Script
Radio spots
UNDFF campaign radio spots – part one
*New*UNDFF campaign radio spots – part two
Broadcaster how-to guide: How to create radio spots
Backgrounders
UN Decade of Family Farming
Gender inequalities in land rights in Africa
*New*Agricultural cooperatives issue pack
*New*Broadcaster how-to guides
How to create effective programs about markets and marketing
How to interview experts: Best practices for broadcasters and experts
*New*: Profiles of regional producer organizations
Pan-African Farmers Organization
Eastern Africa Farmers Federation
Regional Platform of Central African Farmers Organizations (PROPAC)
La Via Campesina
ROPPA: Réseau des Organisations Paysannes et des Producteurs Agricoles de l’Afrique de l’Ouest
Interview scripts
- Protecting farmer innovations and traditional knowledge
- Farmers triple sorghum yield thanks to mulch farming
- Chicken hatchery: Innovative farmer invents large-capacity kerosene egg incubator
- Women’s right to land is necessary for community development
*New*
- Marketing farm produce
- It’s better to sell together. The benefits of collective marketing
- Improved Market Information Services programs increase farmers’ income and knowledge: Part One & Part Two
- A glut in the market: How supply and demand affect prices (Note: This is episode 2 of a 5-part series called “To Market, To Market.” Find the “other episodes, and more resources on marketing, in this package about post-harvest activities)
- Co-operatives introduce the ‘Trusted friend’ approach to microfinance in northern Ghana: A sure way to fight poverty and hunger
Drama scripts
Beans, a family affair
*New*Together we stand: agricultural cooperative society
Farmer stories
- Senegal: Young farmers sharpen their skills on Kolda farm
- Ghana: How Hikima Kadiri defied the norm to become the first woman in her region to obtain a tractor license
- Ethiopia: Women’s co-operatives in rural Ethiopia give women ownership of land and equipment (City Press)
- Tanzania: Women continue to grow beans despite gender challenges
- Rwanda: Women boost family health with backyard vegetable gardens
- Burundi: Farmer finds new technique for preserving tomatoes
*New*
- Kenya: Herders profit from selling surplus hay (Trust)
- Burkina Faso: Rural women’s group makes and markets tomato puree (AgribusinessTV)
- Senegal: Rice farmers want to change the reputation of local rice
- Tanzania: Fruit and vegetable farmers turn to organic farming to meet increased market demand
- DRC: Farmers come together to better market their maize
- Malawi: Women and youth join co-operative to access better groundnut markets
- Ghana: Vegetable farmers use mobile phones to access extension services and better markets
- Tanzania: COVID-19 forces female vendors to sell in new ways
UNDFF videos
- Voices for Change: Elizabeth Mpofu, General Coordinator, La Via Campesina Zimbabwe (FAO)
- Voices for Change: Kenneth Katungisa, Chief Executive Officer Uganda National Farmers Federation (FAO)
- Voices for Change: Editrudith Lukanga, World Forum of Fishers harvesters & Fish (WFF) Tanzania (FAO)
- Voices for Change: Marcela Villarreal, Director, Partnerships Division, FAO (FAO)
Other resources
- Rural entrepreneurs use videos to become change makers(Access Agriculture)
- Niger: A common ground(AgroInsight)
- Kenyan youth discover a promising future in farming (FAO)
- Pineapples prove a novel source of income for a Malawian community (FAO)
- Model farmer leading the change in more than just farming (FAO)
- Madagascar’s communities, an engine for change(FAO)
- PAFO’s renewed commitment to Farmers Organizations and Farmers (Download the PDF)
- Climate Justice for Africa(LVC)
- YenKasa Africa poster
COVID-19 resources
- Radio spots on COVID-19
- Answers to your frequently asked questions about COVID-19
- Tanzania: COVID-19 forces female vendors to sell in new ways
- Malawi: COVID-19 social distancing measures disrupt markets and farmers’ income
- Using innovation to deliver in Somalia despite COVID-19 (FAO)
- A battle plan for ensuring global food supplies during the COVID-19 crisis (FAO)
- COVID-19: Voices of young agripreneursin Rwanda (FAO)
- COVID-19: Adapting to a new reality to ensure the provision of vital assistance (FAO podcast)
New resources on COVID-19
- Benin: Village savings and loans groups struggle due to COVID-19
- Nigeria: COVID-19 affects farm labourers’ incomes
- Nigeria: Farmers face difficulties accessing farm inputs due to COVID-19 lockdown
- West Africa: How farmers and processors are impacted by COVID-19 (ICRISAT)
- West African women facing COVID-19 (ROPPA)
- ROPPA report on COVID-19
- Video: African farmers face COVID-19 (PAFO)
- Video: African farmers leaders approach COVID-19 (PAFO)
Acknowledgements
This campaign is supported by YenKasa Africa, with funding from the UN Food and Agriculture Organization. YenKasa Africa is a platform to enhance knowledge and experience-sharing to support agriculture and rural development in sub-Saharan Africa.
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