Claire Nicklin, Regional Representative, Andes, Collaborative Crop Research Program at McKnight Foundation, delivering a presentation on “Farmer-to-farmer videos in a collaborative research network” at the special webinar marking the 10th anniversary of Access Agriculture titled “How to scale agroecology,” organised jointly by Access Agriculture and the Agroecology Coalition on 25 October 2022. Watch here : https://www.ecoagtube.org/content/how-scale-agroecology-0 Listen to Podcast : https://accessagriculture.podbean.com/e/how-to-scale-agroecology/

1. Farmer to farmer videos in a
collaborative research network
Perspectives from the collaboration between the
Collaborative Crop Research Program (CCRP) of the
McKnight Foundation and Access Agriculture

2. Where We Work
 Peru
 Ecuador
 Bolivia
 Uganda
 Kenya
 Malawi
 Tanzania
 Burkina
Faso
 Mali
 Niger
Portfolio of around 18
projects, 3 years,
$300,000, multiple
phases

3. What: agroecological research for action
How: Participatory, collaborative, multi-
sector, transdisciplinary
CCRP

4. CCRP collaboration with Access Agriculture
6 years ago to help with strategic support area of:
Learning and communications: documentation as a form of knowing,
reflecting, learning and sharing among and for various audiences
• Research audience: peer reviewed journal articles
• Practitioner/ technician/ facilitator: grey literature, LEISA
• Consumers/ lay public: radio, social media, media
• Decision makers: short policy briefs
• Farmers: videos

5. CCRP collaboration with Access Agriculture
• Asking projects to do a
video every phase or so
• Script writing workshop
• Filming based on
farmer testimonies,
farmer peer review
Also have translated hundred of AA
videos into dozens of languages
that projects have used

6. “To my fellow farmers from different places, I recommend that you first plant
like an experiment. So you can see the results, because when you do not see
the results you may be unsure about planting cultivated fodder”

7. Scaling Deep
Who’s
knowledge
counts
Jose
Santamarí
a (Alaquez
Barrio San
Isidro)
Recording a video here in my house
was a nice experience since I had the
opportunity to share knowledge about
what is done here, in my location, and
another nice experience and have the
opportunity that this is disseminated
in other parts of the world. Know our
way of working here, the farmer, so it
seems an excellent opportunity to me
to share my small know-how.

8. We have learned in a group, in the
workshop (watching the videos), then
I have transmitted it to my family. I
have transmitted that this is good,
that it's not difficult. It's not expensive
either. So, it has helped us a lot to
share through the workshops, we
have learned, we have practiced, and
we have noted the difference. Yes it's
been very helpful in our community.

9. Scaling up
• Using videos to introduce farmer voice in various forums

11. “It was interesting to see, in local language,
representations of the global contexts and of
other cultures, principally, and other ways of
dressing, other ways of working. But the
interesting thing is they have the same focus to
talk about: take care of the earth, take care of
seed, make organic products. This definitely, in
a more global context, makes us locate
ourselves that we are not just in one territorial
space, that there is no other space. And that
they are just languages, ways of dressing of a
space. So, these territorial, spatial gaps are
broken when we see other cultures talking
about the same problem of pests, of the same
problem of climate change. So with the videos,
with the language, which is the most
important is the people of a community, for
example, Ayamara, seeing people from a
community in Africa, talking about the same
things, working on the same thing, this helps
to break the spatial barriers.”