To sundry to nobody here in the ugandan copy to kampala well uganda like the rest of the world is to buckling the corner virus and while the looked on is still only being lifted from sector to sector were still registering squad a number of new cases still the show must go on and weve put together an interesting set of stories for you. We visit a man in ethiopia will help to bring clean water to his community. We also look at ways that. Can be good and also bad for the environment. And looking and farmers whove discovered a look or 2 side crop raising still wants. A 19 has caused us to change the way we do many things like shopping for instance many wonder if it is still safe to do shopping b. Z. Outdoor markets or even on crowded streets that is partly why Online Shopping is commonalities whether for clothes or groceries it is becoming boring these days also here in africa one company in zimbabwe for example delivers Fresh Produce and other items directly to your home now but helps cob the spread of the virus as well as reduce the amount of food wist. Zimbabwe may be in lockdown but there isnt much social distancing at all this market. And it to our cut to Business Hours means a large portion of the produce cant be sold and its going to waste. Any of our modern job working here we are risk of catching and spreading the virus but we have few options we need the money. With the business. In order to bring Fresh Produce directly to the customer mussa c were founded the startup fresh in a box customers can order fruit and vegetables boxes on line and have no need to be at the crowded markets before the pinout make a team feel they want 120 orders a day now its more than 1000. And 15 u. S. Dollars for a standard vegetable box its still a bit of a luxury people having access to the internet now means that they can interact directly with us as farmers dont agree with us and vigilance and they can get the full dollar to their homes and we can assist in getting rid of the vast amount of projects that we have on all forms. Ready packed boxes delivered each day in and around have a 12 hour delivery shift guarantee Fresh Products for many customers Online Shopping is not only convenience but also offers a sense of security. A was an easy easy way to get your vegetables especially when youre unlocked and. It means you dont have to go and fight with the shops. And all the social distancing and the killing and the hassles. If you say. The fresh in a book start up walks with 100 in 1000 families in zimbabwe. Their farm produce is harvested as part order and can be delivered just in time. One of the ethos of our company is to make sure that we have a very low Carbon Footprint in the everything that we do our packaging for example are really boxes for repurposed boxes from other industries so its been a great way of us keeping costs down keeping our box cost price down and also keeping the environment clean. Shopping online for Fresh Produce is not only convenient during the canal make but the Sustainable Way of managing the supply chain helps also to minimize food waste and food nice. The story from zimbabwe is an example of one way addicted contribute to environmentalists and good health but growing reliance on powerful computers and data states is also having some negative impact on our ecosystems with a growing number of Internet Users expected any think any time anywhere dicta lies ations ecological footprint will place a grettir pressure on a Natural Systems lets take a look at a few funds. Online activity is soaring and gigantic server farms are using more and more electricity digitalization is leaving a huge environmental footprint. Today its already responsible for 3 to 4 percent of Global Carbon dioxide emissions. Thats more than all the emus Waste Industry produces each year. Together Cloud Computing Digital Payment systems and online streaming require a huge amounts of electricity. During the current 19 pandemic millions of children and young people were affected by School Closures many of them had to take classes as well as socialize online. Now over 50 percent of the worlds population has access to the internet in 2911 the number of Internet Users group by 7 percent. If this trend continues digitalization will account for almost 8 percent of c o 2 emissions by 2025. On the cusp of the full Industrial Revolution an ever increasing number of processes are being automated in sectors like many fracturing and health care all that will require even more internet traffic. The Energy Transition to renewables is also a Digital Transition green Tech Startups are working on Energy Efficient Digital Infrastructure to make production processes and Energy Consumption more sustainable. Digital data helps us better understand Climate Change and other environmental impacts on our ecosystems. Intelligent Traffic Management not only reduces the amount of harmful pollutants on the streets but can help to prevent gridlock Digital Technology could. Reduce global c o 2 emissions by 20 percent. Digitalization can be green but we need to get more of our power from sustainable sources to prevent Digital Technology from further increasing harmful emissions. And not to another day get a solution in this era of mass produced goods you dont or is know exactly what you are buying a lot of course medics for example contain micro plastics but what can you do to avoid them. Well doing your best looks. Lets check the content of the products before they buy them. It can provide detailed information on about her to 1000000 different products maybe your sample isnt bad. The shelves of shops and supermarkets are lined with products packaged in plastic but there are micro plastics hidden inside some products too especially cosmetics so how can consumers stay clear of products containing the tiny bits of plastic help is now at hand with an app called coaching a barcode scanner and reveals a complete list of a product contents as well as an overall rating of its kind of friendliness. Great even the right sleeve based on experts like green peas. Are friends of the earth also we have our own Scientific Team who writes products based on latest Scientific Research available since 2016 the swiss startup developed the earth in cooperation with the Environmental Group friends of the earth. And in addition to cosmetics they can also be used to examine the ingredients in processed foods and cleaning products giving Health Conscious shoppers more confidence in their purchasing choices. And how about you if youre also doing your bit tell us about it visit our website or send us a tweet. Tag doing your bit. We share your stories. More on Digital Technology can be very useful in improving farming methods. You are young are going to invest in cote divoire has developed a way to deploy drones to make farming more efficient and also more environmentally 1 friendly his company has specialized in what it calls d for station agriculture lets go see that. These tomato plantation is morny tug no fly from one cause but they are drawn over an area the size of a small football pitch east told me born in point c. T. Over. The drone idea was launched by a local startup set up by. He wants to use the new Surveillance Technology to make traditional farming more productive and more sustainable and. Unfasten by example lets say a plot of land has an irrigation problem on one of its 5 fact thats something you cant make out with your own eyes but a drone can identify the area in question and that makes it easier to resolve the problem and of the time time increase your year. Will be when you know that youre and i mean really. After sitting off the draw news is its come into play at Digital Aerial ops these are entangling to a computer dont want the ground to take. Other issues on plantations its part of a new i. T. Assisted form of farming called position agriculture. This. Means that we can use the technology to determine exactly where plants are being affected by a disease and instead of treating an entire process off land we can focus on the specific area actually affected. Thats also good for the environment fewer pesticides mean healthier soil on less pollution on plantations. From a farm. Began working together with the startup about a year ago in addition to the environmental aspect he also sees another crucial advantage for his countrys agricultural industry. We have a lot of land and a lot of options for expanding off our land but its physically demanding market and very tricky to implement which has put a lot of people off farming but this technology is extremely efficient and it could also attend people back to farming. The. Much of the deforestation is done to provide space for huge new plantations ivory cost is the biggest cocoa producer in africa according to figures from the wild bank over the last half a century ivory coast has lost around 80 percent of its forests. Or buys of course that we are fighting deforestation a lot of farmers think they need to 20 i thought in order to ensure a big carving but we showed them how they can get similar with one hectare or just 5000. 00 square metres a little later the 2nd drone is ready to take to the skies it has almost 10 liters of liquid best to say than void which will be applied exactly where it is needed. Deploying drones also prevents damage to the plants roots from the heavy farming machines normally used. I reckon with one drone you can spray 2 hecht is in under 12 minutes with conventional means youd need an entire day to cover one or 2 hectares. He now has a dozen strong team of pulling stuff out on 40 customers already using the farms digitals leash and although attracting a plentiful wasnt easy and fast. The farming sector has been around for a long time when new technologies are introduced it takes a while for people to be convinced of the benefits with a cost of being a major fatah money timing from seed to harvest cost between food and 8. 00 housing news which for many farmers initially seems a big bow to the startups clinton now extending 2000000 senate gun that drones will be touching down father a few to. How much do you know about so warms yes they are caterpillars of them are native to china and i used to produce so for centuries more silk was produced in asia but over time the practice spread now and as a Climate Crisis is forcing farmers to find all the time it is to put crops so farming is giving popularity in countries like. Cyclones there are believed to have marberry trees and they are giving hope to farmers in kenya due to the extreme weather patterns of recent years you dont know we know has turned to say farming and this is the 26th the day and you can see the. Already spinning. Are making a point. You know what they have already reached this stage that people stage. Yes so as the as they spin we have asked our quince the former Senior Researcher at the International Center for insecure 0 knowledge and ecology started this venture and 2015 what is left for us. In form of corns we shall subject it to post harvesting processes that includes the flow shown. Of the book and you know removing their pupae inside so that we use the remaining part of it for producing the thread today you dont know we know owns our own 500000 margaret trees planted over 5 because. Many of the farmers in the region are following his example in a bid to find a profitable crop to sustain their livelihood there ditching traditional cash crops such as coffee maize or sugar cane we have been working. To develop technologies for this ilk so that we can give farmers their seeds and appropriate market tendering elations for. Their war we have been going about. Having farmers in groups calling villages where they can out of our collections and for their calls and we are linking their markets. Can you and your sick production amounts to our proximity to metric tons of dried cochrans but the potential is far greater the marbury trees whose leaves the warms it tyrant and resistant to the cord morcha synthesis pairing of silk worms for production of for silk or sorry culture is becoming increasingly popular as a result we have a potential for silk in the country and in countries where it is. Done isnt getting the production is in china it doesnt want to live in the used in japan. And in india it is india isnt doing well in the city so. If you lead kenya and continue to do. 96 is also used in the manufacture of skin products contact lenses soaps and proven organic products the National Sorry Culture Research center is country offering from a subsidy plans and mary berry cuttings are very subsidized rates and with the help of International Investors theyre also working to transfer money and help them identify markets. In a few 100 years ago come. To being the largest to see who could because poltava and the after that. We study that lot of say culture in the soup so now we have High Technology soup and. Take culture but we cant use it because. Its too developed and also the crime rate the crime rate in the kenya is much better. Japan to culture and bad doctoring to the changing climatic conditions small scale firmus like you to know we know how fond a way of sustaining their livelihoods. According to the World Health Organization about 2200000000 people out of all the world dont have access to save Drinking Water one region particularly hard hit the south tower of africa theyre married people can only dream of having won awards or anywhere near their home and it is for that very reason that after many years abroad engine ific do like a return to his native ethiopia to still want to talk in the Rural Communities in recognition of his own taunting saugus he was awarded an International Prize on the base here. Like many people in rural ethiopia this mother of 7 doesnt have a water tap in her home until recently she and her family had to fetch their water from far away but now a water tap has been installed on a field just one minute away from where they live. In the morning to be fetched water and then we were going to get in the evening and last year we started using the water nearby its cleaner and its improved our hygiene. In this region 250 kilometers west of ethiopias capital addis ababa 9000 new water points have been installed. They provide locals with access to a reliable supply of clean water. The project was initiated by mechanical engineer for a car to a lake. He spent 16 years in germany as a political refugee but returned to ethiopia to contribute to his countrys development and Nature Conservation efforts. I was awarded in the Political Activities also 1970 s. I had a problem with that region and then i leave the country and i came through germany as if you as i was about to finish it. And it was an agent of change in ethiopia and i told is it time to go home and with the people because you created people i mean. Its a country and nobody would help as a country there are now fewer cases of worms and bacterial infections thanks to the new system it benefits not only humans but cattle too. We used to fetch water and then lot and we had many problems now water is accessible close to our home and we have regained our health and the health of our children to. Meet the burden of fetching water is often carried by children and particularly girls this girl does it about 3 times every day reducing the walking distances to water points improves the lives of children in many ways if children are going to a distant place to teach walk up they dont have much time to do their homework because and it would not be in their school we send also goodness to its not the place to feature that and there would be we have used. And when it will fire forms at home another problem is logging trees a file for firewood or to make way for new fields the deforestation is a cause for concern you see. On the mountains there was a forest before 40 years. With no trees to secure the soil it washes away with the seasonal rains this phenomenon called erosion stops the water from being kept in the ground. To tackle the threat of the russian the government has the villages dig trenches in the fields not about it but what about it. The water from the field the above will flow into trenches this will prevent silent motion and also reduce drought. On mount and total close to address the terracing technique has already borne fruit that i can remember this Natural Spring was 1st discovered by clergymen working for emperor mentally in the late 19th century it was rehabilitated by fatah to a lakers team and now provides more water than ever. We still have to stand in line but the amount of water has increased a lot before the water wasnt clean of wild animals cattle and humans were all using like together. These young indigenous trees were also planted by the community during the last rainy season in part to counter the adverse effect of the eucalyptus tree which flourishes here i mean we can produce a fast growing through from australia there are clubs pre about 3 can up the street is draining much whatever from the ground whatever we have submitted an application to remove this one and replace it by indigenous trees so we can have more water. Even if drought and deforestation continue to hamper access to water in rural areas. Has managed to improve the water supply for more than 55000 people in ethiopia. Im afraid weve run out of time for today we hold given you some useful information on how odd it does have some positive benefits for both people and their environment will see a good healthy difficult times then take care and good bye for now for me now time in lagos nigeria. 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