Presentation by Paul Van Mele, Chairman, Access Agriculture Session: Institutional Experiences on 7 Nov 2013 ICT4Ag, Kigali, Rwanda

1. Access Agriculture:
Enabling 'Videos for farmers'
from global to local level
Paul Van Mele
paul@accessagriculture.org

2. Farmers like to share their knowledge and experiences,
but how to reach many more farmers?

3. A need for a web-based video-sharing platform?
YES!
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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

4. 28
% of respondents
30
21
24
20
17
10
10
0
Figure 1. Frequency of searching web for training videos, n=442
(Source: Agro-Insight, 2011)

5. 70
% of respondents
60
59
50
40
30
23
20
11
10
6
0
Very
Quite
Fairly
A little
1
Not
Figure 2. Perceived usefulness to establish a new web-based
platform for agricultural training videos, n=442
(Source: Agro-Insight, 2011)

7. Making videos accessible
to youth and women
• Village setting
• Youth and womenfriendly organisations
• Time of the day
convenient for women
• Leave DVDs in the
community

8. National
Access Agriculture : Videos for farmers
content
identification
video
production
dissemination
& use
Collaboration and training
Access Agriculture – Farmer Organisations & Advisory Service Providers
Web
Platform
Global
Access
Agriculture
knowledge
management
with GFRAS
and AFAAS
fostering of
partnerships
with private
sector
filtering &
upload of ag
videos

9. Ready to join us?
Dr. Florent Okry
Access Agriculture
West & Central Africa
www.accessagriculture.org