nearly half of ghana is popular. lives from agriculture a robust tomato growing industry would boost growth in rural areas nowhere is this industry more likely to flourish than here in the country's factiva middle belt where a new mom but now the factories are no longer buying locally grown produce farmers are becoming increasingly worried. benedict gross tomatoes on the head tear of land if you believe the. government. and us back then as well you know maybe also through and through we have to buy water every day when it doesn't rain or. a tank of water cost $120.00 c.d.'s 20 euros and that's not even enough for the whole farnaby asil battle we have to buy water every day for about a month and a half until the rain comes if we have a lot of problems which makes it hard to survive in this country and i'm up and all my. crops grow in abundance here before i almost could cultivate even more land and employ more workers but they lack funds if they want to buy seed and fertilizer and pay for irrigation water they need to

next we've got a documentary for you on how to cheap tomatoes are forcing an exodus of farmers in ghana back to the top of next hour with more news thanks for being with us. it's all happening coach of british africa. your link to news from africa and the world to your link to exceptional stories and discussions between you and the country their views african program life from the uneasy enemy from a user of easy to out with say d deputed codes last africa join us on facebook and d.-w. africa. tomatoes they could be done as read to gold the soil is ideal and they can cultivate it in the country for decades yet ghana's tomato factories now stand empty and farmers are opting to leave the country. the reason is that tomatoes have become gambling chips in global trade policy as have other products africa is a lucrative market shipments of canned tomatoes milk powder and frozen chicken from industrialized nations promise huge profits. global trade policies are destroying domestic markets and forcing people to leave their countries edward for one no longer harvests tomatoes in ghana but in it

and ghana central farming region. she grows tomatoes on about there of land but even though the harvests are good she's barely getting by. they'd be asked we've had to buy water every day for about one and a half month that'll continue until the rainy season starts we have lots of problems that's why it's so hard to survive in. the moment. because all of the domestic tomato processing plants have stopped production and other farmers are only able to sell to the so-called market queens dealers who resell the tomatoes and other cities there's an oversupply in the high season and so the prices drop to almost nothing. it's 2 weeks ago we sold these crates for twice as much. if there's no demand like today and we farm a smaller less just give the crates away. we sell them at any price. i might be honest. and chronic financial difficulties led benedict as husband to go to europe where he works as a farm laborer in italy he's able to send money home every month to provide for his family and pay his children's tuition. many g

could be goners red gold the soil is ideal and they've been cultivated in the country for decades yet ghana's tomato factories now stand empty and farmers are opting to leave the country. the reason is that tomatoes have become gambling chips in global trade policy as have other products africa is a lucrative market shipments of canned tomatoes milk powder and frozen chicken from industrialized nations promise huge profits. global trade policies are destroying domestic markets and forcing people to leave that countries edward for one no longer harvests tomatoes in ghana but in italy hauling conditions . if you gonna build up its tomato industry after gaining independence in 1957 the country was keen to develop its economy and utilize its own natural resources today all of ghana's tomato processing plants have shut down including this one in paulo google there are many reasons unstable power grid unsuitable tomato varieties and a global trade policy it's really china and other countries are dumping canada and processed tomatoes on ghana as they look for it because that's where our ground. i'm

agriculture is a key component of ghana's economy accounting for approximately 42 percent of g.d.p. and employing 54 percent of the country's workforce. but the to see room for improvement they provide daily tips on site farming to the over 100 members of their soccer of olution messaging group harmony south africa is really going to help solve a lot of the social konami development issues we have in africa and also not to talk about the 5. very big issues here. if. you know what goes what is coming and it's for you it's very satisfying to know that. healthy. peggy dunker was recently introduced to sock farming by victor some purcell or now she and her children are enthusiastic produce growers cultivating a wide variety of different crops. that. you don't need big space you don't need. the blood soil. pictures some purcell are determined to go far with their initiative they hope to persuade more and more grenade and people from other african nations to start growing food however small the available space. will hunger and malnutrition as some of the greatest challenges facing the pla

well a new kind of urban farming is popping up in ghana cities have taken over fertile lands with young farmers claiming back away by filling sacks with soil. priscilla adam is inspecting her small backyard farm and she's become passionate about growing a wide variety of organic crops in socks like many urbanites she has no access to farmland. here you can find kosov or vegetables and sugarcane all priscilla needs is a sack and some fertile soil. being very phenomenal yeah i just think that. i guess what that's. coming very beautifully you know let's you it's like nothing whatsoever. nothing and this has been a. very wonderful. lives a short distance from priscilla. he and his family have been growing their own food in socks for months. you know. you can control what you want to eat at all times you know climate change issues have been issues of sanitation is been i dress because. i didn't buy you know. some priscilla now teamed up to launch what they called a sock revolution encouraging others to grow projects and sux. agriculture is a key component of god as economy accounting for app

markets and forcing people to leave their countries edward for one no longer harvests tomatoes in ghana but in italy pulling conditions. gonna build up its tomato industry after gaining independence in 1957 the country was keen to develop its economy and utilize its own natural resources today all of ghana's tomato processing plants have shut down including this one in poilu cool there are many reasons unstable power grid unsuitable tomato varieties and a global trade policy italy china and other countries are dumping canada and processed tomatoes on ghana is to look for it because that's where owner. i'm a security guy i sleep when i'm not tired i go to fresh water and country you know what i feel better that's very good for you and for the board you have to do this every other craft or sort of. their life the beauty of the for. last year i did. the full good a month if you see do it was wrapped line on the market and this like there was no week. so i always just cried vincent our team got now grows onions instead of tomatoes he also used to work at the factory he and other former work

senegal uganda ghana and the gambia. a total that i'll be putting some questions to the world health organization in a moment but 1st we go to kenya where the lives of 2 families we've met have been devastated by fake medicine it's been a year since 18 month old son passed away memories of a baby boy are still vivid so are the nightmares of losing him when he got sick son to local chemist for help he was given an injection his skin color changed soon after in a public hospital he died in his mother's arms. one of the doctors pulled me aside and said your child has been injected with fake drugs fake drugs. they did blood tests which revealed that the drug. was so interesting. says she is just one of many in the slum of mathematics who have been affected by counterfeit medicine a friend millicent is convinced her son was also treated with fake medicine and she calls it rather than helping him the drugs ended up paralyzing her once playful boy she says 7 seen them from the moment you receive an injection he stopped talking.

in ghana is support for the vulnerable. like for a patient suffering from acid burns this site is not ready for this it isn't. 12 years ago bang established the foundation restore which provides less privileged families free medical screenings and surgery we have been to have a 7 different countries we have done over 1000 surgeries reply to put a monetary a figure on it and so the $50000000.00 i've personally put in about half and a half a $1000000.00 momente to get to restore to where it is today and to come back home to help people to be able to give advice and do free surgery you know nothing comes close to that and i'm you know it's a privilege and honor and a privilege to do what we have to obey and grew up in a 2 and a half hour drive north west from guyana its capital across this is the house he lived in as a teenager before traveling to the united states for medical studies. his family takes pride in his desire to give back in the room to do more complete answer the right distance and now he's been such a come true

in ghana, ruth is hoping she can soon carry on with her education. over, but in lebanon the night is still young. usually here in lebanon the night life is amazing, so we won't even get back home before two or three in the morning. this is how we wrap our day. we alljust come here and take some drinks and chill, relax by the beach. it's amazing. the vibe, the people, the music, it's all really good. five teenagers, all on the brink of becoming adults. all from different places, all leading very different lives. but, when it comes to priorities, teenagers around the world maybe aren't as different as it first appears. i would like to go and study abroad. i will visit other countries. but then eventually i would come back here, come back and stay in uganda. my plan, and i'm pretty sure that most of my friends' plans, is going to college. here in lebanon, it's not common for us not to go to college. very good afternoon. in places, the weather is as good as that which is only rubbing it in a bit if you are spending any time in the south of wales perhaps

i see it to jim's parents immigrated to canada from ghana before she was born. both cultures are part of her she says. but when she visited donna 13 years ago she was surprised by how foreign she felt. feel like you have a strong sense of what it means to be a canadian and what ghana is like because you've been eating in food and listening to languages but when i went to ghana it was a familiarity to a lot of this the details obviously because i i had been so immersed in the culture was but little 5 little things that came up and sort of brought home to me just how canadian i really. otherness' identity these are themes that preoccupied esi e'sdugyan throughout her career as a writer beginning with her debut novel the 2nd life of samuel time it follows the fortunes of a canadian immigrant in 1960 s. canada. the protagonist of her 2nd novel half blood blues is her on a must for the trumpet player in a jazz band in nazi germany who has a german mother and an african father. the idea for half blood blues came to the writer when she was living in germany on a schola

most of it comes from outside ghana. computers. computers from overseas.ike this one, from france. you see, made in france. >> the european union has prohibited the export of e-waste. it is the equivalent of 2.5 billion smartphones, which leave europe illegally every year. ♪ to trace the journey, we head 40 kilometers from the capital of prague. it is the main entry point for the 200,000 tons of electronic equipment arriving in ghana each year. most three quarters is used equipment. but for electronic waste, there is no import ban. operatives assure us that they take e-waste very seriously. belongings ofal some of our citizens who have gone outside of the country, and are coming back home. they offloaded these items into a container. todaday is the dayay that w we e going g to inspect theirir confinement. >> the job is to differentiate between waste and use goods. it is it is -- it is in this gray zone that traffickers operate. >> this shipment came in from spain, television shut -- sets and radio sets. this consignment has been flagged as possibly suspici

how it's done from ghana good nights at the canary wells in germany. and we start the show with the works of british artist kate jane kittens at 1st sight you could easily mistake them for the creations of a fantastic bike but in fact everything she makes is knitted 8 she often works full days on the installations and when you see them for the 1st time you can vote to probably think of at. tastefully arranged lovingly crafted and deceptively realistic kate jenkins baked goods with down a tree at the hand-made festival in barcelona but they're not edible everything here is knitted or crocheted from our yard. so here i'm just finishing off my display of the tea sweet cakes so we have some kind of raising a pound of. ice and danish pastries so it's just kind of placing them in the right position so that they look as realistic as they possibly could on display. her cakes banks stand serves up everything from buns to bank goals and targets. at 1st only clanton it various types of bread. bribes is really how to make it look interesting and that was my initia

ghana is an important tardiness for international investors including germany so it's not surprising that immutable energy experts flock to the west african clean energy and environmental fill in the suspension washup still offer technical training in various aspects of solar energy to participants who walk in the sectors such as 28 year old engineer. out updates myself on the new technologies available for improving solar p.v. systems. roberts has been walking for 3 years for adoption cool a farm from the netherlands it's mainly build solar panel systems for large companies in guyana. designing a system for. an office complex in my city and it's a great time system so i'm preparing to you know it's on your roof is going to be a roof mounted system or federal box boss is enthusiastic of both the un top potentially in the country although private individuals often can't afford to buy solo policy stems more and more businesses want them to make the a production less dependent on the unstable paul agreed we almost we feel that we are just at the beginning of the renewable energy markets

so ghana generates oh. lot of electricity more than it needs in fact but the biggest challenge i was actually getting into the homes and the businesses and it's become a big problem the supplies pretty are reliable this office opportunities to the private sector providers of of great solutions using renewable experts from germany recently went to ghana to hold workshops on how to set up solar energy companies that can help. in accra many enterprises like this barber shop often experience power outages from these names. you see you see what i've told you the head of ball off again over the whole. and dislike of us really really affected the weirdest most people just affected just the lot because without the life we can work. with it's more than $2000000.00 inhabitants began in capital demands a huge amount of electricity for the last a kid gonna has been experiencing and even physically crisis that has damaged the country's economy a major contributing factor has been the only reliable and overloaded power g

to ensure a stable income for cocoa farmers ghana and ivory coast want to set the price this year at around $2600.00 a tonne. some international commodities firms like switzerland very callous but have also signaled that they are willing to pay a fixed premium so cocoa farmers get more for their beings so far it's generally been less than $2.00 a day. as a collective he is following this story for us is there truth to the reports that. these efforts are being undermined by chocolate maker is by buying less and negotiating discounts on other parts of the price. so far these reports have not been made official because dan and i have recalls have not read and yet i've spoken to some farmers who have not signaled that this is really the train to what is happening so far as a strategy by these chocolate bias because they also want to reduce the cost involved in producing products by that is just a report but there's no official communication to that effect yet it's what you got or an ivory coast ph d. to make sure that its campaign does succeed i mean they have the leverage the top 2 prod

to ensure a stable income for cocoa farmers ghana and ivory coast want to set the price this year at around $2600.00 tons. some international commodities firms like switzerland very callous but have also signaled that they are willing to pay a fixed premium so cocoa farmers get more for their beans so far it's generally been less than $2.00 a day. and that us of a program as you're drilling can find more on our web site at www dot com slash has some press called roland thanks for watching and have yourself. what secrets lie behind small. discover new adventures in the 360 to. explore fascinating world heritage site. world heritage 360 getting out now. i'm not thinking out of the gym because sometimes i am but i stand up in winter that. thinks the printer jemma culture of looking at stereotypes quests in your thinking country. taking his grandmother there. it's all the. time rachel join me. post. hello and welcome to arts and culture berlin fashion week is in full swing and in times of climate crisis making a concerted effort to clean up one of the world's most polluting industries we

kyle edmonds and dan evans and the ghana counter playing also. —— you are ina ghana counter playing alsoolutely fine, it will cause a headache for the organisers over the opening few days. next to snooker, the former world champion stuart bingham leads of the masters final. you can watch us live on bbc two. ali carter has clues that score, he is trailing 5—4, the first to ten wins it. like pictures on your screen, the winner will claim a tour of £50,000

you've been eating in food and listening to canadian languages but when i went to ghana it was a failure to a lot of things the details obviously because i i had been so immersed in the culture. i was but little by little there were things that came up that sort of brought home to me just how canadian i really. otherness' identity these are themes that are preoccupied esi e'sdugyan throughout her career as a writer beginning with her debut novel the 2nd life of samuel time it follows the fortunes of a canadian immigrant in 1906 canada. the protagonist of her 2nd novel half blood blues is her wanna miss fall a trumpet. player in a jazz band in nazi germany who has a german mother and an african father. the idea for half blood blues came to the writer when she was living in germany on a scholarship. struck by i'm always struck by when i return is like the great love of the arts and the great respect specially country like germany has for the arts and so i'm really. amazed to come here and see what reference people have for the arts and protests. and a fascination with the stories they tell

kyle edmonds and dan evans and the ghana counter playing also. —— you are ina ghana counter playing also are in a contact. the airfought nile is absolutely fine, it will cause a headache for the organisers over the opening few days. next to snooker, the former world champion stuart bingham leads of the masters final. you can watch us live on bbc two. ali carter has clues that score, he is trailing 5—4, the first to ten wins it. like pictures on your screen, the winner will claim a tour of £50,000 prize. ali carter has closed to 5—4, watch it on bbc two or follow it on the bbc sport website, click of that in terms of reaction to today's football. from the anti—team, that is all from sportsday, more from you throughout the evening. thanks for watching. at the southern end of the las vegas strip is at the mandalay bay hotel. now, in 2017, this was the scene of a tragedy, the us‘s doubtless is have mass shooting. a green one in one of the rooms —— gunman in one of the room is fire on concertgoers gci’oss the room is fire on concertgoers across the road, he killed 58 people and injured more t

was born in kumasi ghana. he came to germany. later he fulfilled his dream of becoming a chef. today he runs a restaurant near dusseldorf. he's married and has 3 children. here you know. his restaurant antony's kitchen when the michelin star for the 1st time in 2017. his cookbook promises that any hobby chef can whip up such award winning dishes provided they use stellar ingredients. when an animal is ill and i eat it's meat i'll get sick to shoot on it. so instead i eat less but enjoy perfect quality a little of this. but what exactly is perfect food sarpong explains what he means with a corn fed chicken it's a parent speaks for itself. perfect you can see that this again is nice in orange but the meat must not be that color only the skin and feet. he carefully cut up the chicken he takes great care while lovingly preparing his food. and you know i think the chicken with your muscle the mean is dark. if you see it you think it's rabbit and whatever then. he would never use chicken thighs from a supermarket sarpong says using the best ingredients is crucial for winning a michel

ghana has upped the price by oughtou back.0e pounds you went to ghana, brought me back a cool shirt butwas really the supreme thing. okay. next time. >> next time. >>> now it's time to break out those succulents. >> a new study says having those plants on your office desk are a big help in reducing stress. researchers in japan looked at 63 office employees in real-world settings. they had the workers take a three-minute rest with a desk plant when they felt fatigued. the data showed a majority of employees had much lower pulse rates when a small indoor plant was on their desk. >> don't you think plants bring you peace? i was saying earlier i can't keep plants alive. i didn't realize you had to do something. >> water them? >> that. and someone told me i need go to plant parenthood. so thank you, david bowles for that tweet. that was clever. >> that's funny. >>> coming up next at 6:30, several luxury vehicles are on a recall. the surprising item that could fly off the car while you're driving. >>> and how the community is coming together to remember a man who was killed as he chased after

ended up in southern italy the tomatoes that grow here are canned and mainly sold abroad including to ghana the men work for low wages few of them are working legally with permits criminal middlemen take advantage of the situation. here in this group but senator for these crates you get 3 or 50 or 4 for such a huge crate. to come from across the caribbean or. even if they work hard for morning until night the men receive at most 20 to 30 euros a day. who no one in africa would believe how we work here. abandoned houses huts and tents in the middle of fields where there's no water no plumbing no power or heating the farmhands live here and many have done so for several years. how many years i spent in this country and my country. no really. to have. without. they only have cell phone contact with the relatives benedicta hasn't seen her husband for a long time. even so she's glad he went to europe. almost immediately and from thanks to the money we have every 5 heads and can continue to build a house bit by bit if he were here it should be very hard for us i'm happy that people leave and seek

if charlie got a golden ticket they would ship him to ghana to meet the real willie wonky. ( cheers andlause ) that movie would be completely different if it was real life. charlie would be there in the factory. willie wonky would be, like, look at me, charlie, you are the captain now, okay? that kid didn't have to buy, charlie. you are the best. if anyone comes, tell them you are running everything here. all right? moving on to the top story. ( cheers and applause ) it is officially 2020. new decade, new year, new goals. now, personally, i didn't make a new year's resolution this year. i was going to go on an all-vegan diet but my friend told me it's legal to eat vegans. but there is someone who made a new year's resolution, the 45th president of the united states donald trump. >> the president has indeed repeatedly called for ending costly foreign wars. >> he said so as recently as new year's eve, specifically referring to iran. >> i want to have peace. i like peace. >> trevor: okay. clearly, trump ran beauty pageants for so long he started to answer questions like he's in one. i want

traveling to egypt, lebanon, saudi arabia, nigeria, ghana, morocco, and algeria. but, of course, what was the most critical aspect of this trip? what city? what town was most important to malcolm's development? yes? >> mecca. >> mecca, without question. right? and -- and, of course, as we've talked about in previous classes, being raised in nation of islam theology, he was raised to think that white people were fundamentally evil. and, in many ways, his own experiences, his own life experiences with white people reinforced that. so when he was told that while he was in prison, you know, by his -- his brothers and sisters, who had converted to the nation. it didn't surprise him. it actually clicked for him because according to him, it made sense in terms of the way he had been treated. in terms of the way his parents had been treated. of course, he's -- he's -- he's the son of a father who most likely was lynched. some of his uncles were lynched in georgia. he, of course, experienced and watched his own family, broken up and not supported by authorities. he saw his

what does he hope results from the these negotiations going to ghana stan. why has he remained silent about the plight of the week or so in china and what our interview with iran coming up. next. after decades of negotiation a new path to peace between india and pakistan has been. a company and i'm sitting on a hill. joel it was his 1st time in the met office for. between india and pakistan to see the next. close up in 60 minutes. what secrets might be swapped. discover new adventures in the 360 degree. play and explore fascinating world heritage sites. w balls heritage 360 getting up now. the truly rich meter just. shows. the smart way when you're going. to. blow a mobility show every week w. . cut. hello today via in islamabad the capital of pakistan to talk to prime minister in run con since decades pakistan and india are stuck in a tense standoff of about the region and cush me or pakistan also neighbors iran is now in a violent conflict with the united states and becoming the epicenter of an increasingly volatile middle east tensions facing threats from

one area where indian investors a successfully gaining presence in african countries like hearing ghana in 2010 indian network operator tel applied for licenses in 15 countries on the african continent large indian companies such as tata have also been active in africa for years and trade between india and african countries continues to grow in 2018 the trade volume was $63000000000.00 which is still fairly humble compared to china the people's republic not chews up a mighty $204000000000.00 in trade with africa but india is already way ahead of many european countries germany for example exchanges goods and services to the tune of 45000000000 dollars with africa. india mainly imports more materials from africa especially crude oil agricultural goods are also popular like cashew nuts meanwhile india provides africa with textiles electronic goods and medicines many african nations benefit from generic aids drugs supplied by india and at far lower cost than those from industrial nations. india is keen to emphasise its own colonial past and experience shared by many african countries and t

ghana is also a very good place to invest. you know, kenya, kenya is also a very good place to invest. david: i first met you and number of years ago when i was raising my firm's african investment fund, and you invested in it. today, the boom seems to be off the rose in african private investing. it was more attractive 5, 6 years ago. today, it seems to be less attractive. is that because economies in africa have gone down a bit? or what would you say is the reason? aliko: most of that has to do with lack of understanding of where to invest. look at the investments that were made. i think 90% of whatever we invested, they were. i think it is where you should invest. even myself as an african, i cannot invest in every single sector, so i have to be very choosy of where i invest. there is a lot of wrong perception. you know, people read stories from newspapers, and they believe what they are reading. but i think, you know, as we go along, you know, there are quite a lot of changes in most african countries, trying to change in

officials have confirmed that a small american military plane has crashed enough ghana's down bought will not say what happened to those on board the aircraft went down in the taliban held province of gaza any spokesman for the insurgents gave conflicting statements about whether it had crashed or had been shot down or. italy's right wing likud party has failed in its bid to win a k. regional election losing to the incumbent center left democratic party likud party later vini had hoped a victory in northern humility would help in bringing down the least fragile national coalition government. fans and fellow players a mourning the death of american basketball star kobe bryant and i. died in a helicopter crash the retired because playa was in the private helicopter when it went down near los angeles on sunday leaving no survivors the victims include his teenage daughter and other young athletes and members of the families. well brian stiff has triggered a huge outpouring of grief in the n.b.a. has postponed choose dies like his game as a mock of respect. he was the smiling face of the

from our crowd to talk a bit more about this tell me about where you live how is excess ability in ghana. so it's a mixed situation in parts many parts of the country is difficult for people to access the. you can access the internet but it is for how long. i speak and really even within. areas that you cannot access. high speed internet so for many people who really rely on business it's quite challenging to plan with eat and also the cause is that. for some. companies you need over $10.00 to watch as one gigabyte of the issue also is that you need to. pay i think we lost. of the telecommunications and internet access is not very good oh yes ok we try to get back a bit later in the show. and now we come to some of the other global business stories making headlines today the world bank has cut its global growth forecasts for 2020 planning a slower than expected recovery in trade and investment slide fall comes despite hopes of a trade truce between the u.s. and china last year the global economy grew at its slowest pace in a decade. chinese inflation has hit a 70 year high due largely to

borders china had already temporarily shut its border to to jake has done over the lunar new year of ghana stan pakistan india as well the pole and bhutan are increasing controls they share a 6 and a half 1000 kilometer border with china southeast asian nations cutting of transport links some suspending visas to chinese cambodia has suspended trade with china in wild animals thought to be the origin of the virus hong kong's cutting of links taiwan's restricting travel north korea is up in quarantine i asked about his asian expansion fate if the sealing off of has been effective yes i would say the sealing off is very effective because one is very well connected with other cities through all the public transport infrastructure so if the airports and railways and also the motorways as sealed off people are hardly get out and also because of the size of the city people is it it were very difficult for people to walk out of the city what does that mean for people and businesses i mean we're talking about an economy that is slowing. and and suddenly business is coming to a standstill in that re