Another Interesting Program that Office Plenty of food for thought. Speaking of food pineapple plants dont just produce sweet and delicious juice designer from europe have developed a job of fabric from their fibers. Found in cameroon to use cooking oil is being put to good use to make so. We may be at crossroads when it comes to the food we eat concerns going over industrial farming monocultures and crossbones chemical fertilizers and additives interest in a guy named food is growing around the world here in africa plenty of people are gunning produce but so far distribution and sales tend to be local and small scale but a startup in morocco and maybe on. Something digital platform. Aims to make organic produce affordable to more consumers even of us Home Delivery using electric particles of course. These tomatoes and all the other fruits and vegetables here are organically grown without artificial fertilizers or chemicals thanks to shaun tan fake and from belgium and her team she used to work as a chemist for a Multinational Pharmaceutical Company then she decided to become a farmer in morocco id started to see if it was going to grow because she had a climate is quite different obviously and so everything grew so that was two years ago. I did a full tomato. Soup potatoes and i thought nice and so this is how it started and it became bigger and bigger she supplies produce too i mean slim and his company a piece that or greengrocery the online retailer delivers organic and Natural Products throughout america the country has no organic certification process so slim and he makes sure the farms he works with other real thing we try to to meet everyone that we have on the platform and whenever we can we also try to visit their farms their Production Units to see what the promise is really what people are getting of course this very house abuse. Of trust so far most customers are in casablanca where a p. C. That is based its motto is ordered in the morning delivered in the afternoon the driver buzzes around the city every day with a load of juices cosmetics and all of oil from organic farms his vehicle is also environmentally friendly and electric try sicko. The Delivery Service started a couple of months ago eight hundred people signed up on the very first day among them d. D. I saw some articles about the vets on internet and how was it occurring is to just to test it to try it and. What we now know we will hear much about issues of a court or motion and to try. Products that are not very good for health so i wanted something healthy i wanted to try. I mean slim on eva found identified a Business Opportunity here hed noticed that while more and more consumers were interested in organic and Natural Products almost everything had to be imported at high cost he realized it didnt have to be that way. That already has some five hundred local organic food and cosmetic products in its assortment. And the company does its best to keep the prices as moderate as possible healthy food should not be reserved for the rich. Its our Business Model who aims lower in as much as possible the price by cutting a cut in the middleman and by lowering the fees that. Vendors just to do a bare minimum thats way we can have a price on it basically thats and. Its this these prices we need to be able to expand their markets our goal is not to compete in the existing markets but suit to expand the markets and reach many more customers than already existing customers in the organic food markets moroccos economys been growing for the past decade at close to five percent a year but the new prosperity has brought new Public Health problems rising rates of obesity and diabetes more and more food is produced industrially the greengrocery wants to reverse that trend it works with about forty five organic farmers at the moment forty more will join soon for. Consumer demand is certainly growing. Today. Sr thats what europe was you know fifteen twenty years ago so we have a lot of. Food to catch up a little bit more advanced countries. A piece leave that is planning to want to deliver real goods from morocco to customers in europe as well but thatll take a while and the driver will have made many more rounds on his try sickle before the plan is implemented. But demand for getting produced goes hand in hand with the growing number of vegetarians and vegans do you know of a Meat Industry plays a major part in Climate Change no just think about all the forest that are cut down to create grazing land for cattle youre right in ca and what about the methane gas the animals release and all the other greenhouse emissions produced by the meat and Dairy Industries its unbelievable isnt it so what if everyone stopped eating meat what the world be better off. Abstain from meat and save the world. Whether classic vegetarian vegan or fruitarian are they really doing something to help the environment. Lets look at the data. Livestock farming has a terrible c o two for crunch. Consider the one billion cattle worldwide. Raising those cows produces twice as much Greenhouse Gases as is emitted by global air traffic. Plus the industry uses around three thousand liters of water for the production of a single beefsteak. Thats enough water to take a shower every day for three months. And raising animals for meat takes up an estimated thirty million square kilometers of space. If we all stopped eating meat tomorrow it would free up an area roughly the size of africa. In all of these ways mate really is terrible for the environment but its also relative for example buying an avocado thats been shipped halfway around the world is worse for the environment than buying a steak from a local farmer not least due to the transportation involved. So it makes sense to ask where is my food coming from in other words to make a difference you should eat things that are in season and that come from your region. So consume less meat and when you do eat check its origins thats often better for the environment than abstaining completely. Perhaps its time to come up with a new category of environmental hero the less meat or terria. Why does true that a lot of me to consume around the world most peoples diets are actually plant based of course not every part of every plant is edible but most pots are useful in the search for Sustainable Materials the fashion world has become amazingly results hold one european design and makes a natural textile from a very unlikely source pineapple leaves. The leather look is deceptive. The fabric used to make these fashion products is purely plant based that comes from the fibers of pineapple leaves and weighs just a quarter of what real leather what. British designer alicia lay has been using this is going to be made of natural material in her shoe collections for about a year now. Although it is a natural product actually you know its really very stylish its got a natural texture to it it comes in several different colors and its nice and soft and pliable its easy to take care of and you are both. The fabric made from pineapple fibers is called pinion tex and is made by the british start up on and on. Its founder a common you call son of spain spent about a decade developing the material before that she worked in the Leather Industry for fifteen years. Looking for a sustainable alternative to whether she experimented with bananas and are gobby leaves before she found going out. This particular fiber which is being used in the philippines for four hundred years traditionally to make very beautiful or very light takes dyes and i realized. Very very fine just very soft unfixable but also strong. Waste from the pineapple harvest on the philippines provides the raw material the farmers collect the leaves and separate the fibers using a special machine. When the fibers are dried in the sun from then a filipino factory produces a non Boulder Police like material which is coated with probably murders and bonding agents to make the pinion text robust and long lasting. About four hundred eighty leaves go into. Each square meter. When i started to where with the factory. They have never done anything like it because they were used to working and they still work with thing you know Petroleum Based fibers which are very much much easier that even stronger. And they took us a couple of years to come up to a mesh that wasnt forming a bit. In the meantime pena the eggs fulfils all industry standards and is ready to go on the market here in the pineapple room in london several designers display their products. Among some of the spanish firm be your bags. And the australian clock making company time for change. Well known Companies Large urban Sporting Goods manufacturers are also experimenting with the material customers seem to like it it comes from the earth and then it goes back and fear on the doesnt harm anything in between so you know its no chemicals are used when its made its natural so i think its grace i think its going to sink idea is something that we are using as an industry by that your wife was otherwise being received into a landfill to be made into shoes and bags extra things to idea. British fashion expert alison louis for on the fabric on usual and it drew her tension. As an investor she observes the fashion scene and supports start ups the place special value on sustainability. Trying to help shape the industry wont happen overnight but in time it will come to how these communities and countries in tibet countries become sustainable whats a lot of them are always with me trying to assert how and how to rebuild these communities safely and so i personally. I really dont know. All stages. On a sign on the ground or common he wants to continue expanding demand for properly fabric already exceeds what she can produce. Our next story is also about taking something thats typically tossed off to its initial use and turning it into something new and useful here either all material is cooking oil thousands and thousands of liters are dumped into sewage drains every day with severe consequences for the environment and cameroon entrepreneur odin bella found a way to recycle Waste Cooking Oil to make detergent and soap hes tackling a serious problem and doing his bit for the environment. Just like in other countries cooking oil is used throughout covering. Most of it and is up in the environment of to use. Thats causing big problems. Oh timbaland had a great idea. He turns the old oil into detergent. In two thousand and two he set up a Company Called bellot mom. Gather with former schoolmates he now bice waste oil from the service industry. Not a facility in the capital his team feels this big oil mixes it with water cocoa butter and coloring agents people pouring into molds to harden. Ones cue the product is cut to. Better mass so slim. Low income households and hospitals. Cost around twenty euro cents. Dollar wants to share his idea with this. Young people in neighboring countries county build businesses from waste oil. Sands protect the environment and the prices. But how about you if youre also doing your bit tell us about it. Visit our website or send us a tweet. We share your story. Our next report takes us to egypt a country that gets more than ninety percent of its water from the novel the river is a crucial lifeline for farmers as well as the people in the cities but many egyptians all worried about developments upstream anything. Whats really going on there well felicia a new giant dam in ethiopia is sparking concerns that not enough now waters will flow into egypt and that the plains along the river well dry out some initiatives trying to help the farmers find ways of conserving water before that happens. Close to twenty three Million People live in greater cairo and almost the entire population of egypt lives next to the nile the river is the countrys most valuable reservoir of drinking and Irrigation Water its egypts lifeline. In my life and i think in the whole egypt. Nothing. Was out. Of disaster a deserved. For me i was. Just like. Many fear that this lifeline will be caught when the grand ethiopian renaissance is completed upriver leaving less water for egypt. If you think. The water will get up and it will be if you will be effective for many years if you keep growing you wont have any problems. For. You will have a problem. Here in the nile delta canals and water are plentiful. But many people take the river for granted. The waterways a field with rubbish. Although egypt ready faces washy shortages families often use an ancient but being efficient irrigation method they completely flood fields. Cranks up his water pump. Experts say this Old Fashioned method of your geisha ends up wasting too much water. One solution would be to teach farmers like hassan how you can. So water shortages in the summer months are nothing new but the ethiopian death has become a convenient scapegoat. For the dam is already having an impact on this canal used to be fall and i didnt need a pump. Theres clearly less water now. Of the. Kids to nieman is from the German Development agency g. I. Z. The organization sponsors a farm school in the nile delta. Egypts population is growing rapidly adding two Million People every year thats a huge challenge for families who have to learn to grow more food with less force. You dont become lots of any drop in water levels will have an impact whether its because of the down population growth or Climate Change it will affect the soil and farmers have to learn to deal with that in order to secure the future so i think we have we need to get more more more of everything more housing more food more water. So less water was the same equation would be thats true for. Most of egypt is. One way to irrigate the land used for farming efficiently would be to use modern drip irrigation methods. Some local farmers alluding to implement this technique. Made the agricultural consultant chicks on their progress but some still have worries. All the. Way up. At the moment egypt imports around sixty percent of its food but the country cant afford even more expensive imports to compensate production losses due to lack of washington. As soon as the field p. S. Starts killing its New Reservoir there will be less water for egypt adopting new and more efficient irrigation techniques they give your only way for egypts farmers to survive. The city of the bar down in southwest nigeria is home to the International Institute of tropical ill call it your i t a this Nonprofit Institution generates Agricultural Innovations to meet africas most pressing challenges including hunger malnutrition poverty and Natural Resource the good ation it works it partners across the Subsaharan Africa so improve livelihoods and enhance Food Security amongst other things but just how do they go about this our next report tells us more. This looks like an ordinary masefield but its not its a test field of Research Institutes maize is a primary source of food in nigeria but harvests are often diminished because of the pests drought and poor handling of the International Institute of tropical agriculture anybody on scientists breed new varieties busy curling refocused on the developmental phase for anything types of meat and we try to keep. Her purpose for resistance to the video was these and pace the researchers analyzed different populations of maize and develop new strains that combine the best characteristics over the long term consequences of genetically modified crops could not be predicted they are confident this is a good way to protect the environment some of the pests can easily be true more truly useful. Insecticide but this is modern was still novel and you really wanted that doesnt mean that this. Course was in the environment so when we created. These stresses and pests we reduced. The need to apply. It in certain sites. The ita has also set up a Training Program for Young Farmers several thousand have already attended the courses which take between three and nine months. They not only learn how to plant and harvest but also how to select the best seeds types for the specific conditions where they live. A mystery and power farm is an enhanced a knowledge and skills. To get a lot of theoretical teaching in school that does not give us insights into what our records are really today im so excited because i also get to privileged to talk to young people about this and i dont speak to them like our lecturers used to do i speak to them from the practical point of view bringing economics into what they do and how they can actually become their own boss the training courses are relevant to many different kinds of farming former students peter it all started a fish farm four years ago he breeds around fifty thousand catfish. The entrepreneur has managed to make his business not only profitable but also sustainable. I mean if you did and you said what dont you do also so i thought it was a. Pretty good Family Business that was coming from the point you can use it to grow thanks to both organic the i t n eight aims to help farmers in nigeria produce more food while minimizing the negative impact on the environment and contributes to Food Security in africa. Rob sub this weeks i dish and of eco africa if you want to find out more about the topics we covered on todays Program Visit our website or social media pages. Signing up from the fossa back in Lagos Nigeria i look forward to seeing you again next week and ill go for you to felicia banks and he yes do be sure to join us again next time for more reports on Environmental Issues and best practice additions for now its good bye for me felicia and as we enter hannas back south africa. Go. To. 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