Nairobi based Access Agriculture has won GOLD in the Innovation category of the EVCOM Clarion Awards at an International Award Ceremony in London. The Access Agriculture website which features “farmer to farmer” videos in local languages was singled out for the imaginative way in which videos of value can be accessed by the target audience either directly or through extension staff.

Access Agriculture also received a highly recommended award in the video category.

The Clarion Awards champion community and environmental projects around the world.

Access Agriculture was established as an NGO 4 years ago to provide videos for farmers in their own languages.  It was set up by Josephine Rodgers, Phil Malone and Dr. Paul Van Mele together with Kenyan Media Specialist Bob Muchina as Executive Secretary.

Today more than 140 videos are available for download in more than 70 languages.  The videos help farmers boost their incomes by seeing and copying techniques which have been proven. The videos can be viewed online and downloaded. See them for yourself at: www.accessagriculture.org

For the full story, visit the Access Agriculture website. 

Access Agriculture is a Partner in GFAR who shares in our mission to strengthen and transform agri-food research and innovation systems globally. For more information on the Partners in GFAR, and to become a Partner, click here!

Photo: Award Winners (L/R): Darren Holden, Adaptive; Phil Malone, Josephine Rodgers, Bob Muchina of Access Agriculture and Kat Wesley, Adaptive