{"id":5220,"date":"2018-04-06T15:44:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-06T13:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/b10g8ll.myraidbox.de\/story\/bauern-brauchen-moeglichst-viele-freunde\/"},"modified":"2022-08-12T16:52:20","modified_gmt":"2022-08-12T14:52:20","slug":"many-friends-are-better-than-one-love","status":"publish","type":"story","link":"https:\/\/www.biovision.ch\/en\/story\/many-friends-are-better-than-one-love\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cMany friends are better than one love\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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A group of 18 farmers \u2013 men and women \u2013 are crammed into Catherine Akhayati\u2019s living room and watch with interest as two members of staff from the\u00a0Biovision Africa Trust (BvAT)<\/a>\u00a0place a video projector on a small tower of wooden tables. Someone closes the door and it\u2019s dark. As the machine starts to whir, the show begins.<\/p>

Some 15 minute later, the room is buzzing with excitement and debate. The video \u201cUnpeeling the rot in Kenya\u2019s mango chain\u201d has raised many questions. Some of the farmers are sceptical about the methods put forward. Others feel inspired by the prospect of earning more money from healthy fruit. Enter Musdalafa Lyaga, a journalist with the Biovision Africa Trust (BvAT) in Nairobi and his colleague Michael Wangalwa, an agricultural adviser. First of all they calm down the mood in the room and then give competent answers to questions from the group. \u201cDialogue between the farmers is very important,\u201d says Musdalafa. \u201cIt encourages mutual trust and is crucial to fostering a willingness to help one another. Of course, members of the group also need to return home armed with useful information and must be able to put into practice the advice and tips\u201d.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Since joining BvAT in 2014, Musdalafa has produced more than 100 radio programmes and many teaching videos. He wants to showcase sustainable farming practices to as many small-scale farmers in Kenya as possible and demonstrate how they can increase their incomes. The radio programmes are broadcast every Thursday on Kenya\u2019s national station KBC. In addition to the broadcasts themselves, the videos also find their way onto a variety of social media channels. Musdalafa recently won an international media award for his film on the problems of mango farmers in eastern Kenya \u2013 evidence of the high quality of his work.<\/p>

Film award 2017<\/h2>

At the 8th International Forum for Food and Nutrition of the Barilla Foundation 2017, Musdalafa Lyaga was awarded a prize for his film on improving mango yields in Kenya.<\/p>

The Biovision\u00a0Farmer Communication Programme (FCP)<\/a>\u00a0is a multi-media package of measures that disseminates information in print format, on the radio and the Internet as well as providing personal advice to local farmers. It ensures a continual exchange of targeted knowledge and experience between farmers and scientists. The FCP underpins the basic projects of Biovision in Sub-Saharan Africa.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last year Musdalafa Lyaga from Biovision Africa Trust won a film award in Milan. Here you get to know him as a passionate radio producer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":5211,"template":"","exclude-from-search":[],"newsletter":[],"region":[228],"projektthema":[478],"themen":[253],"class_list":["post-5220","story","type-story","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","region-sub-saharan-africa","projektthema-fcp-en","themen-knowledge"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-12 04:10:45","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"newsletter","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biovision.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/story\/5220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biovision.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/story"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biovision.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/story"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biovision.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/story\/5220\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biovision.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biovision.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"exclude-from-search","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biovision.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exclude-from-search?post=5220"},{"taxonomy":"newsletter","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biovision.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newsletter?post=5220"},{"taxonomy":"region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biovision.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/region?post=5220"},{"taxonomy":"projektthema","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biovision.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/projektthema?post=5220"},{"taxonomy":"themen","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biovision.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/themen?post=5220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}