Theme pack
Here is our theme pack of FRI resources for December. This time, we include a variety of scripts and Barza Wire stories on food safety, environmentally-friendly farming practices, and the benefits of producing and consuming locally.
This month’s theme pack includes 13 items from our Resource Packs, including two backgrounders, two narratives, eight interview-based scripts, and one drama. We also include seven Barza Wire stories.
Backgrounders
- Backgrounder: Integrated pest management (IPM)
- Backgrounder: Using conservation tillage and soil cover in conservation agriculture
Narratives
Interviews
- Restoring the past for a brighter future: Recovering and improving traditional seeds in Safo, Mali
- Ethiopian farmers restore indigenous seed varieties
- Bushbabies are meat, too: Farmers in Malawi use indigenous plants to manage pests and livestock diseases
- Farmers triple sorghum yield thanks to mulch farming
- Farmer uses red ants to protect fruit trees against pests
- Innovative farmer uses pounded maize cobs to protect stored maize
- Sawdust prolongs the storage life of potatoes
- Rebuilding the land II – plugging the soil leaks
Dramas
Barza Wire stories
- Mali: Farmers benefit from program to recover traditional seeds
- Burkina Faso: Farmers sell, eat, and treat ailments with neglected plants
- Tanzania: Villagers travel far to gather increasingly scarce wild vegetables
- Burkina Faso: Innovation overcomes dry conditions
- Tanzania: Fruit and vegetable farmers turn to organic farming to meet increased market demand
- Tanzania: Farmers choose organic methods despite market challenges
- Tanzania: Grape growers use organic fertilizer to save money and boost soil fertility
Resource in Amharic
Backgrounder
Resource in Portuguese
Backgrounder
Resources in Swahili
- Ufafanuzi: Ulimaji wa kina kifupi kwenye kilimo hifadhi
- Mkulima mbunifu anatumia magunzi ya mahindi yaliyosagwa kuhifadhi mahindi
- Maranda ya mbao yaongeza maisha ya ghala kwa viazi batata
- Tanzania: Wanakijiji wakisafiri mbali maporini kutafuta mboga za asili zinazozidi kupotea kutokana na shughuliza kibinadamu