Africas perma Cultural Movement is empowering women in rural areas. Hello im christine. Africa im glad your children nigerias military is on the hunt for boko haram fighters suspected of killing at least 65 people at the weekend the attack took place in a village in borno state in the north east of the country the victims were attending a funeral when they were gunned down by a gang of militants riding on motorbikes and in vans no group has claimed responsibility but the boko operates in the region. This time the extremists came on motorbikes. They gunned down muslim or not they were praying for that. Debt. In the budget that took them did it get the music you into what. When did you live in an interval of. The vote huge then they went up to washington to do that if you total up to 60 but the terrorist group has not yet claimed for sponsibility for the attacks but officials believe it was a reprisal 2 weeks ago villagers and civilian selfdefense forces killed 11 boko haram fighters this is just the latest in a long series of boko haram attacks in North Eastern nigeria 10 years of violence has left the 27000 people debt book or have attacks have displaced about 2000000 people. A spokesman for president mohammed who were howdy said his administration is quote determined to and the menace of terrorism. In the affected region the local government also promised acts and. So it would not deliver were just were just coming here and. So i would hold some sort and some help with security mitten to discuss do we have all this attack was the deadliest so far this year in the region prove that 10 years after it started dating this campaign of violence boko haram still has ability to remain and to devastate. For more on this im joined by deeds. Will run good to see you why has this insurgency been so difficult to wipe out 10 years after the fact. I think there are a lot of fact that make it so difficult number one most of the politician in nigeria will be happy to hear there are so many difficult to fight terrorist including even if you have the nation you have the military power to fight them because people who move in villages and especially in lake chad will join with the very difficult to move and this is where the book. Its so difficult for them to do it but. Its the willingness of the military itself and the politician way that they want to end this war because recently weve. Been in away from the battlefield complaining that they dont have the nation to fight. Them this is one of the difficult and in the petition sites they used to complain that. Territory by boko haram do always mention some of their success but they dont go into dialogue or the outside of bring into and of the crisis post what is nigeria getting help from other countries in its fight against. Yes nigeria is getting help from other countries especially since they come in doctors to do what hardy when theyre from National Multinational forces because i do beginning even neighborhood in nigeria like need came out and chad were seeing this problem a nigerian problem but immediately when behind it came in they brought a team called multinational including even been every public which is not bought out in the chad and some western support especially the United States the u. K. And some European Countries out early helping. Jordan send a lot of times tonight right here so the help is there ok also man how have we seen the groups tactics evolve in the decade that its been active. Well. At the beginning you know they just started just for revenge. Revenge against the military or their Security Forces but tactically they moved back in some Government Institution which exacted fear into people and they lifted their move to be attacking individual who are just like inform on anyone who is suspected like giving information about boko haram is. Being killed a little what books did this type that attack a village is not military institution but to be creating new members moving in to move getting. Also giving them food especially now what is. Controlling the give the people good life there is a few taxes including telling the people what do you want we will do for you before the people ran away from but now in some areas controlled information coming to move like a Government People dont have to fear anything the only go to villages and bring more food more recruits and also they move different places because including media including come on and in between nigeria immediately you have a large area that nobody control its own only. Channel thank you thank you. Now imagine that you leave your small home through your garden of herbes and sell it then a fruit garden beyond that youll be hives then crop fields giving way to wilderness behind that the forest for the sun like a dream this is actually the concept of chemical chip now one project using the method is the future of Hope Foundation on the outskirts of. The farm teaches disadvantaged women and girls mushroom farm in using waste corn cobs as a mushroom growing substrate this has transformed lives for the women who are now any income. My next guest today has started a project way she aims to empower women in zimbabwe as are all areas through organic farming Linda Gabriel is most known for poetry and she joins me now to talk about her project i feel welcome to africa linda so tell us how your project matthew is going to work. So to explain the concept of the word month you are is normally in most rural settings you have either 3 storms or 3 bricks that you used together to support. Your cooking so the idea is for women to government to give to start producing their own food so my view is simply designed through permaculture principles who is that working with the land ok linda why is perma culture in your view the Silver Bullet for empowering women in rural areas in zimbabwe so its mainly from a personal perspective where i grew up with my grandmother and my mother sometimes we had 0 related to and i think if then my grandmother knew on how world to work with the land would never have gone hungry so at this point it is very adamant that each community in zimbabwe where we are. Looking at many people are not working with in the rural areas most mothers cannot feed their children we need to start to grow our own food and feed on feminism so its very quite important that we start looking into not just farming but permaculture principles because when you observe and work our own through my college our principles here realize its not about moral planting well just do maize and its on like menus and when people would want to do maize on their own or a witch on their on but when you start working with them a college or youre looking at moral planting and youre looking at how can you work with the land without using. Sides so what do you plan to with what crops that will quote together ok. I want to understand if this is happening across the continent and to what extent or my god so the minute to sit down and stead looking into just from a college and you find out this so much going on in the world but we just dont know about it unless you bump into the wind from a college or 3 months ago i knew nothing about from a college and 2 i bumped into a friend and i told the mother was trying to do in wanting to women to come together to do farming thats in this interim on the farm they need to start living in japan so you have people and lots of people in australia doing permaculture and training and pay my college and design you have gurus like billy monist on the guy who then designed the mine your and wrote your book that people have been using over here is here jeff lord 2 and that is so many more programs going on in kenya in uganda and also in zimbabwe we have one of the most projects code that you called our project which is being binning in the east and highlands so there is a lot of food thats already got going on just that most communities we dont know and until we bump into ok very quickly and avoid the i mean. What i gather the essence of perma culture is working with the land and not on the land very quickly its explained that concept so for instance instead of using pesticides in fit lies as you look at what is a rigid there on the lens so for instance you can search using. Cow dung as your menu and she can she can. Drop in say have chicken droppings as your menu and the same time planting and plans that will record together so there are some plants which insect repellents so instead of buying a pissed sides and damaging the lendu youre actually looking into what. Dr klein twist which one and to the same time youre looking at what ever war time gets or rain for that gets into your space how do you use that to our vantage and what ever waist from your bathroom or from your kitchen sinks how does that wartime gets directed into some way so we think everything or no space or flanges framework in our favor with degrading the ecosystem ok Linda Gabriel thank you thank you so much. 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