Tue, 9 Dec 2014 10:14:03 +0100
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This is Ngouambe Nestor, again.
I just want to give some comments on the thoughts raised by Dr Mahesh Chander (Message 49) concerning farmer organizations.
Talking about farming families by neglecting farmer organizations is not possible within an Africa context. Farmer organizations like cooperative have key driven approach to sustain food productivity. For extension systems to be more efficient, cooperative societies must be used as a relay to disseminate Innovation from research institutes among farmers practices.
For example, from 2012-2013 I experienced the use of information and communication technology (ICT) tools for extension to keep contacts with all farmers living in remote rural Cameroon. Thirty farmer organizations were involved in the project. Each farmer did not have a mobile phone, but at least the delegate had one. So when there is crucial information I just called two or three members within the group and used them as a channel to disseminate the information among other farmers. Based on the feedback, the information was well transmitted. Just one call via those farmer organizations permitted four villages to avoid Africa swine fever in August 2013.
Remember that in 2012 we celebrated the International Year of Cooperatives. This was according to the great role they play for agriculture development. During the World Food Day of the same year the main theme was "Agricultural cooperatives - key to feeding the world".
In Africa (west and central), farmer organizations are fully involved in national extension platform. I will come back next time for more details on those points.
Ngouambe Nestor
Ministry of Agricultural and Rural Development
Cameroon
Tel: +237 77 62 41 21 / 79 71 78 09
Skype: manuel.rayan
YPARD Cameroon team: www.ypard.net
AFAAS Cameroon Team: www.afaas-africa.org
Blogpost:- https://ngouambe.wordpress.com
- http://agriculture-infos.blogspot.com
e-mail: Ngouambe (at) gmail.com
[International years are declared by the United Nations to draw attention to and encourage action on major issues. The UN declared 2012 to be the International Year of Cooperatives (IYC). For more information, see the official IYC website (http://social.un.org/coopsyear/) and the website of the 2012 World Food Day (http://www.fao.org/world-food-day/history/wfd2012/en/)...Moderator].
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