Shalyn and i will be bringing you the latest exciting environmental stories from all over africa and europe now heres a bit of what weve got lined up in gonna go gold mining is endangering not just the land but children and animals well tell you why. In the include africa interview kenya an environmental activist and im a cultural policy expert coming guy talks about the impact of Global Warming on Food Security and how we. Look you know a little woman who saw the project as providing many villages with renewable electricity. Gonna run some long africas largest gold produces many young people in the country have to gold mining often illegally the activities of the small scale miners the socalled golomb says endangering the countrys. Arment and Natural Resources polluting reversed and famines as well partners of nature africa a local ngo is carrying out forestation and we have a nation of sites destroyed by the government says activity the aim is to restore the natural and fragile state of the land and improve the livelihoods of people in the region see how this works. Yeah it is much closer. Every morning i question and hes full of it i guess water this more plantation he works as a volunteer for the tree nursery at the manasse close by the District Capital must see these trees symbolize local peoples hopes. Only a few months ago machines rampant here he began Gold Prospecting dominated the dunce cap for years well to ghana. The gold rush lived in its wake. The part of nature africa in general is nothing that ravaged countryside back to life its volunteers feeling the abundant beats planting rubber trees teak or mahogany they are instead the wants to make the land are able again put money forced to move far says these fledgling forests we offer our fresh start for those who once plant here for good you might all be syria but we are called we need to live the peats so other of these i came here then we reclaim it then after the reclaiming we dont know how to rejuvenate how come we rejuvenate its eerie judit through by planting like right now after that sadr mahogany and marie off and do antic as well so right now almost four months now and august at that plant and and is doing very well so is this is this area. That you tend to see if you come in forests in the near future. Nance illegal gold mining alum say meaning gather in sell most of the workers most of the gold out on the banks of us excavates the peats the art is rent out with water until it leaves the gold dust settled on the bottle. And anyone gets rich doing that middlemen rake in all the profits. The process involves much yury toxic middle poisons the fish in the rebus plants ouida if you did want to mix people heal. And it is used what a field beats going to be little drops. In the instances where children fell into those peaks and died by the time we came the person was theyd had to drain the water to recover. Seven people have died in this way here on this component of the medicine lying. In their dicks support comes from the gun and government which has just banned private a good perspective in future it says good production will be strictly regulated. Young people are also being retraining programs to help them leave the industry. And the destruction it cost still remains reforesting of us hope that. The immediate benefit is for people within this community who do not have jobs they will get jobs because of these trees the latics is used to make robots and when it is much the treat self going to be cut for timber even the government will benefit. So far the project hasnt gone beyond the pilots to age i want to believe he is out of beneath the forested i have up but not of nature of it up against repair all of the gun us divest it in a gold mine biggest city and. And now over to you sharon on the other side of the continent a man in uganda has built his own fitness device he is sixty four years old and once a stay in shape thats understandable but what i dont understand xan is what it has to do with the environment well in this case it has to do with clean energy the machine with its inventor calls johnny is not only good for his health its also generates electricity to meet his daily needs lets see how john people is doing his baits for them betterment. Pedal power. Nearly eighty percent of ugandans have no access to the power grid. But john cooper has found a possible solution. He likes to stay fit by riding his exercise bike. It struck him that if you connected it to a generator he could produce electricity. Three hours of pedaling yields up to five thousand watts but it only takes a few minutes to run his t. V. For hours. The electricity is stored in a battery. So its ready to use whenever needed. He can also ride the bike to pump water. Junker says it could be installed across uganda a benefit for everybody in the country. If you like that but. If you are also doing your bit tell us about. This is the web site or send us a tweet. What do Climate Change and forestry have to do with each other its a good guess today well tell you catherine. Seeds are a Global Research partnership for food secure future in nairobi how many goals how to protect the most vulnerable in society from the effects of Climate Change and how to convince people in africa that they themselves will have to take action against Global Warming we caught up with the kenyan environmentalist. Made his move i think what im going to tell you about the impacts of Climate Change is going to be focusing mainly on the Agriculture Sector and in riches and also how this affects the Food Insecurity nutrition. Components of the country. I can no longer predict when the rain is going to fall and this has affected our farm in activities so the farmers do not know when they can farm when they can plant their crops when to harvest and. This has been has been quite a challenge for the farmers so the impacts have become more extreme so when the trains the rains have become when it becomes dry the dresses owns are now becoming and theyre lasting longer and all these have have an impact on the small holder farmers and also to some extent the commercial farmers. Generally mean you find that women have a huge route to play in terms of taking care of the family needs. So and even when we look at the smallholder farmers in kenya you find that most of them are women to some extent also youth but in this particular case when we look at it from the women perspective we find that theyre the ones who bear the brunt of Climate Change for example if theyre the ones who have to provide water for their families you find that they have to go walk father to look for water to get their back to the family we have the issue of rural urban migration and in most cases its a man young man all the men who tend to migrate so they leave their women behind and the women are the ones who have to continue to get to continue their agricultural practices. Even. Go back into get out the other side just a difference to two. To test livestock sheep and goods that are also resistant to Climate Change and also can be a source of foods we also encourage them to do. You know to plant different kinds of crops on their farms so they have a diversity of crops so if one crop field at least that able to land on another crop as a source of food. You eat the. Meat. In most cases you find that they have a close relationship with nature and also so theyre able to give you know in terms of indigenous and local knowledge women are able they can be our sources of this kind of information women are also not cherry in nature theyre also good at i dont doesnt adaptors of claim its no claim its my technologies and practices so we find women are very. Willing to learn new things so and they share information so its a woman attends a meeting where she goes back home will find that shes good and then. Even the children what could have transpired in the meeting its important to involve them in you know. Were discussing Climate Change and built on time with what to do. A great woman with a Great Mission that will hopefully resume it in africa and the world and that includes europe because farmers there are facing big challenges now to become tell us more yes and i wont try in germany alone mass livestock farming produces two hundred million cubic meters of liquid money every year it is used as natural for it lies on filled out its transported a long way by trucks and ships to regions a lot fertilizer which is not only costly but bad for the environment so people are thinking about how to better integrate i mean more husbandry and crop growing that would help bring the natural cycle of food and fertilizer back into balance and there is a way that science can help. Farmers across europe might want to use free of charge liquid manure instead of expensive artificial fertilizers but due to declining livestock breeding it has to be transported from farms over considerable distances thats where these researchers in stuttgart come in theyre developing a technique to make manure use more efficient they want the advantages of natural fertilizer without its ecological drawbacks really and head serious fuel valid manure contains a lot of water and transporting waters expensive on the other hand there are regions with an insufficient supply of nutrients so we have the idea of extracting the nutrients from the liquid manure and then transporting them elsewhere to other regions. And. The team has already conducted successful tests in a pilot facility the manure is slightly acidified to help separate the nutrients from the the liquid. The solid elements are filtered out. First the valuable phosphorus is extracted in the form of a phosphate salt. The ammonia a nitrogen compound is turned into the fertilizer ammonium sulphate. So just how the method works is of course a trade secret. And products are a clear liquid and an odorless powder. Weve managed to obtain products from the liquid manure this is ammonium sulfate which is a nitrogen fertilizer we also phosphate salts and we can also granulate these minerals to make them easier to apply on fields. Its convenient for the farmers but what about the quality of the recycled fertilizer. Its a question answered by a team at the university of. They use a wide range of mixing ratios to conduct a greenhouse experiment under controlled conditions. You know how we have hide the fertilizer from the manoora to a variety of plants in this case raw grass and we compared the effect with conventional phosphate fertilizer as as a reference we use to control pot with no fertilizer and here you can see how similar the plants look like theyre bigger and greener than the unfertilized ones that included the fact as do you want to do that however was merely the first phase after all farming doesnt just take place in green houses. We did field house was silent maize and winter wheat on here and hohenheim and with projects partners in spain under different climatic conditions in both cases the recycled manure worked just as well in practice as a mineral fertilizers in the n. B. A. So it could just be a matter of time until Livestock Farmers take to recycling liquid manure thats for fun learn some method is not yet profitable in terms of the product of in that on but bearing in mind how much money farmers spend on disposing of liquid louer it is an investment that will pay off. And be invested c. On. All parties stand to benefit lower costs less foul smelling slurry on the fields and fewer nitrates and other harmful substances in the soil and groundwater. Well about forty four million tons of electronic waste is generated every year well watched and a lot of it ends up in africa not only that its often illegally trade at and that poses a threat to the environment and Public Health rwanda wants to change that the government has opened up a pilot recycling plant by electronic waste well guess what thats just the beginning. When a computers life comes to an end its remains end up in the press the new electronic waste plant in books or in rwanda has already processed lots of dead computers and theyre aiming to boost their output the Rwandan Government has made recycling a priority it has gained a reputation in africa as a pioneer in the field of Green Technologies and has its own Green Climate fund it provided financing for the Processing Plant the fund invests in both public and private projects that aim to develop a sustainable economy and rwanda was one of the first green funds that was set up in africa and rwanda was one of the first countries to be accredited by the Green Climate fun which is the International Climate finance institution and really the fund is a demonstration of rwandas commitment to green growth environmentally Friendly Development and the waste is a really tangible this facility is a really tangible example of that and not all of the computers sent to the plant end up being scrapped. Recycled components have so far been used to build some three hundred computers which were then donated to schools across the country the recycling plant certainly wont be short of work rwandans only one point five Million Computers and one hundred fifty thousand t. V. Sets the facility has already processed one hundred twenty tons of waste says project manager Olivier Berra we have been testing and commissioning or the machines and so on so we have been able to collect those one hundred twenty but in the next period thats where we envisage to call it a lot of fun to tease the waste facility doesnt just recycle scrap products it also creates jobs there are more than thirty collecting points in rwanda and that works stuff by some two hundred people and its the public place along then the recycling program could grow to create works one hundred small. One of the challenges. Is emitted awareness people are not yet aware because its a new facility and. There is more attachment on the kit many people dont want to do this if its a computer that you have been having for it was too fast computer that you dont want to go to it is it but its its very dense of us to also those. And those. Other companies are also on board theyre interested in the role materials inside the Computers Like the copper in the cables some elektra on it components on materials like plastic can also be reused or recycled the Rwandan Government is trying to boost computer usage this factory is response to the Environmental Impact of the digital economy. And so on this show here is another positive example. How to help the environment and the people of a country the sign from book enough a very impressive story right absolutely we met with prince says abs yes shes a real princes how foundation in book in a fossil brings Renewable Energy to towns and villages this Solar Energy Devices that are distributed around the country i called my lights we visited the woman who is making it all possible and improving the lives of many families eco hero of the week. Is a three hour drive from book enough asos capital. Just a few years ago starting at night was very difficult here. Now every child in a small town has a solar powered light thanks to princess the founder of a social enterprise but facilitates access to sustainable energy. And shes a popular figure. It will be dont forget that you are the best you are the best the best. Player. Most people here are able to pay off the socalled mama light in six months that with. The princess says the one thousand lamps are transforming life for the children here. Says. The aim is that these children who have to go barefoot to school should learn that they can be proud that they can make it and they shouldnt give up no matter what difficulties they should this be if i can do it they can. See me one. Last time i told them look i came by car if you are. Card then youll build roads a maybe even after year olds and land on them if you have a city a. Princess adds a wants to see how the kids are getting on. The childrens graves had improved thanks to the solar lamps says that teacher. When we got the lights we were very happy. And used to have children doing our homework by torchlight and when the batteries ran out or the torch broke they couldnt continue working though that you dont love me but since getting these lamps when i asked them a question about what weve learned all of their arms should have. Been suddenly they can all tell me the answer. Prudie. In rural book enough most people live from livestock or arable farming. Most of the work is done by hand. Very few people here can afford electricity there are just a couple of generators. Without the mama lights such close work could be difficult thanks to the initiative you can also see small solar panels hanging at almost every window they recharge the lamps. The lamps can provide light for eight hours with one charge some last even longer it allows us to do what we want the children benefit in particular the women the mothers are really happy as are their fathers. The lamps really made a big difference for my going and going to show you my gosh what it printers observed decides where to distribute the solar powered lamps in consultation with village leaders and. Their already hundreds of thousands of mama lights across book enough and there are more to come. The princess came up with the idea when she was travelling with her family. That. I was in camps or village with my daughter cammie whos now twenty and it was pitch black and i thought to myself that with the technologies we have today with solar power for example we must be able to adapt them to different contexts and change something we just have to work at it and then it just went click. Princess args is often on the road at home and also internationally as the president s special envoy for Sustainable Development goals and Climate Change she frequently confers with the countrys environment minister recently opened