'Access Agriculture' Panorama
No. 55 - February 2025 |
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Philippine partners plan to use videos to help
indigenous farming communities and foster peace | | |
| Participants attending a training programme held recently in Mindanao, Philippines, announced their plans to show local language farmer training videos on agroecological practices to the indigenous communities they work with, as this would not only increase their knowledge, but will also contribute to improving food security, peacebuilding efforts and cooperation among farmers.
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| Double gift for young changemakers in Uganda | | |
| The year 2025 started on a happy note for six new teams of Entrepreneurs for Rural Access (ERA) Uganda, as they received a much-anticipated visit from Ezra Masolaki, Access Agriculture ERA Coach for Uganda. Each team also received a durable Buffalo Bicycle to help them in their work towards supporting the transition of rural farmers to agroecology through video training. The six ERA teams are operating as part of the ‘Global Programme for Small-scale Agroecology Producers and Sustainable Food Systems Transformation Project’ (GP-SAEP), which is being implemented by the Global Forum for Rural Advisory Services (GFRAS) in collaboration with the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) with funding from the European Union. Access Agriculture is a partner of this programme relating to access to knowledge and empowerment. Read more ... | | |
| Spotlight on a young changemaker |
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| Spotlight on a young changemaker:
Abhishekam Vathala from India | | |
| Abhishekam Vathala, who with his wife Jasmin Sri Rama, is pioneering a rural bio-input resource centre (BRC) model in Andhra Pradesh, India, received the prestigious Dr. I. V. Subbarao Rythu Nestham award 2024 for progressive farmers from the former Vice-President of India M Venkaiah Naidu, in recognition of his excellent service and contribution to the promotion of natural farming among farmers. In their role as Entrepreneurs for Rural Access (ERAs) associated with the Centre for Sustainable Agriculture (CSA), Abhishekam and Jasmin have screened farmer training videos to over 800 participants, including over 300 women and 173 participants below 15 years. The videos have helped to promote their products, which reached more than 8,000 organic farmers across Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. Screening videos, such as A participatory guarantee system (PGS), boosted their sales of bio-inputs by 35%. They were able to successfully obtain a collateral-free loan of over 27,500 Euros from a government scheme to scale up their BRC unit into a fully commercial venture. “We realised the value of the smart projector as an effective tool to reach more farmers in a short period and we also show the videos in schools as we believe children will effectively communicate the natural farming practices to their parents.” - Abhishekam Vathala Abhishekam and Jasmin have been featured in Access Agriculture’s book “Young changemakers". Click here to read the full story.
Click here to download a free e-version of the book. To help Access Agriculture install additional teams of young entrepreneurs across India, you can support its crowdfunding campaign, by clicking this link. | | |
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| Record-keeping for integrated farming | | |
| As the number of enterprises on a farm increases, it becomes harder to keep track of the cost of inputs and the revenues earned. Keep detailed records to see how your farm evolves over time. By comparing different farms of similar size with fellow farmers, you can decide if changing any of your practices is a good decision. You may feel that an integrated organic farm involves more work, but from the records we have seen that the profit can be six times higher. It also provides greater food security. English | French | Spanish | Ateso | Chichewa / Nyanja | Marathi | Runyakitara | Tagalog | Telugu | Tumbuka | | | |
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| Earthworms from India to Bolivia | | |
| I met a young Bolivian journalist, Edson Rodríguez, who works on an environmental programme at the university (UMSS) television channel in Cochabamba, Bolivia, called TVU. He helps to produce a show called Granizo Blanco (white hail), a dramatic name in this part of the Andes, where hail can devastate crops in a moment. The show covers all environmental issues, not just agriculture. Read more .... العربية | বাংলা | English | Español | Français | हिन्दी | Português | | |
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| Emmanuel Akinwale is a fisheries graduate and the founding Operations Director of Aquapro Agro Industry and Alphamate Marketing Communications in Ibadan city Nigeria. He has worked for several large fish farms and companies.
He is a graduate of the Entrepreneur Development Centre, South West Center, Ibadan, and the Lagos Business School and an MSc student in Sustainable Aquaculture at the University of St Andrews, UK.
Emmanuel belongs to several trade groups and professional associations including the Fisheries Society of Nigeria, British Association of Project Management Professionals and the Nigerian Association of Small and Medium Enterprises.
He is an appointed training facilitator in aquaculture with FILAMAT Institute of Training and a trainer with the Federal Ministry of Niger-Delta on Agriculture skills and empowerment. He voluntarily trains farmers at Vicabels farmers, Olodo Agric Trans Cooperative Society and the Nigeria Joint Farmers Association, responsible for coaching 3000 farmers in value chain developments and poverty alleviation through sustainable agro-marketing and international market access.
Emmanuel is a certified licensed Farm Assurer/GAP consultant with GlobalGAP / FoodPLUS. Currently he is consulting for Agroparks Development Company on aquaculture and farm assurance.
He has won several awards including Commonwealth Scholar 2019, Dutch Government sponsored Orange Knowledge Scholar 2019, UK Government sponsored Connect Africa Business 2017 and FGN/WorldBank/Youwin 2010. |
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