FLD exchange meeting Friday 28 Sept 2007 - Rome Italy
This wiki holds some information about the FLD exchange meeting held in Rome, Italy on 28 Sept 2007.
Contact person:
Dorine Ruter - ETC Foundation
FLD contact person for Prolinnova
Email: d.ruter AT etcnl.nl
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Facilitators
Invitation
The invitation contains an introduction to the event as well as a draft agenda. Please find the invitation here: Invitation.doc
All participants were invited to contribute to this event by sharing their experiences in farmer-led documentation. Please read the invitation document (see above) for more information.
Participants
People that were unable to join the meeting:
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Jamie Watts, Institutional Learning and Change (ILAC) Initiative
c/o Bioversity International
- Joachim Hofer, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ)
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Alessandro Meschinelli, IFAD - Italy
- Prince Deh, GINKS INformation Network for Knowledge Sharing - Ghana
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Gauri Salokhe, FAO WAICENT/Knowledge Exchange Facilitation Branch (KCEW)
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Joel Sam, CSIR-INSTI
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Joost Lieshout, WUR
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Sunil Abraham, IDRC
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Luigi Guarino, CropTrust
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Ednah Karamagi Akiiki, BROSDI (Busoga Rural open Source and Development Initiative)
Case presentations
All participants were encouraged to share their FLD experience during this meeting and if possible, to bring material to the meeting to illustrate these experiences. There was room for a plenary presentation of 6 cases. 
FLD presentation.ppt
Summary of the case presentations:
The use of digital cameras in Bolivia (Agrecol Andes) and South Africa (Farmer Support Group), presented by Miranda Verburg from ETC
In this case, videos, digital cameras, sound tapes and digital slideshows are used by farmers and communities in Bolivia to collect, edit and spread good practices. This method has led to a procedure of self financing for communities to establish video/ sound centres for collection and distributing information. Experiences have shown that it is important that a central core of specialists within a community is given sufficient training in the use of the various tools (video recording, digital cameras etc) to allow effective collection of the communities’ experiences and knowledge.
In South Africa, the Farmer Support Group, is helping farmers to use still photography to monitor and evaluate their activities such as land preparation and planting by making use of digital cameras. In the opinion of the farmers, documentation through pictures is good to maintain memories of the past and as encouragement to continue good practices.
Power Point Presentation: Bolivia and South Africa.ppt
The case of the Rural Empowerment Network, presented by Eria Bwana Simba from REN
Rural Empowerment Network (REN) provides a Question and Answer Service (QAS) voucher system to farmers. Vouchers are used to turn farmers’ information needs into demand for information. The vouchers are handed out to farmers to entitle them to ask questions of their choice and to get answers from expert farmers among the participating farmer groups. REN is currently working to incorporate Farmer Led Documentation (FLD) in this process by training and involving farmers in formulating, capturing, and documenting their questions and answers.
The Traditional Knowledge journal and the Community Biodiversity Register, presented by Pablo Eyzaguirre from Bioversity International
The Kitui Adult Women’s Group (KWAG) is a community based organization in Kitui, Kenya. The group promotes self help through women’s agricultural and environmental activities. Key to their interest is the need for income, to keep the community together by providing opportunities for young people to remain in the community and to transmit the cultural knowledge of elders. The group came up with the project on documentation of the bottle gourd which was close to their culture, had multiple uses as food and containers was a potential source of income from tourist markets. They adopted the TK Journal Methodology which was then presented to several Kenyan communities.
The Community Biodiversity Register is a register in which farmers keep an inventory of their biodiversity and associated knowledge and through which they can monitor local crop diversity for the community’s benefits and needs. The register is intended to support monitoring, marketing and exchange of crop genetic diversity in the form of seeds and planting material and also to establish a record of community ownership and document collective or community-based innovation in crop improvements and combat biopiracy.
Word doc: 
TKJ and CBR Descrptions.doc
Power Point Presentation: 
Eyzaguirre_Sthapit CBR FLD workshop 28 Sept 07.zip
The use of Participatory Video from ACDEP (Association of Church Development Projects), presented by Miranda Verburg from ETC
In Ghana farmers are involved in filming their experiences and practices. They determine what is to be filmed, where the activities are to be filmed and who will conduct the interviews. These processes are however, facilitated by the extension staff, while a professional video crew carry out the shooting. The video documentation has successfully been carried out in 15 communities in Northern Ghana.
Power Point Presentation: not used
PV Ghana:
The Isangati Agricultural Development Organisation (IADO), presented by Wilma Roem from ILEIA:
A good example of the documentation process and the analysis of the process is the case of the Isangati Agricultural Development Organisation (IADO), a local NCO in the Mbeya district in south-west Tanzania. In2006 IADO took part in the documentation workshop organized by VECO Tanzania and ILEIA. The result of this exercise was an article published in LEISA Magazine Vol 23 no 2 pg 12-13, June 2007. Farmers were involved in the documentation of their experiences with cloning resistant coffee plants, though the documentation was led by IADO, Tanzania.
This case is to be found on the LEISA website click: http://documentation.leisa.info/isangati/introduction.htm
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