Welcome to the FLD online forum

[Dorine Ruter [ETC Foundation]]

Dear all,

 

Welcome to the new mailing list cum online forum on farmer led documentation (FLD). Most of you received the invitation to join this group since you participated or expressed an interested in one of the previous FLD activities organized by Pelum, Oxfam and/or Prolinnova and their partners. Via this list we would like to offer you (and ourselves) the opportunity to stay in touch with those who are seeking to implement and learn from farmer led documentation. The list is open for all participants to start new discussions, share experiences or ask for input. Also very welcome are links to online resources or announcements of events that might be interesting for members of this group. We’re all new to this group, so please don’t hesitate to share anything you think might be relevant. To post a message, send an email to fldonli...@googlegroups.com or use the online forum.

 

About this group:

Feel free to forward this message to others, if you wish. New people are welcome to join the group. Sign up online via http://groups.google.com/group/fldonlineforum. You can use your own email address to sign up, as long as you create an account at Google first. This will only take a minute of your time. If you have any questions, please contact the list moderator Prince Deh (GINKS), via papa...@yahoo.co.uk.

 

About FLD:

More information on FLD can be found at the KIC portal (www.oxfamkic.org) or on the websites of Pelum (www.pelumrd.org) or Prolinnova (www.prolinnova.net/fld.php).

 

Best wishes,

Prince Deh (GINKS)
Dorine Ruter (ETC Foundation / Prolinnova)

 

 

 

 

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[Deh Prince]

Dear all,

Welcome to the new mailing list cum online forum on
farmer led documentation (FLD). Most of you received
the invitation to join this group since you
participated or expressed an interested in one of the
previous FLD activities organized by Pelum, Oxfam
and/or Prolinnova and their partners. Via this list we
would like to offer you (and ourselves) the
opportunity to stay in touch with those who are
seeking to implement and learn from farmer led
documentation. The list is open for all participants
to start new discussions, share experiences or ask for
input.

Also very welcome are links to online resources or
announcements of events that might be interesting for
members of this group. We're all new to this group, so
please don't hesitate to share anything you think
might be relevant. To post a message, send an email to

fldonli...@googlegroups.co衫

Thank you and waiting to read from members

Prince Deh
Ghana

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[Nerisa]

Dear All,
am glad to be part of this dicussion group. I work as a research
librarian at Egerton univeristy, Kenya. Am intreasted in documenting
information that suppports farmer projects. Regards Nerisa

On Apr 25, 2:27 pm, Deh Prince <papale...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
>  Welcome to the new mailing list cum online forum on
> farmer led documentation (FLD). Most of you received
> the invitation to join this group since you
> participated or expressed an interested in one of the
> previous FLD activities organized by Pelum, Oxfam
> and/or Prolinnova and their partners. Via this list we
> would like to offer you (and ourselves) the
> opportunity to stay in touch with those who are
> seeking to implement and learn from farmer led
> documentation. The list is open for all participants
> to start new discussions, share experiences or ask for
> input.
>
> Also very welcome are links to online resources or
> announcements of events that might be interesting for
> members of this group. We're all new to this group, so
> please don't hesitate to share anything you think
> might be relevant. To post a message, send an email to

> fldonlinefo...@googlegroups.co­m

[Dorine Ruter [ETC Foundation]]

Dear Nerisa, all

A warm welcome to this group. I hear that people and organizations in Kenya are very enthusiastic about Farmer-led documentation. In August 2007, Pelum Kenya organized an FLD workshop. There were some nice examples from farmers using FLD, for example through visitors books and through photography. But the proceedings of that workshop also showed that participants felt it still is a challenge to find good example cases of FLD. Maybe (since that workshop) there are more good examples now? Perhaps people from Kenya could share a bit about what's happening or being planned at this moment? I am not sure who is member of this list, so sending this CC to a few people directly as well. Others, please feel free to respond too.

In the meantime, please take another look at Max Garcia's message a while ago on this list. Max explained that there seems to be a difference between how NGO people look at FLD (to document and learn) and how farmers look at it (FLD should lead to improved practice, not just documentation for the sake of learning or documenting). If you have any comments on this (do you agree, or not? How do you deal with this in your projects?) please send your message to this forum.

Best wishes,
Dorine

Dorine Rüter
ETC Foundation

 
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[Michael Malinga]

Hi every one

This is Michael from South Africa ,firstly let me apologize for not participating as much as I would like to be this due to the field work. I want to throw in my personal obsavation from our Pilot in Potshini using pictures and albums .Women farmers were very happy to participate and we have seen albums being carried to different forums,seed shops,extension offices ect, WHY?  They are able to carry their produce to the potential market before they reach agreement of selling and buying,able to take any infection,either on crops or livestock to seek help,they are also able to buy same seeds as last season even though they had forgotten the specifications and pictures will give who ever who is assisting the clue on what is needed .

Challenges are -still cameras needs a lot of effort and support to the farmers and take long to fill up while farmers want to use what they have documented.

Farmers themselves need to be convinced if anything works before they use it ,So is documentation  we can narrate all these successful stories about how this thing can benefit them but if they not convinced you will be left with the selected few especial those who have discovered that its benefitting to be one of the few left on something(personal experience and opinion) Take this as sharing of experience as service providers not as I have labeled farmers.

 

Regards

Michael Malinga  SA  

 

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