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The Importance of Making Soup
Save and edit this resource as a Word document. Characters: Host Tandi and Samira: Two young girls who are cousins Ella: Tandi’s mother Nelly: Samira’s mother Host: It could be your mother or grandmother. Your sister or aunt. Every day our families depend on the wisdom of the women in our lives in order to meet our basic…
Making Peanut Butter the Local Way
FADE IN INTRODUCTORY MUSIC AND HOLD UNDER NARRATOR. Host: Today’s program is about respecting local knowledge. Local knowledge is also called traditional knowledge or indigenous knowledge. This knowledge can be about farming, or health care, or food processing – anything that is important in your community. Today we’re going to focus on food processing as…
A Traditional Milling Technique
Characters Announcer: Your regular station announcer. Pima Older woman farmer. Soyang Woman farmer. Announcer: Hello, and welcome to (name of show or segment). I am your host, (host’s name). Today’s show is about understanding and respecting local knowledge and practices. For example think about the tools you use to process food. These tools often work well because they are…
Farmers and Scientists Working Together
Example 1 – Farmers and scientists re-discover and improve a traditional livestock cure Sheep farming is common in the highlands of Peru. But a continuing problem for some sheep farmers is a parasite called ‘sheep ked’. This parasite weakens sheep, and damages the hide and fleece. The sheep do not produce as much meat, and the…
Farmers Experiment and Discover: You Can Store Cassava
Characters Maria : A farmer, and narrator of the story Sammi : Maria’s neighbour, also a farmer MUSIC (Bring up program theme music and play for 10 seconds. Fade out to Maria.). [Narration] Maria: My name is Maria, and I grow cassava. It used to be that, when the harvest time came, I had little to do. I…
Protect Your Rice: Prevent Grain Loss from Harvest to Storage
Characters Program host Mr. Raju: Farmer Ravi: Mr. Raju’s 10-year-old son Program host: The first step to reduce harvest and post-harvest losses of your rice is to harvest it at the right time. Listen to this conversation between father and son on how to avoid losses of the family’s rice crop, from harvest to storage. See…
Farmers Use Traditional Seed Storage in Botswana
ANNOUNCER: Farmers in Botswana use many traditional methods of storing seeds. They include: Woven baskets Bins made of cow dung and wood ash Earthen pots Mud granaries THEME MUSIC. Do you use baskets to store your seed grain? The people in Botswana, a country in Africa, do. They weave grass together very tightly to make…
Be Careful When You Transport Bananas
Nobody wants to buy cut or bruised bananas. That’s why when you grow bananas, the care that you take to pack and transport the cut bunches is just as important as the effort you put into growing the fruit. It is important that bananas reach the buyer in good condition. If they don’t, you may…
Use Hot Peppers to Protect Stored Grain
Here’s an easy way to protect stored grain from insects such as weevils. This method is popular with farmers in the state of Bendel, in northern Nigeria. After you harvest your grains, dry them thoroughly. The grains should be dry enough so that when you bite them, they make a sharp cracking sound. If they…
A Simple Tool to Harvest Fruit
Have you ever tried picking fruit that is very high on the tree? Chances are, if you use a rod to beat the fruit down, it will fall to the ground very damaged. To reduce the chance of fruit falling to the ground and being damaged, you can try using the split end of a…