Not just another workshop- Communication products coming out of East and Southern Africa

From IFAD social reporting blog Fri Aug 8 2014, 09:14:00

"I thought it was just another workshop," said Programme Manager Martin Liywalii, "but in three-and-a-half days we actually made a product, which would otherwise have taken us months!"

IFAD staff and their partners in the field along with farmers from Ethiopia, Swaziland and Zambia have recently taken part in a series of workshops where they produced communications products in the form of articles and short films. Overseen by the Centre for Learning on Sustainable Agriculture (ILEIA), the purpose of the workshops was to distill important lessons from IFAD's work with poor rural farmers in the East and Southern Africa region.

The Swaziland team  listed what was, in their opinion, the takeaway messages of the workshops:

• Family farmers should take the lead in development initiatives on their land

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