A market for farmers just so they dont produce a start up in telling gaga is future proofing Small Farmers with technology and Sustainable Farming practices and how a group of students are breeding the climate resilient forest in germany. But 1st to a story thats trying to change the status quo for farmers in india agrarian distress is at its peak in the country if a poor farmer whos able to jump through the hoops of extreme weather events and lack of robust policies that could drought proof to life youve heard she has to think about selling help produce not to make a profit or savings but the big full scenes for the next crop and to feed her family a pony based organization is helping local farmers tackle this head on. And i got mad it on the 23rd of february 1998 and lost my husband after about a year now that i have a son i used to work on a farm where i would get about 850. 00 to maybe once or twice a week the pay was never consistent i could not afford my sons school fees because i had to cover the Household Expenses but that money database. The life and heat up of harder leads to be it would have been unimaginable just a few years ago a crystal farm from the song im in a district of maharashtra making ends meet was difficult. She owns a house can afford her sons education and rides her own bicycle to a factory where she works as a big. Key. To. The kooky isnt crackers produced here are not the average voter i. D. s. The dough is made using hyper local grains so its directly from small landholding farmers in the district. The production prepared and big buy do the women like anita. And natural snacks free from preservatives they find flaw and i did if theyre marketed and sold by a startup called be true to. The idea behind the product was that on one hand we had this amazing treasure off in the gin is going to ins. Are no longer being commercially grown by the families because there is no one to mine on the other hand we saw this huge trend people are demanding products convenient and ive made from venus and of minutes and greens to be ready by in nutrition so what we primarily saw that you know there is a dim on and there is a supply there is no nothing in between and thats what we started. Socially conscious food is how happy to its like straw describe. Its primary objective is to create a direct and sustainable. Supply chain. The 1st step was to join forces with the farmer produce a company in the district called the rajah which could help bring marginal farmers into the network then supply heavy duty with grains and produce. That wasnt just to secure locally grown indigenous groups but also ensuring that the onus of selling the harvest rested on body roger and beetles and not on individual farmers. Spays its. Network of farmers between 30 to 50 percent more than the market rate for produce. We have developed a network with. A lot of people in the industry for example that associated with the mike through the association of model started associated with the Restaurant Industry of strain what we do is that the commodity that we are more absorbing as a Manufacturing Company we pass on the contracts to the farmers who do that you can make them to the Industrial Park not just. Apart from eliminating middlemen and ensuring fair prices one of the key objectives of the company has been to bridge the knowledge gap. Farmers know always know what they need to grow what is currently in demand. That your Company Provides guidance regarding who we should get by during its season and which Crops Mission that really helps us in the long run also because they have taken that is sponsored realty for selling about how to mr you feel more confident about cultivating those particular crops at happy to be operating you focus more on organic food which is why they give us more than the market price for our supply because of that farmers are happy doing with their seats and since we have paid on time it also helps us. Today how to do it has a network of 20000 Small Holding farmers across 3 states with a special focus on maharashtra. Every year they produce 40 duns of cookies and crush. The big goods are sold in stores all over india. Over the next 5 to 6 years the company richest more than 100000 farming communities by helping create food supply models that are started the farms and at the consumer those step. Now Market Economics are fundamentally changing cultures conducted worldwide produce that is in demand gets priority over other fruits vegetables and cereals what this means is a steady loss of biodiversity this is where seed banks coming next explainer will help you understand how exactly they work. Precious bio diversity is disappearing every day. As of now one in 5 of the worlds plant species is threatened with extinction a possible solution seed banks. So what are seed banks and why are they growing in importance. Theyre basically a cryogenic library for seeds providing a space where seeds of valuable plants and crops can be frozen until theyre needed for planting. Seeds occupy minimum space a seed bank can help preserve the genetic diversity of plants improve resistance to plant diseases and insects create resistance to drought floods oil spills wildfires and other calamities as well as provide seed material for research on how to improve crop yield nutrition. For example in september 27th teen Hurrican Maria caused Severe Damage in puerto rico farmers had lost their crops and they had no seeds to replant the university of parental rico distributed free seeds from its seed bank to small scale farmers and Community Gardens jumpstarting new Crop Production similarly in malaysia rice paddies were almost completely wiped out during the 2004 tsunami how did farmers start over seed bikes on the downside keeping seeds alive for hundreds of years can be a challenge seeds degrade over time and its difficult to predict how long they will last so seed banks need to constantly monitor a seed germination potential or in other words its ability to grow. The Starboard Global seed vault set in Norways Arctic permafrost is one of the Worlds Largest seed banks it has over a 1000000 seeds from all over the globe. Almost 50 percent of indias workforce is in gives an agriculture this means use. More than ever to protect their livelihood and future profit with Sustainable Practices a new company which means farming and has come up with a solution to reduce the impact of crop fields by providing farmers with. I took out a loan from the bank for the 2nd time i used it to invest in my crafts but the rains have destroyed all of them. The debts have accumulated so much that i cant breathe i felt that if i died at least then my wife and children would receive some help from the government so i attempted suicide by drinking pesticide of. Indias farmers are suffering from the effects of Climate Change extreme weather heat waves droughts and floods is destroying crops across the country putting the livelihoods of millions in jeopardy one farmer in every 42 minutes in india thats super disturbing because i think thats the. Thats the sign of hopelessness and. Despair and. Why would any farmer warn their kids to come and fight me if this see that their fellow farmers. Need that kind of a hopeless and added. Katie a start up from hyderabad is hoping to give the smallholders a future by providing reliable crop yields despite the uncertain climate the company has developed a cheap module a greenhouse. Open to feed if you use if you feed off water to grow one kilogram of vegetables inside. Just one liter thats one aspect farmers find a great value with this greenhouse write more with less water. Apart from the greenhouse katie offers other services farmers in the region can get advice on taking out a loan on choosing the right fertiliser or seeds. The aim is to make harvests more reliable. The yield here is higher with outdoor farming its very low if this were growing outdoors the crop would have been destroyed already by the rains. It would have been a total loss. So far the company has set up 50 greenhouses. Katis found such a drug who had been looking for a way to help indias farmers since he was a teenager. I went to make it a Better School during summers and we were playing cricket in the fields so i saw at a distance. You know a farmer eating something so that. You know meeting some similar it was like what im eating with also with when a very close to actually he want to. Exactly. One sentence what he told words and which never left he said my stomach doesnt or that my pocket is empty. And his team are working to make the greenhouse available to more farmers. Theyre currently rolling out the system on 300. 00 farms intel and ghana. Where hard toward me there look you want to do something about farmers and farming so. Now say right where you where you 5 we were reached a 1000000 farmers and touched at least 5000000 households you know with the kids you know some boss technology. In india most families still make a living primarily from agriculture now katie faces a major challenge lowering the initial costs of the greenhouse even further that will help the Company Reach more farmers across the country and help make farming for a living more sustainable here in the future. Shifting focus now Climate Change activists have been seeing for us that are too big he says just rise in temperature change the earth as we know it our team met a group of University Students from india studying ecology management in germany and theyre drawing out plans to practically implement all the learning at college back like the idea of a climate resilient forest that is capable of withstanding a temperature increase. Because students from the university of by right are in the forest checking up on their project. A few days ago they planted thousands of seedlings here in lots of different varieties to increase biodiversity and make the forest more resilient 29 year old Nicholas Bartha is pursuing a masters in Global Change ecology and the forest project was his idea. Hed already completed a masters back home in india in Environmental Science. After that he worked with scientists from europe and the United States when i worked with them i realized that there is a world beyond what we do in india so theres also a Global InternationalResearch Going around in ecology and sometimes they feel my knowledge or my capabilities or my skills arent enough or not compatible to them so i thought maybe for me its time to upgrade myself and get more International Exposure so that home he decided to be here. Has been at the university of by right since 2016. Hes only ever wanted to study Environmental Science. Right. Where i come from if if you heard about the jungle book so the forest of jungle book is lake about 50 kilometers from me so in 2011 and there were huge stories did the tiger population in india is declining and there were about only 1000 tigers left and i was really surprised because they saw the forest was like 50 kilometers away from me and my state was awarded lake the tiger state award in to have like magnum tigers and then we saw that the tigers are declining their population is decreasing and this was the 1st time i come to know what their nature is in trouble. An increasing number of students from all over the world are now coming to germany to get their degree because german universities have been expanding their International Study programs. There are courses taught in english which makes the universities attractive for International Students including indians. Brings universities and companies from above area and india together she spends a lot of time travelling between them. We responsible for arranging contacts for Research Collaborations and teaching exchanges. We also provide Financial Support for student exchanges. Because of the increase in International Study programs and University Collaborations within germany the number of Indian Students here has more than tripled in the last 9 years to 15000. He is one of them. She too already has a masters in Environmental Science from india but wanted to do another masters abroad. I wanted to study more about this communication gap between science and policy so i found this course and. When i was going through there. Everything so i found it really fascinating that they are actually in degrading this. There are currently 40 Indian Students at the university of by right. They benefit from the knowledge they bring with them says i. From the universitys international office. To the young. Students from india are very well educated so they usually have a very good command of the english language because a lot of education in india is conducted in english. Or. Another point is that they are very mobile this is very internationally minded and open for lots of different scenarios in terms of their careers but also of what it means to live abroad. And those folks at 1st. Want to go into research once they finish their masters but they both know that study alone wont save the climate. When you read news about like we lost this species some days ago so its also disheartening and i would be happier if more and more of these issues come in to be both focus and people Start Talking more about Climate Change species loss biodiversity. They want to help raise awareness about the climate also in india. To that end they intend to return to their homeland within the next 10 years. Now the Indian Constitution gallantries women citizens equality big nifty and freedom from discrimination yet like world the women employ makes less than the men in india the figure stands at 62 percent of american. Activists the systemic and patriarchal bias of the kinds of jobs women ought to do. With some women who are proving to be game changes by doing the jobs that are believed to be solely meant for men. Thing drives a rickshaw taxi. Is a boat and a railway station. Or you know newspaper in your bottom bizarre everyone calls up are. These 3 women in jet blue who have jobs that are almost a dollar you performed by men in india. Only 21 percent of women in the country work most of them in agriculture. Was also a newspaper said i mean as a small child she would help him she was just 8 when he died of typhoid fever and she took over his business borrow had to support the whole family her 7 sisters and 2 brothers. Have. A better but its not the most difficult thing is when he trades to protect the newspapers from getting that i have to look after them as if they were my children i would never let my papers get trashed sometimes street wise men beat me and tease me its extremely annoying but i give as good as. They were. Despite long hours working baro has managed to graduate from a private High School Administrators that allowed her to come late after she had sold all her newspapers. But despite that success she still has a lot to contend with. But its a challenge to work with my male colleagues who are so different some custom to rely on me and there are people who refuse to die in history of performing of women on principle i also feel terrible event boys make fun of me and you are just a Street Vendor its like a knife to her. Belly. Bar would love to leave this all behind and become a journalist. 100. 00 dream is that her 3 children go to university she started work at half past 5 and gone to another station her husband was also a station porter until he died of diabetes complications 12 years ago. When i started working at the station i earned less than a year already after why i was earning one or 2 euros a day i used to be extremely shy and hated haggling with my customers many passengers only paid me hof the amount i asked for in those days i used to carry luggage on my head because i didnt have a trolley that was tired. Her daughter and 2 sons lived with their fathers mother after she was videoed 1st work on a farm but then she decided to become a boarder herself because the pays better. I met the man my worry all the time im plagued by anxiety we lay on any money today what should i do what should i not do i work from early in the morning without eating or sleeping and i still dont earn enough to feed my children. Himmler tossing also has a very hard life when a husband left her 7 years ago for another woman she had to find a job and bring up their son alone she got a driving license and became the 1st female taxi driver in all of jeopardy. Gamester met. I found a cottage to become a taxi driver i dont get it but my meals colleagues disapprove they dont want to see women drivers. They do everything they can to bother me. They abuse me hit me make better get treated mark and quite often thats my addiction. The male drivers are unhappy with me. They create so many problems for me that i sometimes just dont know what to do and the yankee bought mosquito get john to wear junker. Whats more help is poor and she do struggles to make ends meet. Driving a taxi but now there is stiff competition from writing Services Like an old home would have made a bog out of it i take pride in my work the problems i face are enough to break the mold of any woman but i have never given up at any moment in my life. And i have accepted all the challenges of being a woman docu drama and its been melted away. And look all things are enough and 3 strong women trying to make their way in a world still dominated by men. I hope you had many takeaways from todays episode to follow us on social media and make sure to leave a comment about what you thought about todays show weve seen next week what. I hope. To be. The best. With the senses. Recognize. And experience the inexpressible. The cultural magazine. Of arts 21. G. W. If. Youre going to unofficial estimates more than 1200000 venezuelans live in colombia legally and illegally. Already at a local return to venezuela. 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