Teaching Materials for Farmers Basic techniques can dramatically improve the quality and quantity of crop yields, and the life of farmers in East Africa. The techniques are: Sustainable: they are free of cost, easy to learn, and do not damage the soil Appropriate: they meet the needs of farmers - improving crop yields, and managing pests Teaching materials can build the capacity of NGOs. The use of posters to create awareness about HIV/Aids in Uganda has been widely praised. We wanted to do for agriculture what has already been done for HIV. The first series of posters were produced to be: Developed in a participatory process with trainers and farmers Attractive and inspiring Produced according to high-quality design and production values Designed for low levels of literacy Assist trainers in teaching Support learners by providing a knowledge base Distributed in coordination with both government and NGO programmes Over 80,000 posters were printed in the first print run of April 2005. Contacts The project is partially funded by Agromisa with the assistance of SPW & HDRA. Organisations distributing the first print run: Kulika, FarmTalk, ASPS, NEMA, Send a Cow, Caritas Uganda, JIDDECO, ACDI/ VOCA, Action Aid, NOGAMU & AHI. Illustratiors Ben Tunstall of Toolkit and Baingana Andrew of Makerere University. The project manager is Sam Rich. Please send your feedback to samnsrich@gmail.com. Go back to the main page.