'Access Agriculture' Panorama
No. 57 - April 2025 |
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Inspiring stories of young changemakers
promoting agroecology – now in French | | |
| We are pleased to announce that Access Agriculture’s book ‘Young Changemakers’ published in English in 2024 is now available in French. The book is an anthology of 42 inspiring stories of young rural entrepreneurs from across Africa and India, who are breaking new ground as e-extension service providers by promoting agroecology through farmer-to-farmer learning videos. Read more ... العربية | বাংলা | English | Español | Français | हिन्दी | Português A free e-version of this book can be downloaded on the Access Agriculture website: 1, English version; 2. version française
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| Agroecology in Practice – a must-read
for all those interested in a healthier
future for the planet | | |
| ‘Agroecology in Practice: From Local Initiatives to Global Scaling Through Video’ by Jeffery W Bentley and Paul Van Mele, published recently by CABI, is a must-read for all those who are interested in embracing sustainable agricultural practices for a healthier future for the planet and are seeking a practical guide on ideas and techniques to implement agroecological principles. The book offers a wide range of real-world examples from across the globe showing numerous ways in which video can contribute to building the knowledge to transform food systems. It is relevant to farmers, students, researchers, academics, agricultural professionals, policymakers and consumers. “It is made up of mostly encouraging short stories from our field work,” explained Dr Bentley, the lead author. “Each of the stories includes a link to a relevant video and most of the videos are hosted on the Access Agriculture video platform.” For more information, click here.
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| Empowering Rural Advisory Services
for digital extension in Ecuador and Costa Rica | | |
| Access Agriculture recently conducted a one-day training in the use of digital extension tools for 38 Rural Advisory Service (RAS) Facilitators in Ecuador and Costa Rica, both of which have strong agricultural sectors with a growing trend towards organic farming. The training was conducted as part of the Global Programme for Small-scale Agroecology Producers and Sustainable Food Systems Transformation (GP-SAEP) Project, under which Access Agriculture is a key implementing partner.
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| Spotlight on a young changemaker |
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| Spotlight on a young changemaker:
Canary Ahabwe from Uganda | | |
| Canary Ahabwe, who is the Founder and Managing Director of AgroMush-Uganda, has carved out a profitable niche with positive social impact by combining a business that sells healthy mushrooms with a digital advisory service. AgroMush empowers vulnerable communities in western and central Uganda and in refugee settlements in southern Uganda as well as street children in Kampala with knowledge of mushroom production and value addition. As Entrepreneurs for Rural Access (ERAs), Canary and his team members trained more than 1,650 people (35% women and 25% youth) within two years by showing relevant videos using the Smart projector. He is supporting training programmes in secondary schools and was invited to present his work at a meeting in March 2025 involving ENABEL, the Belgian agency for international cooperation. ENABEL is working with the Ugandan government on strengthening institutional capacity of educational institutes. Canary also provided valuable insights as a panelist at the Peer-to-Peer experience-sharing webinar on ‘Building a sustainable ERA business model,’ organised recently by Access Agriculture ERA team.
“Having no money or land, women are usually interested to see videos related to enterprises that can yield nutritious food and earn them money.” - Canary Ahabwe Canary has 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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| Donate to Support young changemakers in India | | |
| Through this project, we anticipate the growth of a network of empowered young women entrepreneurs in rural India. They will not only provide for themselves and their families but will also bring to the local women farmers, a wealth of new ideas from around the world to improve their lives. This will contribute to the transformation of the food system in the local communities, leading to healthier diets, sustainable livelihoods and a reduction of agriculture's environmental impact.
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New videos added in March |
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| Managing leaf spot disease in groundnut | | |
| Leaf spot disease is caused by fungi that live in the soil and on crop residues. Before sowing, mix Trichoderma or Pseudomonas powder with compost and spread it on the field. Coat your seeds with Trichoderma or Pseudomonas powder. To reduce the spread of the disease by wind, grow a tall crop in between your groundnut crop. Ensure proper drainage. When your field is affected by leaf spot disease, spray the crop with a solution of Trichoderma or Pseudomonas. Or mix cow urine, sour butter milk and jaggery in water and use this solution to spray the entire crop. English | Bangla | French | Hindi | Marathi | Wolof | | | |
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| | I have read about weaver ants, but was not quite prepared to see the gleaming, reddish-gold insects nesting in their large mango trees in Benin, West Africa. A colony can have millions of ants, and they are highly territorial, taking over the canopy of a towering tree, or several, if they can find a bridge between them. Part of the beauty of a mango tree is its young leaves, which emerge a different colour from the older ones. These trees in Benin were splashed with patches of sea green leaves that had just emerged. And here and there on the lower branches, Paul pointed out to me where the weaver ants had pulled several of these fresh leaves together and clothed them with silk, making little purse-like chambers, which housed a troop of ants. Read more .... العربية | বাংলা | English | Español | Français | हिन्दी | Português | | |
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| Wadson VOLNÉ is an agronomist by profession. He is studying at the Faculty of Agronomy and Veterinary Medicine (FAMV) at the State University of Haiti (UEH) specialising in Food Science and Technology (STA). He is the founder, technical and production manager in a small semi-industrial processing unit of maize into fine products (Chanmchanm in Creole language). He is also a teacher in Life and Earth Sciences in classical and technical agricultural schools.
Wadson intends to promote the work of Access Agriculture in Haiti in the rural areas with farmers and students he interacts with.
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