Farmer Innovation Script Package Launched
April 28, 2010 | Category: News Update
Posted By: Brenda Jackson
Welcome to package 90! This package features the 15 winning scripts from the radio scriptwriting competition on smallholder farmer innovation. The scripts tell fascinating stories about creative farmers across sub-Saharan Africa who have come up with ways to improve their livelihoods.
Innovative farmers create change and improvement in their families’ lives and their communities. They are farmers who look at difficulties as challenges, who study situations, experiment, and devise new ways to tackle problems. Sometimes they come up with completely new methods. At other times, they borrow solutions from elsewhere, and adapt them to their own unique circumstances.
Because Farm Radio International focuses on story-based radio pieces, we requested scriptwriters to focus not only on disseminating information, but on presenting the true story of a knowledgeable and inspiring smallholder farmer or farmers who had discovered a vital innovation. The voices and stories of real farmers are featured in each of the 15 scripts, whether they are mini-dramas, interviews, or a combination of the two.
Along with each script package our broadcaster partners receive the newsletter, VOICES. Package 90 included a new and improved version of the publication which provides information and resources related to each package theme, includes broadcaster training articles, and offers a forum for partners to share experiences and lessons learned.
We’re delighted with the colourful new look of VOICES as well as the inspirational stories of the Farmer Innovation package told through the 15 winners of the scriptwriting competition. I think this is one of the strongest packages we’ve ever produced.
- Blythe McKay, Program & Partnerships Manager
Tags: script package, scriptwriting competition
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Mike Donovan
on April 29th, 2010I’d be very happy to contribute. Farm Ideas magazine features things farmers have made from themselves, often from recycled materials, old machines etc. Published continuously since 1992
brenda
on May 6th, 2010Hi Mike. Thanks for your offer and for being in touch with Farm Radio International. I’ve passed on your comments to our script editor.
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