A Passion for video: 25 stories about making, translating, sharing and using videos on farmer innovation

Since 2013, Access Agriculture has been training young professionals from various organisations in six African countries to make farmer-to-farmer videos. The videos are a way of moving ideas faster, and more clearly, beyond borders. The Access Agriculture website hosts the videos by these young professionals, and by other agencies, if the videos meet Access Agriculture’s quality and style standards. Access Agriculture encourages all organisations working in developing countries to invest in translating videos available on the website into any language. Access Agriculture offers a fee-based translation service to anyone interested in using quality videos in their own farmer training programmes. The stories in this volume were gathered as part of a Writeshop held in Nairobi on 9–10 November, in the context of the Access Agriculture Week 9–13 November, 201

Learning through the eyes of others: Access Agriculture’s experiences with farmer-training videos in agricultural extension and education

This publication comes six years after Access Agriculture was created to enable south-south exchange and access to quality audio-visual training materials for smallholder farmers, herders and fishers, and other users of natural resources. It brings together some of the varied experiences of Access Agriculture’s many partners in producing, translating, distributing and using training videos. These experiences have been gathered from reports, academic research, blogs, stories and interviews with people from Africa, Asia and Europe – who all have in common a passion for improving agriculture. It also draws on a series of stories published in a sister publication from CTA, “A Passion for Video”, that were written in 2015 during Access Agriculture’s conference to celebrate its first three years

A passion for video

Since 2013, Access Agriculture has been training young professionals from various organisations in six African countries to make farmer-to-farmer videos. The videos are a way of moving ideas faster, and more clearly, beyond borders. The Access Agriculture website hosts the videos by these young professionals, and by other agencies, if the videos meet Access Agriculture’s quality and style standards. Access Agriculture encourages all organisations working in developing countries to invest in translating videos available on the website into any language. Access Agriculture offers a fee-based translation service to anyone interested in using quality videos in their own farmer training programmes. The stories in this volume were gathered as part of a Writeshop held in Nairobi on 9–10 November, in the context of the Access Agriculture Week 9–13 November, 201