Newsletter no 3 - October 2020 | Access Agriculture

Access Agriculture Panorama
No. 3 - October 2020

New video from Access Agriculture - Increasing production of local chickens

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ANNOUNCEMENTS

New videos

New videos on 'Increasing production of local chickens' (in English and French) and 'Making sausages from rabbit meat' (in English and French) have been posted on our platform www.accessagriculture.org. They are freely downloadable as video (mp4), audio (mp3), mobile (video format 3gp) along with a one-page fact sheet with contact details for more information.

Increasing production of local chickens

Augmenter la production de poulets locaux - French version

Making sausages from rabbit meat

Faire des saucisses avec de la viande de lapin - French version

BLOG POST

No word for legume

I remember a story from grad school about a people in the Amazon Basin who had no word for “parrot”, because they knew the names of all the individual species of parrots.
I was reminded of that this week in Peru, where I was teaching a course on how to write fact sheets and video scripts for a popular audience.
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VOICES FROM THE FIELD

Timely harvest

Timely harvest is important to avoid losses. This is an important lesson that farmers in Benin learnt from videos on improved harvest and post-harvest practices for maize and cowpea as part of training programmes organised by Iles de Paix (Islands of Peace), a Belgian NGO.
Read more .... বাংলা | Français | हिंदी | Español

MEET OUR AMBASSADOR

Grace Musimami

Access Agriculture ambassadors are volunteers who promote the work Access Agriculture is doing in their respective countries.

Grace Musimami holds a Bachelor of Environmental Management from Makerere University and a diploma in Journalism. Grace is editor of Farmers Media Newspaper – Uganda’s only agricultural newspaper and is a representative on various Boards including Uganda National Farmers Federation (UNFFE) and Uganda Forum for Agriculture Advisory Services (UFAAS). He is also President of the Agricultural Journalists Association of Uganda (AJAU) and Secretary General for the Network for Agricultural Journalists in Eastern and Southern Africa. Grace’s interest lies in enhancing farmers voices for better livelihoods through good, innovative practices to improve farmers’ incomes.

WINNER OF THE MONTHLY QUIZ

Dr. Esther Mwende Muindi - Winner of Access Agriculture September 2020 Quiz contest
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The October 2020 Quiz will be open from 1-15 October 2020.
Check out the contest here: www.AccessAgriculture.org

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