Theme pack
Small livestock and beekeeping are two activities that can act as a lucrative supplement to farmers’ incomes and help keep rural diets healthy and strong. The theme pack includes ten items from our Resource Packs: nine interview scripts and one drama script. The theme pack also includes 14 Barza Wire Farmer stories and one other Barza Wire resource.
Interviews
- Honey is good food that bees give you at no cost
- Improved Honey Production and Processing in Dryland Kenya
- Equipment to Start Beekeeping
- How Bees Help You Make Money
- How Bees Make Honey
- Raising Rabbits for Meat and Profit: Part One
- Raising Rabbits for Meat and Profit: Part Two
- Raising Snails for Food and Profit
- Raising Guinea Pigs for Meat or Money
Drama
Barza Wire stories
- Rwanda: Brigitte Muhayimana breaks cultural barriers to succeed in beekeeping
- Kenya: Women try beekeeping for safe, steady income during drought and conflict
- Côte d’Ivoire: Former cocoa farmer finds happiness in beekeeping
- Zimbabwe: Beekeeping brings a sweeter life for rural families
- Comoros: Producing more and better honey thanks to modern techniques
- Zimbabwe: ‘Sweet business’ protects forests
- Togo: The man who lives amongst the bees
- Côte d’Ivoire: Concerned about avian flu, poultry farmers diversify with rabbits
- Zimbabwe: Rabbit meat gaining popularity as a protein source
- Democratic Republic of Congo: Breeder fights spread of rabbit disease
- Côte d’Ivoire: Rabbit breeder builds and sells modern cages for health and wealth
- Democratic Republic of Congo: Guinea pigs make their way into homes and diets
- Kenya: Woman farmer earns large rewards from small animals
- Ghana: Raising alternative livestock pays off for small-scale farmers
Other Barza Wire resources
We hope that this kind of “one-stop shop” on selected topics is useful, and that you can use the resources in this month’s theme pack to make effective programming on raising small livestock and beekeeping.