Allegations or your speed with all of our top stories thats it for myself and the team here in london much more news coming up from the heart about twenty five minutes time off to innovate africa which is next. On counting the car some of the biggest names in tech out with record earnings but theyre also under scrutiny by regulators in whats being called a tech clash a look at business relations between the u. K. And china plus another scandal in the german Auto Industry counting the cost at this time. This is innovate africa a new series highlighting innovation and creativity across a continent on the rise today. How to become an Online Company not gonna your College Recruiting the next twenty four hours to be too close to the on the go on. Mobile phones revolutionizing farming in kenya its almost like it was. Unpacking crops d. N. A. In the search for new food sources for africa. Were almost looking for a simple clock. And the young kenyan with the solution to protecting livestock from nine attacks. Despite the rapid pace of change agriculture remains the backbone of most african economies providing employment and food for millions of people developing innovative Food Security solutions is high on the african agenda and key for meeting the poverty targets of the Millennium Development goals for twenty fifteen. Lake volta is the Worlds Largest manmade lake it was created in the one nine hundred sixty s. As part of a hydroelectric power project but the development has come at a price. The most fertile land is now submerged and the soil in the surrounding areas is sandy and lacking in nutrients. Come. With a growing population to feed local farmers face an uphill struggle to supply be a crime markets. Go to production is an important source of food in ghana but traditional catholic families cannot keep up with the countrys demand. Ive come to a crowd to need to man has come up with a high tech way to attract investment and make phone is more efficient its called crowdfunding. In gonna visit deficit of thousands of tonnes of meat each year and if import have doubled over the past ten years its currently cheaper to import meat from south america in the United Kingdom and to buy local meat. And. Kemal yakubu is a local innovator who believes that the answer is to take cattle farming on line i am not just me a farmer in the with old people used to work im very farmer with the colors and he has created a virtual on line fun where people all over the world can browse local demand funds and invest in a small holder fun and they do it by buying all or part of a virtual cow hocks builders are going to start a new car you would see. The farmer on whose farm you one thing. Because people before they even stop the car they start by choosing the father exactly you got all the information about a video clip hard to get out of it in the same language drama. Each virtual cow is divided into twenty pieces cow back is can buy just one piece. Or a whole cow if they wish when the cow has twenty supporters the cow is linked to a real animal. So it actually becomes real for his real name or name do you want to give to a cop. Something like this he munches using still techniques removing the. So part machine that is what we call the repackaging. And rebranding of your parts and for that you have to love it. Do it and. Go the investors can follow the progress of their animal interact with the farmer and profit once the cow has been harvested. Is a very interactive possible weve created for. But fun little goes much further than allowing investors to adopt a cow its a means of centralizing information on the cows Health Welfare and ultimately readiness to slaughter. In the olden days people come together and actually help someone grow something now with technology we are limited by abundance and it will people around the world can come together chip in and help someone to fall. Apart from playing the poteen and in extreme poverty you also have retained an investment in europe which means that the system sustainable helping people because the business. Mr monti is one of the first found is to highlight the project with this process or you have to do is to target them and then when they come in. We can monitor them and track them and give you his or when you look at the. Some of the rollout to full over the next few months these cows are some of the first to enter the from a blue dot to base. High take it tags allow them. To be traced via our isp id technology which can also be used so that families can be contacted by islamists if cows get lost or stolen so there you go attacking the cows is not as easy as kimono made it no good leaders. Dont go there about the oil well to leave it on to be too close to the want to go in. There to move you on hand. And are going to. Go on a bill could revolutionize need funding in ghana crowdfunding will bring vital investment to small rural families while the tagging technology and the centralized database gives Small Farmers access to advice and information meaning bigger profits and better meet. The onset of Food Security in africa is not only found in the fields but also in the hands of scientists the very d. N. A. Of some crops could be the key to abundant and nutritious food for the future. Today im on a bit of an adventure in nairobi im visiting the world i will forresters them to going back to my roots in the world of slides im going to explore some of the work im doing with africas backyard cops they exploring their genetic makeup in a bid to ensure from security romney on top form a welcome to home out what comes to the world a group or a thief and nice to meet you i havent been in a lab in years the role of science and technology in Food Security is critical the very d. N. A. Of some plants and trees is poor. By the aunties africas hungry and our children are hungry do you know twenty three million children go to school hungry every day in africa while many of them look very well fed they are actually malnourished because they dont have the nutrients that they need most of our farmers are practically living on five crops and you know rise as we take all starch its not only about start if these children dont have the nutrients for their Cognitive Development do you imagine what kind of leaders we will produce in the future. While crops like maize and wheat have received much attention from International Breeding programs there are several other species known as underutilized crops that have much to offer. Often crops have been neglected by the rest of the world they have not been improved yet they are very important to smallholder farmers in africa these crops have high nutritional value theyre adapted to their soils in dry climates they havent had any one adopting them and saying lets improve your own lets grow you into something. Many indigenous african fruit and vegetables which have been part of the landscape for centuries are about to undergo a remake. So were almost looking for a sort of super plot yeah we were looking for super things so were also looking for super Varieties Super breeds for all often crops so what goes on in this in this area here we try and start up the material because we need the d. N. A. To get the sequencing going so first we have young seedlings and we pick up the leaves from here and then start the did an extraction. We have selected one hundred one copes from almost ten thousand cups and now with this technology we dont have to just look outside the crop we can go inside the crop and see how can a select track we want to. Morning operating programs using the any information patches to select what one can imagine the huge potential we could ensure this high vitamin e. Like the high vitamin a rice that is available about micronutrients galore with Climate Change we could have crops which are adapted to a dry land water logging. Treasure ok so let me introduce you to dr Alice Mitchell gave shes the gene bank manager the global gene bank manager what exactly is going on here one of the species we have rescored cesium is an african species good their fruit really her rich in vitamin c. So what weve come for here is for believes because thered be a need for sequencing is extracted from the leaves and so we just need about a centimeter square of the sleeve to start the d. N. A. Extraction so to give it a try you might. Look at some group thank you. A big piece of my cutting in a piece like that turn back grit ok so from here were back to the lab were going to back them up all right lets go. To this is where the extraction happens yes in order to extract the d. N. A. From the crop samples clippings must be frozen in liquid so that they can be ground into a fine powder and if youre yes ok ok lets see if i still got it from here just read facts from. Your drink to drink ritz. Its like riding a bicycle just now you have a bird so make sure you beverage crash occurred because if you dont think that you know going to get a good. Heres a quote from you i just received a message. Yeah danny preferred trivia will print out the predictable then expect. The earth. This is our second thing that we got four new sequences that while i am protons each of them cost more than a quarter Million Dollars all the d. N. A. Has been prepared there and we come and develop what we call libraries by breaking the d. N. A. Composition down into its basic Building Blocks the scientists can then identifying markers that enable them to select the specimens most sort of the characteristics to breed from within a day a plant which is one database we could do that in the past that would have taken seven eight ten years its phenomenally fast now yeah yeah i mean the opportunities for health Food Security Disease Control its its you know apart from fruit and vegetable crops several trees with exceptional Nutritional Properties are also on the agenda the build up was the very first plant specimen to be sequenced here at the world a good forestry center. Is highly nutritious it has twice as mt calcium and then milk did you know nine hundred if you know about isnt that amazing and we dont give our children a above milkshake call it has almost four times the amount of potassium compared to when on these fifteen times antioxidants compared to oranges the leaves are highly nutritious more than spinach so what were trying to do to the best occasion is to shorten that life cycle so that the tree stuff floating within five years and then often in the forest they start putting them in pharmacies feel so that they can generate some income from selling to private sector why cant all crops be like cocoa that is all over the world theyre hoping. That the National Governments will invest in the breeders to capture this information and put it into their breeding programs lets rise to the challenge. Kenya is a country with a rich agricultural heritage and a history of traditional farming but now mobile phone technology is said to transform kenyan cattle farming. Is a kenyan dairy farmer. For some time has been struggling to make his small dairy herd profitable. Then he discovered i count. Its a mobile app that provides him with information and agricultural tips. So he may be programmed. Are you hoping this will provoke. You how many could use to. Go after him since the cattle. Know to blow up whats wrong. I cal was invented by agri take entrepreneur. Runs the i cant office from here organic farm just outside nairobi this heres a contraption the animals would have shade but the big bugs could get live on so they grow up you know basically and then theyll come out even if. We started as the first mobile in the agricultural space i think actually on the continent. To get started farmers register and i count using a free s. M. S. Number if you want to go there. You would then that two eighty five go to number two you receive video of them is a read it really really select a one to two jacket once theyre registered theyre able to browse a menu offering a range of options basically thats the way it works so you go and all the information comes to you based on your crew has on an s. M. S. And its a simple phone yes Simple Technology but its a very sophisticated Information Network and this junction network. If a farm is able to find the advice he needs on the phone menu i can office will put him in touch with someone who can help. My name is even calling your from michael the i coude team also uses the database of farmers to stay in touch and to find out how the service can be added to or improved i see that you have been using our services on my show the cow how much milk you did use to get before from the three cows you know youre getting forty liters from that elite or so each cow gives you how many liters on our database of farmers we have just over six hundred thousand who have touched base with the platform and at any one point in time about a hundred fifty thousand that are using different products on the platform of forms you signed on get three s. M. S. Is a week so two of us misses a month and slowly build up we have got farmers who now six hundred messages later only about cows i mean theyre expert foremost im responses were getting are absolutely amazing everything from increased no eels to just mortality and poultry to me is just amazing and i coul is growing the platform will soon be expanding to impute a project called smart found tips a service designed to supply extensive information on a variety of livestock for you to be able to learn more about chicks we have. Where you dont have to read this that you can just good about that weight by. Select number three for smart tips and then and thats mother to protect livestock and from livestock you can now change check diseases then best its almost like a wiki for agriculture and farmers can go on a search the menu when they search the life stop theyll get a menu that will drop down giving them all the different animals within that space girls who create groups Craig Roberts camels the monkeys so great that this doesnt rely and internet you know no and seems really simple as well very easy to use very selfexplanatory. In the palm of her forms and he has access to neutrally everything that he needs to get it right and hopefully taking the biggest risk out of farming in the neighboring forms actually become more productive and increase income to. Protecting livestock from predators is a problem faced by many african farmers recently i met someone who solved a complex problem using Simple Technology and creativity. Getting gala is a village on the border of the Nairobi National park. This peaceful rural part of kenya is home to a remarkable young man who came up with an invention that would not only save cattle but have a major impact on line conservation. Human conflict rather than has been there even when i was born while they were only skinning lands. Richard to rerig grew up hurting his fathers cattle here. Were lions regularly came from the neighboring reserve to attack his familys livestock so theres a border here which is that over there is a border for the last disposal. Now fifteen richard still spends time herding counts but his real passion has always been technology but i love solving problems. I just want to ignore stuff or i remember my mom when we were doing and she good in the very angry she wanted to kill me birds. But board electronics. Richard is a local hero his homegrown Cattle Protection invention has taken him across the oceans to california and back again but his big idea originated right here among the cattle we had a very big program. For those grow up nights. Almost daily attacks on the communities lie stock left richards families desperate in the region cows are the number one income generator for most families. Was there ever an attack while you were watching the cattle yeah i wonder. Called one of the nose for and actually killed. There i stopped coming. Richard was determined to come up with a solution to protect his fathers cattle he tried everything from lighting bonfires to scare crows to electric fencing nothing. So many things one of them with the use of branches. Wanted to make a friend but when i learned crumbs of my. Cure not to be able to see because inside. It didnt work and they were just in them and then inside for them and was one night he made an interesting discovery. So i discover the land will not come if someone is rattling around so i. Took them but someone who was Walking Around what they wanted. And so the solar powered line lights were born of the smallest as battery richard figured out that by connecting l. E. D. Lights to a solar powered battery through an indicator from a motorbike he could make the lights flash mimicking the patrollers torch. So this is the house is one of them. Those are the loans that im Walking Around because normally applied when you walk with a torch it looks like its crushing because youre walking in your footsteps and making the list look like its flashing its the last the oldest but running around and. Slipping. So what did your parents say when they saw the child put one of this up and that it worked i think their friend award was there or just brought up. Since installing the first set of line lights over two years ago Richards Family havent lost a single cow to line attacks and that was only the beginning news of his invention spread quickly first his neighbors and then farmers across the country started commissioning richard to install their own line around the same time a group of conservationists from wildlife direct led by dr paul. Were conducting research into line attacks on homesteads when they came across richards remarkable invention they put him forward for a scholarship at a Top Private School in kenya with the scholarship secured richard then pitched for a coveted spot at the twenty Thirteen International to talk conference in california and won. By a committee the most i hear the less. Its one of the six lengths which are given there will be i used to read lands but now because my invention is seven my fathers cows the lungs we have bridges they would lungs that and they used to i said dogs in my life and other religion way to manage the dead leg towards you know. Them and and then they might in that one day i like to sit down in north my own to take. The. Next time and innovate africa. And we wanted to build a platform that could bring the africa story in the light bringing rwandan women into the high tech workplace sixty percent of the operation has a cell phone bill less than fifteen percent have access to electricity solar powered mobile phone charger and. I have never known really a little back computers and who needs banks now kenyans can run a business through their mobile phone its enough to do a butcher. Next time an innovative african. Art. Discover a wealth of Award Winning programming from around the world. 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