Slides of my presentation at MobilityShifts. I describe the project Sauti ya wakulima (http://sautiyawakulima.net), framing it as a learning ecosystem in the making.

1. Sauti ya wakulima
The voice of the farmers
Presented by: Eugenio Tisselli
NYC October 10-16 2011

2. Mr. Alisha Salum

4. Mr. Hamza

5. Mr. Haeshi Shabani

6. This maize has been planted on terraces so as to
prevent water logging.

7. This is corn that I grow on terraces after getting advice
from my colleague. I got advice on cultivating on terraces
during the winter and not in summer as previously. This
maize has begun to dry up and is ready to eat.

8. Sauti ya wakulima, The voice of the farmers, is a collaborative
knowledge base created by farmers from the Chambezi region of the
Bagamoyo District in Tanzania by gathering audiovisual evidence of
their practices using smartphones to publish images and voice
recordings on the Internet.

10. Mutual learning, observation and community memory in the context of
a local climate change scenario.

13. "Incorporating indigenous knowledge
can add value to the development of
sustainable climate change mitigation
and adaptation strategies that are rich in
local content, and planned in conjunction
with local people."
Nyong, A., Adesina, F., Osman Elasha, B., "The value of climate change
adaptation and mitigation strategies in the African Sahel", Springer
Science+Business Media B.V. 2007

14. What can you tell about the effects of
What can you tell about the effects of
climate change? Well we have faced a
climate change? Well we have faced a
lot of challenges including absence of
lot of challenges including absence of
autumn rains, something which has
autumn rains, something which has
made us to have only one croping
made us to have only one croping
season (long rain season only) while
season (long rain season only) while
as coast regions we used to have two
as coast regions we used to have two
cropping seasons in a year.
cropping seasons in a year.

15. What do you advice your fellow farmers and the government in
What do you advice your fellow farmers and the government in
general with respect to climate change? For the government,
general with respect to climate change? For the government,
they should put an irrigation system that will help farmers to
they should put an irrigation system that will help farmers to
water their plants in dry season or buld some well where they
water their plants in dry season or buld some well where they
can easily get water for that purpose. To my fellow farmers,
can easily get water for that purpose. To my fellow farmers,
when it is too dry they should think of planting those crops
when it is too dry they should think of planting those crops
which can tolerate droughts like cassava, sweet potatoes etc.
which can tolerate droughts like cassava, sweet potatoes etc.

17. Sauti ya wakulima / The voice of the farmers.
The farmers: Abdallah Jumanne, Mwinyimvua Mohamedi, Fatuma Ngomero, Rehema
Maganga, Haeshi Shabani, Renada Msaki, Hamisi Rajabu, Ali Isha Salum, Imani Mlooka, Sina
Rafael
Group coordinator / extension officer: Mr. Hamza S. Suleyman
Scientific advisors: Dr. Angelika Hilbeck (ETHZ), Dr. Flora Ismail (UDSM)
Programming: Eugenio Tisselli, Lluís Gómez
Translation: Cecilia Leweri
Graphic design: Joana Moll, Eugenio Tisselli
Project by: Eugenio Tisselli, Angelika Hilbeck, Juanita Schläpfer-Miller
Sponsored by: The North-South Center, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology - Zürich
With the support of: The Department of Botany, University of Dar es Salaam (UDSM)
Sauti ya wakulima is based on the megafone.net project