Climate change has disrupted weather patterns across the globe, destroying farmland and increasing pest outbreaks. As a result, both the livelihoods of farmers and food supplies have been pushed to breaking point. earthrise sets off to South Africa and Nepal to see how some newly developed solutions are helping farmers to produce food for a […]
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By 2050, the world will need to feed an additional 2.5 billion people living in cities. Yet as the demand for food rises, the amount of land available for agriculture in developed countries is expected to decline. In Japan, at the Fujitsu factory of Aizu-Wakamatsu which still manufactures semiconductor chips for computers, a different project […]
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Subscribe to our channel http://bit.ly/AJSubscribe Subscribe to our channel http://bit.ly/AJSubscribe On this episode: The Scottish islanders leading the way in energy self-sufficiency; the residents of Arcata City in California who flush their toilets with pride; the man turning the Jordan Valley green again; and gardens in the sky in the Big Apple. Video Rating: / […]
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Subscribe to our channel http://bit.ly/AJSubscribe In the early 20th century the American city of Detroit was a booming industrial powerhouse and world leader in car manufacturing. But since the major car companies closed their factories, more than a million taxpayers have moved out of Detroit, leaving behind more than 100 square kilometres of vacant land, […]
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Subscribe to our channel http://bit.ly/AJSubscribe The Sahara is creeping into the verdant southern Africa. To counter desertification, the Community of Sahel-Saharan States has launched the Great Green Wall, a project to create a tree belt across the continent coast to coast through 11 countries. At Al Jazeera English, we focus on people and events that […]
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