India over the next 30 minutes im going organization in the morning is creating a market for farmers to do so little and produce a start up in delhi gonna is future proofing Small Farmers with technology and Sustainable Farming practices and how the group of storms 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 whose able to jump through the hoops of extreme weather events and lack of robust policies that could drought. She has to think about selling her produce not to make a profit for savings but the big 4 seeds for the next crop and to feed her family a pony based organization is helping the local farm was tackled this head on. I got muddled on the 23rd of february 1998 and lost my husband after about a year i have a son i used to work on a farm where i would get about 8 150. 00 rupees 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. The life of harder leads today would have been unimaginable just a few years ago. A gritty still far from the sun them their district of maharashtra making ends meet was difficult. Today she owns a house can afford her sons education and rides her own bicycle to a factory where she works as a big. The cooties in crackers produced here not the average voter i. D. s. The dough is made using hyper local grains so its directly from small landholding farms in the district. The production prepared and big buy to the women like anita. And natural snacks free from preservatives they find flaws and i did they are marketed and sold by a startup called happy to. Put the idea behind the product was that on one hand we had this amazing treasure off in the gin is going to ins which are no longer being commotion you go and buy the farm was because there is no one to mine on the other hand the saw this huge trend people are demanding products and want convenient and i mean from the just end of millets and greens to be ready by nutrition so what we primarily saw that you know there is a demand and there is a supply there is no no in between and thats what we started the big. Socially conscious food is how happy to describe its productive its primary objective is to create a direct and sustain. Supply chain. The 1st step is to join forces with the farmer produce a company in the district called the raja 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 raja and beetles and not on individual farmers. Bays 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 micro rudy association off started associated with the Restaurant Industry off. And what we do is that they did that. As a Manufacturing Company on the going back to the farm was that we did that to connect them to the. Middleman 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. Every week the value that your Company Provides guidance regarding who we should get by doing it season and which Crops Mission to grow 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 happy to it has a network of 20000 Small Holding farmers across 3 states with a special focus in maharashtra. Every year they produce 40 dozens of cookies and crackers the big goods are sold in stores all over india. Over the next 5 to 6 years the company richest impact more than 100000 farming communities by helping create food supply models that are started the farms and at the consumer those. 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 received banks coming on next explainer will help you understand how exactly they work. Precious biodiversity 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 are 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 2017 Hurrican Maria caused Severe Damage in puerto rico farmers had lost their crops and they had no seeds to replant the university of puerto 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. This fire bad 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 in. Workforce is engaged in agriculture this means you solutions are required more than ever to protect their livelihood and future profit with the help of Sustainable Practices a new company which means farming in. The solution to reduce the crop by providing farmers with us. 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. How to put it thats the sign off at the hopelessness and. Despair and. Why would any farmer want their kids to come and fight me if this see that their fellow farmers. Need that kind of a hopeless and added. Start up from hyderabad is hoping to give the small holders a future by providing reliable crop yields despite the uncertain climate the company has developed a cheap module a greenhouse. In open feed if you were a few feet. Off water to grow one kilogram of vegetables inside of. Just one liter thats one aspect farmers find a great value with this greenhouse right 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. Katies founder such drug who had been looking for a way to help indias farmers since he was a teenager. I wanted to make it a bit and using some words and we were playing cricket in the fields so i saw a good distance. You know a father not eating something so that person must be like some 70 year ordered you know alina you dont mading some similar clothes like what im waiting with also with the winnie very close to actually see want to eat. It was actually. Once and does what he ordered words and its never left me he said my stomach doesnt nor that my pocket do them good. His team are working to make the greenhouse available to more farmers who are currently rolling out the system on 300 farms intel and ghana. Where hard core i mean there look you want to do something about farmers and farming for. Now say right where you where you 5 we were reached about a 1000000 farmers and i just at least 5000000 households you know with the kids you know its in a box 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 in our Climate Change activists have been seeing for us that are 2 degrees celsius rise in temperature change the earth as we know it didnt make a group of University Students from india studying ecology management in germany and theyre drawing up plans to practically implement all that theyre learning it call it back or like the idea of a climate resilient forest that is capable of withstanding a temperature increase. Because the 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 there is 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 buy right since 2016. Hes only ever wanted to study Environmental Science. 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 they were about the 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 leg the tiger state award in to have 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 bavaria and india together she spends a lot of time travelling between them. Sponsible 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. That 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 to do you everything so i found it really fascinating that they are actually in degree doing this. There are currently 40 Indian Students at the university of buy right. They benefit from the knowledge they bring with them says. 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. We 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. This happening and i would. Happier if more and more of these issues come into peoples 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 and 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 man in india the figure stands at 62 percent of american. Activists the systemic and patriarchal bias of the kinds of jobs women ought to be met with some women who are proving to be given changes by doing the jobs that are believed to be solely meant for men. Drives a taxi. To really weigh station. Or newspaper in your body. Everyone calls up are. These 3 women in jail or have jobs that are almost performed by men in india. Only 21 percent of women in the country work most of them. Said i mean as a small child she would help him she was just 8 when he died of typhoid fever and she took his business borrow had to support the whole family her 7 sisters and 2 brothers. If. Anybody but its not the most difficult thing is for any trades to protect the newspapers from getting that i have to look after them as if they were my children i never let my people. Sometimes street wise men with me and its extremely annoying but i give as good as i get. The level of order they will be able. Despite long hours working baro has managed to graduate from a private High School Administrators that allowed how come late after she had sold all her newspapers. But despite that success she still has a lot to contend with. But its ok its a challenge to work with my new theyre so different some custom to rely on me and there are people who refuse to diagnose who perform in a moment 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. A lot of people really. Borrow would love to leave this all behind and become a journalist. Chandra collars dream is that her 3 children go to university she started work at half past 5 had 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 hero a day 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 very tiring and. The daughter and 2 sons lived with their fathers mother after she has been. First round on a farm but then she decided to become a boarder herself because the pays better. Ahmed said the man might 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 her 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. Ok im a fair man. I founded a cottage to become a taxi driver i dont get it but my real colleagues disapprove they dont want to see women drivers. They do everything they can to bother me. They abuse me hit me make dinner get treated. And quite often attack might actually. The male drivers are unhappy with me. They create so many problems for me that i sometimes just dont know what to do in the yankee. Giant of a jungle. Whats more health is poor and she do struggles to make ends meet. Driving a taxi but now there is a stiff competition from right ailing Services Like an old home would have made a dog out of it i take pride in my work the problems i face said enough to break the moral of any of them and i but i have never given up at any moment in my life. 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