to that same pansy signage and pansy is even to a dog a dr. series about our complex relationship with animals. watch now on youtube dw documentary the while of the best ways to protect and preserve the environment is through newco solutions that help communities list sustainably. well, we're checking out some of those ideas on this new edition of eco africa. i'm chris gloves coming to you from lee goes. nigeria, good to have you with us today. a valve is sold to crease initiatives that start from the ground up can often set an example and influenced people across the board . as i m, sandra holmes,

the 3 nobody you right here in compound you can do. here is what we have coming up . the quotes and almost encountering using voucher reality to help the boys. they use a young interesting you, you'll be a we've a stylish solution to plastic pollution and how small scale farm is kind of for the to replace dr. diesel. we've clean solar energy. let us begin a ride to in uganda where many communities are named volume. the amount of plastic with that is littering. the streets, clothing suit was on humming the environment. organize with management could help a lot until then it is up to people like, you know, plus people to find creative on wanting ways of dealing with these plastic blake

life. you know, if you do come in, you can ease anything but easy, but don't risk of you does not fall on the weight on money collecting plastic bottles. the company's lead touch with them, including the small patch of land where she grows her vegetables. she sells the plastic west to a recycling company, who was immortal. on this uh comic about $24.00 euros a month. a cool me 5 by a waste of the bag. see, ma? it said, i think i get 24. you are letting me, but it has to be heavy. duty is covered up flood war to norfolk people, providence in democratic republic of congo. about 80 years ago. she's one of the about 1700000 refugees living in new condo, most come from neighboring thoughts, done the democratic republic of congo, and ruined the country that i've suffered under conflict and civil war. as

a result, your gun that is home to the largest refugee population in africa. me think that the need seems like a huge challenge. now the oldest of you guys starting over in that young body. you settlement in west and uganda. there is the worst collection point close to her from her garden. the payment arrives, those points on her mobile account. she can use them to make purchases and shops or get a cash disbursement to come out for us to do that. these people bring more plastics. it helps the environment, you know, the plastic chunk, the environment of the plastic. this was the sort of fatality, the so it loses its flexibility. if we continue to collect elastic decided we gain it's fraternity, you know, normally with the problem was already turning plastic recycling into a business that was the idea of into premier upfront. can you show, he and his team also developed the of which went online

a year ago in 2 locations in the city of dean j and east, a new gun the on here. either if you come in west of the country and for equal plus time, this is just the beginning. we think it's possible to to how about this more than the median refugees engage in recycling as a business? i mean, a small dollar in the uh, from plastic recycling, quite clean environment. if we can do that, then we assure that the heating the triple bottom line, which is the people planet and prosperity, the worst plastic has been brought from the com to the company is 53. me a come part of. this is where the plastic it's fred and melted and then turned into roofing tiles. the tires are lightweight and cheaper to produce the unconventional play tires and they can be dyed in various colors to replicate the appearance of

natural clay or concrete. they've already been used on several roofs in kampala as we make them a 100 percent from plastic west. um they are brick red. they look like the normal crate dies by the way, by the tooth ends, lightweight with 0 breakages and reduce the cost of construction loss. the company recycled more than half a medium kito swath of plastic bottles. that's a lot for a small company. but very mex, a dent in the roughly 220000 tons of plastic waste. that's produced every uh in the country. so far that you've done and government hasn't come up with a plan to reduce plastic use and there is no national recycling system to the dismay of environmental experts. in do that, i'm searching. i think it is that around less than 3 percent of the plastics are being recycled and the rest is being displayed. the is being thrown into the

environment. as a result of plastic waste is a problem across the country. it's mainly local organizations that are trying to stem the tide of this young, bloody lessons, you come to the n g. okay? international brooks echo plus tile on board to help with the plastic recycling. what is get involved in the comp no more than 1000 refugees. that taking part in the trash for caution program, the ends you as also noticed that the program is making a difference. we have to do with the nearest ups when such intense or plastic corrected or by the video over the last 3 months. that is a lot in terms of their volume, not under plastic and being corrected in terms of removing it from the environment . but you're looking out to and every time that we have you visited for their product as for the aggregate, as for the plastic recycle, as for those who are picking plus because the source of income with the us any incentive more plastic waste is now being collected for recycling,

if you don't have a front can with dish up, pays a visit to, to young lady is us to show how the up was on for many refugees here. the ability to on a small income mix like a huge difference. and of course, because the in this kind of most of us, the single mothers, we no longer with a husband when they abandoned us with the children's does yet. but this business has helped us stuff because we have something to do every morning who is from kimball geisha and doty is viewed. i have both inbox and a new past and its paying off the entropy anyways. no getting in touch with other organizations so that he can launch is program anymore. if he comes collecting west plastic is one thing preventing good is another way of if you'll be in next to meet an extra for you will settle to reduce the countries addiction to plastic shopping box does right, sandra and how company is not just talking pollution in

a stylish way it's empowering women and creating jobs in the countries capital. eco friendly in fair bags for men, women for work or for going out and produced locally in ethiopia. impossible. well, not for cute is just by a, a cute is founded to but you see up here in 2019, in this suburb of addis ababa sheet is created 31 jobs for women, microsoft, the women are weavers and work from home. she just comes regularly to collect the fabric they make after this, we use these fabrics for different types defense of bucks. so click on manage with the data. she just had the idea to start a business 5 years ago. at that time, she was a student and she was living in this area which is known for this big dump site in

2017 a land site on the site cause the death of at least 130 people. after this event, she just wanted to do something for the neighborhood. one of the reasons why that happened with the existence of plastic fonts in the garbage. i got 3 get the concepts escalator back we. so it's at that time if we produce environmentally friendly shopping box, next step, our body shop each box. we can replace draft each box. but she soon realized that the initial capital needed to produce paper or fabric for shopping bags was too high for her. so she looked for another way to create jobs here. i know the elements were live around here and that, and also the incident happened outside in this area. so i wanted to create such a frustrating for the only minutes. we'll leave it around here. to non you was one of the 1st employees of cheapest. that is very, very uh, i'm trying to see if uh she due to the fabric as i want it or as i trained.

huh. so it's okay to non. yeah. it looks after 3 children. this work allows her to provide for a large part of the family's needs. with the money she's given me, i pay the rent for my house. i also have an extra job to ensure ruba has to do with the money from that i pay the rest of the food, etc. it's all done on a with the fabric made by the women. he just returns to our office in the city center of addis ababa. the bags are then made in this small room. cheated itself $60.00 to $75.00 bags every month. to cope with the crisis and to reuse the leather straps, she started to sell smaller and cheaper objects. like wallets were bracelets. she also often works at night to sell her products in a concert hall for the future. she dreams of selling more and more bags to create more jobs for women. and in the longer term, she loves to relaunch her idea of ecological shopping bag. building up

a small business can be a real challenge, especially when you're trying to be sustainable. that's possible green solutions that often still also find out. she will reach for many, but it doesn't have to be thought way. let's go to start like a know where i'm in the african lead project is helping small skill farmers make the leap to clean energy. it's a desperate scene. the water tank is boned dry. the ground water pump is broken and the diesel canisters are empty. all abandoned by a senegalese pharma, overwhelmed by the effects of climate change and rising fuel costs. it's a growing problem here. is a go now they are farmers who use 1200 meters of diesel to irrigate a single heck to of agricultural that we are in the i s region in

north west in senegal, a region stretching 180 kilometers between the capital dot com and the city of san luis. it is the country's vegetable growing hub, but it's raining, less and less here, and the ground water levels are dropping. so young cool button d'ye it is currently cultivating potatoes and onions on his 3 effective plot. but he's also managed to cultivate publishing and other vegetables on this land too. until recently, this antiquated diesel generator was a small hole. the only means of pumped the ground water onto his fields. now he has 9 solar panels to this clean energy is helping him to save money and keep his business afloat the fall every night. before getting the solar found out,

i was facing enormous difficulties because my diesel permit, i'm because old more than 60 liters of diesel offering broke down may i direct with the installation of the solar panels. my consumption has dropped by $22.00 that i can't every gauge my hire farm using solar energy. but i can switch off the diesel generate at noon and just use the solar power for the rest of the day. young coal button d, i boat, the solar panels with the help of a small low equivalent to 6000 bureaus. thanks to support from a state bank. the only has to be paid off of the loan. the loan was broken by an association and p. s. in the south of the region that represents more than 20000 vegetable farm is my my due d, i a has managed to secure a micro credit for solar panels for about 300 of his members via sending the lease financial institution. the long term goal is to be called an ice bombing in the region and save livelihoods in the face of the climate crisis. seen with

the local on it's a problem is we don't model nice our ways of working and take into account of wiggling water resources. that's why we have to introduce solar panels so that farmers say money conserve water supplies with ad save jobs, drop a got the liaison block when you go to the zone. spilled diesel, contaminates the soil and kind of get into the ground floor to like other farmers. young coal button b, i is confused. yes. think about the benefits of switching to clean energy for mazda and get, i know what, what, what am i doing to boost the hospital that we have had and cause about the harmful effects of using diesel? it's not just a smoke, the fuel can also have polluted the ground and the harvest, but the pharmacy was to lose diesel. don't have any other choice anymore because anything any more. i'm on one with them on saying the guys up ask us all of the new menus personally. i wonder if i missed any more diesel on my feel. i the if i had 5,

so like whether or not they, they, they, they thought it all but the small whole the content for to do that. that's i'd say, according to agronomist amount will do so from the senegalese and g o n deaf food willed so says the micro finance system, they have a big palm, is the slow season going up so simple. while i lived within that is the interest rates are often a problem that they often too high. and that means that the producers frequently don't have the flexibility to commit to such an investment for you to be able to see some of that when you, what it says, or what we are seeing is that people with more capital than the smell hold. the other ones profiting from this kind of investment not keep your positive that is more affordable. solar facilities like young cool button b. i is good health regions. pharma survived the new. yeah. yes. region is also

crucial for food security. this for the child coastal strip produces more than 60 percent of the technical fits, doubled rapid climate change caused by human behavior. having effect all over the world on extra pull takes us to a place that's having to deal with too much water. rather than to me to then is in italy is assessing rising sea levels while on the same time its foundations, us thinking the was from a city has already installed high tech flag, gets bonds, the a wondering easy enough the venice has fascinated the world for over 1600 years and for just as long people have been scared of floods or worried that the city could sink into the sea. this is the latest attempt to

protect venice. 78 metal barriers that can be raised to separate the sea from the laguna. the system is called mos at signalfx triple symbol. if we hadn't had mos, the dentist would have been irreparably destroyed on november 22nd of 2022. it was the 2nd highest flood in history, but nothing happened. we were able to protect the lagoon and even if the bill provides the long advantage so or elizabeth to spits has already given the order to raise the barriers over 50 times, less to compare search, see, and she's having to do with increasingly frequently. so thinking about jeanetta 40 the most that we now know that most it is a flexible instrument that does not always have to be opened and nor at the same time, sec danville. so today we know much more about black than wind. so we're in a position to act again, flooding that out. within 15 years, the most a system only partially to guarantee the exchange of water between the sea,

the goon, it'll come very easy to go for somebody that does that mean venice can be saved. climate experts predict that the sea level could rise by 60 centimeters by the end of the century. the oceanographer gate arc when the keys and says that most it is just buying time the most house and he's most uh enough to see tennis game. a man. yes, at the moment seen so definitely in the next 1020 or 30 years. but if the sea level rises by 50 centimeters, and it will have to be used 300 to 400 times past once a day 1st, i mean it wouldn't manage to shop that. it moves, it won't be able to cool as a structure. but nora within like, couldn't manage it because it's an exchange of water. uh, did i want it, but often house gosh, marco single vinny from the venice institute of marine sciences is researching the lagoons ecosystem. he says the frequency with which most a is being used has not yet had any major consequences. but this could change if

the lagoon is separated from the sea more frequently and for longer periods of time . they're made up with uh okay. so in minnesota state couldn't be that at some point, we'll have to decide whether it makes sense to maintain the lagoon is a salt water lagoon or no. i don't see that you belong, closures interrupt the cycle between the sea and the lagoon, which is fundamental for venice. and we're all open to them. you know, it's what creates the lagoon floor southerners, which determines what plants and animals can lives. there are the 2. we're going to face the talk decisions because they could understand the future. whether to save the lagoon or the city, the nations would ideally keep both the sun marco is the lowest point of venice and the 1st applied work is currently under way to raise the square. the going to my buddy now were raised to

a $110.00 centimeters in the square would no longer be under water because it would manage up to a $110.00 centimeter with like flooding. and that over a $110.00 centimeters come. and what was the system would close? you mean? so in other words, there would be no more flooding on the son marco he says that venice, as we know it cannot last forever in any case. at some point the lagoon will have to be separated from the sea and the venetians will be forced to decide what kind of a by those cannot be rescued. we have to decide what to say. somebody then investments. there is only one bedroom and it keeps my i'm in a difficult decision. one venetians hope they will never have to make the pad to deal with what level of problems may lie ahead. con, really help quotes and rule is around the globe are trying to understand how to

adopt to an effects of climate change as you about to see some farmers and kind of guessing some innovative on striking count. it's not your average teaching age virtual reality technology takes a bit of getting used to but with the help of these headsets kind of runing, cotton farms are learning, have to adopt most sustainable practices, boosting their hobbies, and their incomes. fit to do for much jump in this type of training, plunges farmers into a world where they can practice their methods and practicing helps them understand the challenges better and adapt accordingly. adopting hello watching. hello key learned how to from cotton, from his parents. but now he's willing to try out new approaches and gain new skills. the high tech headset transports into a cutting field for and the most is learning experience. he can see the crops close

up from his desk along with any interest stations and dangerous pests. the training also shows in some creatures a beneficial, such as spite is the feed on the castle pin is the can destroy his cotton chrome. if i'm going to video from any like way right there in the video, we can see exactly what's happening. plus it's been a great help to was uh, it was been a great help to me. so i'm, i work with a company myra. well, in northern cal, marine is the center of the country's cotton industry. is the main cash crop growing in the region. and one 3rd of arable land 2 is used to cotton production. many families depend on it for their livelihoods, of 10 minutes specializing, including how the why g, hello keys, wireless for children at school. his wife and 2 of his neighbors are going to help him with the harvest. hokey is planning to put what he learned on the calls about

pest control and sustainability into practice next year. when it's time to associates again. is an attempt by at least the i won't use toxic chemicals because they cause a lot of problems. boscus i did on the buckle is that these are products kill all inside and say, but if i have some a useful, okay. it will see you start to see that goes back to our animals and that bad for the air we breathe that i know so long as you did, i wouldn't use toxic fertilizes either. i'll use organic fertilizer, an estate team again on the top. see, the farmer learned how to make how comic pesticides spray on the virtual reality course. by mixing names, the powder with water olive oil and a little washing up liquid. it's not any better for the environment, the chemical pesticides. it's also a lot cheaper. the training sessions are organized by the international cotton advisory committee and financed by the gym and development agency. the g,

i said it must have learning in a virtual environment that replicates real world situations is also cost efficient . it reduces the sort of expenses associated with stem to training methods, such as travel and fuel. northern cameron and these, these a 3rd of the rain full of the rest of the country and climate change is exacerbating the irregular rains and drought. i got you up. i look for the sign. it was but it isn't rain, nothing rose, come on. that's a problem. also it is up. we'll see it even if the crops start to grow without rain and they would loss them properly. but that's another one of our challenges will see. the farm is learn how to best help is to colton to preserve its quality and avoid dust contamination. hokey is also started using coal sacks rather than plastic, not least because that means less waste. 250 farm is have already taken part into

that to reality cools and 90 instructors have been trained up to pass on. the new skills is climate change, confidence calm is with new challenges. hello g. hello key and his family. a key to keep up with the times whether it is high tech or low take, or a mix over to the best solutions walk best when they impart the people they are supposed to help. i am sandra co forms, the 3 nobody signing up from complex. right here in uganda. thank you, sandra and i am christa lansing lagos. nigeria, thanks for joining us and do checkouts echo offer online for margaret star. reason ideas. see you again. next week. the

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