access agriculture: enabling 'videos for farmers' from global to local level
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Access Agriculture: Enabling 'Videos for farmers' from global to local level
Paul Van Mele
Farmers like to share their knowledge and experiences, but how to reach many more farmers?
A need for a web-based video-sharing platform?
YES!
• Growing interest in extension
• Attention to farmer innovation (Spore, ProLINNOVA)
• A gold mine of farmer field schools
• Organisations want greater impact at regional level
• Many service providers want to use quality videos
Figure 1. Frequency of searching web for training videos, n=442 (Source: Agro-Insight, 2011)
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Figure 2. Perceived usefulness to establish a new web-based platform for agricultural training videos, n=442
(Source: Agro-Insight, 2011)
Making videos accessibleto youth and women
• Village setting• Youth and women-
friendly organisations• Time of the day
convenient for women• Leave DVDs in the
community
Access Agriculture : Videos for farmers
content identification
video production
dissemination & use
Collaboration and trainingAccess Agriculture – Farmer Organisations & Advisory Service Providers Web
Platform
AccessAgriculture
Nat
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alG
lob
al filtering & upload of ag
videos
fostering of partnerships with private
sector
knowledge management with GFRAS and AFAAS
Ready to join us?
www.accessagriculture.org
Dr. Florent Okry Access Agriculture West & Central Africa