Dear Owura
Thank you for your wonderful questions, to get Farmers to understand the concept of climate Change and Climate Smart Agriculture CSA, As part of the production of program, we need to elicit what our listeners already know about climate change of which they are already experiencing one way or the other to enable us share from the known to the unknown. This will also help the program to tackle myths and misconception about this topic. You can then resort to the Farm Radio Resource Packs 4 that has lots and lots of scripts, farmer stories, interviews and backgrounder on this subject. Using this resources will help solve the main challenge with terminologies, causes and provide listeners with relevant information. http://scripts.farmradio.fm/radio-resource-packs/theme-packs-2019-2/climate-change/
These are the real ingredients needed in every effective collaboration. Thank you Iyanu
Collaboration is working together with an individual or group of people to achieve a purpose.
As a radio presenter or producer, you will need people with expert knowledge of a topic to work with to better inform your listeners. So in this case there has to be collaboration.
For most programs for farming communities, I collaborate with Agricultural Extension Officers, Agro-input manufacturers, Ministry of Food and Agriculture and Farmers.
@Owura: how do we get the farmers to understand farming with the environment in mind?
Getting farmers to understand farming with the environment in mind comes down to sustainable agriculture. In sustainable agriculture, the emphasis is placed on practices and activities that have less or no negative impact on the ecosystem. That is less destruction of flora (plants) and fauna (animals and insects) and the use of natural products than chemicals.
Farming with the environment in mind could be achieved through minimum or zero tillage of field, strategic felling of trees during new farm establishment or reafforestation of already destroyed farms.
The use of animal-drawn implements will have less impact on the soil compared to the use of heavy drawn implements like tractors and disc ploughs and harrows. The continuous use of heavy equipment on farmland promote the development of hardpan(the soil loses its structure, texture and other properties. The topmost portion of the soil becomes so soft or porous while beneath is hard, The soil can not effectively hold water again and easily dries even after heavy rains or becomes saturated with water).
It means also using fewer chemicals be it fertilizer, weedicides, pesticides, and insecticides. Fertilizers could result in the acidity of soils and when there is runoff could pollute water bodies thereby destroying aquatic life also.
Using insecticides also kill useful and beneficial insects such as bees responsible for the pollination of crops, vegetables and fruit plants.
Getting farmers to have the environment in mind while farming will also in short mean going Organic Agriculture.
Organic agriculture and its products with the right certification could make farmers and farms more profitable and eco-friendly or environmentally friendly.
Premium prices could be gotten for organically produced farm products as many more people are becoming health and environmentally conscious and mindful of what they consume as food.
Health-conscious and environmental alert people are willing to pay more for food produced in a safe and environmental sound manner.
The benefits and advantages of farming with the environment in mind could be elaborated on to farmers and the possible organic premium prices, they could get for their products by becoming environmentally conscious.
@obolo good point as in collaboration parties have a common goal they want to achieve either individually or collectively.
Collaboration is a mutual agreement among parties on a common goal, the pathway of achieving that goal and each partner’s role to achieve that common goal.
Collaboration can be formal or informal. The formal ones involve memorandum of understanding of signing of contracts. While as the informal one is where an institution is allowed to use other institutions’ resources e.g. personnel to provide input in their radio programs without a written formal agreement between them.
At Farm Radio Trust we are involved in strategic alliances or partnerships like one with Farm Radio International. FRT has been involved in Public Private Partnerships where FRT has engaged the Private Sector and Public Sector to support farm radio programming. FRT has been part of critical networks in the agricultural programming, including being a member of Civil Society Agriculture Network, and National Media Institute of Southern Africa Malawi Chapter. Farm Radio Trust has also been involved with research and institutions of higher learning on agricultural programming issues. FRT has also been working with farmer groups on specific value chains among others.
Hello everyone,
Here I go to answer the questions in 2A,
1. What is your understanding of collaboration?
As alluded to here in question 2B, collaboration is having relationships with stakeholders that include extension staff, farmers and Non-governmental organizations. By so doing, each side benefits in one way or the other.
Say for instance; if a certain district wants to carry out civic education or mass awareness about some service, and they approached a radio station to broadcast the information regarding the service but may not pay money for the broadcasts but instead offers the radio station a two year training for two staff on agriculture and rural communication; in that way both the radio station and the district will be collaborating by facilitating each other. It may even be a swap whereby the organization will give free nutriboost foods to malnourished children while using the radio station to announce and distribute them, and while the organization is giving free phones to the station for easy communication.
2. Please share who you collaborate with on radio programs for farming communities
- The farmers. We always go to field, meet them, record them and broadcast their concerns in our farmer programs. We do not give them money in turn for information and time they take talking to us. But in the end, their concerns and issues on radio are received and responded to by the service provider.
- A Non-governmental organization called One Acre Fund. When I approached them with the request to facilitate me and my two other workmates to be going to the rural communities to meet the farmers, extension people and others, they accepted to collaborate with us, and they facilitate us in terms of transport, meals and accommodation when we go far distances. They give us some money to support us in the field and we ensure that we promote their work and call upon farmers to join them for the services they render to farmers.
- Lastly, Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries has decided to collaborate with my media organization (Uganda Broadcasting Corporation) to sensitize farmers about Ticks Resistance in cattle. They send material and other relevant information in about 25 local languages. This has promoted us and we stand chances of getting more opportunities.
Good day house, how was your day?Olusina motiasan is my name from Ejulenen93.7fm igbodigo,okitipupa,ondo state, Nigeria.Collaboration can simply means coming together of different people to practice the same thing as to arrive at a certain point of achieving tangible goals.For example forming a farmers association is to achieve something tangible in farming business.
Olusina motiasan is my name from Ejulenen93.7fm igbodigo,okitipupa,Nigeria. Programmer,producer,presenter,reporter and a news caster.I collaborated with palm oil farmers,we discussed with them that they can have program which will serve as an avenue for them to sensitizes their fellow palm oil farmers about their farm and other benefits they can stand to gain if forming a farmers groups which currently give birth to a program titled " palm is a cash tree"
Rashid Muzungyo is my name from Kapchorwa Trinity Radio in Eastern Uganda.
To me, Collaboration means the practice of working together guided by specific principles to achieve a common goal to benefit all participants in a group.
In this discussion, collaboration means working together with stakeholders especially individual farmers, farmers groups, government extension workers, policy makers at all levels,and experts in the production of sound farmer programmes.
At Kapchorwa Trinity Radio (KTR) we collaborated with IUCN, Farm Radio International, Kween/Kapchorwa District Local Governments, and Farmers in the two districts on a programme titled Forest Land Restoration-FLR. This programme was part of efforts of promoting tree planting among communities surrounding the Mt. Elgon Forest Park.
As part of the team I traveled to the field several times to collect farmers voices that were aired during our programmes. At the station, in collaboration with my Manager, we worked round the clock to ensure that radio programmes were recorded and uploaded on a Memory card that was played to farmers using our Boda Boda radio.The Boda Boda radio was pilot programme that was meant to serve farmers located in areas where our station signal was not accessible.The questions raised by farmers were recorded using the radio (that had a recording system) and brought to the Station, where they were listened to and played in the next programme during which technicians were invited to respond to issues raised by farmers.
At the Station, we also collaborated with Extension workers from the District Local Governments and NGOs who provided the technical advisory services during the talkshows. A timetable drawn by stakeholders was followed and whenever it was not possible to get the extension worker, an alternative person was always ready for contact.
All this work was possible with political support from District Leaders who included Sam Cheptoris who was later appointed Uganda’s cabinet Minister of Water and Environment.
At the moment KTR is collaborating with Kween District on Financial Literacy programme through the office of the Resident District Commissioner. The Station is also running a Its also collaborating with IFDC on farm radio work.
Thanks.
Rashid Muzungyo KTR 94.1FM Uganda.
Hi everyone, l want to respond to the questions
What is meant by collaboration? - In general, collaboration has many meaning; in our case l can say that collaboration is a process where 2 or more people or organizations work together to accomplish or to achieve or complete a task or a goal. It is a practice where individuals work together to achieve a common purpose. It is a cooperation or an interactive strategy that seeks solutions to the participants’ goals. In our case it requires us to collaborate with stakeholders through use of assertive and cooperative means to achieve the compatible and meaningful to improving our farmers’ income as well as produce.
The collaborations l am involved in include those with extension workers whom l engage to talk to farmers advising them on many crucial matters about what to plant and when; the best fertilizers to use, what is in great demand. The Ministry o Agriculture for the same advise and also the cooperative societies leaders who advice on the market and quality of the produce. I have some buyers/produce business operators who come in with the nuit wits of what they actually require from the farmers. The farmers we collaborate with to lay and implement the strategies of what we need do in order to achieve our goals.
Thank you for this Topic it very important since we work with other people to
Collaboration would say is the cooperation from one another to make sure you reach the target or goal you intended to reach. You need collaborate with farmers,extension officers,researchers and other key players on Agricultural issues like Agrodealers etc.
Hello everyone, this is Nkungu Haruna J, Journalist working with Mpanda Radio FM 97.0 Mhz -Tanzania. According to my understanding collaboration is commonly understood as working together with somebody in order to produce or achieve something.
As a journalist and broadcasters I collaborates with local authorities and ordinary citizen (stakeholders) in different aspects
Welcome @Blessing
Thank you for joining us. We are looking forward to the experiences and ideas you will share in this discussion.
Cheers
I am Martin Mwape a broadcaster at Breeze FM in Zambia (Listen at 178.netromedia.com:8000/BreezeFM).
Though late, I would like to contribute to week 2 topic.
I take collaboration to be cooperating to do work together to meet one anothers target or goal. I will give an example of a Broadcaster, a farmer with challenges in farming, a farmer making success in farming, an agriculture reseracher, a policy maker etc. A broadcast (Like me) want comuunicate infomration for the benefit of a farmer who is strugling. But the broadcaster may not know clear what strugles the farmer goes through. The strugling farmer also may want to commnuicate his/her strugles to relevant people to help but may not have a platform to do so. These two must collaborate so that the farmer gives the broadcaster the strugles and the broadcaster porvides the platform. Now in the same scenario, the succesfull farmer may have solutions to the strugles of the farmer and the broadcaster may want these soultions. The two must coperate to relay the information. The reseracher may have discovered new technologies and these may be good for the farmers but with no platform, the messages can not go to farmers and hence the need to wiork with the broadcaster. The polciy aker need to know the farmers needs for them to make poilicies for the farmers and so they have to work with broadcaster to know what the farmers needs atre and communictae the governmnt policies. In the end I just see that collaboration is wokrking togetgher in which every stake holder meets thier goals. A win win situation.
In my farmer programme production, I collabirate with stakeholders like the government Ministry of Agriculture, Climate Change NGOs like total Land Care and Conservation Farming Unit, Farmers, Agro Dealer and many more.
I like this and I think you should add “such that both benefit”
@rehema
We are together. In collaboration, we all seek to archieve a certain gaol and we all benefit.
Less I forget, collaboration needs to do with these elements which I named ELEVEN POWERFUL ELEMENTS OF COLLABORATION: vision, communication, brainstorming, trust, support, skill, teamwork, discussion, connection, cooperation and planning.
- Vision: Both stakeholders and broadcasters must have the same vision toward the programme they wants to collaborated on.
- Communication: Regular communication between them should not be overemphasis time to time.
- Brainstorming: This must not eluded on day to day activity of both stakeholders and broadcasters.
- Trust: To achieve effective farming programme production, stakeholders must trust the broadcasters and vise vasa. Faithfulness and loyalty are also needed here to establish the trust.
- Support: Both stakeholders and broadcasters need to support each others to achieve the goal of effective programme production. At times any of them may need transport fare or voucher’s fee for the purpose of the programme, they should be able to provide such support for each other at this time.
- Skill: The skill of both stakeholders and broadcasters is highly needed to achieve a good farming programme.
- Teamwork: They must both work in team to achieve a good farming programme.
- Discussion: Both the stakeholders and broadcasters need regular discussion to know what next in the subsequent episodes.
- Connection: Time to time connection is also vital because this will enhances their planing.
- Cooperation: If maximum cooperation is not with them, nothing effective can comes out of their farming programme production.
- Planning: Effective programme planning brings meaningful programme production. As we all know that programme planning takes 70% of any presentation, if this fail here the farming programme will be fruitless and the listeners will lose interest on such programme.
With the above I think collaboration in farming programme with stakeholders can be successful.
Mike Kuwoye.
Hello good people in this group.
I am Victor Asumani a producer working with Nkhotakota Community Radio Station in Malawi Central Africa.
Talking of Collaboration simply it means working together in different ways like but with the aim of achieving something good for the targeted people.
for example there can be collaboration in the work for a particular area where there is a need of constructing abridge.
Like in my country Malawi where there is construction project, the procedure is for the right holder should contribute sand and bricks where the duty bearers or government to provide cement, iron sheets , window and door frames and paint or brick force wires.
so for all the concerned team to fully involved there is a need of collaboration to take part.
the same should happen in agriculture programing where all parties involved in the programing should also be available for the work to be easier. for example farmers extension workers, Lead farmers agro dearls Agri- Organizations plus us media.
If all the parties works hand in hand then all things shall move on well.
the collaboration which i have been involved in is about the distribution of Farm In put subsidized product FISP which Malawi Government is implementing so far for a number of years now.
in our district Nkhotakota the, district Agriculture department involved all of us who are members in in the District Agriculture Executive Committee in the exercise so that we should all appreciate the situation in the. district.
Good day to every body,Olusina Motiasan from Ejulenen93. 7fm igbodigo, okitipupa, ondo state, Nigeria. A programmer,producer,presenter,reporter and a newscaster.I really enjoyed every body in the house and I thank you all.in fact am more than loaded with what you impacted to me on collaboration thanks so much