Irish potatoes

Theme pack

The theme pack includes six items from our Resource Packs: two backgrounders, one interview script, two dramas, and one other item. The backgrounders are also available in Hausa. The theme pack also includes six Barza Wire Farmer stories.

Backgrounder

• Production of Irish potatoes
• Post-harvest management of Irish potatoes

Interviews

• Growing potatoes brings increased income to farmers in Kabale, Uganda

Drama

• Be a hare, not a hyena: Growing standards for hard-working potato farmers
• Mr. Bana’s mill: Quality standards for fresh potatoes and cassava

Other

• Diffused light storage for seed potatoes

Barza Wire stories

• Burundi: The queen of seed potatoes
• Madagascar: Farmers grow potatoes to fill the rice gap
• Tanzania: Good planting practices improve Irish potato harvest
• Kenya: Struggling potato growers sign a new deal
• Zimbabwe: Potato farming offers hope to HIV positive farmer
• Nigeria: Farmers adopt recommended practices to manage late blight in Irish potato

Resources in Hausa

Backgrounder

• Noman Dankalin Turawa
• Kula da dankali bayan Girbi

Resources in Swahili

Interviews

• Kupanda Viazi kunaongeza kipato kwa wakulima wa Kabale, nchini Uganda

Barza Wire stories

• Tanzania: Mbinu bora za kilimo za boresha mavuno ya viazi

This theme pack is supported by a grant from The Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH (GIZ) implementing the Green Innovation Centre project in Nigeria in partnership with AFC Agriculture and Finance Consultants.