New training videos shown communally in African communities are helping pass techniques on to female farmers (Image: Eye Ubiquitous/Rex Features)
TRAINING videos shown communally may be the most effective way to pass on new technologies and techniques to women farmers, a programme in west Africa suggests.
Paul Van Mele of the in Cotonou, Benin, headed a study in which farmers – most of them women – were shown how to parboil raw rice by steaming it rather than boiling it, making it more nutritious and easier to mill. In some villages, the farmers were invited to…
