and intelligent windows heating and cooling with glass facades . welcome to the show. in many countries farming has become an industrialised process. machines do the work and chemicals are used as both fertilizers and weed killers. but more and more people are rejecting industrial agriculture. today we're asking why and what are the alternatives. here in normandy is back in a small plot of land that's been called france's most successful alternative vegetable farm the land was bought by charlotte and now they create in two thousand and three they wanted to start a new life as organic farmers got to like almost say when we started out people said you can't feed the world with organic farming we were confident that you could but first and foremost we wanted to be self-sufficient. we didn't have a clue at first people thought we were just city people dreamers but eventually they were impressed with our productivity. at first paper in concentrated on organic farming but with limited succe

kristen dahlgren: in a lab in oregon, as scientists fertilized human eggs, they also swapped out some dna, correcting defective genes that carry disease, proving it is possible to genetically modify human embryos, but fueling a growing debate. eric schadt: it's one of those things that i think is inevitable. it's going to be hard to control, hard to regulate because the technology is so accessible. kristen: according to mit's technology review, which first reported on the breakthrough, the scientists used a technique called crispr, already used with partial success in china, essentially a way to cut and paste dna, replacing unwanted genetic information. scientists say it could someday eliminate inherited diseases, like some cancers, hemophilia, and sickle-cell anemia. in bloomfield, new jersey, michael goodwin and his wife fazia are afraid to have children. he has sickle-cell, she is a carrier. michael goodwin: if i can prevent my kid from having to be up in pain and crying 24/7, i would do anything in my power to stop that. kristen: but critics worry crispr could be used to create de

don't mean dealing with winds or applying fertilizer or dumont or town. it's team work. the drones job is to keep an eye on the sugar beets in the field with its high resolution camera multispectral imaging cameras sensors and infrared sensors. the drone checks whether a crop is growing well throughout the field or if it's patchy and where the weeds are popping up. it can also gather data on the condition of the individual plants. easing all that data the brains of the system sends the robot out to carry out tasks like precision weeding or fertilizing exactly where it's needed and nowhere else. the robot is also equipped with cameras and sensors. some of them help it to move about autonomous lee. others allow it to measure the size color and shape of the plants it's able to distinguish among them using a range of criteria. and the crop plants colored green in this image the weeds red . one method the robot uses to destroy weeds is very environmentally friendly it just stumps on the. eventually the duo of drone and robot will work entirely autonomously when it comes to th

jordan is a small country with limited access to water and fertile soil.te change and over-use of the country's green areas are playing havoc with the natural world. our reporter mabel gundlach travelled there and found herself in some pretty risky situations. conservation work is certainly not for the faint-hearted. or at least that's what jordanian princesses say. correspondent: these sheep get milked twice a day. there are 300 of them, so it's hard work. in total, the herd numbers around 700 animals. in spring and summer they graze here in the pasture area near al jizah, east of the city of madaba. the land is leased by abu mohamed. he's the head of a huge bedouin family that has traditionally lived from livestock farming. >> we originally came from jemen. we emigrated to jordan over 300 years ago. a number of tribes came together here, and today we share the main region. correspondent: he and many other livestock farmers in jordan are now struggling with problems caused by desertification and overgrazing. in order to ensure that his herd survives, abu

down to practice until now has looked like this there's a recommended amount of fertilizer per unit area and farmers apply it evenly across a field. but there are differences in soil composition and quality even with a small field they can vary a lot we can analyze the composition quite quickly and cheaply using airborne systems such as tiny helicopters and then the dosage can be adjusted meter by meter only applying as much as is really needed. so far the drone and robot have been programmed to work with sugar beets but they could be taught to deal with any crop data on the relevant parameters just have to be collected and integrated into the system. to flourish project said to be completed by the end of twenty eighteen. frankly bush says the system could prove very useful where you might not expect it to. this is called an organic farming dealing with is one of the most labor intensive activities. one pure luck there will there's another organic farmers can only use mechanical methods or certain specific herbicides are biden can make them silicon robots in a can distinguish between cro

children at my age but that more and more women in spain are having babies later in life private fertility clinics like this one in madrid charge around eight thousand euros for the procedure it involves implanting fertilized eggs from anonymous donors but unlike other countries spain sets no legal age limit even so doctors often refuse to perform the procedure on women over fifty they have even signed a voluntary agreement. it was then that we go to the top i mean of capital for them of course we now have the ability to initiate pregnancies in women over sixty. but we also want healthy children. and the probability of giving birth to a healthy child drops in women over age fifty if it is my uterus that when that. legal expert carlos romeo class of boehner sees the voluntary agreement is useless he's a member of the spanish commission for reproductive medicine he's disappointed that the commission couldn't push through an age limit when the legislation about assisted reproduction was passed in two thousand and six. for i went there i personally detailer to the problems associated with late

and the farmers would also have to spend the money to fertilize the soil i don't think we. are all i think this is a good maze. however i might have to buy for sacks of fertilizer for my one hectare of maize. to think about. other farmers i've already changed to the new maize variety. always thinks farmer to try something new in order to achieve better results. 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. 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 soybeans 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

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countries like yemen, and terror groups like al qaeda and isis find fertile ground. the irony continues. in every scenario this body preaches human rights and peace, but not when it comes to israel. in fact, you completely ignore the horrific acts that threaten israeli citizens. these past two weeks alone have seen 23 rocket attacks. we heard nothing from the un. no session of the general assembly, nothing. they're spreading violence and days of rage but the un has no condemnation. mr. president, let it be clear, violence and terror must never be tolerated. if this body were united for peace, the passive resolution condemning palestinian violence. this only encourages more violence and insecurity. and encourages senior leadership to continue on this dangerous path. to pursue violence in the name of jerusalem, the city of peace. mr. president, we returned home after thousands of years in exile, we defended our country from countless attacks. forty-two years ago this body the general assembly adopted a different shameful resolution and equated zionism with racism. it t

the fertilizer herbicide seeings. up and that's your. promise come by themselves or we can deliver it to. come to. no one seems to be watching us so we take a look around the warehouse these are poisonous chemicals but the workers seem to be handling them without any special safety precautions. we find supplies of monsanto's round up here and bears confident and insecticide some critics. say that confidence or maybe killing off the v. population. then. stop filming. ok like you think get out. soon some of the bosses turn up one of them confronts us i don't know who they were going to get is about them there are hardcore tobacco opponents around here they want to shut us down. stop filming. them if. there's one of them over there. look listen. to back oh people just want to take pictures of our warehouse while we work. but you don't seem to understand that that's going to cause us all kinds of trouble . we decide to leave. and i think. you know. i think they're nervous because they haven't given their workers protective clothing. even tho

the aim is to make the ground around the village fertile again. all of. those supervises the sixty plus demitra clubs in the region he managed to enlist the local farmers association to help villagers build the system. nearly all the small channels that collect rainwater from the surroundings end up here it's like a delta. at this point the water has enough force to wash away the fertile soil from the cultivated land. old used to oil stops termites from eating the wooden constructions so the dams last longer. it'll take them for five days to prepare the trenches and fill them in stone when you are going. to know plant trees here to restore the areas around the village and make them farmable again. the leader of the demitra project in senegal says that would be ideal not all project villages managed to generate a profit from their communal garden. the two biggest challenges are getting local organizations to help and sourcing materials. in the long term there has to be a direct exchange of information between the village communities and the authorities so

these leaves work as fertilizer. bianca: rosivaldo costa used to cut down the forest to grow rice and cassava and to harvest the hearts of the acai palm. but he didn't earn much. he'd get about 30 euro cents for a palm heart. for a cluster of organic acai, he gets five times as much. rosivaldo: we only chop down the tallest palm trees. you can hardly climb up them -- they can break. bianca: harvesting requires stamina and muscle power. in the main harvest season from august to december, the farmer's son climbs up to 100 palms a day to pick acai. the berries need six months to ripen. since costa stopped cutting the forest, the harvest has increased. the trees protect each other from the sun and stop the fruits drying out. rosivaldo: in the past this was just a husk, without much juice. today, they are juicier. a protected area like this one brings more juice. bianca: but the farmers had to be persuaded to try this cultivation method. beraca supported the farmers and now benefits from their higher yields. for these hig

. >>> still to come, fertility talks go high end.ow the champagne is growing at a growing number of parties where women learn about their family planning options. her hair's a hot mess. her eyes are like... "oh, i'm late for work. i have to go." dunkin' donuts coffee. pick some up where you buy groceries. when my smile is bright, i feel ready to shine. some whitening toothpastes only remove surface stains, colgate optic white high impact white is different. it has hydrogen peroxide, to whiten four shades for a visibly whiter smile. trust your smile to colgate optic white. today's forecast in some cities around the country. >>> fertility clinics in some parts of the country are offering a posh new way to teach women about family planning. they're throwing cocktail parties. danielle nottingham has that story. >> reporter: in an upscale hotel in beverly hills, women are sipping wine over a topic some consider taboo. >> it's stunning. >> reporter: they're attending these free cocktail events to learn how to freeze th

why i wasn't getting pregnant she kept saying it's because i'm overweight and then we went to a fertility clinic we've been trying so long it was clear we needed more help from . lisa was diagnosed with polycystic ovary syndrome p.c.o.s. . it wasn't all as it's a hormonal disorder in women that often involves raised levels of male hormones. typical symptoms of menstrual irregularities or an absence of ovulation. but many patients are overweight and have a thyroid disorder. in forty percent of the cases it can lead to difficulty conceiving that. the diagnostic work up usually includes blood tests with p.c.o.s. various blood hormone levels are generally out of the normal range. lisa wagner and her husband had never heard of the syndrome. as we drive north of the diagnosis with quite a shock but once they knew what the problem was we could work on getting pregnant. in p.c.o.s. the ovaries contain numerous cysts clusters of small fluid filled sacks visible on an ultrasound exam the cysts arise when hormone levels prevent of you lation when p.c.o.s. causes infertility there are various treatme

judgement to see how women a ding dong when they get a good look it's only thing this is clearly fertile land here to many villages took the money offered by the jr da. i talked a little go look for the i got that i am going to get but i only get like come out i got. sad when i said i just got to get them in germany. i counted at the gas got the get i started it getting up i gotta get up i got to put get me not go for not having a better agent recently too nice a hot gas well you know this was right and because the line there was a victim but had to be said when he could be good mouth was open enough to save all my days because he but all i have let us say. was that the maybe one of them can see the boat they can have was about to buy something rather bizarre but i believe i think it was got something. big here something what about take the heat you put what i don't have but what the miniature tube said can bust up to the. woman or not would need all the meat in the shadows about article on route twenty but i think it is from go on don't you know but he tours of the city of jordan to thi

they are concerned about the quality of the fertilizers and pesticides. this farmer planted a cornfield twice with pesticides and it didn't work. as you can see, this corn is completely rotten. it is not just farmers who are struggling. across venezuela's agricultural heartland, basics are becoming luxuries. with meat prices beyond the reach of many venezuelans nowadays, you would think that cattle farmers have it easy. but the spiraling costs of a vaccination of machinery and supplies have hit manuel. he has had to turn to crops to earn money, but that has been a struggle, too. the corn crop was stolen by hungry villagers. for years, cattle ranchers and the socialist government have been at odds, but he says the solution is easy. >> all we want to do as cattle farmers is produce. those of us in the cattle business need the state, and the state needs us. the only way right now is to sit down and understand each other. katy: these crops are a reflection of the country's crisis. surviving, but only just. producers are doing everything they can to make sure

to see how women a ding dong when they get good food i mean look it's only thing this is clearly fertile land here to many villages took the money offered by the jr da. i talked a little go look for the i got that i am gonna get but i'm going to get like come out i got. back what i said and i guess god thing i mean yemen. i counted at the gas got the get but how did it get the time to get up i got to put dummy not go for not having a better agent research and he said hot gas well you know dust was an iron and because of the line it was to get on without him he said when he can it would not want him to save all my days because he but i'll have let us say. was i thought maybe one of them can see the boat they can have was about to buy something rather bizarre but i believe i think it was got something. big here something what about take the heat you put what i don't have but it will commit you to said clean postcard to the. woman or not would you need all the meat in the shadows about article on route twenty but i think it to some go on don't you know but the tourism industry or the jordan

fertility. >> it's funny. totally taken aback. it's really gorgeous. such a luxury environment. >> reporter: women are attending these free cocktail events to learn how to freeze their eggs or embryos to delay motherhood until it's convenient. >> now that i'm 33 and i'm single, my timeline is all shifted and i don't know when i'm going to meet that person so there is a loss of eggs and this is normally happening in all women. >> reporter: these egg freezing parties target women in their early to mid-30s when egg quality is ideal giving women a better chance of getting pregnant later on. >> as women get older above 30 it's harder to become pregnant. it's mid-30s through late 30s it's harder. >> reporter: this doctor says as egg freezing is more available, more women are choosing it. >> we have five fold increase number of patients across the united states that come in to do egg freezing for elective reasons. >> reporter: eugenia says the process is nerve-wracking but talking about it makes it easier. >> it's better than a sterile medical setting. >> rep

ina man—made in a man—made green, the place so fertile, hunger has taken over kasal fertile, hunger has here. my heart was full of sadness what i saw my daughter sick. children make up the majority of the nearly 1.5 million people displaced here. it began injune last year after a local chief rebelled against a corrupt and brutal government. he was killed. in the terror that followed, both sides committed atrocities. translation: we were sleeping when they entered our place and asked who are all these people sleeping here? we can kill the men who are here and then after killing them we will tell our chiefs and show off how many people we have killed in this village. a nurse points to the swelling caused by malnutrition. by pressing the skin, he can assess the severity of the condition. imagine walking on these legs. with the worst fighting over, people are returning to their villages. but they find homes burned, property looted. translation: we were starving, for we have no food. we headed to the main road to look for food but there was nobody. 0nly dead bodies. then, a young woman, weak

flourishing gondolas and fertile fields and in the right hands baron high atlas mountain range. over the centuries local farmers have developed irrigation methods but now climate change is threatening their way of life. so they're using ingenuity and know how and that for any class for your town. including five minutes d.w. . where i come from we had to fight for a free press i was born and raised in a military dictatorship with just one t.v. shadow and a few newspapers when official information as attorneys i have worked on the streets of many cameras and their problems are always the same fourteen social inequality a lack of the freedom of the press. corruption who can afford to stay silent when it comes to the fans of the humans on the scene or microphones who have been. to put their trust in us. is paris and i work a deal. this week conflict zone is in warsaw where the polish government is facing mounting criticism from the e.u. over its record on democracy.

this was of the most fertile spot on the small rocky island which had one hundred inhabitants in its heyday but that was a long time ago. by two o'clock it's already getting down. but there's almost no better place to see the rugged peaks of the low photo work done from the lighthouse on the little island that lawyer as it's called in the region. demand was limited when the state put a number of light houses along the coast up for sale that lawyers to funnel into far out to sea. to commemorate its great history elaine or occasionally donates one hundred candles to the lighthouse because it was built one hundred years ago the big light has gone out but a small halogen lamp now does the job elena is often alone in the town but she's not lonely. and so for love them i feel part of all big welled up here i see the sky and the ocean three hundred sixty degrees around me or him do today have that it gives me a strong feeling of connection with the wild i can also see the stars at night that and all that still without an assist yeah. every now and then she even sees the northern lights. abo

and the question is, will there be fertile fields again from which isis 3.0 will arise or not?et's talk about syria for a moment. yup. in syria, there seems to be an ongoing war that doesn't seem to have any end. what would you recommend to the president of the united states if he asks you what we should now do with syria? gen. petraeus: well, first of all, they're doing a fair amount of what i would recommend. and to be fair, the obama administration in the final six to 12 months really made a number of steps. you can argue that it took too long, it was grudging, or what have you, but ultimately, it did take a number of steps, albeit to defeat the islamic state as the focus. and i think now that beyond that objective of defeating isis and the al qaeda affiliate in syria, the other objective should be to stop the bloodshed. recognize that the diplomatic effort to create some kind of an agreement that will result in a democratically-elected, multiethnic, multi-sectarian government in damascus for all of syria is probably beyond reach now. so look at what kinds of interim solutio