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Nations but also from a wide range of humanitarian organizations around the world now the Treasury Department when in announced this latest round of sanctions against these 18 iranian banks said that these banks would still have exemptions so that they could bring in funds to facilitate the purchase of emergency food and medicine and russias environs of the Foreign Ministers of armenia and azerbaijan to moscow for peace talks to end their increasingly violent conflict also mediators from the u. S. Russia and france have been holding talks in geneva up to date with the headlines on aljazeera rewind does next. Or people get killed on one occasion in as bloody a massacre is this was the facts a lot reported it was just a drumbeat he did it he did a hasty conviction that led to the worlds longest held the stroke prison. And his sisters 47 year long battle to save him from execution witness to come out of japans death row on a jazeera. And i welcome again to read by and im Elizabeth Piron and our task here on the wind is to dig out some of the best and most influential films from the past decade and to find out how the story has moved on since one of the earliest series launched here on aljazeera was earthrise a show which tackles increasingly important issues of Climate Change but also tries to find good news stories wherever it can back in 2012 reporter russell band traveled to detroit and the heart of the usa is decaying rust belt a city built on kamen you factoring he was on the trail of a growing urban Farming Movement aiming to change the face of detroit and reverse decades of decay rewind recently returned to see how that movement progressed the 1st lets take a look at motown to grow town from 2012. In 1900 detroit covered 30 square miles and was home to just 300000 people with an economy based on manufacturing the Railroad Cars farming and timber industries. Thanks to the introduction of the Mass Assembly line by the 1920 s. Detroit was the World Capital of automotive production and americas 4th largest city. 50 years on and things were very different the major Auto Companies moved their factories out of the city to the suburbs and the workers followed meanwhile the citys racial tensions were exploding into some of the bloodiest race riots in american history. Today more than a 1000000 taxpayers have moved out of detroit leaving behind 40 square miles of vacant land nearly 40000. 00 abandoned houses and a municipal government struggling to pay the bills. For many detroit is the epitome of urban blight but to find out how detroits urban environment is already showing signs of a green renewal we head across town to georgia Street Community garden. Set up a few years ago by mark colvin tin urban farming pioneer and local hero mark. A man you know i. Am i have to lead a neighborhood when i was younger it was a car dealership owner on down the street we had restaurants all the stores shoe shops everything needed was right here. And. Over half a 1000000 detroit is live closer to Convenience Stores than groceries and with limited public transport and nearly half of the city living below the poverty line access to healthy affordable food is often a challenge like what if you dont drive it and you cant get out of town the malls where people buy food. Like this. Or das stations and the little scarce markets that we Grocery Store that we do that we do have places where people can go get food but its how healthy it is you know and how cheap i cannot employ is what you buy you know when you come here and you get a you know. Sized Pepperoni Pizza for a dollar. All this used to be how this is just a bacon street cred right now for the. 10 they get lots are vacant houses to one inhabited house. People move to the suburbs for a better life and the more people do move away. The less tax breaks we had on this tax base the same comforted in the mean is that i dont want people dont realize what a tax base really means to a city you know as far as getting things done and having money word play so a lot of things we have to do on our own. And messy you know police in each other and cleaning up after each other. But this this is where it all started i had. Lost my job in the summer of 2007 i had to move back home on George Street with my mother my grandma and. I came out when the snow started melting off all the garbage trucks powered up on the curb and in the process of cleaning it up. I just said i need to put some food here and ill hear you know work and Start Talking to people in a neighborhood and finding out that a lot of us are struggling you know our Senior Citizens who are trying to choose whether to pay for them or by medicaid. And i decided to make it bigger everything ive done ive tried in days to get you mean but its easy for me because i know everybody so. Much help in the garden from the city not really other than because technically having a Community Garden is illegal still has eagles right yes growing food. Is technically illegal in the city detroit ive got Family Living like Columbus Ohio and friends i mean mississippi which is a farming state dont know if im going in detroit yeah im like yeah right the middle of detroit you can go to chicken in detroit im like yeah right in the middle of detroit so i can hear them actually in the distance its a you thats its as if thats a pheasant you can of present you know the wild what. Are you joking me yeah we got pheasants rabbits fox if you if you took a shot right here it went right across the street it looks like youre in a forest kind of speck that can go from a no when people ask you what you do and they say would have been clear in. My coding tins no the only open farmer in detroit in fact hes part of a growing movement when i started obviously roland seedlings in the house my dining room im living it was full of plants somebody sent me emails and there was a meeting of diners and they were telling them about the different resources that they offer its all like a weight was lifted off my shoulders. Yes i had to just. You know. Must take me to thats whats highly productive urban agriculture and education hub to supplies would be city farmers with everything they need from support to seedlings morning. Among the stuff you know that i. Is to be able to have a space where folks can learn how to grow food at a level that. Would be for their own economic interest so if they were trying to grow it to start a farm where they made money or if they were trying to grow it at a scale in order to provide a really nice amount for their family to introduce you guys real quick to this is russell here we can find him a spot this is a lot of hard work starts hard for a Training Program and were learning to be our bombers so what we working with here this child thing thats a good one thats got some good roots on it that he should go through how i got into it because i have i have Young Children i want to be able to grow as i think im going out to is one of the most revolutionary acts you can also disobey me on and i also have a small. Beginning Catering Company so how can a girl cook or purposes you want to make a business this year you trade is not only unhealthy financially but with health i did a very popular i think you can do so here yourself is do you have some secret. So we do it ourselves we know what we have. And should be gentle with them theyre just so fragile these Little Things well nice concert was saying its stronger than you realize really. Folks oftentimes think of the gardens as that and the farm as being what we do but we see it as being more like the canvas upon what we do our work that really the work is about people these seedlings will be distributed to over a 1000 families in Community Gardens all over the city on the days when we pick up transplants its like a carnival theres so many people want to one you know and in this part of it is using this as being sort of the classroom but then showing that it can be replicated on a smaller level you know you can go out to the Hardware Store and do this instead of being dependent thats one thing being able to provide the food but you think people would start more fresh fruit vegetables if it was available as a country we dont not grow enough fresh fruits and vegetables for what were supposed to be eating so that. Capacity has to ramp up of that we have to be growing at farmers that are growing fresh fruits and vegetables. The flipside of that is how do we get folks to eat fresh fruits and i think its relationship based and i think for most the folks you talk to that find this work very sacred almost always theres going to be some sort of memory attached to it it might be way back in the back of their mind but when you start asking them theyll almost say you know its because of a parent or grandparent or my neighbor taught me how to do this and we carry that with us still this is my friend de de floyd shes. One of the pioneers bloddy for taking over vacant lots and. Having a daughter. The latter. Is where a. Lawyer has dementia. It is moved to detroit as a child and in a 14 years living on mount olivet street shes seen a lot of changes so how many houses used to be on the street 6464. And i can count 123 is next 56 literally just 6 you can see from here we had up just pushed lot right here and then the next house got torn down to the next one. And we kept on going until we got down to the end so how many how many looks to get adopted so far just 28 just 28 puts this school theres washing thing is the pick i mean bush. They are delicious read good schools. Wow this looks great and what do you think mark what do you reckon to all this learn. A lot of work it is a lot of work but its fun oh yes and. Ive always argued tirebiter for good tired not content with utilizing detroits adopt a low program that allows residents to lease abandoned properties for personal use it is plans to turn the whole street into a drive through fruit market. And if they want they can take it out and pick it themselves if they call me a day before i have it ready do you believe that this is youre going to be able to manage that yes is easy all you gotta do is have to put up with it you can zip through here in no time. You just got the grant money she needed to buy the truck to buy volunteering to maintain the local park. Just take i was cut it with a push. It wont be brought up but 23 love moores message does not work you need to get a track of leave this just remember were in the middle of detroit. Oh. Ok ok so were going to do some telling you how were going to let you get. On. And thanks to this you can turn that wears learn that tall grass into productive formulate it into a template fashion because i can plow implant those whole thing in one day. Thats how fast it is and you think theres a real need for that in detroit right now yes because right now i cant walk to the office store is so far apart you can go to the gas station to get joe but to get fresh food is no way no way around you. Need to get a goal 7 miles on buses sitting miles to get the food. Is so much later in you why does. Nothing i rather work with the laying in the world feeling. I like to. Use to live just not free and if people any take here you take hear me it. After decades of urban decay the citys getting back on track with improvements to Public Transport Services and the installation of Energy Efficient street lights despite being on the brink of bankruptcy in a City Investment is totaled over 9 1000000000. 00 since 2006 as entrepreneurs hustled to stake a claim in the city while still going cheap the last 10 years so a 59 percent rise in young graduates moving into the citys core reinventing arts and cultural home on the outskirts a new wave of urban farming social rising. Detroit. But in the early going to be counted and literally. To keep it you see here in the city in this market the computer. Knew the streets i had heard. Here. Which was much smaller than it is now a national. Urban feed. There is an agriculture. World here we take everything Eastern Market. And its mostly. Trucks yeah yeah people love their cars and. People want to brand it is this you know green plays which is great and people are kind of taking on that mentality but its still detroit still always going to have a big cars until theres. Something else thats yeah its. In cities. In cities. We dont use any kind of chemical fertilizers or sprays or anything. Just lots of compost and hard work. So this garlics been saved in detroit for about 7 years now so it does better and better each year because youre selecting the ones that do the best and like oh my goodness the truth. Is a match. Living some kind of you. Dream here. Is going to give. Most of the folks that still live here now kind of have been through hell and back you know in this neighborhood with crack issues and drugs and gangs and whatever and so i feel like the folks that are here now are probably not going anywhere kind of. Thing i mean i think that we need to slowly transition to a smaller scale more Sustainable Agriculture and i think pretty you know soon that like economically just will make sense to grow the way we do now you know our all our whole in style or society is completely reliant on the fact that oil is cheap yes so once that one element isnt so cheap anymore i mean. Everything will change and i think our culture has taught people that you know you should have whatever you want you know by by by and this is not the reality when you live in a low resource economy you know you have to support each other you have to Work Together you got to share resources and thats what detroit is doing. The Eastern Market is one of the largest open air markets in the United States and its been growing steadily despite detroit suburbanite stations all but knowing your farm are very important believe the story you know youve got a preferred stock in monthly i probably do farmers are pretty secular were going to be sensitive to detroits probably a little behind the times when it comes to like the whole food local food thing and especially the organic thing but i feel like its changing every year. The tracks are sometimes sheets are pieces of plastic. Or so far. The 2 miles that youre buying stuff in season here for instance stuff is being trucked in from from who knows how far and it might it might have something on it you dont want to see but youll never know every saturday about 45000 people come here to do the shopping and community here if you spend enough time down here you get to know your cellars you get to know your farmers good morning how are you and did you pick these just so this morning it took me 5 times that ive left the world around me that something somebody takes everything you know not come back and make you do those as well as you go to put gas in a tank thats coming more from the. Book. Which you think about these you tube you see new. Mexico. Reach out you know california mercy that we havent passed but. Its going to get biggest challenge in the city here his land shocking and theres so much land you think available the city owns it theyre not really doing anything and cant maintain yeah. Its just caught up in the bureaucracy yet meanwhile were kind of doing it under the radar a little bill hopefully will you know get around to the same moaning this and supporting it as opposed to being a barrier. We we painted the only of this picture of victimization if we Start Talking about these food deserts the exact opposite is what a lot of Community Gardeners and food activists are saying is no we dont need outside interest we have the capacity to to care for ourselves and that of that we know whats best for the community and i certainly think mark is it is a stunning example of this when you literally same people move into your neighborhood because of what youre doing you know and so theyre not a lot of folks can claim a neighborhood is. Its seeing people moving into it. Id rather see a bunch of how this bunch of people. But you know even in the future i would like to see some of the vacant lots are all a big and lots you know have houses and apartment buildings along with people walk around but i still think we even in that future will need Something Like this so we can grow. And i think ultimately nature will heal itself i think that when we look at only slots that we refer to as being vacant which is a higher anthropocentric view point of that theyre not in fact vacant theyre full of all kinds of life but those plants i think are really healing the soil that that ultimately is the legacy that we provide to our children and our grandchildren is that we have taken the soils that have been wasted and to allow them to reflash. Everything has to see you know Everything Grows from the sea and you have to start somewhere so. More telling to grow tell from the series back in 2012 how did they get on in the sense then they want. Retrace russell steps recently to find out. This morning i started. With them to see outside then i start i like to plow and now like to work in the going. 70 year old forge dream of a drive through markets never came to fruition the size of urban farm has grown from 9 lots to 32 and shes also added a lot. So she can now grow fruit and vegetables all year round. Were back on the. Main campus and celebrate. If you dont work. You dont eat and if you dont work you get lazy and dont want to do nothing what keep me going i like working. A few miles away coming to that his mother have also grown vegan foam complete with more animals. I want to say we only had 8 lots and now we have 24 that we keep cut or we grow something on the. Reason why we got b. Or with the help pollinate our fruit trees are that we grow. We have beautiful plant with one tradition a lot of we triple easily triple that what started easily i mean the last 6 years been full. Of plans to expand the farm so people can come and pick their own food. I dont like this to be in this city i want to grow facial. And milk at the store but come over and get divisional fralche. Gets help on the farm via the court System People can do the hours of Community Service instead of paying a fine all going to prison its called volunteer hours. The people who need quality i wish. They were coming to me because we go through flooded food. Many of the vacant houses and lots around. A still up for sale however is purchased one of them will turn into a Community Education center in the mean time devoted to who passed their lot so they can grow tomatoes in the winter. We have turkey give away every year. We do 30 to 35 turkeys and with a basket so we are quite ok all ecologists free range is what it along with some other donations that we get. This is an asset to the city not just the neighborhood but the city. I get a 180. 00 and i would be going to check just flat rate. Being out here in the soil learning about helped by eating good. Save my wife and i i cant imagine doing something else. These urban farmers from detroit have not yet transformed motown to grow town with the seeds day and others of some promise a rich and fruitful harvest in the years to come. Well thats it from oz dont forget your find more films from the series on the rewind page at al jazeera dot com but for now thank you for joining us and see you again next time. We want return. With updates on the best aljazeera documentary. This is millions of dollars of peoples money being taken in for their whole lives for the money. Just down the drain and one day on aljazeera. Pakistans k. S. C. 100. 00 a surge more than 36 percent we bring you the stories and developments that are rapidly changing the world we live in the water is going dispensable to Economic Activity but industrial uses the worst thing a test of fresh water counting the cost on aljazeera. 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