Teams in Africa

Team Profiles and Concept Notes

Teams in the project are made up of researchers, extension workers, farmer associations and rural radio stations. The teams have developed their skills to prepare a Team Action Plan (TAP) and a Concept Note for fundraising purposes.

The Concept Note invites interested donor agencies to assist the teams and their project. Copies of the Concept Note and correspondence with the teams can be made available by contacting the LARRRA project at larrra@uoguelph.ca.

Uganda Region Team Members Focus of Teamwork Title of Concept Note Masaka Team BugandaYouth Alert Min. of Agric. Min. of Health Budu Broadcasting Service Development of healthy nutrition and agriculture through radio programs and research/extension partnership Roll back malaria: neem trees for malaria and its vector control  for resource poor farmers Kibaale Team  Kibaale District Government Bulindi Agricultural Research and Development Centre Radio Kibaale Kibaale District Farmers Association Creating income-earning opportunities through mobilizing the results of agricultural research on banana and plantain production through rural radio Increased Banana Production: a source of food and income for resource poor rural women Kampala Team Joint Energy and Environment Projects (JEEP) NARO MNEMA Sironko District Farmers Association Strengthening the linkage of farmers, extensionists, researchers and rural radio broadcasters for soil and water conservation Barren Lands of Sironko: Participatory Rural Radio to Mitigate the Deteriorating Soils of Myembe Sub-County

Ghana   Team Members Focus of Teamwork Concept Note Northern Ghana Team SAARI Community Welfare Foundation URA-Radio Functional Literacy Using rural radio to recognize the traditional knowledge of local people growing sweet potato in the Upper East region and to develop distance learning programs that seek to improve the cultivation of this important crop for household food security and market sale Alleviating Poverty: Capacity Building for Smallholder Farmers Food Security through Distance Learning Kumasi Team Crops Research Institute Classic FM Min. of Food and Agric. Farmer groups Offer unemployed youth (mostly secondary school leavers) information about improved tomato production through weekly radio broadcasts Tomato for improved livelihoods: disseminating improved tomato production technologies to resource poor farmers in Techiman District. Awutu- Effutu- Senya and Gomoa Districts Team Radio Peace District Assembly Min. of Food and Agric. Creating awareness of the high-yielding sweet potatoes through radio broadcast to poor resource farmers Food for Life: Sustaining High-Yielding Sweet Potato Production Among Resource Poor Farmers in Awutu-Effutu-Senya and Gomoa Districts

Cameroon   Team Members Focus of Teamwork Concept Note Buea Team  Institute for Research for Agricultural Development (IRAD) Cameroon Radio and Television Women Action for Agricultural Extension and community development  ( WAGAECOD) Partnership to develop 3 areas of research/rural radio collaboration on programs important to rural communities including second season maize, the social and economic benefits of cassava production, and the negative impact of HIV/AIDS  on socio- economic development Second season maize: an unexploited income generating opportunity for rural women in Fako and Meme Divisions Manyu Division Team Voice of Manyu Rural Radio IRAD Through radio broadcasts exchange information between farmers, extension workers and researchers  about improved production techniques for plantain, including availability of good quality planting material and marketing Disappearing forever? Disseminating appropriate technologies and indigenous knowledge to revitalize plantain production among resource poor farmers

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