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Quality training videos to be developed with farmers who are trained in aflatoxin prevention and management

The document discusses creating training videos about aflatoxins in collaboration with farmers, emphasizing the importance of learning from their experiences and addressing their specific needs. It highlights the significance of safe agricultural practices, such as enhancing food safety in groundnut enrichments and recognizing animal fodder as a potential aflatoxin source. The videos will be distributed through various platforms, including Access Agriculture and Agtube, ensuring wide access to quality content for farmers and associated stakeholders.

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Afla-what? Making training videos on aflatoxins with and for farmers Dr Paul Van Mele www.agroinsight.com
Making videos starts by learning from farmers
People don’t always believe what others want to make them believe
Pre-test ideas and words of videos by letting farmers comment on fact sheets
Join farmers in their activities and interact
Think beyond moulds Women want to learn how soil health and pest management can reduce both the white worms that drill holes in the underground pods and the harmful fungi in the soil.
Enriching porridge with groundnuts is great, as long as it is safe
Farmers in Mali don’t know that animal fodder is potential source of aflatoxin in milk
Zooming-in, zooming-out (ZIZO) method for producing effective training videos
There is a need to map where farmers in Africa have been trained on aflatoxins
Produce videos with trained farmers only
Plan distribution of videos to reach farmers
Video-sharing platforms Agro-Insight partners with Access Agriculture, an NGO that manages two open-source video-sharing platforms: • the Access Agriculture website for quality, scripted farmer training videos (www.accessagriculture.org) • Agtube for any other agric-related videos (non-scripted, participatory video, short clips showing local innovations, videos for policy makers,…) (www.agtube.org)
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Anybody can show videos • specialised agencies • extension staff • local entrepreneurs • rural information centres • mobile phone businesses • cable tv operators • farmers • …
Widespread distribution and use requires quality videos
Farmers and their children deserve the best… … food and advice Dr Paul Van Mele paul@agroinsight.com www.agroinsight.com