Simple and green aqua farming in South Africa | Eco Africa | DW | 02.08.2018

Visit the new DW website

Take a look at the beta version of dw.com. We're not done yet! Your opinion can help us make it better.

Go to the new dw.com

We use cookies to improve our service for you. You can find more information in our data protection declaration.

More info OK
  1. Inhalt
  2. Navigation
  3. Weitere Inhalte
  4. Metanavigation
  5. Suche
  6. Choose from 30 Languages

Eco Africa

Simple and green aqua farming in South Africa

South Africa is in the midst of a severe drought. After seeing wasted water at her parents' fish farm, a 16-year-old girl developed a simple and effective system that saves water through plant purification.

Watch video 03:45

More in the Media Center

Shivday Kumari, 13, washes her face at a handpump. Elevated handpumps, funded by the local government in consultation with UNICEF and local field partners Bihar Sewa Samiti, ensure that villagers can access clean drinking water even when floodwaters would normally submerge ground level pumps. Photo: Catherine Davison/DW Oktober 2020

Living Planet: What's water worth? 25.03.2021

Eco Africa Sendung am 01.07.2022. bamboo1 This week on Eco Africa we see how dams in Lesotho are leading to local unrest, visit communities in Uganda using bamboo to fight floods and see how a designer is integrating solar energy into life in the Netherlands. Kurzteaser: On this Eco Africa: Contentious dam building in Lesotho and shoring up riverbanks with fast-growing bamboo in Uganda. Eco Africa, environment, rivers, dams, water, livelihoods, design, furniture

Shoring up riverbanks with bamboo in Uganda 30.06.2022

DW's Eco Africa

Eco Africa — The Environment Magazine 23.06.2022

Vorschaubild für Eco Africa Sendung am 24.06.2022 This week on Eco Africa we see how drones are being used in Rwanda to deliver animal health products to rural farmers, we visit some backyard garden in Ghana and we have a look at agroforestry in Ivory Coast. On this Eco Africa: Backyard gardens in Ghana, composting for Dakar's city dwellers and drone deliveries in Rwanda.

Backyard gardens empower women in Ghana 23.06.2022

More from Eco Africa

DW's Eco Africa

Eco Africa - The Environment Magazine 30.06.2022

Eco Africa Sendung am 01.07.2022. bosquet This week on Eco Africa we see how dams in Lesotho are leading to local unrest, visit communities in Uganda using bamboo to fight floods and see how a designer is integrating solar energy into life in the Netherlands. Kurzteaser: On this Eco Africa: Contentious dam building in Lesotho and shoring up riverbanks with fast-growing bamboo in Uganda. Eco Africa, environment, rivers, dams, water, livelihoods, design, furniture

Water supply: a global problem that needs global solutions 30.06.2022

This week on Eco Africa we see how dams in Lesotho are leading to local unrest, visit communities in Uganda using bamboo to fight floods and see how a designer is integrating solar energy into life in the Netherlands. On this Eco Africa: Contentious dam building in Lesotho and shoring up riverbanks with fast-growing bamboo in Uganda.

Creating water from air 30.06.2022

Eco Africa Sendung am 01.07.2022. solar This week on Eco Africa we see how dams in Lesotho are leading to local unrest, visit communities in Uganda using bamboo to fight floods and see how a designer is integrating solar energy into life in the Netherlands. Kurzteaser: On this Eco Africa: Contentious dam building in Lesotho and shoring up riverbanks with fast-growing bamboo in Uganda. Eco Africa, environment, rivers, dams, water, livelihoods, design, furniture

Solar designer furniture 30.06.2022

Read also

This week on Eco Africa we look at how greenhouses are helping farmers ensure sustainable food production in Mogadishu, how Nairobi is investing in electric public transport, and how to get the community involved in recycling.

Somalia: Greenhouse Farming to Combat Climate Change 06.05.2022

Farmers in Mogadishu have switched to greenhouse technologies to boost sustainable food production, reduce water consumption and protect their crops from drought.

April 13, 2022, Dollow, Jubaland, Somalia: Halima Ismael Ibrahim, a single mother of ten children, left home to search for aid during Somalia s drought. Dollow Somalia - ZUMAs197 20220413_zab_s197_069 Copyright: xSallyxHaydenx

Countries worst hit by climate crisis demand rich countries pay compensation 10.06.2022

The world's most climate vulnerable countries — often also the poorest — want rich, high-emission nations to pay for climate damages. But what exactly could such funds do?

South Africa: Fighting Plastic Pollution on Beaches

South Africa: Fighting Plastic Pollution on Beaches 08.04.2021

On this edition of Eco Africa we see how a group is trying to bring migratory birds back to Burkina Faso, use some eco-friendly soap from the Cape Verde Islands and vacuum up plastic on South Africa's beaches.

A Somali farmer walks within desert locusts in a grazing land on the outskirt of Dusamareb in Galmudug region, Somalia December 21, 2019. REUTERS/Feisal Omar

COP26: What's at stake for Africa? 28.10.2021

Africa contributes minimally to climate change but bears the brunt of its consequences. For the continent, the UN COP26 climate conference is about vital funding and securing the livelihoods of 1.4 billion people.