The people and projects while making this happen hello welcome to eco india im sunk that im coming to you from my neighborhood in mumbai now 70 percent off from moving india still depends on agriculture as the main source of livelihood for us we were cut off from information on best practices in farming and this has brought you sub Optimal Results but a Development Organization is using the fall wolf acknowledging to empower was Small Farmers in bihar and help lift them out to fall with. The you know they can go from family to full make up its an unusual career jump but beyond that doesnt mean to come on made. His latest phone focuses on how to protect eggplant crops from parents i think theres a bit of an outcry that you have a very healthy. Use. Every 7 to 10 days to keep pests away many of. Whom are began to see that film could be a great tool for spreading information in his Community Farmers in bihar in North East India have struggled to cope but changing conditions as a result of Climate Change could mark felt there was a lack of information generally on how to deal with crop diseases and better fluctuations weve got. To do. These are might be might very easy to spot. Because. You have to keep a close watch. You can recognise 2 years ago. I was trained by digital green funded by the bill and Melinda Gates foundation and u. S. Aid among others if uses information and Communication Technology to increase the productivity of smallholder farmers at that building of information was disseminated to the community through the chart the purple of the flags and to those some other men will but when their. Attention came into existence. Then we have started with this. That and the purpose of that like it will be read in the information delivered a long time at the community saw the farmer sort in the other ministries can memorize the information the humus is delivered a long time and they can adopt they can use their technology for a longer time. The global Development Organization focuses on small and marginal farmers who own less than 2 hectares of land and who account for around 86 percent of all farmers across india many of them grapple with serial poverty in less than 4 euros a day digital green is supported by a state run organization known as. The Training Program is aimed at helping farmers adapt to. The problem in the past was the. If your farm was in quest of the best you had to 1st to spend money on tackling the best would invariably destroy your crops that again was an additional loss but if youre just planted up your field and there was on time the rains you would have lost money once again not that all these expenses are farmers are easily earning 25 to 30 percent more. When the benefits. Thats an estimate but cmon believe his work is having an impact because based around 1500. 00 rupees just under 18 year olds for his work he gets extra for each film showing for spreading the word. That the 35 year old is responsible for the content of each person. He works together with the digital green team to develop story boards and set up screenings in the villages. Today at a Community Meeting local women have gathered to learn about a new crop disease. According to oxfam india figures 85 percent of rural women in india work in agriculture and so they make up the majority of the digital green audience. The economic crap in my field is infested with pests and im unable to get a good price for it in the market is there a way to save our crops from this best financial aid. We recommend the use of for long crowds for this. Crap has a ph it would attract and when they come close they get. Good. Screenings followed by a discussion this discussion amongst fellow farmers is helpful in many ways. It gives people the reassurance that if a certain brokers has been successful in a particular place it is likely to work here as well it builds confidence in people yvonne farm implements a practice of the standard for all this helps in creating better practices whether. So far digital green has produced over 5000 videos viewed by millions of people across pardons of villages in india and her means is not the only one spreading the information. That team hopes that by treating more people like him other farmers will have the chance to adapt to the climate changing conditions to. Now we all know that we used as a big problem for our planet globally we produce around 2000000000 metric tons of municipal solid waste every year its an issue in india too but the good news is that Solutions Big and small are being implemented to tackle it head on we caught up with an Environmental Organization in delhi which is why king on different ways of reducing waste. Mountains of trash are among new delhis biggest problems. Half the cities we ends up in landfills like this one in east delhi. As they big in the north Indian Sun Hughes entered the docks and seep into the ground. Only around a quarter of an india as we is formally process. For a large part of the rubbish thats left indias Informal Sector of waste because step in. One such community lives in south. Where they collect trash and preserve things that they can use resell. They get a little recognition from the government but they form an integral part of the citys Waste Management system. Only him. Whos going to collect it if not us who dont take no responsibility for their own waste especially not the people who live in big houses if we didnt collect it would pile up in the street and stink so badly no one would want to go out signed if we stopped collecting it for 2 days everything wrong. Its estimated there are between one and a half and 4000000 waste because in india. They live on the margins of society with almost no access to education basic sanitation or state benefits. Nil by environmentalists the melinda runs an Organization Called switch. A few years into being a nonprofit jogger the idea to collect some of the abundant garbage in delhi and up cycle it ill give it a 2nd life with higher value. This commercial are mostly a chart is called green the map. Trash the pink has no life or no future and thats what we in the map and 3 child walks on right now apply can be used for a lot of things that we actually up cycle tire for example a lot of tire in india is actually born by you know. Thats very actually me interest wallets out of our those tires and to top out its been congesting our landfills for a long long time plastic similarly so we can be actually bring in Innovation Design and utility and and make some interesting product. Details from green the map. And more now i recently migrants to new delhi. Today they are visiting southern. A 2nd hand market to buy materials for an order they received. At this market you can get anything you need no matter what it is. Everything you need to make a bag from in a tire tubes for example like fittings buckles zippers thread you can get everything here. Moved to delhi after school when he couldnt find a reason to stay in his village in bihar his uncle had found a job a green them up and brought ali in to spare him the harsh life of a typical migrant which normally means menial labor and the. Green the mop employs mostly migrants like to work with with to give them a 2nd chance at a good life. Lots of boys from my village have ended up working in factories or on construction sites where they have to carry around the cement used to build high rises. Their jobs are a lot more back breaking my work is great. Im proud that im helping to reduce garbage making something useful from it instead of throwing it away. Proceeds from green them up going to switch environmental projects planting trees to clean the air and advocating for green policies. Job believe that the onus all timothy lies on the government produces almost 10000. 00 metric tons of garbage. Metric tons of garbage. Its also not my responsibility or our responsibility or community of. The economically practical but also beneficial. Has clearly done this many times before hes putting together his bike trailer so that he can lend it to a neighbor for free of course thats nothing out of the ordinary for him he regularly lends out his belongings. Garden equipment tools a childs mattress firstly friends. Neighbors these things so since thinking they wont have to buy them. I dont see this as being anti consumerist its about sustainability these things are used so rarely if you use something a lot then buying something makes increasing sense and. The 2 men got to know each other by and my neighborhood platform more than 1600000 users are connected to People Living in their vicinity maybe. People use it to lend and borrow stuff to swap information or to offer help. We have over 50000. 00 entries linked to lending and borrowing and the range of items is huge from a grill to a car seat to a bike trailer to a ladder to a hand cart so many different things. One and. They also offer Services English tutoring guitar lessons yoga all these things and more are exchanged at. The start of the set up in berlin in 2015 the portal is free of charge for users the Company Funds itself via donations and small ads placed by companies in the respective neighborhoods. Even some local authorities the platform to communicate with residents and a particular area. People have a whole range of Different Reasons for using the platform to often tend. To people increasingly live in smaller apartments they dont want to gather too much clutter and many people simply want to give Something Back to their community we believe that a few people give it makes them very happy and it strengthen social bonds when we borrow something from someone we come into closer contact with those we live right next door to. Me. By contrast. Never meets any of his customers. He offers high quality tools for one euro 50 an hour. You can preserve them by an app. Tool bot is built around the classic Business Model of the sharing economy where companies and money by renting items out for a particular period of time. Used to play a role held big youll Record Collection was and you needed your own card to get anywhere and if you had a lot of books in your shelves you possessed a lot of knowledge today we have with the pedia car sharing theres netflix and spotify what you have isnt important anymore its having access to things thats crucial and thats why the status of the role of belongings is different today. Anya shunts is one of his customers shes a dancer who travels around the world for work for small household tasks she borrows what she needs from tool bought an electric drill in this instance even though she could buy one if she wanted she managed to borrow use and return the tool but in an hour. When youre 50 is a lot less than the president and i can always come here and borrow it again. That means i can get it as often as i needed he. Is launching a crowd Investment Campaign to help him grow his business he believes his model could also work with other items and on an international basis. When. We have limited budgets and the amount of c o 2 we emit is limited to if we won people in emerging and developing economies to enjoy the prosperity that they deserve then we have to achieve this prosperity 0 carbon and eco friendly manner. That Consultancy Company you see believes that sharing economy revenues will have grown to 335000000000. 00 by 2025. Forecasts that predates the coronavirus pandemic. Despite social distancing the lock down actually. And his neighbors closer together in many ways redecorated the apartment of a neighbor who was killed and helped out with jumps all that for free. But almost 20000 species are bees in the world but best decides and privatise have. To bring for many years now in germany theres a growing community. Who are doing their best to keep the ball in me alive and bosie. Ed. The morning more dead bees can be found lying in front of these hives the pride and joy of amateur beekeeper flits cloud. Worker bees normally live for 6 weeks but heres a falling victim to a parasite brought into europe from asia. You have. Their feral mites destroy the bees nervous system to a point where they lose their sense of orientation that means theyre unable to carry out their tasks anymore even lose their ability to fly thats why the viral mind is a very very dangerous to be. Very. Is one of around 100000 amateur beekeepers in germany he and his wife took up the hobby 5 years ago in berlin. The number of his has risen in recent years and in lots of german cities including the capital there are many different b. Colonies living within an area of only a few square kilometers. That makes for a certain density but not be as they are now are able to cope. They arent starving i mean the problem. To make sure the bees do cope the amateur a. P. Arrests are helped by a veterinarian at berlins free university. Dr benedict pilot check gives regular courses on amateur beekeeping. Plywood he also instructs must be key to his at the university. Students learn all about the different types of be there are more than 560. 00 species in germany alone most of them are wild. Wild and solitary bees spend their lives alone they dont live in colonies so theyre exposed to different dangerous. The holy moly reserve the infamous parasite in the burrow might not solitary be. You know instead solitary be. I have the problem of nesting sites monocultures dont provide cites we really need more smaller fields and we need chemical free fields. Studies from europe and the us show that monocultures and pesticides are the main threats to be survival. With not a single chemical in tow biologist because i know her plants and they re of flowers in residential areas and. The project is funded by germanys environment ministry. Wild beasts only feed on certain flowers the more diverse the garden the more bees that can thrive here. We dont have enough spaces for flowers in the countryside and in cities that we have to help them are its not about honeybees vs wild its equally bad for all insects. Without bees nature is missing one of its most vital polonaises they are responsible for the propagation of hundreds of thousands of plants. Carriage more people in the countryside and the cities to get. Burning dried leaves is a common practice in many parts of india its easier and cheaper than disposing them as waste but the smoke released on burning is not only bad for our health but also affects the involvement we live in a. Our next report from before the shores resident is doing her bit to put an end to this practice in her city. It is the dry season in india away from the monsoon rains which give new life. Dried fallen leaves are everywhere you look. If you want to take a photograph. A large fraction of the generated in india. And because they are easier and cheaper to burn rather than send to a landfill. Exactly what happens. Is on a mission to end this practice she decided that she no longer wanted to bun leaves on her property. As a lion need fill up one day well that was my 1st question and then i realized then dating people not money is not selfish and we had a light and. The alternative was a simple idea. An idea consult and by profession. Leave. It to connects people who have drive those who need dried leaves like gardens. And use the resulting mixture as a sort. Of the new started using brown leaf after she read about it in the local newspaper. Im a good cultural scientist herself but one of them awarded using a standard sword which often needs to be transported from its place of origin and used compost in a step. I was already in place but only. Time i feel i like to pull or the 3 are going to do so. And the least i can do through the brainsick what. Do we. Do those work is completely voluntary she receives no outside funding in the right conditions dried leaves the compose they can be mixed with other by waste and then as for the lies of a new plans the municipality of benefits from the book she does. If we should do what we should the. City generates 2100 every people their mother with whom to collect this we transport it for 70 kilometers to the landfill is a big dont we are unable to make more than one trip because of the jeff it used to. Leverage us but. I like the idea that the he gets our way then we are there are some in the community who need this and if you could make them to those who have it thats whats truly marvelous and thats the board and he would just have people know he said the large i need my head up one of our team by him. With what she has learned from brownlee the order also started. Which translate to living there for. A spot of the initiative she brings together the citizens of over the weekend to clean the move whatever the surface of which is covered with water hyacinth a week which could destroy the marine ecosystem if left unchecked. Oh if you look at old system so there is no concept of always so what therefore you should make it it is going to remain here for a while and so we have a good flame war group board if you know the what. A dedicated and one mentalist sees herself as the catalyst for cleaner greener and believes the brown beef and not only the big. I hope you enjoy to this show and had many takeaways from it each one of us has a role to play and how habitable up that it is and what we leave behind for the generations that will follow i leave you with that part and see you next week until then good bye. Its quite as simple as it seems. To understand the world better we need to take a closer. Experience knowledge tomorrow to. Respond to developments. In the. Climate change. Most of. What i fear is today the future. Of americas cities the making it. Clear. This is some notes story a stubborn rice farmer from thailand. His problem tests. His credo no chemicals. His wife thought it was crazy. And i bought ducks. And his plan was. To step in. Step out. Orders. The students are good tests step. Chance. The prices driving the suckers free to the finest and production to top it off. Training successful. Judgment. Starts june 27th. This is news life from a victory for polands euro skeptic president. Wins a 2nd term scoring a narrow victory over his e. U. Friendly challenger does the conservative win mean for the countrys next 5 years also coming up a scolding for tourists flouting pandemic rules on spains party are that my old car the German Health minister wants that wrestling could lead to a 2nd wave of cronenbergs texts. The virus is also ravaging croatias chewers minute