While HIV/Aids continues to imperil the agricultural workforce across Africa, an Aids support group in Malawi is using participatory video to boost their own self-esteem and to encourage others to get tested.
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Issue 34:
November 2006
Camcorders, cassava and crude
For years, farming and fishing communities in the Niger Delta have objected to frequent oil spills and gas flaring that pollutes their lands and waters. Crackdowns on community protests, insufficient mitigating measures by the oil companies, theft of oil from pipelines, the influx of weapons and weak governance have pushed society in the delta to the edge. Now the communities are battling the polluters with an innovative combination of participatory video, mobile-to-web messaging and online video sharing.
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Everyone’s a teacher, everyone’s a student
Puppet newsreader covers food security, grain prices
Every month, people across Burkina Faso stop what they are doing to watch TV Koodo, a TV show broadcasting market prices for cattle and cereals. The programme's host is one of the country’s biggest stars.
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Ghanaian cocoa farmer videos tackle pod pest
In Ghana, cocoa farmers are learning to produce videos that teach improved cultivation principles and pest management to their fellow farmers in order to tackle black pod disease, which can result in major crop losses.
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